The Carlisle independent., 1919-05-08
Under the Wings
 of the Vulture
By c. n. MORRISON.
INHE Black German Eagle was
 E the emblem of the old Germany

the emblem Of the old Germany
 The emblem was wrong. II should have been the vulture, depicted Hpon the armorial shields of the I'm perial German Empire For all over the world, wherever wings could cast shadow, Germany was playing the part of the vulture
 This black shadow Of the Hun vul- lure had rested over France for 40 years. France knew it but the rest of the world wns indifferent. The rulture had been across the vosges mountains once and he planned to go again as he had in 1870.
 And in 1914 and for many a weary month thereafter it was resting over the whole world America stood just as much in the shadow of the vul- ture of Prussianism as did the rest of the earth. But we wouldn't believe it then. Our professional pacifsts wouldn't It ss understand Thsy filled osr ears with soft phrases
 Every day the menace came little nearer and the shadow of the vulture's wings grew darker. We finally awoke hut whsa we did 1t was too late. We came in at the eleventh hour We have known that since the spring, 1918. An other month or so of patience would have made us reach the battlefield too late
 Had Germany won the war! What different America this would be. In. stead of raising handful of billions in Victory Loan we would be strain ing our hearts out to find 0,000, ,090,- 0os in this country with which to pay our ransom to the Bandits Of tae World.
 We would have been the sheep for the Hun shearing No other nation had the resources left that we had to gladden the heart of the Hun We would have borne the lions share of the ransom that Germany was ready to levy on the world. "HE United States of America
 alone had the money to pay and
 the Huns of Hunland knew it. With that Teutonic thoToughness that we used to hear praised so often and listen to so innocentiy before the days of the war, the Hun had estimated just about what he could get out of us He expected to leave us just about what he had left 70 Belgium and to Serbia and to RoHmania and that was nothing.
 His extorions would have taken from us far more than we have spent in all our war preparations More than We would have spent had the war gone on another year. For the $40. 000,G00,000 indemnity was by no means all that the Hun vultures expected to carry back with them when they set their black wings for the evil nest in Hunland
 There were other extortions in mind The Hun knew that his factories need ed raw materials. What better places to get them than in American fields, mines, forests and warehouses;! The Yankee Swine would have little to say about the matter. The Hun would do the saying.
 German factories were waiting for the raw materials that were to be gouged out of America Factories set up and equipped with machinery stolen from Belgium and footed from France were to work up the raw materials that were to be gathered in America, freighted across the Atlantic and laid down at the docks of Hamburg. The ships of America and France and Eng land, such as were left from the U- boat war would have been set to the task of carrying
 @ ERMANY wanted to get her old Y world trade back and that was
 one of the methods she had in mind. The world would have taken the goods at the point of German bayonet.
 The trade methods were to be very direct and definite Something of difference in that program today to what the Hun had planned it. Instead of raising 40,0oo. .000. .000 for the Hun we are raising $4,500 900 .000-to draw "A per cent interest to keep him where we put him. The Victory Loan takes the place of the indemnity that