Show DISMEMBER THE SNAKE when a snake attacks us we do not spare him because we know that he cannot help being a poisonous reptile on the other hand it is our duty to annihilate him and all of his breed As a matter of fact because he is a snake he is a continual menace to the welfare of all other life and he must ie be exterminated the same rule applies to germany germany is the snake that seeks to 6 govern overn the world and when the allies finally conquer this reptile they must not be content with merely wOun wound dilo to 0 him for in that event he may eventually of 0 recover and strike again As a matter fact the only way to do is to dismember niber him so that forever more he will be harmless the mining congress journal i voices the 0 on 11 this h sentiment of the american people it subject in an article in its july issue says sW heart most and we hope all americans American wilsons Wil sons state ily approve of president io states is of the reasons why the united bt sou evolved in the great war the purposes that to be accomplished and the declaration it is not a war of conquest 0 aims of 0 these statements cover the sacrifices sacrifice fic s country in the enormous are being made now and in the ahsu of the burdens which must be throughout the years to come co best w be these future burdens may feet of t he pretended ended by a consideration three for to that if the war shall continue equal will ei years our part of the cost properly total present value of all the real P in the country and must be paid from the earnings of that property the world is to be made safe for democracy mo cracy but no territorial aggression to be sanctioned so far as the united states is concerned the united states can for itself properly say no territorial aggression but should that be her position with reference to other of the allied countries every patriotic american citizen has within him a grim determination that without regard to cost this war must be so decisive that the allies can make the terms of settlement must be crushed so completely crushed that it must sue for mercy and be obliged to accept such conditions and such conditions only as the allied councils believe to make for the safety of democracy can any one believe that a reorganized german empire will ever be anything but a menace to world safety will the temporarily subdued prussian be else than a prussian still resentful of defeat filled with hate for his conquerors and obsessed with the hope of retaliation german thrift and german skill had made for germany a pathway to the industrial supremacy of the world german disregard of the rights of women had made for her a population which would have conquered europe but for the advent into the struggle of the american armies through which alone will the tide be turned and democracy made to triumph Is it safe to permit this process to begin over again Is it fair to the world to allow the animus which in 1872 began preparation for the present conflict to again nest its foul blood we have beguiled ourselves with the thought that we are fighting the german government and not the german people we are beginning to comprehend that the gern man people are as one with the german government and that it is the german idea it is which is to be conquered and when this is done then must every pos aible ble hope of its regeneration be exterminated the german people must like malefactors with inherent possibilities of reform be put under control of beneficent governments to be taught the elements of brotherly love and kindness to be taught indus try y for the sake of human happiness and not as a preparation for wholesale human butchery the german government has for cited all right to existence it has been cuilty ty of the greatest capital crime of all history the infliction of the death penalty ls is all too light a punishment for its brutal offense ense let the german government be dismembered and its territory be divided among the allied surrounding nations both for r the future safety of the world and also to 0 recompense to a small extent those na ons whose territory has been desolated and desecrated secrates sec rated germany by virtue of its pre citation meditation di tation of its great world crime was able to save her own territory from the devastation which has come to belgium to france and to italy the property damage to these countries is enormous germany cannot make reparation for the loss of life caused by her rapacious cruelty she can in part make redress for the financial loss which her brutality has deliberately created to exact less would be an intolerable injustice to grant more would but perpetuate those forces which in due time must call for another world war shall we turn loose the unreconstructed criminal and furnish him with the tools and the opportunity for another world outrage or shall we make certain once for all that Prussia nisin is dead this is the prime requirement to insure universal peace first that the elements which premeditate world conquest shall be so situated as to make such intent hopeless second that all nations may have warning that extinction is the certain penalty for starting a war in violation of world comity and in deliberate and shocking outrage of the moral senit ment of the world let belgium france and italy divide the territory and assume to the nations of the world the obligation of humane governmental control and continuing protection against future world turmoil |