The Meeker herald., 1918-07-27
STAND BY THIS EMBLEM
Some Day
by j. Frank Davis of The vigilnntc.

| Ky j. Frank Davis OF The Nigilnntcs
Some dsy-it may be next fall, it
may be year from now, or it may
be three years, or five-the Germans
are going to say something like this
to n war weary world:
I'VE are willing to quit. Take Bel
ginm back and we will restore the
country so far rs it can be restored.
Take Alsace and Lorraine. Take the
Trentino. Keep our colonies. All
these things-are they not every
thing you are fighting for?-are yours
for peace. All we ask is that the
| question of the Eastern front of what
has happened and is happening In
Russia aud Roumania-shall not be
discussed"
The day when Germany says that
will be the most critical day in the
history of the United States.
All the pro-Germans will loudly
declare that such n settlement spells
perfect victory for the Allies.
All the half-baked pacitists will cry
that il we do not meet the Germans
half way we prove what they have
always said, that We are embarked
on a career OF militarism.
| All the little people who cannot
see beyond their own noses will ask
what concern the fate of Russia is to
US, especially since the Russians de-
serted their allies when the battle
was hottest.
And all together. in newspapers. on
the street corners, in Congress, the
traitors. the towards, the peace-n'-
any -pricers, and the merely loose
thinking will scream madly: Ger
many is offering us everything. For
God $ sake, what more could we ask?'
| And If we were to accept such Il
peace, Germany would have won
this war-Rnd the next one.
With the millions Of Russia ready
to he added to her armies, and the
resources of Russia under her hand
to be exploited, she would be ready.
in twenty five or fifty years, to begin
the war that would make her ruler of
the earth. And nothing anybody
could ever do would avail to prevent
! it..
When the dny of that German offer
comes, II We accept 1t, we sentence
our children or our grandchildren to
/ fight q worse war than this one, in
which their defeat will be almost pre-
ordained.
Yet the pressure in America and In
all the war-worn countries to make
such peace will be tremendous.
BE on guard against that day.
No peace with Germany's present
rulers In worth having. No peace
that leaves Germany In possession of
Russia and middle Europe could be
more than n truce.
No peace will ever be n peace worth
considering that is not an out-and-out
Allied victory. Not IA conquest OF
land and power and influence, rs were
the old monarchial conquests and rs
German conquest has been in Rus
Mn ouu "ou" p' '''''
but conquest Of free peoples over
militArism. aud AN absolute defeat of
the German idea.
The German idea must he beaten.
and SO badly beaten that all the Ger
man people will come to realize 1t
WAS u bad idea If for no other reason
than that II didn't pay. Barbarian
must be convinced by civilization
that there is no room for its kultur In
the world. Anything less than this is
defeat for Americas allies and de-
feat for America.
BE ready for that day, yet long
time off, apparently. when Germany,
seeing she is hopelessly beaten II the
war continues, offers to give up ev-
erything she has claimed in the West
at the price OF being allowed to retain
what she has conquered in the East.
BE ready to cry NO" in voice the
whole world can neither fail to hear
nor to understand.