The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-28
War Is Over, Is Slogan Urged
by Those Who Wish to See
America Fall Down Upon
Final Financial Effort.
FAILURE TO RAISE FUND
WILL HAMSTRlNG VICTORY
False Reports of Chickering'S in
Peace Parley Is Method
Used to DiScredit Drive to
Raise Necessary Money.
BY c. NJ. MORRISON.

81 LOUIS, MO, March 2S.-There
hasn't been a week since the armistice
was signed that the friends of old Ger
many haven't made some sort of an
attempt to soften American hearts to-
ward that evil shattered empire. We
have all heard soft pedal, sympathetic
tsiK a9Gut the war is over about
ruins of Rheims, Louvain, Ypres and
Cambria have hardly ceased smoking.
The barbed wire of the Hun has hardly
rusted yet. The grass of one summer
mas not grown on American graves in
h Argonne.
For some mysterious reason the pro-
German in America is trying to kill the
tltth loan. He and Germany's well
wlshers, n there were and are thou
SANDS OF them still, are trying to stifle
and smother the fifth loan, trying to
leave the American government without
the necessary to impose its
settlement terms on the Hun.
Listen for the pro-GeTman now that
the loan Is at hand. He is whispering
In trains and street ears, in crossroads
stores and on street corners wild and
waste, of needless bloodshed and a
thousand and one tales, baseless, vi
cious, morbid, al ltold with the idea of
cooling American fervor, belittling
American patriotism and making men
loath to support the American govern
AAiNtAI NAGll SNGlN AIldh . EulDOII Is
needed.
The lover of the old, hard, autocratic
Germany, the Hunland of the black,
red and white imperial banner of the
Milhelms, the Prussian guard of the
Hindenburgs and ,Ludendorffs, the Ger
many that died at Spa when the armi-
Stlce was signed-every lover of old
Hunland is trying to sway public opin-
ion in behalf of the Germany that is
dead, but that may live again.
To .Hamstring Victory Loan.
1t takes the form of trying to ham,
string the fifth loan just now ~Shrewd
as OF old, INSCRIPTIONS as the Hun who
tried to embroil the United States with
Japan and Mexico, the pro-German is
doing his best to make all mention of
the fifth loan a mockery and byword.
1t is good to remember that Germany
stopped at nothing when she started her
grand raid on Europe. She laughed at
every principle of humanity. Old forms
of cruelty, forgotten since the middle
ages, were resurreCted by the unspeak-
able Hun when he Wen to war. There
was no cruelty or outrage, no form of
destruction or death that was too awful
for Germany to make use OF. The i'm
perial government set a pace In the
methods of warfare that struck at the
heart of all civilization.
And in the end the bloody and inevi-
table end, remember that Germany
came with Redeemed hands raised high,
beaten to a %standstill, whipped beyond
all hope Of recovery, unable to fight a
day longer.
And remember another thing: Germa-
ny to this day in her heart has never
admitted defeat. When the Prussian
guard went back to Berlin they went
as %conquerors, hailed with old imperial
songs, with flowers in their rifle bar
rels. Not a week g the old songs OF
Wilhelm's day were sung in Berlin's
streets. Germany is dreaming again,
another DEVILS dream such as she
brooded over for 40 years, a dream OF
victory with revenge added this time
as an