Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-20
stop DREAMING OF
PEACE; FIGHT FIRSTr'

It's Scabaro, on that hot July day. four
years ago. you yawned and then
smiled
War was so unthinkable
Besides. there was The Hague and
its temple of Peace;
And the Nobel peace prize
Finally. there were the Rothschilds
and the bankers of all Europe, at
Frankfort. at Vienna, at Paris, at Ma
pies, at London. They simply would
not permit War.
BUT
War came, with all its red horror
trampling Belgium into a bloody mire,
fiouting the Hague treaties. mocking
Peace, gagging the Rothehilds and
the banks.
And before you knew what il all
meant. Zeppelins had spattered babies
brains at Antwerp, priests were cruel
fed and Paris had fed TO Bordeaux.
You recovered your composure only
when Joffre and his poilus stood at
bay against the Prussian wolves at the
Marine.
You said the War wasn't carried on
by the German people. whose patron
saint was Kris Kringle and whose
caraway cookies were so good. You
argued that the Wicked Hohenzollerns
had deceived the innocent Bavarians
and Saxons. and you almost get eye
strain searching for the news of all
Germany revolving against Prussia.
THAT WAS OVER THREE YEARS
AGO.
You chuckled at the gigantic war
debt piling on Germany's back and you
quoted eminent aetuaries who solemn
ly predicted that Germany was trying
to life herself by her financial boot
straps, and when she had incurred a
debt of one hundred billion marks, she
would blow up. THAT WAS OVER
THREE YEARS AGO.
You smiled indulgently at Kitchen
er's prophecy of a three years war. His
exaggeration was quite pardonable,
you said to keep the British from over
confidence. THAT WAS OVER THREE
YEARS AGO.
Have you forgotten how thrilled you
were when the Grand Duke Nicholas
captured Prsemysl and all those funny
named towns that seemed so new on
the map? And how you glowed when
you visualized the hordes of Cossacks
smarming on to the Hungarian plains?
THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO.
How cock-sure you fell. when Italy
spurned the Triple Alliance and start
ed her avalanche on Austria. That
would finish Austria you were sure.
THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO.
You felt supremely happy when the
Allies bombed the Dardanelles. You
knew the war would end the moment
Constantinople fell. THAT WAS
THREE YEARS AGO.
Your blood ran cold at the awful
mass-murders of Armenians by the
German-Turks, and you fairly wept
with joy when the Cars troops drove
the Turks out of Trebizond. THAT
WAS THREE YEARS AGO.
But the Grand Duke Nicholas and
the Russian armies have disappeared
now, the murders in Armenia are
going on, the Berlin-Stamboul express
still runs, and the Allies abandoned
their attack on Gallipoli and the Oar
danelles over two years ago.
Germany holds more territory today,
on the continent of Europe, than at
any time in her history.
Germany has wiped out Belgium,
Serbia, Poland, Roumania and Mon
tenegro
Germany has paralyzed into abject
submission, Russia. all of the Scandi-
navian countries, Holland and Greece.
Germany's sea-fleet is stronger today
than ever Her Baltic feet is released,
and she can now breed submarines in
the Black Sea.
Prussia never lets a war be short
unless she wins it. That is the price
of her short wars. When she grabbed
Schleswig- Holstein, Prussia whipped
Denmark quickly. When she punished
the German states and Austria in 1866,
it was called the Seven Weeks War.
And when she got Alsace-Lorraine
from France, it only took Prussia eight
months TO get II.
The Prussian mind is never organic
ed to accept defeat. She believes that
the minds of other nations are. Prus-
STA counts on the fact that she has al
ways found to be true, that peace-lov-
ers will sacrifice all their principles
but the love of peace, to avoid a long
drawn fight. The Prussian believes us
chicken-hearted and that the German
brigands need only be logged and Sc
we're
And Prussia viii win this war if the
Allies do not stop talking peace!
Prussia will win this war if America
does not stop talking peace!
Prussia will win this war if YOU
do not stop talking peace,
OF course Prussia wants peace.
Why shouldn't she want peacei With
her bloody boots on the dead beasts
of Serbia and Belgium, with her foul
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