Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-05
THE END IN SIGHT

With the surrender of Austria-Hungary following the surrender
of Bulgaria and Turkey, Germany now stands alone lighting against
practically the whole civilized world. How long can she Keep 1t up'
Not many more weeks, is the general opnion-surely not longer than
next spring when the full power Of the allies can be concentrated up
ON her for one mighty drive.
With Austria Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria out of the war the
great armies of the allies that have been engaged in fighting those
conntries are released. excepting such a number of soldiers a S S need
cd for police duty. Tho Italian army is now free to march through
Austria to the German border; the allied armies that have been
fighting on the Macedonian front and that mas o eache INC
Danube. is free to also march across Austria and join the main ltaF
ian forces on the southern border of Germany. Besides these, the
British armies that have been driving the Turks out of Palestine and
advancing in Mesopotamia are released to REINFORCE the allied armies
on the western front now driving the Germans out of France and
Belgium.
Germany must know that she is defeated; that the allies are in
a position to dictate the terms that she must accept sooner o + later
Why, then, should she continue to kill her people uselesslyf HOW
long will the German masses submit to the slaughter IN ina ue
war lords may retain a semblance of power for a few weeks longerY
There is every reason to believe once the allied terms for an
sented to Germany they will be accepted. Of course, this would mean
the end of the war. The fighting would be over.
But whether Germany agrees to accept the allied terms now or
decides to hang on until spring when the combined forces OF Pc anes
will be in a position to strike on all fronts at once, does it not seem
not eem entirely unnecessary to continue calling out men in the
draft disrupting business, which is already hard pressed because of
of thousands of citizensf
With 100000 American soldiers in France now, many of them
ready to go across; with the millions of veterans, SOM of them the
best fighters in the world, released from other fields of operations and
ready to be thrown into the fray against Germany alone, why go on
calling out men from civil life in this country, when it is practically
certain that the end is in sightf
The least that could be done, it would seem, would be to hold up
the draft calls for a time to see what the outcome will be.
We are not unmindful of the necessity of impressing Germany
with the determination of America to "use force without stint or
limit to win the war, but is it not true that we already have enough
men under arms together with the men that the countries with which
we are accociated have under arms to see the thing through without
the United States, 5000 miles away, still further disturbing her eco
nomic condition. Just because France, Great Britain, Italy and other
allied nations have suffered far more than we have is no reason why
1--WE shoula Continue along the same line unnecessarily.
'~ Germany has got to be whipped and whipped so that she will
know that she is whipped, and if there are not enough fighting men
In Europe today to whip her then by all means send a million more,
or two million more if need be. But who is there that believes that
more men are needed, especially from this distance, to finish the job
properly4 1t is not necessary even to sacken our war preparations
our industries can continue their war production and the men now in
camp can continue to train and the draft need not be abandoned. But
to further haul men away from their business when business is al
ready so hard hit, when there is reason to believe these men will not
be needed, is only going to help demoralze the country and make the
readjustment after the war all the more difficult.