The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-20
Not the Slightest Sign of Organized
Resistance Is Being
Displayed
KIPLING TELLS WHY
WE ARE FIGHTING
For Our Lives, the Lives of Every Man,
Woman and Child--Fighting That
We May Not Be Herded
Into Actual Slavery.

Folkstone. Eng, March 20.--(Corres
pondence of the Associated Press) -
Nothing else under heaven matters TO
day except that the war shall go on tc
victory" declared Rudyard KipIing here
to-day in striking and picturesque
speech i'm advocacy of war savings "ThC
money we loan TO the government helps
to set our land and our world free,
continued Mr.. kipling. Our security for
our loan is not only the whole of the
British empire, but also the whole OF
/ civilization which has pooled its re.
sources in men, money and material TO
carry ON the war to victory"
! What is the personal aspect of the
! case for you and mcl We are fighting
| for our lives, the lives of every man,
woman and child here and everywhere
else.
1--WE are fighting that we may not be
herded into actual slavery such as the
Germans have established by force of
their arms in large parts of Europe.
I'VE are fighting against eighteen
hours a day forced labor under lash or
at the point of the bayonet, with
dogs dehth and dogs burial at the end
OF it.
I'VE arc fighting that men, women,
and children may not be tortured, burned
and mutilated in the public streets, as
has happened in this town and in hun
dreds of Others. Aud we will 20 on fight
ing till the race who have done these
things are in no position 10 continue or
repeat their ofrense.
If for any reason whatever we fall
short of victory-and there is no half
way house between victory and defeat
what happens to usY This;
Every relation, every understanding, |
every decency upon which civilization |
has been so anxiously built up will 70
will be washed out. because it will |
have been proved unable to endure. The |
whole idea of democracy at bot
tom rs what the Hun fights against
viii be dismissed from men, : minds, be-
cause it will have been shown incapa-
bic of maintaining itself against the
Hun. II will die; and it will die discred-
tied, together with every belief and prae-
tice that is based on it.
THE Hun ideal, the Huns root mo-
tions Of life will take its place through
out the world. Under that dispensaton
man will become once more the natural
prey, body and goods, Of his better
armed neighbor. Women will be the
mere instrument for continuing the
breed; the vessel of mans lust and mans
,ruelty, and labor will become thing
70 be knocked ON the head if il dares
% give trouble and worked to death if
t does not. And from this order of
ife there will be no appeal, no possibility
If any escape. This is what the Hun
means when he says he intends to i'm
,ose German kultur--whch is the Ger
nan religion upon the world. This is
precisely what the world has banded
tself together to resist.
1T will take every ounce in us; it will
nv us out to the naked soul, Our trial !
filI not be made less by the earnest
dvice and suggestions that we should
ccept some sort of compromise, which
leans defeat, put forward by Hun agents t
nd confederates' among us. They are {
usy in that direction already. But be a
ure of this; Nothing nothing we may t
ave to endure now will weigh one feath c
rweieht compared with what we shall +
lost certainly have TO suffer if for any $
,use we fail of victory" o