Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-06-06
another such offensive as we are now
facing in tho vast

UictIiCi ouCu offensive tI5 We 1It uON
facing in the west.
AS for hunger and war WEAKNESS
driving the German people to rebellion
they may rebel. but it is idle To cX-
pert or hope that they will. Russia
yielded to her misery and permitted
Internal disorder to lead to external
weakness. and the German people nave
the spectacle of Russia before them
now tn serve as Il warning. And il will
serve as n warning. The eastern COM
quests will contribute much tn ale
waiting the hunger and TO supplying
necessary things which the blockade
has kept out OF Germany. The worst
OF the food problem will probably be
over permanently before next winter
closes.
1t seems to me that the German
leaders and rulcrs will still be able to
control their subjects, ii not by prom
ises of fresh victories at least by the
fairly accurate representation OF what
anything but u victorious peace Will
now mean, not merely for the present.
but for future generations of
Germany, like the south in 1864 and
the early sprins of 1865, will have no
choice but to fight. because she can
obtain M terms from her enemies
which would enable her to preserve
amy part of the main purposes Tor
which she has been fighting. Her
''''ifiiNN. at "a E'i S'iIl VI wv rNs't
lance and relieved OF II considerable
part of the burden which they have
had to bear. will not consent to IL peace
which will make their immediate
present dangerous and their future
dark.
III America were not arriving ! feel
sure tina there would be peace by
negotiation at the close of this cam
paign and that Germany would be able
to harvest substantial profits from her
campaigns. Not in amy spirit of Tain-
glory, but merely in Il sense of espon
sibility. the American people must now
recognize that the winning of the war
I'm going to be i'll Il large measure their
task. We are the only fighting nation
which is not war weary, which is not
weakened by terrible casualty lists and
shaken by all sorts of privations and
miseries.
our youth is the only youth which is
still untouched by the war: the best OF
the young manhood of Britain. France
and Germany is gone. and each of these
countries is steadily raising the age OF
its troops; men of so are now in the
ranks. and the boys of is and 10 have
long been fighting in Germany. 1t is
foolish to expect in Europe today the
emotion and the spirit which amazed
and thrilled us all three years ago one
has now to turn to America To find
tIIAN Soiis Nit jIiIIillOiI, ltlt VIII
and the emotion which We're so familiar
in France in the first two years of the
war and in Britain n little later.
The best of three great nations is
gone. The best of ours is coming. and
behind it is a nation which has just
walked up to the truths which called
the youth of Britain and France 10
arms and to death in the earlier days
Of the n Neither the British nor
the French make amy pretenSe at dis
guising the facts that exist in Europe
today. There will be IL campaign OF
1919. cause we shall be there to do
of the fighting and to supply
terial. out not a little of the moral
force. Without us the war could not
go forward: with us it will go for
ward TO victory, because in the very
simpleelanguage of the street, We still
have the punch" while for the Euro
nations the thing has become q
nightmare, an unacceptable scourge, and
no longer the call to the spirit that it
was three years 20. The best of one
generation. of the vital generation. is
buried between Paris and Liege or
hidden away crippled in the back
waters of the war.
There is courage. there are strong
Wills and brave hearts left: the Brit
ish and French are fighting on and
will fight on: even when we are there
with our first million and u half we
be outnumbered by the combined
British and French armies all through
the next campaign, but this will not
diminish the Importance of our con-
The defeat of Germany, in
a very real sense. has become an Amer
lean task and because we nav under
taken the task with a spirit of deterini-
nation and with urnistakable national
unity France and Britain will keep
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but relying upon us more and
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