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have had to be attained at a cost of life, form of governand all that democracies hold dear, which would have men pause and ask whether the struggle were worth while Layin Germans they wish to expand, to seize other people's land and dominate the world, they, as the chosen people of Almighty God, have a right to do it; that no such word as "wrong" can be recognized in their vocabulary; the defendants of the monstrous program of German autocracy make certain claims in their own proceed to examine. they t they < survive the survive the question bv takine it for erranted that survive is the one endowed with brute strength. >nfuse the exertion of brute force with moral r i g h t this matter they have followed the custom which runs through all German il arguments. They first have made up their they want to establish, and then they interpret the :hey have at hand in such a way as to sustain their point. ve read a cood deal of German political and econic literature in the past fifteen years, and have been imssed every time with this fact. They prove what they want prove, and show either a real indifference to the facts, or a iplete failure to realize that they are not on their side. Concerning the German claim of their right to expand, it country members past have left her shores. No better citizens of our own country have! • > • • nian stock. It would •m and educatio World through the impress

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