The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-11
Patriotic Meeting


living as to our motives for entering
the war and our chances of winning
the war. l feel that in this hour of
our Nations stress and strife there
can be no twilight zone in American
patriotism. Every citizen must be
either for the President and for the
flag, or against the President and
against the flag.
We are engaged in a great strug-
gle of human liberty and human de-
mocracy against military autocracy
and despotism We are fighting to
make the world safe for democracy
and democracy safe for the world.
We are vindicating our rights and
the freedom of the high seas sane
toned by international law. We are
protesting against the fencing off OF
the seas, the laying of mines in neu-
trail waters, the violation of sacred
treaty of Germany with Belglum,th
killing of defenseless civilians, and
the attacks on defenSeless towns and
the ruthless violation of the sanctity
of womanhood. All rules of humanl-
ty have been thrown away by the
modern Huns, who through the tea
chings and demands and commands
of their ruling classes deserve to be
called 1.-The scourge of Cod" just as
truly as Atilla and the Huns were
known as the scourge of God nearly
1000 years ago. In this great holo-
caust, which has already cost APP
proximately, 100000 men in kill
ed, wounded, and prisoners, and the
expenditure of $125, 100000, Ger
many and Austria and the other CEN
trail Teutonic powers are making
their last stand for feudalism against
oncoming democracy. This is war
against feudalism-the right of the
castle on the hill to rule the village
below. FuedaIism plus science. thir-
teenth century plus twentieth--this
is the religion of the mistaken Ger
man that has linked itself with the
uncomfortable Turk, that, like its
scholar, has adopted the method of
M6hammed and & the the theory that tic
State has no conscience" and "the
king can do no wrong" With the
spirit of the fanatic the deluded peo-
pie of the central powers believe this
gospel and that it is their duty TO
spread it by force, for, with the Pots
dam dynasty, might is right and
strength is triumphant" With tear,
chlorine, and mustard poisonous
gases that make living hell; with
submarines that are worse than the
devil carrying a dirk in the dark;
with Zeppelins that lombard men
and women while they sleep; with
perfected and scientific system of
Mans inhumanity to man" that the
modern world first heard of when
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gium-German fuedalism is making
war upon mankind Let this spirit
of evil and autocracy have its way
and no man could live in America
without paying toll to it, in man
hood, and in money. We would live,
as France has lived for 40 years, in
haunting terror.
Our people need to be thoroughly
aroused as to the seriousness of the
situation We are confronted by.
war, grim-visaged war. Germany oc-
cupies four times as much area and
has within the control of her armies
and civilian population six times as
much food acreage as she occupied
three and a half years ago at the
outbreak of the war, with 100000
Russian prisoners to cultivate this
food acreage. She has conquered
and holds Rumania, Servia, Monte
negro, Russian Poland, the entire
Russian country up to Riga, many
square miles in Italy, IS per cent. of
Belgium, and 246 square miles in
France. Until the real issues of 1.-THE
war are brought home to the Ger
man people they will continue to ov-
ersubscribe her loans and furnish the
necessary credit for the mobilization
of her troops and resources. She is
practically the only nation in the
world that has made census of her
man power, which has been carefully
selected with reference to occupation,
and we are told that she has fully
100000 carpenters and 1000 ell
ectricians and mechanical engineers
who have never seen the trenches or
the firing line. Official authorities
admit that Germany can put into the
field 500, 900 men each year, and that
her average losses for the past three
and half years have been only
100000 annually, leaving a tremen
dous reserve power upon which she
can draw In her three landStrumS
in reserve we are told THAT there are
fully 100000 men. With the
collapse of Russia and the estimated
withdrawal of lao army corps, Ger
many is massing thousands of troops
on the western frontier and is pre-
pairing for a supreme effort to break
the western line. She failed at the
Marine, at Ypres, and at Verdun; if
we properly support our Government
the troops of America, fighting Shout
der to shoulder with those of our
brave allies, will see that she fails
at scissors, at Champagne, or wher-
ever she may strike this spring.
But in order to accomplish this it
will be necessary for every one of
us to break the alabaster box of his
ointment of sacrifice. We must
teach our children and people of
moderate means to buy thrift stamps
and war savings certificates; that a
dollar saved in the United States is
a patriotic dollar; that a dollar
boarded is Stacker, and that dol
lar wasted is a traitor. We must
continue to enlist in the membership
campaign and subscribe generously
to the Red Cross, which, by its eX-
penditure of 100000 on the
battle fields of France, has already
relieved over 100000 French and
Belgian civilian women and children.
We must buy new Liberty bonds in
the third crusade.
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