Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-09

sign or not. II matters not to the
allies now. Germany Is beaten and
the end Is at hand for Prussianism
and the Hohenxollern menace to the
world. The climax may come by un-
conditional surrender OF the German
army while yet on foreign soil: 1t
may come after the German army
has been shattered and hurled back
upon German territory, and German
cities have suffered what French and
Belgian cities have suffered; or, II
may come while peace emissaries are
etill hesitsting and playing for dip
lomatic advantage. by the sudden
overflow in every kingdom Of the
German group by the forces carry
ing the red nag Of revolution.
Even now the entire German navy
In In the hands Of mutinous sailors.
The great maritime port Of Ham,
burg Is already in the hands OF the
revolutionis;s. The red flag is on ev-
cry ship IN the harbor. Bavaria has
demanded that her troops be sent
home-her troops" The sorrowful
remainder Of magnificent army
that has been sacrificed to the war
masters plot for power. Schleswig
and Holstein are all on fire with rev.
clution.
And what Of Saxony. Baden. Wurt-
tcmburg. Hesse. Hanover. Mecklen-
burg-all. all are starved. mad from
grief and iil-nourished bodies, des-
psrate in dread of coming winter and
its war horrors. and all prussia ex-
eepted-and part Of thaD are ripe
for the overthrow and obliteration of
the authors Of their woe, their hopes
destroyed. their ambitions forever
wrecked. their generations on gener-
ations to come Of paying for their
Sins.
They that take the sword shall
perish by the sword"
Germany is perishing as we look
on, and as she richly deserves. Out
Of her ashes and woe new genera
tions shall rise-better generations of
new purpose, cleansed by the work.
ing out Of the present sentence by
civilization.
Today Germany is a barbarian OF
unexampled magnitude, convicted by
the world and held in contempt II
not hatred everywhere. The German
names viii be mathematical down
through ages as has been the name
OF the race that prosecuted the incar-
mated Visitor. Hereafter to call any
man, in any country Hun" will be
fighting talk.
The Huns arc beaten to the Roose-
welt fragile" and they know 1t and
know that the world knows it. In
one Of the strongest editorials we
have seen upon the subject the New
York Tribune on Friday said:
Germany. :. titanic BARBARIAN
among nation5 declared war on all
civilization. She meant to fasten
kultur upon tie world by force.
She is beaten She has lost the
war Bu, she Nas lost it on foreign
soil.
One by one OF her allies sacrificed
themselves upon the altar of her
terrible ambit IN. She herself is still
intact Ter f,ctries. her railroads,
her mines anc shipyards are I'M
touched. and a.e has preserved in
foreign lands even in this land of
ours--a sinistr. and powerful or
ganizntion. which. upon the cessation
az hostili,ics. VIII begin at once to
Gissernin ,tc puiitical and commercial
propaganda designed to bring about
tho moral and material reha b. ,itation
al Germ lny.
And now "Ivizilation, horribly
wounded in tho struggle for preserva-
ton. is about 10 consider wrat kind
cf peace to mpnc with the thing that
sought and nearly accomplished its
utter destruction.
An epoch IL at hand
II lies within the power Of civiliza-
ton to make inc world different
place forever.
i,ageh,t on, said that many times
IN the hstor; OF mankind 1t had
seemed that people were ready to
take "A raomer. Gus step forward. I'm
ocr cond ions iairaculously prepared.
Hut just when everything was
ready. 1T thc very last moment. the
people had 10 .hed back for ole fare
well glince- and then never adj
vanced
Here. gain Is that opportunity.
What VIII we q" with it?
There sre tv1 elements Of peace
material end rioral--or as we might
say. pon icrablc and imponde able.
The m-.teria; clements have been
considered. Compensation. economic
arrangements. territorial ADJUST
nents, guarantees and sureties-these
have all been discussed. They are
more or less understood. And II Is
Just that Germany should pay
material price commensurate with the
worlds loss. though IL should take
generations OF toll to discharge the
debt.