The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-06-06

There Is need to utter a word OF
warning and protest to those loyal
ones among us who. by some per-
verse quality of sincerity, some In
herent tendency to pessimism. are
constantly sounding the note that
Germany delights to hear. The recent
great thrust of the German armies
has given these croakers fresh stimu-
lus. In their hearts, though they
know 1t not, though they deny 1t
Indignantly when so accused, they
have accepted defeat-they are al
ready whipped.
Could Germany ask for more than
the spreading of this unwarranted at
titude of mind7 II Is the subtlest. the
most poisonous OF all forms Of he
multifarious German propaganda-the
killing of faith and hope and deter
mination to win. "They shall not
pass 7" said the French at Verdun.
These souls say: ''They have passed
See how the British have fallen back
These are not ''qultters" In other
matters. They are not In any sense
CONSCIOUSLY pIO-NEt Hiuh CFCh ~ aN
matter. They are, however, obsessed
by the everlasting drip of the German
idea of German efficiency. The thing
to them has become an ~imponderable,
foreseen conclusion. 1t blinds them
to any vision beyond the actual facts
of Germany's military attachments.
1t blinds them to the military attain
ments of the allies. The spirit OF In
vinciblllty-the invincible spirit Is not
theirs.
This spirit we need. There Is no
doubt of that. The man or the ma
ton that goes all the way, that goes
any part of the way to meet defeat
is already beaten. Though this spirit
of pessimism cannot even be consid-
cred as a rift in the lutte of the ma
tion's unity of faith and purpose. yet,
inasmuch as 1t exists to any extent, IL
is to be deplored. For the feeling
will be found always to link Itself
with other sentiments insidiously fa-
vorable to Germany. There always ac-
companies Ii that stubborn, narrow
prejudice, so shamefully unworthy of
US, against England, existing against
all the evidences of fact and reason
and gratitude-the nasty slur that
England lodges her share Of the
fighting, that the English are not
fighters, that England leaves 1t to
France to save the day-so far as II
Is savedi
There is something peculiarly la
mentable In this distorted viewpoint.
Disastrous though 1t would be TO
underrate Germany's prodlgious power
Of evil might, 1t would be fatal TO be-
Heve 1t infallible and inyincible.
Whence comes this proneness to
trumpet Germany's success and put
the soft pedal on our allies achieve
mentsf In every instance 1t Is to be
traced to some of the interminable
forms of German propaganda 1t Is,
as has already been said, itself the
quintessence Of German propaganda.
blown like a fine pollen through the
air when its true nature is the least
suspected, spread as is often a con-
tagious disease by those unconscious
or being the meOlum.
Against the resolute. inf1exible de-
termination to win, backing the
righteous cause In which we are en-
listed, Germany will go down In the
ruin Of the monstrous evil that she
has become. But she will not II these
voices, too many even at the fewest,
who proclaim that Germany has al
ready won the war. swell In number
and volume. That. indeed. Is the very
surest way to give the victory to Ger
many. because 1t is the surest way to
undermine and dlsintegrste the bull
warks of faith and hope. Against an
unfaltering 'They shall not win" all
the power of Germany's strength Will
not avail.
And Germany knows itf p