The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-02-05
THE WAR NOT YET OVER


her military power, occupied by the nations
she would have crushed, no longer terror to her
neighbors though scarcely less an object of hor-
ror, as in her suppliant complaining attitude,
begging for mercy which she refused to give, she
is an object of contempt, Germany today crouches
before the world, defeated, but unrepentent and
unreformed And who can say that she is not
crouching for a spring, at some more opportune
and convenient time?
France apprehends this. President Wilson, in
his allusion to the peril of France" in his speech
to the French Senate on Monday placed emphasis
on this apprehension. Addressing the President of
the Republic, who had touched upon the subject,
he said: "There is a new awakened world; it is
not ahead of us. but around us. It knows that its
dearest interests are involved in its standing to-
gether for common purpose. 1t knows that The
peril of France. if it continues, will be the peril
of the world. 1t knows that not only France must
organize against this peril, but that the world
must organize against it."
But how much about this peril does the world
know; how much about it does the United States
know: how deep is The realization of it by either?
Military Germany, autocratic Germany, inhuman
Germany was but the expression of German con-
cent. military. autocratic inhuman Germany has
been vanquished but is there in sight any evidence
to prove that the concept it has cherished has
been destroyed or abandoned? None. Physical
". Germany has been vanquished mentally Ger
many is unconquered; given opportunity she can
no more be trusted than a torpid serpent warmed
into renewed vitality az friendly hearth.
An article in the current Outlook, of New York
bv Ernest Hamlin Abbott with the title, Have
the Germans Won the War;" is to the point. I'm
less the American people appreciate, i contends,
the fact that the professors engineers, mechanics,
school teachers tradesmen, and laborers OF Ger
MANY after devastating and frequently running
towns. city. and country in France and Belgium,
were left free to march home to fresh and beau
tiful Germany possibly unconvinced of the Allies
victory even persuaded that Germany was still
;nvincihle and free to do the same thing again,
+bo.o ;s~ GREAT danger in the present situation.
# Is suggested that the American people are
"o;ro tn sleepO to the real situation; every sense
Of the German atrocities it is held, may be IN the
orocess of being deadened, 70 the point where a
,eonlo once fully awake to them and shocked by
+bam become so dulled in perception as to fall
- remember and to realize that the barbarltles
nracticed bv the Germans put them in class Dy
themselves. marked as people not to be taken
into friendship or into brotherhood until they had
and reformation, as people with whom me Tree
won IF the world cannot associate on equal terms,
with whom liberty-lov and honorable men can
- offord - ontar into negotiations or make trea-
ties.
THE e terrible but true The war is not over,
e +ba canse Of the war and Germanys acts in the
war are to be forgotten or condoned. Let not the
! Allies nor the United States be deceived by the
hat present
mental attitude, comedies anything to the right
eonsness Of the allied cause What Germany adj
mits. and the only thing she admits, and the only
thing she apparently regrets is that she was ov-
erwhelmed. She is evidently not sorry for out
ragged pillaged Belgium and Northern France; for
the brutalities practiced by her military dctaors
for the millions of lives lost in opposing her or
gained raiders and plunderers, or even for the
terrible losses on her own side; openly once, but
secretly now, for the sake of policy, she seems
rather proud than shamed by the record of her
U-boats; the Lusitania medals put away for
the time being, but are they not put away because
the wearing of chem now might increase the sew
Gritty of the armistice terms
The real Germany as all who know the Ger
man heart and the German mentality today IN
sist is still to be deal. with the counterfeit Ger
ter terms, and talks about founding republic.
even in the worldwide opinion that they have
found force favorable to their own security from
enduring the consequences of their deeds. Among
themselves they still sing Deutschland ueber Al
les: but in addressing others they appeal for
sympathy. Their old bandit leader is gone, but
the gang that he led, gang of 100000 people,
is recognizing and is likely to be all the strong
er if it succeed in managing to select is own BAN
dit leaders. The ancient Teutonic tribes were
both predatory and self-governing. What is to
prevent the modern German tribes from chang
ing their form of government into a republic
and still remaining powerful and predatory ?"
Nothing prevents, if the world forgets. At the
present time in the United States, propaganda
is actively disseminating such views that, Ger
many being down, she should not now be Jump
ed on" that Germany herself has suffered en-
ouOh. Shoud not this satisfy 90 ,'Whv