The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-02
eERMANYs COLOSSAL PLAN
(By Hapsburg Liebe OF The
Vigilantes)

The average man of those VINO
have kept up with current events
during the last few years will tell you
that this plan is forty years old. AS
matter of fact, the seeds of it were
sown more than a dozen times forty
years ago. The spirit of militarlsm
and conquest and might-is-right is as
old as the Teutonic War Party, which
is as old as Germany itself. The ma
iority of the other Nations saw plenty
of signs of the Monster, for the War
Lords were braggarts, and they could
not refrain from Boosting OF their
scheme. The wonder of it all is that
these other Nations, the United
States included, have not been taking
preparatory and defensive measures
for several decades.
The ultimate aim of the plan was,
of course, the complete control and
| kulturization of the world 1t was
born of brains rendered british
through the over and over intermar-
rying of an autocracy that was bar
barian to begin with. A little like a
moon-calf, it was at the outset, but
its morally befuddled parents fos-
tered it until they actually believed
it possessed rare virtues; and they
inoculated the people with it's germs
until the people themselves fell for
it.
So far, this plan has failed, how
ever narrowly, for the simple reason
that it did not include a reckoning
with the human nature that God
made The soldiermen of other Ma
tons are in the long-run stronger
than the cast-in-the mould iron sol
diers of Germany 1t is the thor
ough organization of the German Ar
mics that has been the chief difficulty
of the Entente Allies. Perhaps the
greatest strength of he plan itself,
however, lay in the very stupendous-
ness of it. Few would believe that
any one Nation would dare attempt
to enslave the rest of the world. Halt
the rest of the world does not real
ize it yet. 1t is too big for their
imaginations Their imaginations are
naturally, peace-time.
This is the main trouble with us
here in America. So many of us will
not see what we are facing or what
we are fighting for If we did see
the success of the Liberty Loans and
the Red Cross drives, the food saving
and the fuelsaving campaigns, would
be much greater It's of no use now
to harp that our administration lead.
ers should have seen the signs of the
times several years ago; it kills nc
German to blame our representatives
at Washington for having been in the
past, not statesmen, but politicians
serving their own instead of theil
country's interests during those fat
sleepy years before Germany pried
open the gates of He'll and oosed its
leglons upon earth. The one thins
to do now is to make stepping stones
OF mistakes and work for Liberty,
There is great truth which we
must not let get by us. You are apt
to push out your chest, | know, anC
say: "Impossible" Let me REMIND
you of the fact that the last three
years have been crowded will
achievements of the impossible, Here
is that pregnant truth: If we let Ger
many win over there, Germany will
carry the conquest over here. It i.
a part of her colossal plan. Else why
this elaborate spy system in Ameri
ca? Man, it is a more complete or
ganization than our own Govern
ment! If they come, of course. W,
are willing to die for our country
which is noble and brave, but wha
OF our womenfolk? There lies tn,
reddest He'll of this war, brother. Re
. member the unspeakable violation n
Belgium
And remembering it, we who hay,
. not gone to France should do OH
part here to prevent food and fue
= waste. to plant such crops as we new
er before planted, to support as w
never before supported such move
ments as the Liberty Loans and tn
|, Red Cross, and to suppress Germa,
s propaganda.
d Selah, and Amen. Go to it. Amer
}, lean!
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