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Show TEUTON TREACHERY. While the liul.ihcvik soldiers were to cowardly to fiylit to repel the Gurmar invaders, it Bi'naa that they aro en tiroly willing to butcher their follow citizens to uphold Lenino and Trotzky Pctrograd is being evacuated and th so-called government is to tako refuge in Moscow until that ancient city be conies untenable, and then move on tc Novgorod or some other point in the interior whero the lenders of the revolution revo-lution will bo out of reach of the soldiers sol-diers of tho countries with which thoy have just signed a peace agreement. Tho signing of a peace treaty means tho end of hostilities when civilized nations na-tions havo beon fighting each other, but tho barbarian Huns, with their customary cus-tomary disregard for treaties, aro continuing con-tinuing their march into Kussia, while tho low, ignorant and debased people of a once great country are taking to flight, Tho full pxtent of the kaiser's plan has not yet .been revealed, but it is apparent ap-parent that it is intended to bring all of western Russia under the domination domina-tion of the war lord. The treaty forced upon Bit man in by Austria provides that the Rumanians shall . transport tho troops of tho central powers through Moldavia and Bessarabia to Odessa, tho great Russian seaport on the Black sea. The Rumanian treaty furnishes further proof of tho duplicity and treachery of the Austrians, for only last week we were told they would not join tho Germans in further operations against the Russians. Well may the kaiser declare that "the costly prize of victory is in our hands." But he did not tell the truth when he gave tho army credit for laying Russia low, for that catastrophe, was brought about by tho Bolshevik chiefs, the blind leaders of the blind or the paid agents of Germany. Ger-many. But it is a great victory for the central powers, nevertheless, and will be utilized to the fullest extent without regard to what arrangements were made at Brest-Litovsk. If this be a "glorious "glori-ous page in the history of the German army," we fail to discover where the tflorv comes in. "Firmly trusting in tho sword," says the war lord in a telegram congratulating congratu-lating King Frederick August of Saxony, Sax-ony, "I face a futuro which will, after all heavy sacrifices, bring us victory and a strong peace." He has no thought of peaeo unless it can be carried out by the sword, and all the other nations na-tions should tako warning by the fate of Russia and refuse to talk of peace until un-til the German sword is broken and the war lord driven into exile with all the other members of the Hohenzollem family. That happy day, however, will not arrive for sonio time, but when it does come ami the name of Uncle Sam is affixed to a treaty of peace, the punishment pun-ishment of the Germans by the sword will stop, because the United States will not. sully its prond record nor bring itself it-self down to the level of Germany by an act of treachery, such as has beon perpetrated per-petrated in the case of Russia. But while we propose to act in good faith and scrupulously keep all our agreements, we shall not expect the Germans Ger-mans to do likewise unless threatened with just punishment. The object of the present war is to make it impossible for Germany to rule the world by the sword or to oppress her smaller neighbors neigh-bors while the other great powers look on, and we shall win because we are right and because tho salvation of the world depends upon our success. But our victory will be unnecessarily delayed, de-layed, if we put the least faith in either the German or Austrian governments as at present constituted, for we know that their faith in the might of the Teutonic Teu-tonic sword is augmented by past success suc-cess treacherously brought about. Xow that spring has arrived, events will move more rapidly both at home and abroad. It will soon be give and take all along the line in the' western front, Italy included, and it is quite possible the Japanese and Chinese will begin active operations against the Germans Ger-mans and Bolsheviki in Siberia. Here at home we shall ca',1 an additional 800.000 men into tie field and continue" our preparations for a long and desper-ato desper-ato struggle with the Huns. From now on we shall undoubtedly be called upon to bcir heavy losses in the field and to make great personal sacrifices in money. But unless we prove untrue to our tradition';, our Christian faith and our conception of our diitv towards our fellow men, wo shall beat down the German Ger-man sword, liberate the enslaved na- , tions and bring lasting peace- to the 1 world. |