The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-03-05
HOW THE KAISER, WEEKS AHEAD;
 FIXED DATE FOR WAR TO BEGIN.
 NOW REVEALED BY MORGEN HAu

was declared. That is unquestionably what will happen unless the nations that are now fighting autocracy make the results of this war so decisive that the Prussian system can never be re- establihed.
 The Germans must be beaten at tenn was created by military prestige, 1 it rests upon military prestige and it will collapse when that military pres l tige is destroyed. The German peo- r!e accepted it because it lad made ! them rich and powerful. They will abandon it when it leaves them inn poverished and defeated. There is nothing miraculous or invincible about this military system. It is I merely the product of experts who have devoted all their energies to it. Germany studied for decades how to create armies and make war, but the Allies in three years have learned all that Germany ever knew and more. in a military way we can do. The German has no special genius for war, as events have proved, although he made war his trade.
 In France I saw how three Ameri- can regular army officers, one of them a medical man, allotted to each Ameri- can regiment of engineers, created an Iastonishingly efficient military unit in a remarkably short space of time. That is what we must be ready to dc with 5,000,000 men, if necessary, cost what it may. No matter how heavy the expense may be, it will be light in comparison with the price that the United States would have to pay if Germany won the war.
 The great majority of Americans seem to have little realization of how close we stood to the brink of pre- cipice. It was no idle threat that the Kaiser uttered when he told Ambas- sador Gerard in October, 1916, that when this war was ever he intended to stand no more nonsense from the Americans.
 If Germany was victorious and Great Britain and France were crush ed, the United States would have been attacked on the pretext that it had supplied the Allies with money and munitions and be compelled to pay an indemnity that would make Ger many the richest nation in the world in spite of her enormous losses. I have heard this indemnity mentioned at $5O,OO0, 100000 or 100000, 900, GOO marks.
 There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that this is what the Kaiser would have done if the Allies had been defeated. Indeed, the humbling and cripling of the United States were no less essential to the Kaiser's ambition to create a master state than the humbling and crippling of Great Bri- tain. Here were unlimited riches in the hands of 1OO,OO0,OOO people who had not had the courage to defend themselves. They had made billions out of the war; why not take it away from them and put the German Elm pire back on its feet?
 When a Senator like La Toilette as- serts that we had only technical grievance against Germany, the men who applaud him for assailing the Presidents policy are blind and deaf and dumb to the calamity which was hanging over the country.
 It is freely admitted by French and British statesmen that the cause of the Allies was saved by our inteTven- tion. There can be no doubt of it. But if we had not intervened our honor and our wealth alike would have been lost to us. We should have had to fight in the end against odds that had broken Eng land and France, and we should have paid in indemnities far more than this war can ever cost us.
 What is worse still, our money and | our shame would have imposed ab- 1 upon the world for genera
 
 gle for emancipation would have been bequeathed to our children's children. |
 l have seen this war from both | sides and I know that unless Kaiser ism is destroyed democracy will be ! leasroyelM.EEWe cannot live in the same world with the kind of a Ger many that Prussian militarisrn has