New Britain herald., 1918-03-20
kIPLING ON ALLIES
 WAR INCENTIVES
Conditions Under Huns Shown
 in Striking Public Speech

Folkstone, England, Feb. 16 Cor respondence of The Associated Press> --'Nothing else under heaven mat ters today except that the war shall go on to victory" declared Rudyard kipling here today in a striking and picturesque speech in advocacy of war savings The money we loan 10 the government helps to set our land and our world free" continued Alr. kipljng. Our security for our loan is not only the whole of the British Empire but also the whole of civilization which has pooled it's re- sources in men. money and material to carry on this war to victory"
 What Is the personal aspect of the ca SC for you and me? We are fight ing for our lives, the lives of every man. woman and child here and everywhere else.
 We are fighting that we may not be herded into actual slavery such as tho C;,'mans have e8ta bltsned by fore of their arms in large par-s of IuroDe.
 We arc fighting against eighteen hours a day forced labor under lash or at the point of the bayonet, with a dogs death and a dogs burial at
 W end of it.
 We are fighting that men, women and children may not be tortured, burned and mutilated in the public streets, as has happened in this town and in hundreds of others. And we will go on fighting till the race who have done these things are in no position to continue or repeat their offense.
 If for any reason whatever we fall short of victory and there Is no halfway house between victory and defeat-what happens to us? This:
 Every relation, every understand ing, every decency upon which civili zation has been so anxiously built up will go-will be washed out, be- cause it will have been proved un able to endure. The whole idea of democracy--which at bottom is what the Hun fights against-will be dis missed from mems minds, because it will have been shown incapable of maintaining itself against the Hun It will die; and it will die discredited. together with evc~v belief and )rlC- tiCe that is based on it.
 ''The Hun Ideal, the Huns root-no- tons of life will take it's place throughout the world Under that dispensation man will become once more the natural prey, body and goods of his better r-armed neighbor. Wom- en will be tho mere instrument for continuing the breed: the vessel of mans lust and mans cruelty; and labor will become a thing to be knocked on the head if it dares to give trouble, and worked to death if t .!ocS O.. And f.om this cr'cr Of Q there w be no appeal, nn possibility of any oscape. this order of life there will be no appeal, no possibility of any escape. This is what the Hun means when he says he intends to impose Ger man Ku1tur-which is the German religion-upon the world. This Is precisely what the world has banded itself together to resist.
 "1t will take every ounce in us; ii "-ll: try us out to the nakel soul. Our trial will not be made less by the earnest advice and suggestions tha, \, should accept some sort cf which means defeat put forward by Hun agents and confed- crates among us. They are busy in that direction already But be sure of this: Nothing-nothing we may havo to endure now will weigh one featherWeight compared with what we shall most certainly have to suffer if for any cause we fail of victory" CTn EHHnnT00