Show OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR F. F Editor 1 tor Telegram If you arc are one oue of those who doubt the wisdom of our going into the war on the side of the entente allies ask yourself this question Do no we c want German Germany as a neighbor on our southern border J It seems to us that consideration of this question will resolve all doubt that for the preservation of the republic and its democratic I institutions for the welfare of or those who come after us the defeat of German Germany y is absolutely necessary And to insure that defeat we must help It is useless s to den deny that Germany German today has more than a foothold in Mexico l The fhe evidence accumulates dail daily There is authentic information that Mexican 7 politics and Mexican l finance are arc now controlled by German interests German monc money is building b a wireless station near Mexico l City for fort t direct communication between Mexico l and Berlin Consular reports indicate that hundreds of Germans have bc been n flocking from the United States to Mexico l in recent weeks Why 1 n 4 f The Thc clinching evidence was the Zimmermann note One government govern govern- ment does not write Tite such a note to another government unless between v them there is already a cordial understanding unless the groundwork work f t for a friendly reception has already been laid To fo all intents and purposes Germany is already our neighbor on the south south south-a a neighbor who has made written written dc declaration of his Im malign 0 plans and and anel purposes Toda Today he can but shake shah his fist across the back fence he lie is fairly busy in his lis own front yard urd But tomorrow 1 I II I I i Suppose Germany wins the war What considerations of r morality will give pause to the ambition of German Germany triumphant 1 e What restraints of conscience will govern the militar military autocracy that i thinks of or treaties as ns scraps of or paper whose ideals are arc wanton destruction and ruthless killing 1 Germany over oyer all German Germany over Europe and Asia and t. t America 1 What's to stop her if she wins t lie He is a trustful soul who in view of what has happened in Europe during the past two and one half years can persuade himself that a victorious Germany would voluntarily give up the thc foothold financial and political she site now nov has hasin hasin in Mexico Germany is in Mexico exico to stay stay stay-if if Germany wins or is not ruined in the present war to use Mexico 1 for colonization while permitting Mexico 1 to keep the forms of an ind independent pendent republic with German Germany pulling the strings Let us ask ourselves this question IS IT WELL FOR OUR NATIONAL SECURITY TO FO HAVE BELGIUM'S rS r'S NEIGHBOR AS OUR NEIGHBOR ON THE SOUTHERN SOUTHERN SOUTHERN SOUTH SOUTH- ERN FRONTIER 7 The answer is obvious We Ve know the German government go now for a n ruthless conscienceless conscience conscience- less military autocracy which recognizes 0 neither the time laws of God nor man mall in its dealings with other other nations We Ve do not want such a system planted on the American continent as it will be if C Deutschland alles triumphs It is our sacred duty as trustees of democracy for our children to toto toto to see sec to it that it shall not triumph to make the defeat of the German autocracy certain by participation in the war on the side of the three great democracies France England and Russia Russia Democratic Democratic Russia If we value our future peace and security we we ye cannot do Ise r W. W W. W A. A |