ce has been fighting a winning fight. By merely
keeping a deadlock for the rest of the war, and forcing a truce under
the guise of peace, the Menace will win; provided, however, that it is
not expelled by the German people themselves. This is the strength--and
the weakness--of the foe against which we have declared war.

The Prussian looks a long way ahead. M. Cheradame, in his work, "Le
Complot Pan-Germaniste Demasque," recites the following incident: "In
1898, before Manila, the German Rear-Admiral von Goetzen, a friend of
the Kaiser, said to the American Admiral Dewey, 'In about fifteen years
my country will begin a great war.... Some months after we have done our
business in Europe we shall take New York and probably Washington, and
we shall keep them for a time.... We shall extract one or two billions
of dollars from New York and other towns.'" The months referred to by
the German sailor may be turned into years, and the one or two billions
may be multiplied by ten--but the Prussian looks a long way ahead.

XIV

How can our rights and the rights of mankind to which the President has
alluded be made secure? What definite concrete facts must be established
in order that democracy may be made safe?

In the first place, the autocratic power that now puts terror into the
heart of the world must be broken beyond repair. The Hohenzollerns and
the rest of the military caste which now controls Germany must be
politically exterminated. No pretended or half-way internal political
reforms, leaving a road for their return to power, will be sufficient.
Annihilate the Menace. The cancer must be cut out, with no roots left in
the body politic to spread its hideous disease again. Make an effective
job of it once for all. We want no chance, under the cloak of peace, for
the return of this monster.

"The time has come to conquer or submit," wrote President Wilson shortly
after our declaration of war. It is true. Can any one doubt what would
have happened to the United States of America if Prussian autocracy had
dictated terms of peace to vanquished Allies and as part of those terms
had taken over the allied fleet and obtained territory in Canada? Or can
any one doubt what will now happen to all the democracies if the present
Pan-Germany, now existing by means of Prussian victories in this war, is
during the next ten years consolidated, organized, Prussianized--and
then, a fighting machine twice as powerful as the machine