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Nov. 14, 1917.
IF GERMANY WON
By Casper Whitney
of the Vigilantes
Do you realize what would happen
to us in America if Germany defeated
Great Britain and France?
You think of us as separated from
her by 3,000 miles of water but oceans
in these days of electricity, and air
ships and submarines are barriers no
more effective than mountain brooks.
You recall the German U-boat which
suddenly appeared last summer at out
very door to sink several cargo and
passenger steamers off our New Eng
land coast?
Within six months after a victory of
Germany in Europe, German warships
and German troop-ships would be on
their way to our ports to levy the great
tribute upon this rich country which
is part and parcel of the German war
plan.
That’s what the triumph of the kais
er would mean to America and to you
-—billions of dollars of tribute of which
you would have to pay your share
through oppresive taxation. It is on
the Pan-Germanic program.
Officers, merchants, educators said
as much to me in Germany, Belgium,
Poland, during my year behind the
German lines on relief work. And you
have probably read the corroborative
evidence of their purpose in the kais
ser’s threat to Ambassador Gerard,
“America had better look out after this
war!”
In Brazil, Chili, Venezuela, promi
nent German merchants whom I met
in the course of my travels, frankly
confided to me the intention of Ger
many "one day” to make an "over seas
Germany” of South America. And an
elephant catcher from Hamburg told
me years ago in the jungles of Lower
Soam that "the day was coming” when
Germans would not need to ask "per
mits of Englann or France or Slam”
for a free hunting hand in Siam or
Malay. As a German officer at their
great headquarters in Northern France
said to me once at the close of a dis
cussion as to where the war was lead
ing the principle belligerents—Great
Britain, France, Germany—“world
power or complete defeat; Germany
rants no half way'result!”
A German victory would at once put
, jeopardy all the principles for which
ever fought:—freedom on land in
1.6, liberty at sea in 1812, the right of
fl itier lines in 1847, the reaffirmation
of the freedom of the white man
throi ’h giving freedom to the negro
in 18 ; and the rights of little nations
in 181
Ase tnight ago a German victory
seemed the Wildest improbability.
Since then the situation has changed.
The German armies are pouring into
Northern Italy. Italy may not be able
to stop them. Germany may force her
to make peace. With Russia and Italy
both out of the war, Germany and Aus
tria would be able to send practically
all their force against the Allies on the,
western front.
Th? chances are that England, ■
Fray and Belgium alone could not
hold hem. The United States must
lea? < their side, the American people
must ap to their side. Not American
soldi ( only, not American ships only,
not ’ merican guns only, but American
meh women and children from Maine
to 1 ;xas, from Texas to Oregon, must j
in one way or another consider them - !
selves fighters at the side of America’s ,
allies on the battle front.
If they cannot hold a gun. they must •
support those who do. They must save
food and save money. They must talk
war. They must think war.
If they don’t Germany will win.
And then
THE SIEGE OF VAN.
Dr. Usshur’s lecture in the Red Tri
angle tent on "The Siege of Van,” was
an absorbing story of the Armenian
massacre. The Berkley Sextet, an or
ganization of attractive young women,
preceded the lecture with a captivat
ing program of solos instrumental mu
sic, part songs and parodies on popular
war hits. The sqldiers were charmed
with their art as well as their appear
ance. Dr. Usshur dealt at length with
tk basic reasons for the world war and
ck. -*d with a thrilling narrative of the
aw. I scenes of butchery enacted by
the urks in their process of extermi
nat j the Armenian race.
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LET US GIVE THANKS
PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION
Washington, D. C. —President Wilson
issued tonight his 1917 Thanksgiving proc
lamation, calling upon the nation, even in
the midst of the sorrow and great peril
of a world shaken by war. to thank God
for blessings that are better than mere
peace of ‘mind and prosperity of enter
prise.
The proclamation, fixing Thursday, No
vember 29th, as Thanksgiving Day, fol
lows:
“It has long been the honored custom
of our people to turn in the fruitful au
tumn of the year in praise and thanks
giving to Almighty God for his many
blessings and mercies to us as a nation.
That custom we can follow now, even in
the midst of the tragedy of a world shak
en by war and immeasurable disaster,
in the midst of sorrow and great peril,
because even admist the darkness that
has gathered about us, we can see. the
great blessings God has bestowed upon
us, blessings that are better than mere
peace of niind and prosperity of enter
prise.
“We have been given the opportunity
to serve mankind as we once served our
selves, in the great day of our Declara
tion of Independence, by taking up arms
against a tyranny that threatened to mas
ter and debase men everywhere, and join
ing with other free peoples in demanding
for all the nations of the world that we
then demanded and obtained for our
selves. In this day of the revelation of
our duty not only to defend our own
rights as a nation, but to defend also the
rights for free men throughout the world,
there has been vouchsafed us in full and
inspiring measure, the resolution and
spirit of united action. We have been
brought to one mind and purpose. A new
vigor of common counsel and common ac
tion has.been revealed in us. We should
especially thank God that in such circum
stances, in the midst of the greatest en
terprise the spirits of men have ever en
tered upon, we have if we but observe
a reasonable and practical economy,
abundance with which to supply the needs
of those associated with us, as well as
our own. A new light shines about us.
The great duties of a new day awaken
a new and greater national spirit in us.
We Shall never again be divided or won
der what stuff we are made of.
“And while we render thanks for these
things, let us pray Almighty God that in
all humbleness of spirit, we may look
always to Him for guidance: that we may
be kept constant in the spirit and purpose
of service: that by His grace our minds
may be directed and our hands strength-
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hereby designate Thursday, the 29th day
of November, next, as a day of thanks
giving and prayer, and invite the people
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day from their ordinary occupations and,
in their several homes and places of wor
ship, render thanks to God, the great
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Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
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