Show A LONG WAR the world is sorely afflicted and is groping in 0 blindly for a way out nations plunged e 1 I with little warning into the vortex of the most cruel and unnecessary war of all time are striving to remove the evil and to find their way to a lasting peace and to the prosperity which sheltered the earth before the hordes from the central powers of europe were turned loose upon their career of murder rapine and destruction the saddest part of the present holocaust is that a single coterie of unscrupulous men now the most vile bloodstained blood stained murderers of all history should be able to fasten this crime of the twentieth century upon our modern civilization and to the shame of civilization it must be admitted that the assault of the huns must be met mel by reciprocal methods force must be met by force and blow returned for blow until the power of tile the be broken forever and his feudal form of government be nothing but a black memory the united states has undertaken a giants task and it is big enough and rich enough to see the work through be the cost what it may tile the apathy which was apparent during the first few weeks is now wearing off as the public is becoming acquainted quain ted with the cowardly treachery of the prussian leaders and their atrocious ambitions for world dominion this apathy was due largely to the widespread conviction that the german nation was already whipped that it could not possibly hold out for another six months an opinion which was fostered by the hun publicists and carefully nurtured by the german propagandists in this country tile the rumors of strikes food riots socialistic uprisings and impending revolutions dissatisfaction in the hun army and many other bear stories which were purposely allowed to leak through the german cen sors sor lup ship were undoubtedly designed to create a false public sentiment sent i n 1 e 11 t here and to make it more difficult to get tile the actual facts before the masses and the scheme worked well for a time however the truth is known now and a wave of enthusiasm for the war which bodes ill for the future of is commencing its sweep across the country preparations must be made for a long and bitter contest the government is is preparing for at least three years of war and plans are laid for a longer struggle if necessary washington knows that germanys germanas Germ anys resources in munitions are greater today than they were after forty years of preparation at the opening of the war it knows that the enemy is better provisioned with foodstuffs for the coming year than it was for the lasts last and that the measures taken there for greater food crops than normal will probably be successful it knows that two or more submarines are being turned out for every one which is sunk these and other things it knows and is preparing for a long struggle but there is no room and little cause for pessimism in this country there is not a shadow of a doubt of tile the ultimate outcome the mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceeding fine and the kaiser and his ilk are being drawn inexorably exor ably into the crushing jaws of those mills somehow we who are acquainted with the construction of milling plants wonder if there are not special ro asters being prepared for the hun hull leaders this great land of freedom and of hope has cas cast t its lot with other nations which are struggling to crush forever a black monstrosity it can win when all its resources are and it will win however the necessity is to strike hard and quickly and to follow up its blows A As s an american now on the firing line expresses it for gods sake tell the folks back home not to waste time weve simply got to show those damned prussians what tile the american punch is if we dont we might as well crawl into a hole and die that brave american and millions of others can be assured that the american punch is well started toward its goal |