The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-03-22
BATTLE ON DECLARES
K|PL|NC IN ADDRESS
Author and Poet Made Speech
For English Loan
ALL ELSE is SIDE ISSUE
1t Matters Not What Comes UP
The War Is Paramount
Question

FolkStone, England, February 10
| Correspondence of The Associated
Press. ]-"Nothing else under heaven
matters today except that the
war shall go on to victory
declared Rudyard Kipling here
today in a striking and pic
turesque speech in advocacy of
war savings. "The money we loan
to the government helps to set our
land and our world Free" continued
Mr.. Kipling. "Our security for our
loan is not only the whole of the
British empire but also the whole
of civilization which has pooled it's
resources in men, money and material
to carry on this war to victory"
| What is the personal aspect of
the case for you and me? We are
fighting for our lives, the lives of
every man, woman and child here
and everywhere else.
! 1--WE are fighting that we may not
| be herded into actual slavery such
as the Germans have established by
force of their arms in large parts of
Europe.
! I'VE are fighting against eighteen
|
or at the point of the bayonet, with
a dogs death and dogs burial at end
of it. =, Esd 5
"We are fighting that men, women
and children may not be tortured,
| burned, and mutilated in the public
streets, as has happened in this town
and in hundreds of others. And we
will go on fighting till the race who
have done these things are in no
position to continue to repeat their
offence
eff for any reason whatever we
fall short of victory-and there is no
halfway house between victory and
defeat-what happens to us? This:
! every relation, every understands
ing. every decency upon which
civilization has been so anxiously
built up will go-will be washed out
because it will have been proved un-
able to endure. The whole idea OF
democracy-which at bottom is what
the Hun fights against-will be dis
missed from mems minds, because il
will have been shown incapable OF
maintaining itself against the Hun
It will die, and it will die discredited
together with every belief and prac-
tice that is based on it.
"The Hun ideal, the Huns root
notions of life will take it's place
throughout the world. Under that
dispensation man will become once
more the natural prey, body and
goods, of his better armed neighbor
Women will be the mere instruments
for continuing the breed; the vessel
of mans lust and mans cruelty; and
labor will become thing to be
knocked on the head if it dares tc
give trouble, and worked to death il
it does not. And from this order Of
life there will be no appeal, no pos
sibility of any escape. This is what
the Hun means when he says he in
tends to impose German Kultur-
which is the German religion-upor
the world This is precisely what
the world has banded itself together
to resist. ~
"Tt will take every ounce in us: i
will try uspout to the naked soul. Ou1
trial will mot be made less by the
earnest advice and suggestions thai
| we should accept some sort of com
promfseg which means defeat, put for
ward bysHun agents and confederate!
among u.s. They are busy in tina
direction already. But be sure o
this: Notwithstanding we may have
to endure now will weigh one feather.
weight compared with what we shall
most certainly have to suffer if fol
any reason we fail of victory"