If during that time the submarine
brings Great Britain to subjection. 01
I the growing weakness of the Russians
1 enables Germany to concentrate on
land overwhelm the French and Brit
ish armies in (•'ranee, then the 1’nited
1 States will wake up to what war
1 really is. Then we shall hear the
thunder of hostile guns at our sea
ports. we shall see our cities in
flames, we shall mark our soldiers by
'the millions breasting the German
Hood beating upon our shores, and
wherever the enemy makes a lodg
ment we shall see Louvain. Lille.
Rheims outdone, for the German
hatred for the United States today
passes understanding
To avert this calamity let our
people awake today to its possibility
Bet them understand that though we
fight to make the world safe for
! democracy we fight first to make the
! 1’nited States safe for its people
j Let us have a truce to declaring the
! purposes of the w ar Regarding ar
i rangements of governments, changes
! in boundaries, the overthrow of dy
nasties, annexations, indemnities and
all the pawns and counters of the dip
lomats are but war's by-products.
We are in this war to defend the
United States from the immediate.
I real and pressing danger of German
invasion. Make the people under
stand that and they will spring to
arms for the defence of their woman
kind. their firesides and their country.
