Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-05
A NATION OF
ARMY
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All their. fine qualities OF !oya.sys
and seryice-which Bismarck s n..
lmed upS so contemptuousiy--ns+;e
been turned from ideals OF oo m ~
peace and labor to the xsr
4 nation az army worms, led by I'M.
nerial locusts, they have advances
upon the world in their famous mas ~
lformationa, a gray-sreen SWAIN a hIa
devoted loyalists, at once aona'D
and yhorrifying. 1.;nst
And the world has banded asa.1 s.
them. One by one a score OF $50 $50
have been forced to arm ana aele.I
themselves. Not even the peaGea
Traditions Of China or the detern nn"ld )
ialation Of the United states sou.u
ave them from the p~nprovoked as,
saults Of this submissive people leu
lRy ambitious m~aniacs. i The war mas
become a war to rid Germany q tne
world Of Germany's MAJ Mullan.
And lust az there could be no peace
a hundred years aSb In Europe, ana
no freedom in France until Napoleu..
had been Gagged, so now there can 90 J
no security for any nation ana ~
liberty for the Germans until tnelr
rychsnxcIjern has been crushed and
this loyal victims awakened from their
national hypnosis. The free peoples
~ the earth are battling against he
last serfs Of military autocracy = Q
only to protect themselves, but to nb-
crate their enemy. America is night
ing to establish among the nations
Of Europe another U peaceIut
league OF self-governing states az ~
fwar Of independence founded on TINS
continent. It is a war akaa1s. wand and
predatory ideals Of empire, and the
slavery 81 willing slaves .~assaulting
freedom.
Again and again the nations made
terms Of q with Napoleon. 1t was
useless until he made his ANAL terms
of unconditional sMrenden after
Waterloo. The French OF his day
were an admirable, a wonderful peo-
pie; but led by his military ambition
they became the conquering enemies
Imposed militarism on Germany. 1t Is
his Tradition that now animates tho
Prussian imperial .buzzard. Useless
to talk OF terms Of peace with this
new Napoleonism. Useless to plead
the virtues Of the German people.
they have become the outlaws OF
|%civiiization. surrounded by a posse Of
nations and fighting desperately at
the mouth of their w There an
be. no enduring peace TIL they have
deposed their robher chieftain and re-
nounced their creed Of blood and
iron. +
The United States has been COM
pelled to join the posse. After endure
ing outrages with a patience that ex-
asperated mankind, We have enrolled
in the league Of peace against Ger
many. Our navy is fighting in Euro
pe4n waters to protect U own
shores. Our army is going to the
trenches in France thatwe may not
have to dig trenches in America We
have organized for war because We
have been denied peace. We have
accepted consumption against con-
scription. We have given U gov
fernnaent the powers OF a military die
tAtor to save ourselves from the mills
tary dictatorship of the Most High Of
Potsdam. We have surrendered all
our peaceful liberties in order to or
ganize u country for purposes OF
war, because war be efficiently
waged in no other way. Only with
from the devotees of blood and iron.
When death comes into a dispute
there is no answer to 1t but death.
Now that the German war lord sees
the sword at his throat, he Is willing
to use ANOTHER argument. He offers
tS talk Of ''peace without punish
ment." He is willing to forget our
dead, to forgive our wounds. to over-
look u injuries, to bow us u Of his
fortress and repair his d%efenses. and
fit; a new blade to his old hilt. His
agents assure vi that our allies are
not our friends; that this war is not
thrust ourselves into it so unexpected.
They observe with sorrow that We
have renowned on the battlefield, and
under fire, our ipalienable right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness. They express a pious fear that
in volunteering for a val to make the
world safe for democracy we ma
have surrendered ourselves to a mill
tary %autocracy no better than their
own. Like the wolf brought to bay by
tho sheep dogs: they are afraid that
locks il we stay away from, them too
long. All" says the wolf. 'let us
no longer be ferocious. Why should
we kill one another? 1t is too stupid.
Lot us arrange sensibly the terms on
which you may pasture your 1ocks.
side by side. without quarreling. There
is room for us all in this beautiful
world. will not detain you any
longer. Let US all 90 away from here.
Yes?"
When the wolf becomes pitiful, the
wise dog grows deaf. We are new to
this hunt. We have been without a
wolf so long or our continent that
We forget he can not repent and be-
come q good collie. Let him 60 back
to his den as meekly as, you please.
no will bs. out again, hungry. as soon
~ his Wounds are healed. The sheep
dogs must make the world safe for
the sheep dog. 1t will never be safe
till this last wolAsh military autoc-
racy has died in its lair.
And 1t will never be safe. till the
Gsrman. people, freed Of their en-
chantrnnt OF loyal subservience,
have been made to see that they are
not. a nation of green insects. M
lords" cried the lawyer, 1--WE are YER
tebrate animals! We are mammalian
MY learned friends manner would he
|intoierahle in Almighty God TO a black
neetle!" Ehe German Most High has
drowned US In our ships with as little
eompunction az il we were cock
reaches in the ~forecastle. He has. an
stunned to US. and to all the world Tia
air Of omnipotApce addressing army
worms. 1t Is necessary to show him
that man, IL Z vertebrate ANNA ut
- necessary to chow the German
people. that they have the responai,
THE CHANGING YEARS.
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