The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-28
GERMANY'S UNCONQUERABL
FOE
Says the Washington Post:

Gays INC washington tUSl.
Every disappointment encountered
by the American people in their prep
aratic0s fer the smashing of the enc
my merely intensifies their determine
ton 10 accept no result except victory
Every setback to the United States
emphasizes the importance of reach
ing the PORT where there shall be no
setback
The only menace to the peace and
happiness of the United States is the
German system Of assinating other
nations. With that menace removed
the United States can easily and in its
own time dispose of ever question
that may arise. Until that menace is
renewed no other question is of vital
Importance
Nothing that is under discussion
here or abroad, nothing that Ameri-
cans can be interested in, is of such
Importance as the continued independ-
ence of the United States, without ask
ing the consent of any other nation.
Until the German war power shall
have been oVerpowered and compelled
to give binding gauarantees to respect
the sovereign independence and nation
al rights of the United States, there
VIII be no peace, there cannot be peace
a1d there should not be peace
If the German people wish TO have
peace with America, they can assist
by overthrowing their insane rulers,
taking control of their own govern
men, a1d giving the guarantees which
America demands. If the German peo-
pie will not do this they must suffer
the consequences of the hardship and
defeat that await Germany
Americans are keenly sympathetic
toward the allied nations and toward
all peoples that are striving fer ma
tional existence and independence But
there is one thing that Americans re-
gard with still more interest and that
is the unimpaired integrity and indie
pendence Of the United States If the
Germans want to know why the Amer
leans will. not quit this war without
victory, no matter what other nations
may do, let them consider why this
nation was founded in The New World.
1t is not written in the stars of the
armament that the New World should
wear shackles. Every obstacle that
human or internal malice could devise
has been interposed in the New World
to Dreve2t the free operation of the
principle Of government with consent
Of the governed and that principle has
swept them all aside from Cape Bar
row 10 Cape Horn. The New World
and its manhood are dedicated to that
principle now and forever.
For this reason it is possible for
AMERICANS to look with patience upon
The unfolding OF the fatal power that
resides in liberty. The mistakes, blum
ders. passions, strikes, profiteering
and all the other setbacks are minor
matters, ard every day that swirls
abou' them is but evidence Of the deep
momentum Of the nation. Down in his
heart, below all the surface agitations
of the day, every American under the
Stars and Stripes knows that this ma
tic1 will never lay down the sword un-
til the enemy asks for peace on Amer
ica's terms.
The stamp Of insanity was placed
forever on the murderous brains of
Germanys saber-rattlers when they
assailod the United States and other
nations Of the New World. Whatever
Europe may say or do this hemis-
phere will look to Berlin only for one
object-to find and destroy the assins
oi liberty. The German rulers
may have enlarged the boundaries of
the German Empire and may have re-
NAMED in power to enjoy the fruits Of
their crimes if they had not assaulted
the free governments of the New
World. On that day and by that act
they set in motion all irresistible force
that viii not rest until it has demol-
ished the evil power that challenges
the right Of men to govern themselves
Presidents and congresses may come
and go, and mistakes and quarrels may
mark the process of armoring and
massing and hurting this force upon
Germany. but the nation that was not
born to die or wear chains will deter
mine its own fate and that OF the
enemy