Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-04-25
UNITED STATES THE
HOPE OF MANKIND
Bulwark That Alone Will Keep
People of the World from
Bending the Knee to German
Tyranny, Declares Professor
Hart of Harvard
THE sword of the Lord and Gideon!

'The sword of the Lord and Gideon!
''The United States is the last hope of all
mankind. We are the only reservoir left.
We are the bulwark that alone will keep
the people of Europe. and possibly our
own people, from bending their knee to
the dominant will of tyranny at the COM
mand of the German autocracy," declared
Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart. professor from
Harvard College, speaking to an over
flowing audience at the assembly hall of
the high school last night. The address
was under the auspices Of the Klifa club,
and the speaker was introduced by Mrs.
W. II. Englesby, president of the club.
I'VE are the only power on the face of
the earth that can prevent the Germans
from accomplishing what they are after
a world empire. such as never before was
ever recorded in the history OF the world.
Such an empire would include China and
japan, and the German government would
dictate to every man.
THE Germans are extremely hostile to
the United States and their hostility dates
back more than a score of years. 1t Is a
hostility of jealousy. Jealousy because
the United States has assumed such great
ness In the worlds business of to-day.
Jealousy because that greatness was
made possible in an entirely different man.
ner than was that of Germany's. 1t Is
Jealous over the greatest republic In the
world because 1t thinks that autocracy
Is the one method of ruling that should be
supreme.
Germans are impatient and they want
everything at once Had they postponed
the war for ten years they might have
been firmly settled in South America.
Mespotamia could have been colonized and
could have been made another Mississippi
valley in the East. 1t Is the great prize Of
! the war.
THE Armenian massacres of the last
few years could have been stopped in
six hours had the German government SO
ordered and now Turkeys murder of the
Armenans who are Christians is being
instigated by Germany. Austria-Hun-
gary. Bulgaria and Turkey are controlled
by Germany from Berlin. making total
of $50 600 people all under one WILL an
uncompromising and unbending will. The
more territory Germany conquers and the
more people she tries to make submit to
her iron rule, the more persons who will
hate Germany and German things.
"The German Emperor is not the head
of the German war control. He Is only a
{ figure-head. so-to-speak. 1t is the mill
tary power that runs Germany to-day. The
Reichstag is only a toy in the hands OF
the military power Germany builds her
power on the bodies of her subjects. In
1913 a bill was passed in Germany permit
ting subject of Germany to become nat
uralized in some other country and by
a special permission to retain his citizen
ship in the Fatherland. That tendency to
hold her citizens to the country gave them
| n hold in America that was hard to break.
Germany actually declared war with
America by her acts of blowing up build
ings, firing granares and instigating
| strikes.
War was brought to the United States
and forced upon us. We did not go after
war Germans in the northwest even got
such a control on the country that only
the German language was taught In the
public schools. What way to spread
Propaganda!
Germany Is fighting two wars in one
1t is fighting for two great principles
either one of which would have fough'
for at any time. Germany Is fighting
England, first because of England's place
in the sun, because of England's CONNER
cial success, of England's colonies and be-
cause of England's sea power.
Germany is fighting Russia for the
control of the Bosphorous, for the contro
of the only possible outlet to the Atlanti'
ocean and the warm waters Tor RUSSIA
That outlet is one of the most strategic
positions in the entire waters OF the earth
ITO the United States comes the tasi
of being the bulwark of the democracy
of free peoples of all human rights ant
liberty and of all minlSind.
THE sword of the Lord and Gideon!