Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-19
Must Fight for Peace


its scabbard. on that hot JuIv day
four years ago, you yawned and then
smiled.
War was so unthinkable.
Besides, there was The Hague and
It's temple of peace
And the Nobel peace prize.
Finally. there were the Roths.
ohilds and the bankers OF all Europe
at Frankfort, at Vienna. at Paris .,
Naples at London. They slmp,J
would not permit war.
BUT
war cameC with all its red horrc-
-trampling Belgium into a bloody
mire flouting the Hague treaties,
mocking peace. gagging the Roths
childs and the banks.
And before you knew what ii all
meant. Zeppeins had spattered ba-
bies' brains on Antwerp. priests
were crucified and Paris had fled to
Bordeaux You recovered Your COM
posure only when Joffre and his
! i''- hN''hA az DhN against lUt IuN-
sian wolves at the Marne.
You said the war wasn't carried
on by the German people, whose
patron saint was Kris Kringle and
whose caraway cookies were so good.
| You argued that the wicked Hoher.
zollcrns had deceived the innocent
Bavarians and Saxons. and you al
most got eyestrain searching for the
news of all Germany revolt!rs
against Prussia. That was over three
years ago.
You chuckled at the gigantic war
debt piling on Germans back, and
you quoted eminent actuaries who
solemnly predicted that German
was trying to lift herself by her
financial bootstraps, and when she
had incurred a debt OF one hundred
billion marks, she would blow up.
That was over three years ago.
You smiled indulgently at Kitch-
tners prophecy of three years war.
4 His exaggeration was quite pardon
able, you said to keep the British
from over-confidence. That was
three years ago.
'iiave you forgotten how thrilled
you we're when the Grand Duke
| Nicholas captured Presmysl and all
those funny named towns that
seemed so new on the map? And
how you glowed when you visual
ized the hordes of Cossacks swarm
ing on TO the Hungarian plains?
| Thatwas three years ago.
How cock-sure you felt when It.
ally spurned the triple alliance and
bstarted her avalanche on Austria.
That would finish Austria you were
sure. That was three years ago.
You felt supremely happy when
the allies bombed the Dardanellcs.
You knew the war would end the mo-
ment Constantinople fell. That was
| three years ago.
Your blood ran cold at the awfu'
mass-murders OF Armenians by thu
German-Turks. and you fairly went
| "iAH JOY "Hen hnt CLdT tToop8
drove the Turks out OF Trebizond.
That was three years ago.
But the Grand Duke Nicholas and
the Russian armies have disappeared
now, the mass murders in Armenia
are going on, the -Stamboul
express still runs. and the allies
abandoned their attack on Gallipoli
and the Dardanelles over two years
ago.
The war is nearly four years old.
Germany holds more territory today.
on the continent of Europe, than at
any time in her history.
Germany has wiped out Belgium.
Serbia. Poland. Roumania and Mon
tenegr9.
Germany has paralyzed into alb
iect submission, Russia, all of the
Scandinavian countries. Holland
and Greece.
Prussia never let's war be short
unless she wins it. That is the price
OF her short wars. When fhe grab
bed Schleswig- -Holstein, Prussia
whipped Denmark quickly When
she punished the German states and
Austria in 1866 it was called the
seven weeks war. And when she got
Alsace Lorraine fromeFrance' 1t ohs
took Prussia eight months to get IL.
The Prussian mind is never o.
ganized to accept defeat, she oe-
lieves that the minds OF other ma
tions are. Prussia counts on tne
fact that she has always found TO be
true, that peace-lovers will sacri-
flee all their principles but the love
OF peace. to avoid iong-drawn tlgnt'
Prussian believes us chicken-heart-
ed and that theaGerman brisanos
need only be dogged and severe =,
4 aAnd Prussia will win this war .a,
the allies do not stop talking pe4o
Prussia will win this war II co.
lea does not stop talking pea'e Won
Prussia will win this war Il
do not stop talking peace!
uO NO. oourse Prussia wants peace