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Show I! ' LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE. i Not one American escaped tho thought yesterday that, if tho Ger-? Ger-? mans woro to win their mighty drive, 1 the outlook would be dark. This country of ours would be com-I com-I polled 'to prepare for a long period of I uncertainty, during which the military I forces would have to be brought up -to tho standard of tho great armies of Europe, where for years every young j man had to undergo training at arms. With a German victory, America would never during this or the coming com-ing three or four generations, bo tho lt same America of the past half century. There would be a yielding to the niili-j niili-j ;j tary everywhere. Great army camps i would have to be established and the j iron-hand of military rule would be , felt, because tho old condition of trust ( and confidence in human kind would J give way to suspicion and an oxacting I stewardship. Enemy aliens everywhere in this land would be kopt within pre-I pre-I scribed bonds. I nn |