Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-27

the acclaimed approval OF the Prus-
I sian GOd---wOuld starVe TO death the
I Innocent Inhabitants OF an Overrun
/ country or deport them 10 MessOpo-
! tania In order 10 colonize their coun-
! Try with germRns Can nfainy sink
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To Prussia the aim of the war IN 10
win--io secure new land for Ger
many; TO Increase the power and the
| prestige Of Germany; and. In the end,
| to dominate the world Germany bra.
zenly confesscao such 10 be her object;
! her warriors and statesmen have
| frankly written II IN books--suthor-
| lied 10y the German government
! admitted II In state documents and In
| public speeches IN the reichstag or
| elsewhere Tho Almighty-thht is.
| The Prugsian Almighty has decreed,
and the almiRhtiest william the In
| famous. has coaQrmed that decree.
that the world shall be German, and
That all other nations and peoples
shall be vassals or shall perish from
Off the earth And Me and Gott"
are In the midst Of the cndeHyor TO
effect that decree.
With all this confession w Prussln,
and evident TO every reading. thinking
man, how can any American be no
blind as to persist In judging Prussia
For thrc9/years the allies havv been
battling these foul PTusslan brutes.
not alone for themselves. but for us.
We had as vital an interest In the
allies success ms the aflies themselves.
Yet we have stood bnck and let the
allies do our share OF the fighting and
suffer all the horrors OF n prussiun
war. We have been making money
and spending money and wasting our
resources In riotous living and un-
necessary frivOlties We have been
persistcntly deaf and dumb and blind
To the true statua-tO what the allies
we're doing for us We have been cal
lous. we have symputhized with and
have helped them with munitions. but
We have made them pay good money
for the munitions and have contrib
utcd none ourselves. or course we
didn't charge them for the sympathy,
bat somehow sne can't fight solely on
sympathy nor shoot sympathy. espe-
cially sympathy that Ii three thousand
miles away
Meanwhile the allies have gone dog
gcdly ON fighting fighting yet
more fightinE-w we have con
tinued to lavish with gobs OF sympathy |
but very shy OF joining In. We
cuuldnt bring ourselves to believe that 4
II was our war as well as Europe's. I
The Prussian lied to us, and traduced Z
us, and ridiculed us, and made scorn /
OF us, and bullicd us, and murdered /
our citizens, and spit on us and our /
llag and yet in our good nature and I
love OF ease and, az We fondly thot !
our Isolated position and three thou
sand miles OF water between the war
and us, we trusted In the general good .
of humanity, in the belief that, as
We sought and would seek nothing
OF Germany, Germany would seek
nothing from us !
Thank God-no; the Prussian God I
was as a nation saw our mistake at
last. We awoke from our sleep, from
our blindness and deafness. and the
renltzati ton OF the truth came home
io US with abashing force. Alas, for L
Inc three years wasted, FILTERED away /
IA idlcness, not only nothing done but II
nothing doing.
We are speeding ahead at last, max
ng desperate efforts to overtake the
line that was and II not and never can
ne. We won tcatch up. bccausS no
nation OF humans ever could-but the
BEST that we can do win be don. And
)cauS " cam late into the war we
Sill have to. face the panalty--have TO
Dear accrued burdens and pay heavier
'osts Had we gone In when the Lusi-
.ania was sunk. the war would be
lNtft VI lltsAil ~ ubNtls anu tllt
would he forever beaten. As II is, the
is not yet. most assuredly
not yet, beaten--and because we have
been tardy In coming into the war, and
have prolonged tho war by that very |
iardiness. II behooVcs us AZ n nation
frankly to acknowledge that fact and ,
prepare 10 bear the additional burden ,
hat taFdiness entails.
The war Is In Europe and Il must ,
be kept tbere--first. because II IN
here second. because for purely :
'elflsh reason we don't want IL here.
Germany is fighting this war on
oreign soil because IL seeks to keep /.
he war from home and Germany .
rec from invasion. So must we. ac- ,
'epting existing conditions fight the
var in Europe--and win II there, in c
rider that America may be spared q
ne horrors OF q Hun invasion For. v
,e assured. II the Hun win In Europe v
lie will promptly carry his hell to our 2
hores, ard DO to this fair land what ~
le has done to France and Belgium n
avish our women. murder our men, =
oot and burn and lombard our cities n
nd the land that lies between 4,
IL the Hun come. he will come as
he conqueror OF Europe, with all the y,
,ower and might which that i'm lV