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Show Kipling Draws Striking Picture Pic-ture of Slavery Under Rule of the Germans. i FOLKSTONE, England, Feb. 16. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) "Nothing else under heaven matters today except that the war shall go on to victory," declared Rud-yard. Rud-yard. Kipling here today in a striking and picturesque speech In advocacy of war savings "The money we loan to the government helps to set our land and our world free," continued Mr. Kipling. "Our security for our loan is not only the whole of the British empire em-pire but also the whole of civilization, which has pooled its resources in men, money and material to carry on this war to victory." What is the personal aspect of the case for you and me? We are fighting fight-ing for our lives, the lives of every man, woman and child here and everywhere every-where else. "We are fighting that we may not bo herded Into actual slavery such as the Germans have established by force of their arms in large parts of Europe. Fighting Against Slavery. "We are fighting against eighteen hours a day forced labor" under lash or at the point, of the bayonet, with a dog's death and a dog's burial at the end of it. "Wo are fighting that men, women, md children may not be tortured, burned, and mutillated in the public streets, as has happened in this town ind in hundreds of others. And wo ivill go on fighting till the race who aave done these things are in no posi-!on posi-!on to continue or repeat their offense. "If for any reason whatever we fall short of victory and there is no halfway half-way house between victory and de-eat de-eat what happens to us? This: "Every relation, every understand ing, every decency upon which clviliza- l tion has so anxiously built up will go 1 will bo washed out, because it will have been proved unable to endure, fl The whole idea of democracy which H at bottom is what the Hun fights M against will be dismissed from men's M minds, becauso it will have been ml shown incapable of maintaining itself a against the Hun. It will died; and it will die discredited, together with M even' belief and practice that is based m on It. n "Tho Hun Ideal, tho Hun's root-no- tions of life will take its place m throughout tho world. Under that dis- pensation man will become once more jl tho natural prey, body and goods, of mt his better-armed neighbor. Women fl will be the mere instrument for con- M tinuing the breed; the vessel of man's I lust andoiian's cruelty; and labor will becomathing to bo knocked on tho m head iiit dares to give trouble, and ml worked to death if it does not. And Ml from this order of life there will be no ! appeal, no possibility of any escape. m This is what tho Hun means when he m I says he intends to impose German ml kultur which the Gorman religion . ,c upon the world. This Is precisely what m J the world has banded itself together M to resist. ' mm "It will take every ounce in us; it S will try us out to the naked soul. Our MV trial will not be made less by the 91 earnest advice and suggestions that wo should accept some sort of com- M - promise, which means defeat, put for- i J ward by Hun agents and confederates m I among us. They are busy in that direc- E tlon already. But be sure of this: Nothing nothing we may have to en- I dure now will weigh one feather- m i weight compared with what we shall 1 2 most certainly have to suffer if for any I 5 cause we fall of victory." I |
