Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-26

to the point OF exhaustion than
tlfat we WELD to such terms.
such terms would mean the detI-
mite establishment Of Germany
military asccndanCy on a scale never
hitherto approached in the civilized
world. II would mean that perhaps
within n dozen years. certainly with
In the lifetime Of the very men low
fighting this war, this country and
the other free countries would have
10 choose between bowling their
necks 10 the German yoke or else
gong into another war under condl-
lions far more disadvantageou TO
them.
A premature and inconclusive
pence now would spell ruin for the
world, lust as in 1854 n premature
and incouclusive peace would have
spelled ruin to the United states
aud in the present instance the
United States would share the ruin
OF the rest of the free peoples Of
mankind.
Ou the face Of It Germany would
not become giant empire. Just eX-
actly as on the face Of it at present
Germany, Austria Turkey and Bull
garia call themselves simply four al
| lied nations, standing on equal
terms. But in reality those four
powers are merely Germany and her
| three vassal states, whose military
| and economic and political powers
| are all disposed Of by the llohen-
Iollcrns. A peace such as that above
| outlined would leave thtSc as really
one huge empire. The population
/ of these four countries, plus the
! populations of Russian regions re-
Gently annexed hy Germany, Is over
two hundred millions. This popNla-
| tion would be directed and dominat-
| ed by the able, powerful and utterly
I br4tal and INSCRIPTIONS German
Governing class, which the very fact
! OF the peace would put in the sad j.
| die and the huge empire thus domi-
mated and directed would become a
| greater menace TO the free peoples
! than anything known for the last
| thousand years,
Short sighted people will say that
! this power would only menace Asia.
and therefore that we need feel no
concern about It, There could be
| no error greater or more lamentable.
/ Twenty years. hence by mere mass
and growth Germany would domi-
nate the western European powers
. that have NOW fought her, This
would mean that the United States
would be left as her victim.
In the first place she would nj
once trample the Monroe doctrine
under foot and treat tropical and
south temperate America as her
/ fields for exploitation, domination
I and conquest, In the ncXt place
] tt.pt ff,I4
/ try under foot and bleed us white
doing to us on a gigantic scale what
/ she has done to Belgium. II such q
ptacc as above described We're az
ms time maAn, the United states
could by no Possibility escape the
fate of Belgium and OF the Russian
territories taken by Germany unless
We ourselves became powerfg' m,l-
liarjs, state with every democratic
principle subordinated 'o the one
necessity of turning this nation into
q huge armed camp do not mean
am armed nation, as Switzerland ls
apmcd, and AS | believe 'b,- country
ought 10 be armed J mean nation
whose sons. every one Of them.
would b,Wc to serve from ,p
years In the army. and whose whole
activities. eNterut, and Internal.
would bo conditioned rr 'he ono fact
uf the necessity ~ making head
sDgIc-handoj. against Germany
/ ysX strongly believe mat never
again sqaould We bc caught uuprc-
pared as We have been caught un-
prepared ,u.s time. believe that
al our young mon should be trained
90 arms AS the Swiss ars trained. But