Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-03-15
WAKE UP. THE HUN
IS AT THE GATE
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gum, and the devastated region Of
noble France,
we must put away from our minds
all clouds OF illusion, The task still is
diminished and victory is far from
won. The military party in Berlin still
is IN complete control OF the whole re.
sources not only Of Germany, but OF
Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur-
key and they have not yet abandoned
hope OF a decisive military victory,
1T is a grim fact which had better
be plainly realized for we are not
afraid Of facts and must face the truth
unilinchingly because by that means
alone shall we succeed"
The magnitude OF the task we have
undertaken is appalling As Winston
Spencer Churchill, British Minister of
Munitions, III recent speech address
ing himself to Americans, has well
said Never in history has so great a
nation undertaken so great a task. The
Allied nations have suffered severely
and IN maintaining ten or twelve mil
hon soldiers in the field have as re-
suit three or four million graves.
our resources have been poured
out, our homes are scared with sorrow.
and our industries and finances and
/ institutions have been melted down in
the cruciblc Of the world war. Come
To our aid Come in your thousands,
Z but come at once to Europe.
The German armies released from
the Eastern front by the defeat Of
Russia, are steadily tran,vcr,iug Ger.
many AS fast as their detcroratcd rail
ways can carry them. They are ON
their way to the West, hundreds Of
thousands Of men with thousands of
gathering So he sees the situation
and describes it,
The time for idle and ,cditiou, talk
has passed The day for action is at
hand. Let no man say that wc were
not forced into this way, or that if we
had minded our own cuisines, we
should not have been attacked nor in.
volvcd IN the war 30 man competent
TO comprehend the situation can now
deny or doubt that Germany intended
after conqucring Europe to attack and
conquer us
Through the patient years Of our
honest attempt to keep the peace Of
nations the records OF the German
uutocracy is damnable,
With a idnatcal faith in the destiny
OF German kutur its submarines in
defiance Of law and the concepts of
humanity have blown up neutral yes
sells, and covered the waves with dead
and dying men, women and little chill
dren alike; it has set the torch of the
incendiary to our factories, our work
shops, our ships and our wharves, laid
the bomb of the assassin in our NUM-
ton plants and in the holds of our
ships; sought to corrupt our manhood
VITA selfish dream OF peace when
there is no peace destroyed our Corh-
mcrCe and murderouSly butChered our
citizens on the high seas; sought to
terrorize the world with its hellsh pol
icy of frightfulness violated every
canon of international decency, set at
naught every solemn treaty and every
precept of international law, and
plunged the world into the maddest
orgy OF blood, rapine and murder
which history records.
To refrain from entering into the
war, this stupendous civil war of all the
world, this new campaign i'll the age
old war the prize of which is liberty |
a struggle iii which all who love free
dom have a stake, would have been a
crime against civilization and against !
our ancestors who gave their lives in
order that We might be free.
For two years and more we were |
Iulled to sleep by German propaganda |
We held to a neutrality that made us
ashamed, that made every red blooded |
American deep down in his heart apol-
)gize for the human race, for those
things which outraged mans every
sense of decency, fair play and human
ty There came a day when we
lwoke, genuinely alarmed at the peril
which confronted us. We have come
20 know that from the day of the in
'asion of Belgium the German war
ords' plan led onward across bloody
ields, westward, with slow but steady
tribes to an invasion of our shores.
Aroused at last from our lethargy,
patience ceased to be longer a virtue,
VI lllCl Clllul dllNc WAS COWdIOlCe, SUD |
mission to PruSsian demands was
lavery.
SO we came into the war for self
License. SO now, as President Wilson
avs: I'VE are fighting as truly for
he liberty and self government of the
nited States as if the war of our own
revolution had to be fought over
gain and every man i'll every bust s
ess i'll the United States must know; l
" this time, that his whole future
es i'll the balance" i
1t is our lives, liberty property and /
appineSS that are at stake! If any S
IAN has any idea that we are fighting t
theirs battles, not our own, the soon S
r he gets away from that idea the S
etter it will be for him, the better it g
ill be for all of us. a
The immediate duty of America is to 4
end men and resources to the battle
elds of Europe to help France and
ngland win the war before their I
rength is further depleted and the $
ar brought to America. 1t is our e
lain duty to fight in self defense and h
n and with our friends, while we il
ave them, and to the end that there e
ay be an end to all war forever. Il
I'VE are as a nation in the presence t.
a great task which demands SUI II
-eme sacrifice and endeavor of every Ii
lie OF us. The eliminating crisis of Ii
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