Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1918 — OUR TIME WILL COME. [ARTICLE]

OUR TIME WILL COME.

No matter what happens on the bloody slopes of Messines or in Picardy, Germany can not win this war. Every temporary advantage she obtains now serves to stiffen the determination of this country to destroy the Postdam theory of slavery, We are a united people. Our man power has not been touched. The soldier is still the exception in our streets. We are merely beginning to take off our citizens’ clothes. We should have begun long ago, but the delayed job is at last beginning to interest us acutely and we shall never, if it takes 100 years, lay down our arms until Germany is beaten and the little and big peoples of the earth restored to their own. So if there are discouragements in the present situation, we must permit no more delays, think rather of the main task ahead of us, and realize the certainty that now and then the Prussian autocrats must have glimpses of oncoming America. If by the sacrifice of 1,000,000 men Germany should get even to Calais, what then? Does any one think that General Pershing and his men would be dismayed? Would New York? Would Indiana? Would California? It is inconceivable that any loss that the allies might sustain will in the least cause the United States to swerve one point of the compass from its determined course. Germany might as well realize this. If she did and were wise she would succumb now. But she is not wise; she is flushed with the raw blood that she has drunk, and so must be beaten down to the ground by the free men of America who love liberty, not for themselves alone, but for I mankind. Haig stands with his i back to the wall, a gory heap about him. But at last “we are coming, Father Abrahaml”—Indianapolis News.