The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-02-28
How to Win The Rest of The War.

We think we have won q great vic
tory oyer Germany-and we have.
Germany is so weak that an army OF
10000 Poles, as l write, are threatening
Berlin.
1t looks now as if any one night kick
Germany around-the once all-powerful
Germany!
Why is Germany weak?
Because the Germans have lost con-
troll of themselves.
Unless we retain control OF ourselves
of our own souls-we have not won
a complete victory over Germany. Ii
we retain or acquire complete contro |
over ourselves we can win the rest OF
the war. Unless we do win the rest~of
the war we have not only defeated
Germany, but we have defeated and dis
graced ourselves!
The saddest nation, the nation most
completely crushed is the nation defeat
ed by itself; and the deepest disgrace is
that which is self-inficted. Germany
can emerge from her defeat and humill-
alton and disgrace, after while, by get
ting a new grip on her own soul. The
only hope for victory for her is the
hope of victory over herself.
What do l mean by suggesting that
we must win 1.-The rest of the warp
mean that the heaviest. Ii not the
bloodest part of the task is still before
US. We have that great army of which
we are so proud-it seems to us the
bravest, finest, most splendid army the
world ever saw-still under arms, and
encamped on the soil of Europe. They
said in Germany that we could never
get that army across the ocean-that we
could never get that army across the
ocean-but we did. They are across
the ocean now, our soldiers, 2,000,0 900 of
them. They must be supported, clot he'd,
fed and made as comfortable and happy
as boys so far from home can be made,
until they can BE- brought back.
And they must be brought back.
When they are through with their
wonderful, their epic task, they must
be brought back.
And it will cost as much to bring
them back as it did to take them over.
1t will be in some ways harder task;
for all the world on our side wanted
them TO go over and was willing to help.
while nobody but the little old United
States is especially interested in getting
them back.
Therefore we must go on with the
war SO far as expence is concerned. We
must go on with nearly every expensive
phase of the war except the fghting
phase.
Suppose that the people of the United
States should quit furnishing the gov
eminent with money now, and our
wonderful boys in khaki were deserted +,
left to suffer, left to feel themselves
deserted, left to shift for themselves
and become Migrants and beggars-
would it not be the deepest disgrace
possible to this nation? And yet, it is
to prevent that most impossible thing
that the government asks the people to
give in taxes and to provide for in the
purchase of War-Savings Stamps and
other securities
Uncle Sam, in order that the rest of
the war may be won, asks every man,
every women, every boy and everv girl
to get himself or herself under control,
to stife appetite for the unnecessary
thing, to save and conserve, and to
work and earn and produce and to buy,
buy, buy, the promlses-to:p pay of the
government, so that the government
may win the rest of the war-may
bring our boys home, their tasks done.
And this brings me to Benjamin
FrankIin-you will see how, in mo
ment-to Franklin, one of the greatest
Americans that ever lived-one of the
greatest men who ever lived, the man
whose likeness is on the 1919 WARSAW
ing Stamps.
1 want to ask you to win the rest Of
the war as Benjamin Franklin would
have you win it. But first, what sort
of man was he whose advice | am ask
ing you to tax
He was a wonderful man! He was a
faVorite with the courtiers Of the court
of France, with the philosophers, the
savants. the jewelIed ladies, the ruftied
and sworded gentlemen-of the most
luxurious and the jolliest court in the
world. He won their admiration by
his wit, his courtesy and his manners,
and he commanded their respect for his
great ability. He was their equal on
their own ground, and their superiors
on every other GROUND, so he was the
first link IN the chain of friendship
which binds the United States to
Franee-the last link of which was