The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-14
Under the Wings
of the VuIture
By c. IA. MORRISON.
TNHE Black German Eagle was

lT HE Black German Eagle was
the emblem Of the old Germany
a The emblem was wrong. II
should have been the vulture, depicted
upon the armorial shields of the I'm
perial German Empire. For all over
the world, wherever wings could cast
a shadow. Germany was playing the
part Of the vulture.
This black shadow of the Hun vuI-
ture had rested over France for 40
years. France knew it but the rest
of the world was Indifferent. The
vulture had been across the vosges
mountains once and he planned to 20
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 Prnssianism as did the rest
OF the earth. Butawe wouldn't believe
IL then. Our professional pacifists
wouldn't let us understand. They
filed our ears with soft phrases.
Every day the menace came a little
nearer and the shadow Of the vulture's
wings grew darker. We finally awoke
but when we did it 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, a handful of billions
in Victory Loan we would be strain.
ing our hearts out to find $4,000 ,O0U,.
600 in this country with which to pay
our ransom to the Bandits of the
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 thoroughness that
we used to hear praised so often and
listen to so innocently 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 to Belgium and to
Serbia and to Roumania and that was
nothing.
His extortions 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.
OO0,O00,00O 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
1unland.
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 looted 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
r 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 a
difference in that nropram TODAY tn