The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-25

KIPLING DEMANDS
PEACE WITH VICTORY
Nothing Less, Noted Author Asserts
Can Save the World from Slavery
Under the Germans.

! LONDON, Feb. 2J.-Rudyard Kip
! ling, speaking at FolkestOne on the war
aims that confront the world and the
true meaning OF German militarism
said:
| "At the present time all the powers
in the world that have not been bribed
or bullied to keep out of il have been
forced to join in one international de.
partment to make an end Of German
international thuggerv, for the reason
that if il is not ended life on this plan.
ct viii become insupportable for hu-
man beings.
Nlne-tenths Of the atrocities that
Germany has committed have not been
made public. Until the veil is lifted
after the war we shall have no CON
ceptlon of the range and system of those
atrocities.
$50 long as the Germans are left with
any excuse for thinking such things paw.
can any peace be made with them !
None, for our hearts, our reason. every
instinct IN us that has lifted Us above
the mere brute, shows us that the war
must go on. Otherwise the earth would
become hell without hope.
The representatives of the allies
meet together from time to time and
lay down what the war aims of the al
lies are. From time to time our states
men repeat that they all agree. We
are fighting for freedom and liberty,
for the right of small states to exist,
and for nations to decide for themselves
4 how they are to be governed. All this
we understand and perfectly believe.
THAT Is the large view of the situa-
tion. What is the personal aspect of
the ease for YOU and for me! We are
lighting for our lives, the lives of every
man, woman, and child here and every.
where else. We are fighting that we
may not be herded into actual slavery
such as the Germans have established
by force of arms in large parts of Eu,
rope. We are fighting against Is hours
n day Of forced labor under the lash OF
at the point of a bayonet, with dog :
death and dog burial at the end of
it We are fighting that men, women
and children may not be tortured
burned and mntilatcd in public, as has
happened in this town (rcferring to air
raid murders) and hundreds OF others
and we will 90 on fighting till the race
which has done these things is in no
| position to continue or repeat its Of
Tense
- Abl ar tfd0OH W HuttNtT We lall
short of victory-and there is no half
way house between victory and defeat
| what happens to us is this: Every
relation, every understanding. every
/ decency upon which civilization has
/ been so anxiouslv built, will go, will
| be washed out, because il will have been
| proved unable to endure The whole
! idea Of democracy (Which at bottom is
what the Hun fights against will be
| dismissed from men 5 minds because il
Will have been shown incapable of main
! tanning itself, together with every belief
and practice that is based upon il. The
Hun ideal, the Hun 9 root-notions OF
life, will take their place throughout
the World .....
Under that dispensation man will
become once more the natural prev
body and soul, of his better-armcd neigh
Dor. Women will be mere instruments
for continuing the breed, the vessel OF
man : lust and man 5 cruelty, and la
Dor will become a thing to be knocked
on the head If II dares give trouble, and
worked TO death if it does not. And
from this order Of life there will be no
iappcal, no possibility Of any escape.
This is what the Hun means when
he says that he intends to impose Ger
man Kultur, which is the German re
ligion, 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 IL,
out to the naked soul. Our trial will
not be made less by earnest advice and
suggestions that we should attempt
some sort Of compromise. which means
defeat, put forward by Hun agents and
confederates among us