The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-05-14
Mark Well The
Trail of Dragon
By c. M. MORRISON.

~ NE year ago Ine hun cSNSOn ndu
planted his feet over all Middle
Europe. He held in his hooked
claws all of Europe south from the
Baltic to the Swiss Alps, southeast to
the Bosphorus, and northward almost
to the White Sea. He had dragged
his Shiny way through the blood Of
Belgium till he stood on the shores
of the English Channel, facing his foes
in England
He had reached we'll nigh to the Per
sian Gulf and had linked the Turk to
his holdings. And-he had long since
looked across the Atlantic and spied
out the land in America.
The dragon had crept softly here
and there about the earth for forty
years. He had intrenched himself in
South America and in Mexico. How
strongly is shown by the fact that even
after the old empire of the Hun has
gone down in blood and dust, the fol-
lowers of the kaiser are still standing
by the old regime, still plotting and
scheming through Latin America.
And we know what outposts the Hun
held here in America. We know what
we should have known and taken into
account ten, yes, twenty years ago.
We know the efforts that were made
to make the Hun language the required
language in the public schools of some
of our American states. In the pub
lie schools, mind you, Of the English
speaking United States of America.
We know now better than we once
did the meaning of the many German
societies in this country. We know
what service they rendered and at
tempted to render to Hun Land when
the war first broke in Europe. The
trail of the dragon was very plain in
the United States during the first
years of the war and we know tnat
the spirit. never died in many Huns
living in America. Even the breaking
of the old empire failed to stamp it
out entirely.
VI TE DID good deal during the
NM war toward plotting out the
trail of the dragon in the
United States. Had the war lasted
longer we would have done far more.
Do you recall that in your earliest
childhood you were taught somewher,
somehow, that the tail of a snake new
er dies until shutdown comes no mat.
ter how fat the serpent's head was
crushed?
That was childhood superstition
and yet we all know that a snakes
tail wriggles for long time after the
serpent has been put out of the way
Of doing any more harm. And the
dragons tail still wriggles, the tail of
the Hun dragon is still wriggling in
good many places in the world out
side OF Berlin.
Prussianism may be dead, but there
is a suspicious liveliness, a menacing
wriggling here and there over the
earth that will bear watching. Bolshe-
vism is one of the forms that this men
ace, that this movement, is taking.
Germany is wrestling with it and it
is raising itself here and there over
the world. Spawned in Germany, it
is of the dragons brood. 1t has over.
come Russia, the Russia that it was
loosed upon through German influence
America wants no more Of Bolshe.
vfsm than it does of anything else that
| is German. 1t bears the Made in
Germany" on it. 1t carried that mark
when it was exported from Germany
into Russia in the carpet bags OF
Lenine and Trotsky.
"HE VICTORY Liberty Loan will
/ DO as much toward getting
America back on a peace basis
as will the signing of the peace
treaties. 1t has become absolutely
necessary that it be raised if we are
to get ahead and not sink back into
the quicksands Of after-the-war diff
culties. > %~.-- So ;sssI,>ssois,. .-,
1t is the heavy hammer wherewith
We propose to f1atten the tail of the
dragon just as effectively as we fiat
tened the dragons head last Septem
Der and October around Verdun and in
the woods of the Argonne. We DOM
want the dragon to come to life agair
In any form, and the Victory Liberty
Loan is the present weapon that viii
sarve our turn.
There is nothing that would pleas.
Germany, new and old, better than t.
have the American Victory Liberty
Loan fail-it would put new life in the
imperial schemers all over the world
The dragon tail would wriggle more
powerfully than it does now. For tn,
dragon died hard, if he, indeed, b,
dead now. There are millions of hi,
followers who would welcome tn,
chance to put him on his feet again.
To utterly STAY the dragon, to pu
an end to the menace Of the Bolshe
visits and to shove war so far into tn,
future that 1t cannot threaten tn,
peace of America, the Victory Libert,
Loan must be subscribed. To proven
the distressing after effects of wa
and to maintain American prosperit,
at its present height and level, the Viz
tory Liberty Loan should be pushe,
quickly to successful completion.