THE BLINKERS OFF.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 May 1918, Page 5

THE BLINKERS OFF.

“One of the biggest contributions America has made to the Allied side 0- the conflict is the proof of the moral superiority of the Allied cause,” says a Wellington merchant who has just returned from U.S.A. “Before the en* trance of America, the German military party was able to hoodwink the German people into believing that they were fighting a defensive war against the selfish ambitious of the Allies. By making the people believe that the Allied aim was to destroy Germany, . German people were encouraged to continue the struggle against the democratic forces of the world: But when America entered the war on the side of the Allies, asking nothing for herself and demanding only that The world he “made safe for democracy,” It was no longer possible for the Junker party in Germany to, deceive the German masses. The result was that - # they exposed themselves frankly as cut for the conquest of the. world, and the rest of the wmrld was able to sea them as they actually were: A group of greedy unscrupulous militarists drunk with ambition for world power* The issue was no longer doubtful; it was a clear case of democracy against reaction and mediaeval militarism.”