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Show UP TO AMERICA TO WIN WAR Collapse of Russia Places the Burden of Eliminating the Hun on Shoulders Shoul-ders of the Ysnks. Dally it grows more certain that the world war is to be fought till one side or the other is prostrate. The war would have been over months ago If Russia had not collapsed ; but with treason in the czar's cabinet and lunacy lun-acy and stupidity pervading the Russia Rus-sia proletariat, that mighty empire of the north became an inert and impotent impo-tent mass at the mercy of Germany. And as for Russia, her fate will be determined by the world congress that will write the peace when the war is over. It will be about the mightiest job human statecraft ever undertook and an impossible job unless Germany or the entente is then as helpless as Russia is now. With the western front reinforced by the millions of veterans Germany had in Russia, the German people have become as confident of victory as they were when the first gun was fired. At this moment Germany, rulers anil people peo-ple alike, feel assured as to the outcome. out-come. There Is a determination to annex all of Belgium, all ot France now held by the German armies and all of the possessions of Belgium and France in Africa. Discussion is now-going now-going on in the German press as to the amount of the money indemnity the enemy shall pay. Already Russia Is carved by the German sword. And If Germany shall succeed In her present pres-ent Intentions she will be as complete mistress of the world as It now Is known as the Rome of Julius Caesar was mistress of the world as It was known on the eve of the Christian era. |