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 From THE NATIONAL SECURITY LEAGUE 
 
 19 WEST 44th STREET, NEW YORK 
 
 E. L. Harvey, Publicity Director 
 
 WHAT THE VICTORY OR DEFEAT OF 
 
 GERMANY MEANS TO EVERY AMERICAN 
 
 ( Contributed, by FRANK H. SIMONDS to the National Security League’s 
 campaign of Patriotism Through Education .) 
 
 If the American people would review the sequence of events which 
 led to American entrance into the war, they would perceive that we are 
 fighting because the Germans attacked the lives and the liberties and the 
 properties of American citizens. They would perceive that Germany 
 adopted the doctrine which would make it necessary either for the Ameri¬ 
 can people to abandon the seas or to fight. They would perceive also 
 that a logical extension of this German policy was the offer of American 
 territory to Japan and Mexico and the building up of a huge conspiracy 
 inside the United States against the peace and order of this country. 
 
 This is why we are at war with Germany. So long as Germany 
 pursues this policy, we must fight, and we must fight because it strikes 
 at our own existence, at our lives, at all we have, at every right which 
 is sacred and at every right which is guaranteed by international and 
 domestic law. As long as Germany continues to pursue toward the 
 United States the policy which she has adopted and which brought us 
 into the war, American aid and American support will necessarily be 
 given to the nations and to the aims of nations fighting Germany, because 
 our armies and our wealth will add to the burden of Germany and de¬ 
 duct from her strength and resources. 
 
 This is, as far as we are concerned, an American war. It is a war 
 fought in defence of American rights, and our aim is the preservation 
 of those rights for which governments are constituted and which, in the 
 last analysis, are the main business of nations.