Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-06-22

the whole OF Belgium. Its arInie
press close upon Russia and overrul
! Poland at their will 1t cannot g.
further; 1t dare not so back. !
! wishes to close Its bargain before \
is too late and 1t has little to offel
for the pound of flesh 1t will demand
The military matters under whom
Germany Is bleeding see very clearly
TO what point Fate has brought them
II they fall back or are forced back
an inch, their power both abroad and
at home will fall to pieces like
house of cards. 1t Is their power al
home they are thinking about now
more than their power abroad. 1t is
that power which Is trembling under
their very feet; and deep fear has
entered their hearts. They have but
one chance to perpetuate their mill
airy power or even their controlling
political influence. II they can secure
peace now with the immense adyan.
tages still in their hands which they
nave up to this point apparently
gained, they will have justified them
elves before the German people: they
will have gained by force what they
promised to gain by It: an immense
expansion of German power, an Inn
mense enlargement of German indus.
rial and commercial opportunities.
Their prestige will be secure, and with
heir prestige their political power. II
hey fail their people themselves will
hrHst them aside. government ac.
ountable to the people themselves
viii be set up in Germany as it has
leen in England, In the United States,
n France, and in all the great coun-
ries Of the modern time except Ger.
many II they succeed they are safe
lndGermany and the world are undone;
they fail Germany Is saved and the
world will be at peace. If they sue
,eed, America will fall within the men,
ice. We md all the rest of the world
must remain armed, as they will re-
main, and must make ready for the
next step In their aggression; If they
lal, the world may unite for peace
and Germany may be of the union.
Do you not now understand the new
intrigue, the intrigue for peace, and
why the masters OF Germany do not
hesitate TO use any agency that prom
SEES to effect their purpose, the deceit
Of the nations? Their present partic.
llar aim is to deceive all those who
throughout the world stand for the
rights OF peoples and the self govern.
ment Of nations; for they see what
immense strength the forces OF JUS
lice and of liberalism are gathering
out Of this war. They are employing
liberals in their enterprise. They are
using men, in Germany and without.
as their spokesman whom they have
hitherto despised and oppressed, using
hem for their own destruction
socialists the leaders OF labor, the
thinkers they have hitherto sought TO
silence Let them once succeed and
hese men, now their tools. will be
yround to powder beneath the weight
" the great military empire they VIII
have set up; the revolutionists in
Russia will be cut off from all succor
,r cooperation in western Europe and
/ counter revolution fostered and sup
ported; Germany herself will lose her
nance OF freedom; and all Europe
yill arm for the next, the final
truggle
The sinister intrigue Is being no less
ictively conducted in this country
han in Russia and in every country in
europe to which the agents and dupes
,f the Imperial German Government
an get access. That government has
many spokesman here, in places high
nd low. They have learned discre-
ion. They keep within the law. II Is
opinion they utter now, not sedition.
hey proclaim the liberal purposes OF
heir masters; declare this n foreign
var which can touch America with no
anger to either her lands or her in
titutlons. set England at the centre
( the stage and talk OF her ambition
o assert economic dominion through.
Mt The world; appeal to our ancient
tradition OF ISOLATION In the politics OF
he nations; and seek to undermine
he government with false professions
z loyalty TO It's principles
But they will make no Roadway The
l.se betray themselves always in
very accent 1t is only friends and
artisans Of the German Government
,hom we have already identified who
tier these thnly disguised disloyal-
les The facts are patent to all the
,ord, and nowhere are they more
lainly seen than in the United States,
.here we are accustomed to deal with
acts and not with sophistries; and
he great fact that stands out above
Il the rest is that this is a Peoples
Var, war for freedom and justice
nd disagreement amongst all the
atoms OF the world, a war to make
he world safe for the peoples who live
pom Il and have made II their own,
he German people themselves In
luded; and that with us rests the
hoice to break through all these
ypocrisies and patent cheats and
masks of brute force and help set the
'orld free, or else stand aside and let
be dominated long age through by
heer weight OF arms and the arbitrary
hoices OF self-constltuted masters, by
he nation which can maintain the big
est armies and the most irresistible
power to which the
1orld has afforded no parallel and In !
he face Of which political freedom
lust wither and perish.
For us there is but one choice We
ave made II. Woe be to the man
r proun NJ mon that seeks In stand In