Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-19

of the arts Of war slowly but surely
Tightening his clasp Of steel around
tie Hun. We know that the war
must be won on the west front. and
there we see an array of armies that
rave already proven their superiority
20 the best and all, that the Teutons
can there assemble. And TO these
armies at the rate Of 100000 month
are coming other millions of the best
fighting men in the world-men VINO
are trained to go only one way, ahead
In a year from today we shall have
1000, 900 men, to say nothing OF non
combatant aids. in France, Belgium
and Germany. We shall have many
other thousands of American fighting
raen in Italy and Austria, in Russia,
IN Turkey and elsewhere where
reeded to occupy and control
Mitteleuropa during the world-recon-
struction period. The Kaiser sees
these things also.
And clearer than we can see. louder
than we can hear, more agonized
tl.an we can know, the Kaiser sees,
and hears and feels, the physical suf-
fering, the woe, the hourly increas
ms discomfort and panic Of his peo-
rle. He hears their cries of terror as
tfe allied reprisal aircraft rain de-
Nastation and death upon them, to
teach them She meaning of E-boat
murder, of air-raids on London, of
bombardment of Paris, of Smelling of
hospitals and wanton murder of Red
G. oss nurses, of sinking of hospital
ships, and the impaling of babes on
tayonets. And he knows that out of
the west in a few months more will
come a flight of uncounted thousands
OF avenginS aircraft to spread desc
latIon throughout the Teuton empires
unless Pruss!an war lordism capitu-
l1tes and submits for all time to the
laws Of God and man.
We know that fresh in the mind
Of the Kaiser and his war masters
and tools OF the devil, is month of
allied success-success that is daily
increasing, even in this 'lull," and
as surely and inevitably crushing the
confidence, the hope. the morale of
his armies and people. He sees the
courage of his forces and masses re-
ceding. hour by hour. AS the allied
holding forces add to their swelling
muscles while planning new often
sives for reserves and new armies He
sees the confidence Of the allied
world and of neutral peoples expand
ing into an irresistible power, and he
reads the verdict awaiting him.
The war masters have everything
to gain and nothing TO lose in the
awful tragedy-if they WIN. The
Teutonic peoples do not yet know all
these things that the war masters
now know; they are the dupes and
tools and cannon fodder providers Of
their military masters-and of their
own innate and beer -builded cusseG
ness. They must learn ont of their
own suffering and woe that war does
not pay; that war is dying. The les
son is accommodating with relentless
augmentation and certainty.
Already Paris is safe Foch's light
ming strokes have crushed the enc
my's campaigns and plans, Big Ber-
thu is silenced and will be de-
stroyed or captured. A German peace
is now forever impossible. The allies
have only one aim, now, for every
move of war-capitulation of Prus-
sianism, and the suppression of the
"unspeakable Turk" and the more
unspeakable Hun, U-boat piracy on
both sides of the Atlantic and the
inhuman orders Of Hun humanity
haters have confirmed the fate of
militarIsm and all that have given
it allegiance.
TIE end is plain. our purpose clear
our determination unbreakable.
The Hun can end the war tomor-
row. but only in one way and that
way would save untold loss of life
and treasure and suffering in central
Europe. This the Kaiser must now
see-how long will he hold out"
That is for the war masters to de-
eide. but we must aid his early de-
cision by such increased provision
Of man power, munitions and funds
as the pig brain of the war lord new
er dreamed. He must decide, but we
force the decision. The way Is plain
and the means are sure and swift.
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