"I WILL REPAY"

Just two years ago today the whole world was rocked with the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. The war had then been in progress nine months, yet nothing so terrible as this blind blow to civilization had occurred, save the first ruin of Belgium.

In these United States many men who had marvelled at the strength of the German arms, and translated their amazement into sympathy, were shocked from their admiration for Germany's ability into horror of her brutality. On the 6th of May, 1915, we were in the truest and fullest sense of the term a neutral nation. On the 8th of May we were no longer neutral.

That was two years ago. It has taken our nation that long, through many more losses, and through hidden or open insult, to arouse its slumbering passion. "The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine."

Germany will pay, this year, or the next, or the next, more fearfully with each year, for the sinking of that great ship. For that sinking, and for the thing she did to Belgium.