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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25
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we were experiencing the same ruthlessness that peopl ia and France. If any one now set purpose of the imperial German Government to domie the earth, to destroy democracy and establish autocracy, n he too must be one of those 87 million German people o are always right because they are German. Therefore, fellow-citizens, in going to Europe to fight side with simDlv defending: our own shores, our own our own families. For it is as clear as the sunlight that if German autocracy succeeds in establishing: its aims on the conAmerica will be the ten to stem the risini victim slavery and terror on the other side of the necessary to do it on this side alone. It would t only the burning of New York, or Boston, or Washington, or Charles imposition of fines and indemnities of billions of dollars; it would not have meant merely the destruction of our property and the robbery of our sustenance; it would have meant the dishonor or the death, or both, of those who are dear to us; it would have meant the destruction of that great national spirit and national organization which has been established and cemented by the blood of our fathers; it would have meant the turning back of the liberty of the individual and the world to the conditions of five centuries ago; it would have meant the blotting out of that spirit of freedom, that spirit of independence, that spirit of duty, that spirit of high idealism, which we hke to characterize as American; it would have meant that instead of America's being, as she always has been, the hope of the world, she would take her place among the beaten and degraded and enslaved nations under the heel of an emperor who claims to represent God, and whose shining armor, no longer shining but begrimed with the blood of the innocent order a T r ^ "* ™*" * "*<* * «^™ 81 °< * " **
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