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Show be looking for a way out of the war at the least possible cost. Then it will be 1 too late- to escape the danger, of annihilation annihi-lation which they now try to make the people believe is the purpose of the United States and the entente allies. With all their military ability and long years of preparation for war, we do not expect the Germans to fight to the last ditch. Just as soon as they are driven out of France and Belgium, after perpetrating the most horrible crimes and leaving devastation and ruin behind them, wo believe tho Huns will try to save their owd country from invasion by proposing peace. Christian nations such as the United States, Great Britain and France would not deliberately wreck Germany after the surrender of the armies. Yet Belgium Bel-gium and northern France must be restored re-stored and Germany must be punished for bringing so much suffering and sorrow sor-row into the world. The longer the surrender sur-render is delayed the greater the punishment pun-ishment will be and the nearer Germany will be to at least partial annihilation as a nation. The people of the United j States are not vindictive and they have j never thirsted for blood, but if we are J compelled to sacrifice the lives of hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of our young men before the Germans submit it is possible they will insist upon Germany's paying the extreme penalty for her iniquity. SHOULD SURRENDER. Maximilian Harden is entirely correct when he quotes President Wilson to the effect that the allies do not want to annihilate Germany. That is not the purpose of the war and the junkers know it. Yet if the war drags on for a scries of years the central empires are destined to come out of it practically practi-cally annihilated whether the allies intend in-tend it or not. The verdict of the world in such case would be that Germany and Austria committed suicide. If this fact could be pounded into the heads of the people of Germany ana Austria .they would overthj-ow the present governments govern-ments at Berlin and Vienna and sue for peace on the best terms obtainable. Many of the Germans of intelligence know well enough that with tho United States in the war Germany has 'no possible pos-sible chance of winning. They know, too, tnat this country will not be a party to a treaty of peace negotiated with the Hohcnzollerns and tiie militarists, mili-tarists, because these men are not to be trusted and because from the American Amer-ican point of view the present German government is not representative of the people of tho country. But the Germans who know this and . desire to end the sacrifices being made are under restraint and dare not make tuiy effort to arouse the people to a reuse of the great clanger that menaces both tbem and their country. Vet we -know that there are many murmurs of .discontent at the present time and we feel sure that before the fifth winter of the war is over conditions in Germany Ger-many and AuMria will be so bad that c.'rn the uio' i-rovim-ia! junkers will |