Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-12
Not Only a Duty Which Every
Good American Owes His
Country at This Time.
AMERICA IS Re. DISCOVERED
Autocratle Rulers Of Germany Have
Learned That They Cannot Fost
Their Theories OF kultur Upon
Our Democracy.

ey THOMAS r. MARSHALL,
vIee.Presldent OF the United States

Sice-Fresioent OF the United States.
A very remarkable thing about
America consists in the fact that Il
does not remain discovered. for a
country Is discovered only when the
world knows where It Is aud what
1t IL. II the world he mistaken in
either particular. II remains still an
unknown laId. Historians say that
Columbus discovered ii In 1899. and
20 far ms revealing It's geographical 10.
cation to the world Is concerned that
Is true. But In 1776 II was rediscov.
cred when the fat-hended German
who sat on the English throne made
the great mistake In the life Of the
British empire in thinking that he
might treat the colonlsts as he chose.
Dream Of World Dominion.
The average German .junker. IL he
had any religious sense which rose
higher than the mere. worship OF
power. wculd have made splendid
theological professor IN those days
Whom Z was. w.ttlly said of Apdo ier
that every five years the profes. ors
took q solemn oath to the effect that
they had learned nothing In the pre-
ceding Owe years and would learn
nothing In the succeeding five. This
German hierarchy became ohsessed
With the idea Of world dominion ema.
mating from a great empire In middle
Europe. II proceeded with a diplom.
acy that would have made Machia.
velli seek admission into the kinder.
garten, II organized by an act Of the
congress OF the United States what is
known as, the German Alliance. Os.
tensibly q fraternal organization. its
underlying purpose was TO obtain pos
sdAston of the schools. colleges and
universities OF America, and by n
course Of training from generation to
generation teach this people that the
Individual was nothing. that the state
was everything. 1t thought In forty
years II had so divided the American
people that there were but two courses
open to them. either a ready acquies.
cence In the purposes and aims of the
imperial German government or in the
having Of sufficient power at the close
OF this bloodthlrsty and cruel war 10
collect on the American people suftl.
Client tribute to indemnify in dollars
and cents the vast expenditures OF the
German empire In the waging of this
war and the making Of the entire
western continent mere appendage
Of the German crown.
Now that the war Is on some of It's
leading men boldly dsclaim the right
of the American government to have
any immigration laws whatsoever.
They brazenly announce that Column.
bus discovered America for the world
thAt the Germans have an unrestrct.
ed right to come TO America, and II
they can get n sufficient number here
tnhned with their theories of kultur
to shift our individualistic democracy
ift0 a state autocracy. The Lusitania
the Arabic and the Sussex would never
Nave been sunken, the ln,ignities
AeAped upon the flag would never have
occurred the brutal and autocratic
COURSE OF conduct would never have
olAn taken, HAD their government not
imagined Its forty years influence
atoh the thought and purpose of
American NE had so weakened the
hber Of American citizenship that In
the hour Of trial Ii would be as impo.
tent AZ A leprous hand. or as water
spilled upon dry ground that may not
he gathered up again.
Peaceful Man Can Fight.
1t has rediscoyered America. II has
found that It was mistaken. It has
been suddenly confronted with the
fact that the peaceful man Is the mos,
dangerous man when he concludes to
engage In q fight.
But this fight Is not yet won. There
are no half dozen courses open to the
American people They must win OF
they must lose and II they lose, wha,
was sought to be accomplished by In
sidlous propaganda will be given tc
them BY the mailed fist Of the con
Queror. Holy Writ declares that all q
man hath will he give for his life, but
more thnn a century and a quarter OF
American lifu has disclosed that life