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Show HE safety of our country just now is in the hands of our farmers. Two C ) great weapons in this war are arms and starvation. The war against German arms will be won or lost in France the war against starvation starva-tion in America. The kaiser cannot whip French and English armies and the English navy, while England has food. "If the submarines win, the first item in the kaiser's terms will be the English Eng-lish fleet. With the English fleet he will be master of the world. "What will happen to us? Every man who stop to think knows the answer. We shall have money, food, labor, land, everything desirable in the world except ex-cept power to protect what we have. Experts estimate it will take us nine months to get ready to meet a German army of even 1(50,000 with modern artillery. Under such circumstances, would the Germans treat us better than Belgium and France? "Even if the armies of our Allies should crush German military power this summer before a shortage of food, the world would still need vast quantities of American food. "If the war lasts beyond this summer, the American farmer will win or loao the war, overcome militarism and autocracy or allow them to spread over and control the world, ourselves included. |