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Show 1 1 PHE CRIME OF THE AGES, AND A I "COMPROMISE PEACE" 1 Twelve million men, mostly young men I have been killed or permanently injured I in the German-made calamity from 1 which humanity is now suffering. 1 This number exceeds by. two million i the population of Norway, Sweden and HI Denmark. ... 1 If all the men, age 21 and over, in the I New England States and New York, f 3tfcw Jersey Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois were killed or permanently "injured they would about equal in nuin- jjer the men already sacrificed in this M manner to Germany,s desire for the Hf nvorld dominion. K Over 134 billion dollars have been div- Hf " crted from the construction uses of peace I , to the destructive uses of war. No hu- HI iman mind can comprehend this sum. It Hi would take 2,550 years to count it at the HI t. rate of one hundred one dollar bills per B minute. H Concentrate for a few moments upon Hi the magnitude of this crime of the ages. H. Picture the millions upon millions of B people to whome it has brought hardship H"t hunger and pain. Think of the total sum H-' of sorrow and grief that has come to the H; fc4i,cavetf;(millionsvConsider the 'moral Hi:VJ;- . (and 'physical degradation which the Rpx yraxfl pitiless poverty has wrought. And Hr 'also, remember the wholsale destruction HHt c o property and art which it has taken H' lhe toil and sweat 'of generations to pro- ; - ctoec. ggffl "Visualize the battle front where the HI "" precious blood of our own heroic sons Hi v' is sinking into the scared soil of France K il .mingled with that of other free men who H! :are' offering up their lives for the.honor H . and happiness of generations yet un- Hf tie born. I if- And then ask yourself what kind of a Hf f ' 4,peace" do we want? temporary or H L v permanent? A peace, bought by barter Hi ft" $r by victory? Hv , Shall there be no restitution, no re- Hl no punishment, no disarmament, no Mf guarantee against a recurrence? HHti Or shall the outlaw be conquered, ap- Br prehended and restrained and his pow- H er to renew his murderous career forev- Hfr.' The insistent dry for a "compromise HbV; peace" from the friends of the enemy at Hp ' home and abroad will gain in volume as Hh' the war goes on. Get your answer ready H3:v' &OW. |