The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-17
BY Z. E. Hartman
OF The Visilantes

vi L lC VIE HdiilSS
There must be future for tne
German. He cannot stop and resolve
into mere memory. 1t is out of the
question for the civilized nations to
annihilate him. For their own sakeS
they cannot be as savage as he
planned to be. However many may
be killed. II this war, there will still
be many millions left to propagate.
What manner of future awaits
those millions? What will they do u?
What will be their status i'll the
world? How will they prosper?
Already many thinking people are
considering the matter OF German
trade, German industry, German
debt paying. The nation itself is
making active preparations Tor the
after the war campaign.
When peace is signed, Germany
will find herself handicapped with a
double load The debts she has in
Cured through the financing of the
war and the rehabilitation OF devas
tated countries. In order to pay eth
er bill she must be able to manufac-
ture and sell. She must have markets
and supply them.
In order to secure markets She
must hrse establish confidence i'll
her wares and in her business meth
ods. She must gain certain, and
very decided amount OF friendly re-
gard or the rival statesmen, the rival
manufacturer, will hold too great
an advantage She can only hope to
be a scavenger otherwise, for the
other nations will leave her only that
which they do not wish to handle.
How is she going to acquire the
necessary standing, the confidence
of buying nations, to give her these
markets Once she would have sent
her thousands of emigrants to colon
ize, with rigid instructions to de-
mand German goods and thereby
create a condition that would force
importations. That day is past, if
the nations are wise, for in all such
cases Germany's colonial idea car
ried with it the control Of politics
through colony ballots 1t is incon-
ceivable that any nation should ever
again cater to the German vote or
allow it to be in control of ever
fraction Of national activities.
With all nations on guard against
Germanising Influences, that plan
must be abandoned. If Germany, in
her stupir disregard of all right and
prejudices, should attempt to again
get control OF any part OF the ma
tional affairs OF America or Canada
OF Brazil, for instance, it will prob
ably lead to the barring of inter
course with her definitely.
1t is difficult to ascertain where
she can first gain foothold. With
her reputation blackened by her own
acts, her rotten methods thoroughly
exposed, it will be a hazardous thing
for any nation to attempt to deal
with her.
1t is Il matter that calls for :he
sober calm study OF master minds,
the consideration OF all nations op-
posed to Germanic ideas and the au-
tocratic domination of Germany. i
must be made a matter OF the most
careful consideration. for upon the
policy adopted by the nations will
depend much of their own welfare.
There must be limit set for Tcu-
tonic activity, bound beyond which
they dare not go or it will be only
a question OF time until the world
will again have to take up the task
of beating Hun devilishness.
1t is time for the nations and their
deepest thinkers to begin to plan
and consider, for it will not be long
now until the Hun will be wanting
to emigrate from Hunland to escape
the burdens he has helped to create.
He must not be allowed to shirk his
task. He must be the one to pick up
the burden and stagger along under
it. He must not be allowed to shift
it to other shoulders, in part or in
entirety.
The forces OF many nations have
been harnessed in the effort to ham
mer some reasonable degree OF sense
into the Hunnish head. Next will
come the prodigious effort to hold
him to his WORK and force him TO
walk the straight and narrow path.
1t is TO be almost as hard a task as
fighting him into submission, il the
way he is preparing for commercial
is any criterion.
Unless he is so hedged about by