The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1919-05-01
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American In. e 71r,ity
BY c. II. EORRfSOE.

~ YER in Paris TO delesates Is
I the peace conference have been
talking about the amount Of
the German indemnity, tie size of tn,
fine that should be assessed on Hu1
land fo- its recent attempt TO chain
the world down in links forged in Els
sen
And from time to time someone has
recalled that the Hun had fixed TIE
amount to be collected from America
at $4,000, 100000 Tit IS r.gs., -
billion dollars.
Unlike the allied Eeace delegates
Germany was never in aay do9b abs
how big 4 figure should be name,
They hid tha indemnity dgGeas :
worked cut fer The allied nations. Al
you can gamble that hey would have
collected every ds'iar, every fran
and every pound Ct the amcu1t To
Your Hun was never 4 gentle little
mildmannered irresponsible when !
came to taking what he wanted. He
would have collected.
Thanks to the fee nations of tn
earth, the Hun is in 10 position
make any demands. Ii fact, so bsG.
was he battered in the process c.
whipping him that he is hardly worth
making any demands uroa a t-e pre-
| ent time
But consider. We have raised, m
to the Fifth Loans beginning abou
$4,000, 006, CSC in Liberty Loan fund
| Not quite half as much az the Hun
would have assessed upon us had he
conc 20 New Yorl: aad N'ash.agto..
to have received oGr su59.lIz.eioa.
And yet there are s1ue lavender
blooded American and good many
pro Germans living in A'ac=isa who
ale yelping beeause tley are hi
asked to subscribe 10 another loa4
They don't want TO hear tie WIZ
mentioned. except in terms of re
preach and apology Thee is re5'i5l
that they will believe about the Hua
except that he must have been tcrr,bly
lied about. But their main considers.
| ton is TO keep fr0A subscribing a dol.
lar to the Victory Liberty loan ana
| the.r tongues are c!acking very bIz.!v
at every opportunity to Grippe tn
Victory issue in every possible way
| Sg-AHE word Victory is Lot
sweet upon their lips, unless
perchanee it might be a Cor
man victory The safety of tn eir
| skins has always been paramount
and their strongest interest in
| life just now is to keep every dollar
! in their purses. There is a sneer in
their hearts, if not on their lips, when
they can see an American soldier.
If Germany had won this war-at
this very minute the wheat that is
stored in American elevators would
be going into the holds of vessels
bound for Huniand. Every warehouse
in this country would be emptying of
its raw materials.
In every bank German non-commis-
stoned officers would be making an
inventory of the vaults, the strong
boxes and the safety deposit bosses.
German informers, the cattle who have
been among us for years, would be
marching up TO the Hun conquerors
and turning in" their neighbors, de-
scribing just where valuables might
be found that would go to swell the
Hun loot from America.
Gray clad soldiers would be going
from house to house and from farm
to farm satisfying themselves as to
what loot could be gathered up and
carried away. In every corner of the
country the graybacks of the kaiser
: would be sucking the ife-blood out of
the nation And-if you are one Of
those pacifist souls who refuse to be-
lieve anything like that could happen
anywhere-why then you had best talk
to some Of the returned overseas men
who have seen what the Hun did 10
northern France and Belgium.
With the Hun in Washington, our
minis would be working overtime
turning out the coins that Germans
were to carry back to Hunland Our
ships would be seized and tied up at
the wharves to receive the loot. And
all over the nation there would be
blood and murder and fire and the roar
of decorating high explosive charges
for the Hun would leave nothing of
our industrial plants.
No home would be safe, no woman
| could call her soul her own. Every
where the fabric of civilization would
! be smashed and torn just as it was in
Belgium and France. We know what
| the Hun would do for we know what
| he did do what he has done.
This country would have been made
a place of despair and death. Like
Poland, like Serbia, like Rumania and
Belgium and north France. We know
what the Hun did when he had the
| power
Instead of the American soldier find
| ing country and welcome he would
have found grave in Europe or life
| of slavery under the bayonet of the
world conqueror. There would have
been no America left in the world 70.
| the survivors, only a German province
| ruled nypr nv