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Show NO HALF WAY POINT. Viscounts Bryee and Xtthcliffe have warned the South American republics i that (ieiman success in Europe would! mean domination of the world by the I kaiser and that tlie South Americans could not reasonably hope to escape the clutches of the modern would-be con- j queror. Brazil is in the war on the J side of justice and humanity, and some 1 of the smaller countries have declared themselves in unmistakable terms as to where they stand. Argentina and Chile, however, are attempting the difficult feat of carrying water on both .shoulders .shoul-ders while the " hole world is out of balam-p. It cannot lie done. Should i the Hermans emerge victorious from the ; great war, Argentina and Chile would I have to bow the knee along with the re-t of' the Latin-American republics. Possibly the men who eon t rol the des-linies des-linies of Argentina and Chile believe the Ciermans will triumph and that thrnugh the instrumentality of Herman power they will be supreme in South America. They are taking a long chance if they harbor any such belief. The Germans are at the hih tide of their military Kiwer at tho present moment. mo-ment. When the ?reat battle now raging rag-ing ends, the retrograde movement will begin, and it will last until the kaiser is overthrown. Then the work of placing plac-ing the world upon a substantial basis will begin. Brazil, being one of the belligerents on the right side, will participate par-ticipate in all the deliberations and have a voice in the f i nal settlement . and will naturally maintain its position as the leading South American republic. It would be extremely fnnllh to imagine imag-ine any other out conn. So A rgent ina and Chile .-hould abandon their equivocal equivo-cal position and take a definite stand on the war. The nat ions f ight i n for the whole world do not need an v sy ni-pa ni-pa t hy, and dei lara t ions uf bene vole n t neutrality will not help win battles. It is up to the smaller nations who expect to lie protected from all harm in tin' f ut ii re to st ii I; e a blow iu their own behalf while the struggle continues. The Hermans have vat commercial interests in South America. They have1 banks, business houses ami newspa pers in many of the big cities ami their influence in-fluence has been increasing day by day for a number of years. They were fast ii n derm i n i m l; all their i i va is in trade when hostilities began in Kurope. Now all t hese ma 1 1 ei s have been brought to light. Mere in tlie 1'nited State? the people have been mi r prised to ba rn that hun dreds of millions of dfdlars worth of property were absolutely abso-lutely owned and controlled in (iermanv am! that these foreign owners had agents at Washington and were able to in flue nee legi-dat ion in congee, being be-ing aided to a considerable extent by the ( lerma n A merican element, in this count ry. Now the Herman busi ness 1 n-t n-t eret s r u the I" n i t ed SI a t es a re bei n g torn up, root and branch, and we shall not allow them to be planted a emud t i me. It will be a er difficult mat t er fur ihc l.cniii'ilis to reestablish t lie md es : 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 e i e ill the mid. Hh t lie pns-- pns-- i b I exception id' M e i i o , i e Ii I ilia .tid Md'e f.r..l it .,. ii, M o countriesewill pay dearly for their folly if they continue their present course to the end. It has been said by the American and British statesmen that it is not the intention of the entente allies to crush Germany, and we believe be-lieve the words were honestly spoken. At the same time, the conviction is growing that not only must the military mili-tary power of the kaiser be crushed, but that pernicious German influence all over the world must Vie tibsolutely destroyed. Npt a single germ of anything any-thing of Teuton origin should be left to poison the air and pollute the springs and bring woe and desolation to future fu-ture generations. The Germans began the war by committing com-mitting the most dastardly and inhuman inhu-man outrages, for the purpose of terrifying terri-fying the people of Europe into submission. sub-mission. At all times since they have made the war as horrible as possible, in an effort to secure a favorable peace. The effort has had the opposite op-posite effect. Instead of being ab'e to negotiate for peace, the war lord will be compelled to fight to the last gasp and ,then surrender unconditionally, uncondition-ally, and there is no escape from the conclusion that the crushing of Germany Ger-many is both a military and economic necessity. There can be no other outcome. out-come. Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria will not be purged of liability in the great day of wrath and repentance, and Viscounts Bryee and Northeliffe might as well have presented the reverse side of the picture to the South American republics. This side shows that the nations out of sympathy with the cause of the United States, Prance and Great Britain Will receive scant consideration considera-tion when the sun goes down on German Ger-man imperialism. |
