Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-01
Under tae Wings
Of the Vulture
b. c. II. MORRISON.

|TAHE Black German Eagle was
the emblem Of the old Germany.
The emblem was wrong. Il
should have been the vulture. depicted
upon the armorial shields Of the I'M
perial German Empire. Eor all over
the world, wherever wings could cast
shadow. Germany was playing the
part Of the vulture
This black shadow Of the Hun vul-
ture had rested over France Tor 40
years. France knew &c but the rest
Of the world wac 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 Il 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
Il then. Our professional pacifsts
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 Gid Il was too late. We
came in at the eleventh hour. We have
known that since the spring, 1918. An.
other month OF so Of patience would
have made us reach the battlefield too
late.
Had Germany won the warl What a
different America this would be. In.
stead Of raising a handful Of billions
in a Victory Loan we would be strain.
ing our hearts out to find $4,000, OOU-
600 in this country with which to nay
our ransom to the Bandits Of the
World.
We would have been the sheep for
the Hun shearlng. 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
PWNHE 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
iiston to so innocently before the days
Of the war; the Hun had estimated Just
about what ne 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 s4O,-
OOO,OO0,000 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
Hunland.
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 we're 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
We're 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 We're left from the u
boat war would have been set to the
task Of carrying.
~ ERMANY wanted to get her old
d y world trade back and that was
~ one of the methods she had in
mind. The world would have taken
the GOODS ct the point Of a Germ8n
bayonet
The trade methods we're to be very
direct and definite. Something Of
difference in that program today to
what the Hun had planned it. Instead
Of raising $40,0OO,O0O,0OO for the Hun
We are raising S4,5OOOOO, O00-to draw
Ak per cent interest TO keep him
where we put him. The Victory Loan
takes the place of the indemnity that
Germany was ready to levy upon US.
Something Of a difference to be walk.