Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-23
kIPLINC URGES
WAR TO VICTORY
Nothing Else Matters" Declares
Famous Writer in Speech
Advocating Saving.

Folkstone. England. Feb. 10
Correspondence of the Associated
Fress.D - Nothing else under
heaven matters today except that
the war shall go on to victory"
dc cIared Rudyard Kipling here to-
day in a striking and picturesque
speech in advocacy of war savings.
The money VIC loan to the govern
ment 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 en-
pire but also the whole of civiliza-
ton which has pooled its re-
sources in men. money and mater
ial to carry on this war 10 victory.
What S 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.
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.
we are fighting against Is hours
a day forced labor under lash or
at the point of the bayonet. with a
dogs death and a dogs burial at
end of it.
We are fighting that men,
women and children may not be
tortured. burned and mutilated in
the public streets, as has happened
IL L., 80
others. And we will go on fighting
till the races who have done these
things are not in position to con-
tinue or repeat their offence.
If for any reason whatever We
fall short of victory-and there is
no halfway house between victory
and defeat-what happens to use?
This:
Every relation, every under
standing, every decency upon
which civilization has been so an
XiOusly built up viii gO-will be
washed out, because it will have
been proved unable to endure The
whole idea of democracy-w at
bottom is what the Hun fights
against-will be dismissed from
mems minds, because it will have
/ been shown incapable of maintain
ing itself against the Hun. 1t will
die; and it viii die discredited, to-
gether with every belief and prac-
tice that is based on it.
/ The Hun ideal. the Huns root
notions of life will take its place
throughout the world. Under that
+ dispensation man will become more
the natural prey, body and goods
OF his better armed neighbor
. Women will be the mere instru-
{ ment for continuing the breed: the
vessel of mans lust and mans
/ cruelty; and labor will become a
+ thing TO be knocked on the head
/ 4 ii dares to give trouble. anC
! worked 10 death if it does not. And
F from this order of life there will be
+ 10 appeal, no possibility of any es-
cape. This is what the Hun means
when he saws he intends to impose
/ German which is the Ger.
/ man religion-upon the world. This
/ is precisely what the world has
/. banded itself together to resist.
1T will take every ounce in us
it Will try us out to the naked soul
Our trial will not be made less by
the earnest advice and suggestion,
that we should accept some sort o
compromise. which means defeat
put forward by Hun agents ant
cOnfederates among US. They ar,
busy in that direction already. Blu
be sure of this: Nothing -nothins
we NAV have TO endure now will
weigh one featherweight comparet
with what we shall most certainl,
have to suffer if for any cause w
fail of victory"