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I' ' By HERBERT QUICK B
i TI TE MUST buy bonds to the last cent of our This weir was to be a step toward world M
YY ability, because our country is fighting for conquest U
its very life. Make no mistake, citizens of If we do not fight the war through to com- M
M • America, the crisis is just that—we are fighting P lete victory she will still Keep on and she g§
N for our very life. succeed - She vnH surely succeed!
T.T . . ... .. - ... . Russia with her nearly 200,000,000 people 48
fi ~ , H , K ~ lies prostrate at Germany's feet Germany could |
fight it through to a peace the basis of which 7 V, o? x 4 iJZ Wm
will be written by us and our allies. now g* ve up the BalKan States, give up e gium, El
force Austria to yield up the Italian temtones,
|| Germany must not write a single clause in give up conquered France, yes, she could give
the Treaty. She must be whipped until she will up these, and even Alsace-Lorraine, and if al-
H sign a treaty every word of which will be drawn lowed a free hand in Russia, she would still m
by the Allies. Germany must not be allowed to have won a victory greater than any of which
dot an i or cross at- • she ever dreamed at the beginning of the war.
R Why? - Give her control of Russia and she can, and
B Because Germany has become nothing but ' * fe ™ * ear f cor ? e bacK with power ' ■
a robber empire, a murderer empire, an empire ? taKe bacK Alsace-Lorraine, crush poor Bel- • w|
I every purpose of which is the enslavement of gium once more and destroy exhausted France,
ft the rest of the world. Such purposes admit of sweep every vestige of resistance from Europe,
| no compromise. We must conquer or die. If we Asia and Africa, and then what?
do not conquer we shall, Nevertheless, die— Then she will thunder at our doors from
. and die slaves. , , Asia she will invade us on the West from Europe S
Germany began w!to the Intention of rob- on toe and from any possible seized vantage
I bing France of her iron, her coal, her best land T _ ' I
R . and her great factories; of maKing Belgium with " Germany has control over the terms of
her rich mines, great cities and immense fac- peace, we who read this will live to see one of
d tories a part of Germany; of. gaining the Bel- a * ser ' s s * x sons Emperor of America.
|V * gian coast from Which she might conquer Eng- The time to whip Germany is now! *3
I land, and of combining under her flag the hordes It is now or never!
of Mohammedan TurKs, and all the BalKan The Princes of Germany are shaking dice for the United 8
I States, so that she might train soldiers in count- States! %
less millions, build navies to sweep the oceans, / f w m take money, money, money, that we may send ■
M conquer the world. men , men, men! I
I Buy Bonds, for so only can the war be won. Unless it is won,. B
I everything you possess is lost, and with it 1
Q the American soul is lost I
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