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INTERESTING AND PERTINENT TOPICS OF THE DAY WHAT WOULD THE HUN DO Were the conditions reversed were it the Huh who was winning had his grand onslaught suc ¬ ceeded had lie captured Paris had he planted him ¬ self on the Channel ports were lie steadily wearing out slowly retreating forces were the evidence of our collapsing military and civil morale accumulat ¬ ing with every passing day were our man power diminishing and his own increasing with reserves back of hini for indefinite further increases wen this the existing state of affairs what would the Huns program be beWould Would he be feeling his way to an inconclusive peace by negotiation or would lie be truculently de ¬ manding a peace on terms of his own dictation Would he be deploring the wholesale slaughter and whining about the responsibility for further slaugh ¬ ter resting on us and not on him Would he halt his plans for absorbing Belgium and for reducing France to a conquered province tinder Him vassal ¬ age Would lie do any of these things or would he be moving relentlessly on with his program of crushing all before him until the whole world was under the Hun heel heelWere Were the Hun as sure he were going to win as we are sure he is going to lose not a whisper or a hint of peace other than b complete crushing de ¬ feat of his enemies would be coming from him His career of savagery would be taking on a fresJi and constantly accelerating impulse He would not stop until every nation now resisting him was ground into dust And what would be his program under such circumstances must lie the program of the Allies from now on a program carried out to its last detail of Hun subjugation utter and com ¬ plete unless we would have the war of the Allies a failure and all those millions of precious lives of civilized men sacrificed in vain That we apprehend is the doctrine which Senates Lodge meant to lay down in his recent speech in the Senate it is the doctrine of Lloyd Georg and Clemencenu of Albert of Belgium and of all Italy It surely is the doctrine of the people of these United States And to any American group or to any American political party or to any American political leaders who do not subscribe to it now and stand by it to the bitter end what else can befall than such an overwhelming flood of American cbnr demnation as shall sweep them off the political map for generations to come comeWhat What the Allies are going to dj is precisely wliai the Hun would do were he winning instead of losing the war They are going right on to such a victory won on Hun soil and to such a peace dictated on the spot where the whole hellish conspiracy against civilized mankind was hatched a will put the Hiin where he will be impotent to disturb the peace of the whole world for a hundred years yearsIn In tliis season of a presumably impending Hun peace effort of intrigue and chicanery this s a mat ¬ ter not for a moment to be lost sight of a matter to be taken close to the heart of every American man woman and child and steadfastly and un ¬ swervingly held there until the last detail of an aspiration for a world fit foe free men to live iu is a consummated fact New York Sun
