The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-05-16

Ey c. AZ. MORRISON

The German indemnity. he size OF IN
land for it's recent attempt 10 chat
the world down in links forged in r.
sen.
Aud from time 10 time someone ha
recalled that the Hun had fixed IT,
amount 10 be collected from Ame.ic.
al $40 zoe 100000 Tha, is r'Sht. I
billion dollars
Unlike the allied peace Delegate.
Germany was never In Any s0ubi lbGu
how big a figure shoyld b. named
They had the indemnity figures q.
worked on, for the allied nations A..
YOU can gamble that they wcu'G Law
collected every dollar. every frcp,
nd every pound OF the amount. 700
Your Hun was never a genie liit.
mild-msnnered irresponsible whom !
came TO taking what h. wanted. IL
would have collected.
Thanks 10 the free nations OF ID
earis. the Hun Is in no position
make any demands. In fact, so badi
WIS he battered in the process 6
whipping him that he is hardy WORT
making any demands upon at the pre-
ent time
Bat consider. We have raised a.
10 the Fifth Loans beginning abou
$4,000 900 900 in Liberty Loan fund.-
Not quite half az much as the Nun
would have assessed upon Us had h,
come 10 New York and WashingtO.
10 have received our submission.
And yet there are some lavender
bloOded Americans and good man,
pro Germans living in America WI,
are yelping because they are being
asked TO subscribe 20 another loan
They don't want to hear the. wal
mentioned. except in terms OF re
preach AID apology. There is no,hia.
hat they will believe about the HAT
@rcep' that he must have been terribly
i!sG about. But their main consldera
'inu IL 10 keep from subscribing dol
ar 10 ne Victory Liberty Loan and
heir tongues ars clacking very bIsiy
At every opportunity 10 cripple IN,
Victory issue IN every possible way
"HE word Victory is To.
sweet upon their lips. unles.
p.rchEnee IL miyht be a Ge-
a.an victory. The safety Of IA III
skins has always been paramount
,Dd their strongest interest IN
"a iust row is 10 keep every dollar
taeir purses There Is a sheer IN
;he,r hearts. IL not on their lips, when
'hey can see an American soldier
X Germany had won this war-a.
this very minute the wheat that il
stored in American elevators wouIi
b. going into tbs holds OF vessels
bound Cor Hunland. Every wareh Gus q
in this country would be empiying o.
its raw materials.
In every bank German noncommis-
aioned officers would be making an
Inventory OF the vaults. the strong
boxes and the safety deposit bosses.
German EfOrmers. the cattle Who have
been among US for years. would be
marching up to the Hun corquerors
and turning In" their neighbors, do.
scrib.ng jus; where valua o.es might
be found that would so 70 swell the
Hun loot from America
Gray clad soldiers would be going
from house 10 house and from farm
to farm satisfying them lvef as to
what loot coull be "a hercd 40 AMI
carried away. IT. every corner cf he
country the grayblcks of the kaiser
would be SUCKING the lifc-blood cat -.
The nation. And-if you are one II
those pacifist souls who refuse 10 be-.
lieve anything like that could happen
anywhere-why then you had best talk
% some OF the returned oyerseGs nen
who have seen wha; the Hun did 10
northern France ard Belgium
With the Hun IN Washington. our
mints would BE- working overtime
'ura;ng out ,Ae coins that German
we're 10 carry back to Hunland Ou.
ships would be seized and tied up al
The ~harves 20 receive the loot AMI
a. over tie nation there would b.
blood and murder and hse AID On" n4r
81 decorating high explosive charS.s
fof the Jun would leave NOTHING 81
our Industrial plants
No home would b. safe. no woman
could call her soul her own EvCi,-
where the fabric Of civilization would
BE- smashed and torn just as II was IN
Belgium and France. We know what
the Hun would do Tor We know what
he did do. what he has done
This country would have been made
a place Of despair and death Liz,
Poland. like Serbia. like Rumania An 4
Belgium and north France. We know
what the Hun DID when he had the
power.
Instead of the American soldier ind.
ing a country and a welcome he would
have found a grave in Europe or a l'fs
OF slavery under the bayonet OF the
world conqueror. There would have
been no America left In the world 10.
the survivors. only a German province
ruled over BY q princeling.
instead OF the farmer selling als
logs for better than $40. his cattle
for q record price and his wheat for a
S226 per bushel guarantee, the ma,
OF the farms would be lucky II he had
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