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Show IF AMERICA LOST THIS WAR By HILDEGRADE HAWTHORNE. Of the Vigilantes. Have you, yourself, sat down to consider con-sider soberly what it would mean if Germany, and not we, should win the-war? the-war? With the war won, she could hold over us the threat of invasion and we know what invasion by the Prussians means. But. beaten, we could not prevent pre-vent such an invasion, even though in the long ending we might manage to . drive out fhe invader, for the country-Is country-Is great. But if we did do this at last, picture what the country we love-would love-would be reduced to first. Stare at the war pictures from France and Belgium Bel-gium and the invaded portions of Italy, and you won't require much effort of the Imagination to visualize your own-town own-town or village or peaceful farming country under the Prussian heel. If we, incapable of resisting invasion, inva-sion, yielded to the Prussian demands, what would these be? Germany wants much after the wasting of four years or nearly that of war. We should have to repay her-her her-her losses by huge Indemnifies, which would put a staggering burden on alt of us. We would live under a threat, a thnmt from the most brutal nation the world has ev?r known. If we bowed to that threat, and a beaten nation na-tion must bow, then the very spirit of America, all we mean by the word life as we interpret it, would He murdered. Better that we ourselves should die. and our children with us. The hope of onr fathers, the work of ns all. this nation, our individgal character and freedom, all ended. The price of Liberty Lib-erty has been paid by this nation twlc before. To fall now to fall now! Shall our noble dead have died In vain. . and we bow to the oppressor? Or shall we bring freedom fully to earth nt last, and with the soldiers of our great allies see the dawn of a tomorrow tomor-row whose foundations were laid In Yorktown and Appomattox, by men whose blood runs in our veins, whose hopes and beliefs are our own? Think of this when yon are asked to buy Liberty bonds or Thrift stamps. |