The Hayti herald., 1919-05-22
inder the Wings
of the Vuiture
By C. M. MORRISON.
THE Black German Eagle was
the emblem Of tho old Germany.


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 vul.
ture had rested over France for 40
years. France knew 1t but the rest
of the world was Indifferent. The
.vulture had been across the Vosges
mountains once and he planned to 60
again as he had in 1870.
And in 1914 and for many 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
1t then. Our professional pacifsts
wouldn't let us understand. They
filed our ears with soft phrases.
Every day the menace came little
nearer and the shadow of the rdlture'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, 1913. An.
other month or so of patience would
have made us reach the battlefield too
late
Had Germany won the war! What q
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 s40,000,000,
900 in this country with which to pay
our ransom to the Bandits of the
World
We would have been the sheep for
the Hun shearirg. 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.
THE United States of America
alone had the money to pay and
the Huns of Hunland knew it.
With that Teutonic thoTough4ess that
we used to hear praised SO often and
listen to so innocenly 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
| ho, I,o
r gone on another year. For the $40,
600, 100000 indemnity was by no mean!
! all that the Hun vultures expected L
carry back with them when they Sc
their black wings for the evil nest il
Hunland 7'~T' -' ~
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 fo,
the raw materials that were to be
souged out of America. Factories Sc,
up and equipped with machinery stoler
from Belgium and looted from France
We're to work up the raw material:
, that were to be gathered in America
freighted across the Atlantic and laiC
, 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 OLE
r world trade back and that wa
, one of the methods she had IL
mind. The world would have take,
the goods at the point of German
bayonet.
The trade methods were to be yer,
direct and definite. Something of
difference in that program today t,
. what the Hun had planned it. Insteat
of raising s40,0OO,OO 900 for the HUI
we are raising s4,5OOOOO, ,OoO-to dray
Az per cent interest to keep hin
where We put him. The Victory Loal
, takes the place of the indemnity Lha
Germany was ready to levy upon us
! Something OF difference TO be walh
, ing up and signing our pledge to TAX
, so many Victory Liberty Bonds rathe
than standing and delivering to a feel
r gray kaiserling who would give us
' sneer with every receipt and no receip
whatever if he didn't feel in tn
humor.
But We outguessed the Hun. H
guessed that We would not get into IN
: war until 1t was too late. We made
s by an eye-lash. We smashed the GeI