Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-05-31
TOO LATE!"

R of Russia, and the Allies are ST
- ting by and watching her do i
e How long are the Allies to 90 o
= delivering the next generation
the future of the world, houn,
% hand and foot into Germany
= prison-houSe? For if German
II controls Russia, then the future
: . is hers. How long are the Allie.
to watch Germany making her
self irresistible in that next wal
e which she is already arranging
}. For irresistible she will be if the
n German Empire extends from
the Baltic Sea to the Pacific
Ocean.
The war will be won in the
, west. " But if it is won only in
the west it will be lost. 1t it is
won only in the west we shall
; have done nothing except to
check temporarily, at a terrible
price, Germany's movement
against France and Belgium. and
we shall have handed oyerto her,
with incredible generosity the
means to make certainly success
full her next movement against
France and Belgium and Eng
land, and Canada, and Brazil
and the United States.
Two years and a half ago Mr.
Lloyd George made that memoir
able complaint that in everything
the Allies had done they had al
ways been TOO late " Are they
to be too late again, ara now
fatally too late Are they to be
too late where hardness is cru
cial and pivotal? Are they to
wait while Germany swiftly
molds the pliable mass Of Russia
into the new German Empire?
Why, if they let her do that.
Germany could actually afford 10
admit defeat on the western
front, to let the Allies have
nearly everything they wanted,
Alsace-Lorraine included even
the Trentino; for in the next war
she could take AIsace-Lorraine
and the Trentino back again
with hardly an effort. Next
war? There would not be a next
war it would be not a war but a
promenade Of the one great
world empire over tie bodies Of
the democratic nations.
What does the rapidly pro-
crossing, annexation OF Russia +,
mean to US? Is it merely one +.
more country swallowed in the
German nav, merely a larger ,
Rumania or Belgium. n it is
something Of vastly greater +,
Russia within the f..
German Empire, Russia even ;
dominated from the outside by
the German Empire, means the j.
military empire the :.
world has ever seen, an empire
besides which thepresent German !.
Empire will seem small and not
very powerful by comparison. =
10 what ends will the strength
)f that vaster empire be direc
ed? To the same ends as those !, =
or which the strength Of the y
present and lesser German En- =
)lre has been directed, and we :
lave learned what they are in a
errlble school. From Hamburg
o Vladiyostok the HohenzoIlern-
mind will direct energies and
lowers ffty-fold what it has
'een able to direct in this war.
lrect them toward the conquest
t the whole world from Hud. ii
on's Bay to Cape Horn, from c,
'orway to the Cape of Good ie
lope, from Manchuria to Aus or
'alia. ~
The power Of such an empire as
'ould be will be, if we do not wi
revent it beyond anything pr
'hlch has ever been conceived in
! human history. We shall no
niger be able then to talk of
ny nation being invincible, un-
'nquerable. We shall see the
atoms Of the world disappear,
lie after another. Japan is as I
UGH threatened as is the United con
.ates, perhaps more directly exc
reatened, since the swift rush d
the increasing German Empire i ,'i
now being aimed straight hoe
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