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H 4 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY THE DAWN OF A GREATER DAY Hr 'y 0R many thousands of Americans the news of the arrival of their ex- V IV Petitionary army in France must have had a meaning and a value Hi " beyond all else in their lives. It must have been a realization of an H' ideal long cherished and in recent years almost lost. H For these Americans there existed a United States created"" by the hipii H: and women who sought to found upon this side of the Atlantic a nation in K which all that was impossible of liberty, of- justice, of equality in Europe H should be the common right of all. For these Americans the country which H was settled by those who left England to escape tyranny, religious and po- H litical, and who boro the privations and the hardships of the colonial days; H the country of those who fought at Concord Bridge and suffered at Valley H' Forge; the country of those who on either side of the Mason and Dixon line H fought for their conceptions of liberty and democracy this country dedicated H to liberty and consecrated by the sacrifices ind the sufferings of many gen- H eralions. H That this America which they knew and loved and believed in should have H been silent and passive in the face of the monstrous German peril, threaten- H ing all that America had meant, all that democracy had meant, all that civili- H zation had meant, was an intolerable thing, and through all the months of H American quiescence there was for these Americans a sense of loss, senso H of disillusion, a sense of bitterness. Some, perhaps, lost faith too soon; some, H perhaps, cried out too loudly. H "But with the coming of the American troops into France, with the en- H trance of America into the war, the nightmare of these Americans was ended. H Suddenly they saw and realized that ideal which was their country. They H saw their nation laying aside selfishness, laying aside1 folly, facing the truth H as it was ,at last, and. returning to the work and to the cause for which their H fathers and their grandfathers had fought and dared and died. H We are all richer today in our own country because today our country H once more stands forth clearly asi a nation which serves the truth unselfishly H and loyally, recognizing that when there is evil in the world, when there is H such a monstrous thing as Germanism in the world, there is no other duty H than to fight, to make common cause with all mankind, which serves civili H zation and opposes barbarism. H But what has now com.e is only the beginning. We see clearly now that Hj unless the German thing is destroyed it will annihilate all that we love at H home and in the world. We perceive, still dimly perhaps, yet with growing H clarity, that there can be no compromise with a purpose which is barbarism H and a people which have surrendered themselves to the doctrine of force and H to the policy of violence. B We shall not easily and without cost to ourselves escape from the Ger- M man menace. It has destroyed the youth of Europe. It has turned the toin- H pies of God into charnel houses. It has defiled the altars. It has violated B the sanctuaries. It has spared neither sex nor age. To terrorize mankind it H has murdered children, it has dishonored women, it has sought to enslave the M spirit and it has enslaved the body. H Vaguely now wa hear coming from Germany suggestions of peace, but in H these suggestions of peace there is no hint of a recognition of the wrong HI that has been done, there is no whisper of a renunciation of the gospel of the M sword, there is no promise of a surrender of the idea and the ideals which M are written from Liege to the walls of Paris, which have transformed North- ' em France into a desert and Belgium into a land of human slavery. K We cannot compromise with a Germany which merely recognizes that H material reasons have prevented for this time that complete success hoped for, striven for, almost attained. We cannot compromise with a barbarism H which remains faithful to its principles and has merely been convinced that H what was sought is impossible today. The tiger which has been balked of Its Hi prey will return. There will be no peace until that tiger is killed. The Hi German idea is borrowed from the wild beast; it must be treated as one K treats the wild beast. H This world cannot exist half German and half civilized. There can be H no permanent peace in this world while one great nation professes the doc- H trine which Germany has professed and still professes. As long as one H nation believes that it has the right, if it has the. power, to mark its colors R in blood over provinces and cities beyond, its frontiers; as long as a nation H believes that it has a mission to impose its will as far! as its sword can reach B and its artillery carry, only the blind can see hope of peace and only the M foolish will talk of compromise. m' We are coming to the end of the third year of the war. We have been H already saved from the worst of the German peril; we shall not be enslaved; H We shall not be conquered; we shall not be Germanized. But there remains H the work to be done for our children; therei remains to be completed the task H which has been undertaken that what has threatened us may not threaten H them. All that is sweet and beautiful and happy in the life of this generation H of mankind has gone out on the battlefields. The youth of France, of Eng- H, land, of Italy," of Russia, lies buried on the soil of the frontiers or along H the marches of the lands that Germany sought to subjugate. We shall not in H our time, however soon peace comes now, see the scars disappear or see fl return the world we lived in and believed in three years ago. , This thing Germany has done to us and to the world. It is time to have done forever with this thing. There can be no peace while those who control Germany remain faithful to that purpose and those principals which have transformed Europe into a charnel house; which have brought ruin to the oldest monuments of our civilization and destruction to the fairest fields of our earth, which have sought to repeal all that has been gained in sweetness and light since the Dark Ages. We must go forward to the end, and we must perceive that there can be no end short of victory' and complete destruction of the German idea. We have sent to France the advance guard of our manhood, as we shall send hereafter the divisions and armies of our youth. In doing this we have proven that the America of old lives. We have answered "Present" at the roll-call of the nations that love liberty and serve justice. We have not broken new ground; we have returned to the trenches our fathers and our fore fathers held against those who sought to enslave them. Our work is be ginning. There was never a more glorious morning in our history than that which saw our flag in (France. But it was the morning of a long day, and that it is for all of our now to remember that the America which came to us an ideal must be transmitted to our children, that it may be for them what it was and is again for us, and that there may be no fresh onslaught and no new attack of scientific barbarism on the world civilized and unarmed. The Wasp (San Francisco). SIX TO ONE AGAINST GERMANS ' y? ORE than half the human race is now ranged in war against the Ger-' IJJ mans. The man strength of the Teutonic forces is outnumbered six to one by their foes. Omit all of India, and the Allies, backed by the United States, still have four times the population to draw upon that stands behind the kaiser. I Subtract all the wealth of all the German fund from the wealth of the United States and there still remains more than fifty billion dollars. American farms grow more than all the farms of Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria combined. The United States alone can make more steel and all the products of steel than the whole Germanic league. Our mines yield ten times as much gold, far more silver, twice as much lead and many times as much copper as the entire group of Central Powers. Germany's national debt is now nearly, $200 per capita. Ours is only $10. I To pay a year's interest on his share of his nation's debt costs a Ger man thirty times as much as it costs an American. William Hohenzollern can no more whip a united world than Napoleon Bonaparte could defeat a united Europe, and it required the latter only one hundred days to throw a bridge from Elba to St Helena. Girard, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The Critical Ask For -- v' K Mcdonald's Local Dutch Chocolates Do You? -