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Show IF AMERICA LOST THIS WAR By HILCEGRADE HAWTHORNE. Of the Vigilantes. Have you, yourself, sat down to consider con-sider soberly what It would mean if Germany, and not we, should win the war? With the war won, she could hold over us the threat of invasion :nnd we know what invasion by the Prussians means. But, beaten, we could not prevent pre-vent such an invasion, even though In the long ending we might manage to drive out the invader, for the country Is great. But if we did do this at last, picture what the country we love would be reduced to first. Stare at the war pictures from France and Bel-glum Bel-glum and the invaded portions of Italy, and you won't require much effort of the Imagination to visualize your own town' or village or peaceful farming country under the Prussian heel. If we, incapable of resisting invasion, inva-sion, yielded to the Prussian demands, what would these be? , Germany wants much after the wasting of four years or nearly that of war. We should have to repay her her losses by huge Indemnities, which would put a staggering burden on all of us. We would live under a threat, a threat from the most brutal nation the world has ever known. If we bowed to that threat, and a beaten nation na-tion must how, then the very spirit of America, all we mean by the word life as we interpret it, would lie murdered. Better that we ourselves should die, and our children with us. The hope of our fathers, the work of us all, this nation, our individual character and freedom, all ended. The price of Liberty Lib-erty has been paid by this nation twice before. To fail now to fall now! Shall our noble dead have died in vain, and we bow to the oppressor? Or shall we bring freedom fully to earth at last, and with the soldiers of our great allies see the dawn of a tomorrow tomor-row whose foundations were laid in Yorktown and Appomattox, by men whose blood runs In our veins, whose hopes and beliefs are our own? Think of this when you are asked to buy Liberty bonds or Thrift stamps. |