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AMERICAS PART

OuA SAOOPU n4VS OSGu dOVSSSQ ny
Secretary Baker that On them will fall
the burden Of the next campaign. And
this 10 not TO be wondered at. France
has already lost In casualties more
than two million men; the British
casualties are nearly one million. This
We know. Germany has not made
her wounds public, but no censorship
can conceal the fact that Germany has
suffered q desperate and deadly toll
in her assault upon the peace Of the
world. The Crown Prince had more
casualties ut Verdun than the United
States has men in training in fifteen
can<onments. The Austrians lost
100000 men to Brussilof in the early
summer Of 1916 and the steady wear
ing out OF German men, from Mes
sines and White Sheet to the Vosges
Mountains, has gone ON with increas-
ing acceleration.
In spite Of this loss on both sides
the war has not been settled. Far
from Il, for Germany received new
resources in men and material by the
cessation of effective Russian hostili-
ties for many months. Therefore
America faces the task of winning the
war or seeing all that has been done
heretofore dis&ipated in useless efforts.
Victory 10 all that counts now. A,
deadlock peace means nothing.
Those who know the heart Of Amer
iea have no doubt what Americas
answer viii be. There In no place for
both Democracy and despotism In the
civilization Of the white races. One
OK the other means triumph.
-Four years ago NO one would have
bekieved that Germany could have
eosne % near definitely Turning back
tn hands Of progress. And to-day
the world knows & u q desperate
FIGHT to q 6nish. We even he9in to
doubt whether CAe German peoOle
themselves want to be Get free from
PEusgian domination. German people
of the next genera430n, men and
w0lnen Who haVe been r126ed In q free
a1mOgphere Of snfetAered thouKht. and
who have been allowed 20 GENE to
their own conclusions and express the
Will OF their own minds b eelf-gov-
ermment, viii ssnswally love freedom
ana will, waen gained, maintain Il,
But those who for two generatious
have been taught by Prussian mastery.
preached 60 by Prussian preachers,
drilled by prWssian sergeanfs and or
dered 20 death By Prussian generals-
out OF ehe hearts Of these men some
thing has gone that seems 60 set them
aRide from the ranks Of those who
would die 90 be free.
And 90 against men whose hearts
are proof against the appeal for free
dom; whose minds are 90 beclouded
they cannot see that EnR1and, Amer
lea and France are Sighting not 10 de-
srOy Germany, bat to ct her free
along with the rest Of the world there
10 no other means Of approach ex-
cepf through the Geld 0f bak4Ie. Tc
thi6' crusade comes America. All that
Q government can do our government
has done or . doing. In spite OF mis-
takes which We al know, We have &C
conp1ished great and unparalleled
works IN preparation and efficiency
Our troops have been conveyed fc
Europe without the los Of a single
man. and they viii be kept there, sup
ported and fed and cared for wifi
foresight and with abundance. This
much the government can do. The
rest lies with the soldiers. and those
who know the homes In the prairies
and mountains and the 1owlands from
which these Americans have come
know well that from their parents