The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-19
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WE MIST FIGHT TO THE END.
WHY.

All America stands behind President Wilson IN
his decision that America must night on I'LL yer
MANY is defeated utterly, till the Hofenzoherh
autocracy is overthrow or impotent.
Rut. lest those arise who cry 1--WE have fought
enough; our enemy asks peace!'-lest those arise
to confuse us. we must examine the case and know,
IN our own minds, why we have NOT fought
enough.
No matter what the Germans now say, no mat
ter what the Hohenzollerns now promise, we nave
NOT YET made the world safe for democracy"
Not even safe for human beings to live in.
There will be more wars, but If we are to make
them harder to happen; if we are to make them
impossible at the nod of an autocrat, not only
must the autocrats be made powerless, but"the
nation which sought to conquer the world Tor
autocracy must be rendered incapable of making
another such attempt.
We cannot trust the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
agrees to that.
But what we must also realize is this: WE CAN
NOT TRUST THE GERMAN NATION.
And So with no thought OF punishment, but
solely for the safety of the world, we must fight on
until the German nation, unable to fight longer,
shall throw down it's arms and give itself up COM
petely to contemplation Of the uselessness OF war
and conquest.
Before we can deal Justice to the German nation
we must be deadly sure that the German nation IS
ready to receive justice at our hands There can
be no bargaining with the Germans-society does
not bargain with it's criminals; neither does it
punish them unduly But before criminals get
justice they must be tried; and SO must Germany
be tried in the court of the nations-not while she
is word-criminal, beaten and seeking to escape
but after she is world-prsoner, defeated and
impotent ~
But the kaiser, not the German people, are re-
sponsble for the HUNnish crimes" Such runs
the latest specous plea for peace at-theeast-prce
1t is not true.
The German people are rational beings, who can.
not blame their rulers entirely for German crimes
The soldiers who murdered Edith Cavell, the
officers who raped Belgian girls, the Uboat crews
who sank the Lusitania, the vandals who laid
waste to northern France, the gunners who fired
from behind the crucifx, the men used captive
women as shields, the tricky beings who rose
crying "Kamerad" while companions sighted
machine guns from between their legs-these
were not German kasers; these were GERMAN
PEOPLE.
And the world cannot believe that the reform Of
such as these would be accomplished even by the
downfall of their leader.
4 The lesson must sink deeper.
The German people, shorn of their Prussia1
arrogance, must realize to the uttermost that war
fare does not pay. .}..
b Until they do, there are no guarantees the worlt
can accept that will safeguard future generation:
from another such disaster
When the Hohenzoerns are dethroned or thel
power is gone, when Germany is PROSTATE and he1
armies disbanded-then we will know that thu
world can be MADE safe for humanity as fo1
democracy.
These consequences to Germany are not revenge
They are the reasonable, rational conclusion O.
that which we started out to do. We entered
this war to defeat Germany absolutely. The sloga,
ION to Berlin" was the popular definition of ou
purpose. To do anything less than that would b.
job half done, carrying with it all the well KNOW
results of ineffectiveness.
AND fnAT Is NOT THE AMERICAN WAY.