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Show IF GERMANY WINS. Thn lawmakers who will meet in "Wu.-Jiiiitun on April 2 must consider what will happen to the world if Ccr-in Ccr-in m i y wins. No dclihuintious w li i li are ronliiied pimply to tin; technical quca-tion quca-tion of whether a statu of war exists or whether a sufficient, cauau of war has lu'fii fouml in any overt arts will meagre mea-gre up to tho. magnitude of the problem. prob-lem. Tin) American people want to know h;it would happen In Ihein and their nf fairs if Uermun submarino warfare hhoiihl sin-ceed in destroying Great Britain's Brit-ain's power upon t lie seas. The senators sena-tors and representatives must project their imaginations into the future. They must t ry to imagine what the world will he if Germany and that means German an tor racy -triumphs in this w a r. It. is not a question of loving or hating hat-ing :inv people. The Americans will not hate any people as a race. If they 'o into the war they will go into it without hating anyone or anything except ex-cept injustice and wrong nncl those who book to fasten injustice and wrong upon the world. Our export trade promised to aK'C-pato aK'C-pato something more than $7,000,0UU,-000 $7,000,0UU,-000 for the year 1017. The first month of lawless U-boat warfare cut down our trade several hundred million dollars because our coasts were almost as effectually ef-fectually blockaded as it' German nipiadrons had driven our navy to cover and were patrolling the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. That was merely a foretaste of what would happen if Ger--many should win. It may bo object cd that Germany will be no different in its mastery than will Great Britain if the allies win. Those who assert that arc welcome to the task of demonstra ting it. 16 the Americans go into the war thoy will not 0 in hating Germans or loving the Kuglish or the French or the Kus-tdnns Kus-tdnns beyond reason. They will bo influenced in-fluenced almost wholly by considerations considera-tions of their own affairs. If Germany wins Germany will be Kurope. All trade will be dictated from llorHn. The supreme war lord will trade with what nations he desires. He will command the English and the French " to transact business only with those countries he approves. And he will not approve of trade with the richest nation na-tion in the world. It will be the aim of his rule to destroy all of his country's rivals and most of all his country 's chief rival, the United states. Germany needs ail indemnity so that she may escape bankruptcy anil repudiation. repu-diation. If she wins she will collect the indemnity from us. It need not be dene with fire or sword although that will be done if necessary. It can be; done ia trade war or by seizing South American territory, by exploiting this hemisphere in the interests of German com me rce. If our shipping were destroyed or ruled off the seas we would immediately immediate-ly be hurled into the most disastrous state of hard times this nation ever has suifered. Vanie wVuld paralyze our industries. Mills and factories would ch'se. Millions of working men would be out of jobs. Business would be prostrate. These are merely a few fragments of s;ige-t ion. The business man can probably make a longer list of horrors, and the list would not represent foolish nightmares. I If the allies win they will need indemnities in-demnities too, but they will not be able to eolhvt from us. because not one of" the allir-. will be a dominant power. Grrma ny, if he wins, r:ui rule the world, unless, of course, we fight with her for supremacy ater the present war is ended. Neither Great Britain, nor Kiismh, nor l-'iam-e will be ruler uf the world if the entente triumphs. The Urifed Siates will have its fair chance. 'ongre must think it over. GRINDING DOWN. The Gorman farmers who have been "hohliug out" on the food controller .Mid provi ding for the necessities of tiM'jr own fnnii'ies first are to be corn-pebr corn-pebr ! to surrender all their fond products beyond the amount allowed by the ra t ion t-y?-teui. Up to the present time it is said t lie t'a rm i ng population ha 6 nut fullered any considerable amount of hapi-hip. so I'm: ns food is cou-'rned sin': t h' a r'"- ,,v;i-i' be-jan, I and it is rpiiiif iroii;ibie many of them j have b.-.n :tAo ut biv by considerable " j uinnr-v hv selling to priva'f partjev u-h ' prod'J.-M as t!.-y have b'-"-n abb- To save ; from the ' ; t h of the, xo element, i fhit a- the food Mt".;itiou in (b-.iiuany 1 i .-, dfju bt li'ss prow ing more ir f-rare i'rv dav thr l';ir:n''f.i will no long--r 'si-apir the niwerfiil arm ot tlit; military, i .vhirh is titt- (n!y branch of the iivT-; iivT-; mini government strong fjnouyh to eom-1 eom-1 pel obt-.ii':i,-f upon The (i,rt of the I ' agrarian population, or, for that matter, J any other chi.-s of citizens. There is a I chit lie e that t he Genua n farnnTs will : not overexert thernsoB e.-, to produce . j foods t nil's if they are not allowed at ; least all th'-ir families care to eat, and' - j the German government may make a I ' I bad matter worse by being too hard I ii I ii a them. |