The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-06-04
cEpMANY's sTRUccLE AGAINST FATE.


Of his strength as America is his gains of terri
tory in France would be rightly construed evidence
of overwhelming power win victory. The outcome Of
the war would be certainty the showing wade by
Germany inthe last ten weeks. Why is it, them that
neither in Germany nor in allied nations is there any
thought that the end of the war is near? Why is i'll
that the French nation is calm and confident although
the enemy is at the Marine?
The answer is that France, Great Britain Italy and
America have taken ermany's measure and know that
the present struggles evidence of weakness and not
Of strength The going against Germany in mat
tiers Of vast and irresistible influence far transcendng
in Importance and effect any single battle that has ever
been fought. The rampling of the German hordes at
the Marne strikes the superficial mind as terribly men
acing to the allies The unseen influences that are bear
ing Germany down to death are not those that impress
the car and eye.
The end of the war is not near, in count of days
weeks, but brought by Germanys exertons
which work for her earlier defeat One of the opinions
frequently heard is that Gemanys gains of territory
proOng the war, the deduction being that ground lost
must be recovered That might be true Germany
at the beginning instead of nearing the end of her
stence but gains of territory often affected by other
influences which sometimes make apparent gains real
losses ANY show Of instances in which
gains of territory disastrous to the gamer.
Germany is in the sere and yellow leaf a military
power, power This is the carefully formed conviction
military experts coincidng with the absolute knowledge
of the allied governments Germanys power at
its peak March Since March Fl several hundred thous
and Germans have been put out of action and several
hundred thousand Americans have gone into action The
Subtraction from enemy strength and the addition to al
lied strength since March Fl constitutes total which may
now at this moment spell German defeat but the process
continuous and will continue long Germany burns
Up her power Every assault upon the allies is
more costly to Germany than to the defenders at the
very when the defenders are reinforced by Amer
means in rapidly increasing stream.
The military clique that is hurrying the German empire
destruction making the last throw Of the dice Of
war; The American armies must either defeat France
Great Britain Italy, and the United States within few
weeks the plumber gained in four years of murerous
operations against small nations will be lost and the Ger
man empire lost with it. What task Those fatuous
Germans who worship Hindenburg and Ludendorf may
contemplate them facing the task of subugatng the
four strongest nations of the world few weeks or plum
ging the whole empire precipce If these generals
supcrmen, is their time to exricate the German
people from the terrors Surly no human crea-
lures have faced greater undertaking.
Hohenzolern and Hapsburg go down. They are al
ready in the rapids They struggle vigorously but in that
current among those fanged and Jagged rocks
under the tempest of the worlds wrath they cannot sur
vve. They snatch at this and that they shout mutual
encouragement they frantically scheme and plan to
thwart the flood and the rocks and the hurricane Vain
ptfully vain! Their opportunity to avoid danger was
before they leaped into The world did not seek their
lives They brought the forces of death down upon their
own heads when they turned their backs upon God and
deliberately used their powers for the murder of nations
The havoc they wrought aroused the wrath and might
Of mankind and the storm will be laid until the causes
are destroyed.
Grasp the earth in France Hohenzollern Cling to it as
firmly you can! Any one who has hung above Niagara
in dream and has experienced that cold grip Of death
around the heart the earth gave way can understand
exactly how Germany Washington Post.