Awake! America

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Excerpt from Awake! America: Object Lessons and WarningsFrance was awake, and ready. England was only half awake, in 1914, and already She has paid a fear ful price for being half asleep, and oblivious to the fact that in comparison with her one mortal enemy She had practically no army. In view Of her close touch with the Hun, the people of England should have been far wiser than they were.The onset of Germany for world power and con quest found America blissfully ignorant Of German character and aspirations, grotesquely helpless on land, wallowing in a riot of luxury and extravagance, and sound asleep to impending dangers. Worse than that, it took dynamite, fire and bloodshed to arouse the American people from their Slumber, and yet we were, of all people, popularly supposed to be quick on the draw!On our part the years 1915 and 1916 were a wild orgy of stupidity and blundering. This book is not intended to be a chronology of Folly. Its only aim is to point out certain dangers, and to drive home the wicked folly of sleeping on duty.I shall not catalogue the blunders of Congress and the Cabinet, nor even list the names of the men who are most to blame for the disaster of our unprepared ness on May 6, 1917, when we went through the motions of declaring war on Germany. That was the most ghastly farce of modern history, but we had to go through with it!Those who write the history of this Great Tragedy will not be so lenient as I, when they come to their task. But at one point the hand of the historian will falter and draw back in horror. That will be when the time comes to place the blame for the great catastrophe to Christian civilization. On the side of the defenders of the rights of man, rotten-hearted Russia is most to blame for the slaughter of 1918, and stupid, sleepy, stall-fed America stands next to her.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.