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WAR TO LAST OUNCE OF OUR POWER POWERAmerican American soldiers and sailors are more and more beginning to understand the diameter of the nation with which we are at war and they are beginning we believe to understand that this is not a short war They realize that Germanys military machine has not been broken that it is still tremendously powerful that in all human nrobability this war will last for two or three years and possibly for a longer time They know that the utmost power of this nation will be needed to create 1111 army and a navy adequate to meet the situation and to supply these men with a limitless quantity of explosives and with aeroplanes to the utmost stretcli of our ability to produce and with everything else enter ¬ ing into war work workIf If we are to fight Germany successfully we must do it with the power of scientifically handled ma ¬ chinery of war with explosives without limit and with aeroplanes which will fill the sky and we must plan for a great army All that we have done is small as compared with what we shall have to do Any man who minimizes the struggle that is ahead of us or who fails to grasp its magnitude will l e responsible to the extent of his influence in lengthening the war and increasing the number of deaths to our soldiers soldiersWar War war to the limit of human power War to the last ounce of onr strength in men and money War with a determination that there shall be no halting whether the struggle be two years or five years but war until the world has been avenged of the crimes of Germany against mankind and especially its crimes against womanhood and children war until our national existence is made safe must be onr thought and our prayer by day and by night nightNot Not for one moment should we think of even the possibility of a short war This is a long war A desperate war Germany lias staked its ex ¬ istence upon success It has planned for this war through generations and now that the contest is on with Germany fully realizing that there will be nothing but death and destruction for its auto ¬ cratic power and punishment for its people unless it can win we may be assured that the people and the military power of Germany alike will carry on war to the utmost stretcli of that nations ac ¬ cursed ability to make war warLet Let ns in the light of that black crime against humanity in the murdering of the people on board a hospital ship make to each other to our allies and to God himself onr solemn pledge never to sheathe the sword until Germany has been de ¬ stroyed Manufacturers Record
