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What Are We Fig
Poe, Editor Proj
The United States is at war against
Germany for two fundamental reasons.
For one thing the present war
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from tne oegmiimg u<as uccn
ly a conflict between democracy and
autocracy, and a nation, "conceived
in liberty," as America was, cannot
look uncaring upon the triumph of
autocracy anywhere in the world, In
the second place, we are fighting for
the maintenance of human rights on
the high seas. The sea is the "public
road" of all nations. Xo country
has a right to make it unsafe for
people to travel the high seas of
water, just as no man has a right to
make it unsafe for other men to
travel our highways of earth.
One of my good friends said, "I
am not in favor of fighting Germany
until she comes within the threemile
limit of our Atlantic Coast."
Such a policy would mean the surrender
of fundamental American
rights and even human rights. Supfwn
noi^hhnrs should set mad
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with each other, and one should say
to you and your neighbors, "If any
one of you travels the public road
passing by my house you ao so at
your .peril. My enemy travels along
that road soinetimes, and I will dynamite
without warning every wagon,
automobile, or buggy I see coming
on that road, regardless of whether
I kill you, your innocent wives, your
sons and daughters, or babies suck,
Jing at the mother's breast."
If such a threat were made, it is
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easy enough to imagine what you
\' and your neighbors would do. If
* you lived in an organized, civilized
community, you would have the man
seized as a criminal, restrained from
his purpose, and punished for any
execution of his threat. On the otht
, . er hand, if you lived in an uncivilized
frontier community, such, as the
"Wild West" was fifty years ago, you
and the rest of the people would
join together to fight that barbarian
uiltil he respected the common rights
of- humanity. And then in recognition
of a supreme need, you might set
up constables, courts, sheriffs, and
* - jails to prevent any such defiance of
human rights in future.
It is just SHcn a inreai agamsi
human rights that Germany has not
only made but has carried into execution.
When she brutally sank the
gallant ship Lusitania and sent to the
bottom of the sea scores and scores
of non-combatant men and women,
including mothers with little ones as
those who prattle at your own fireside
tonight?when Germany did this
and a hundred other similar acts previously
outlawed by the conscience
of mankind, she dyed her Macbeth.
. hands with murderer's blood, which
not all her science and skill and
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boasted "culture" can ever wipe out.
Now, if the nations of the earth
were properly organized, there would
be some supreme authority that
would restrain and punish this murderer-nation,
just as courts and sheriffs
now punish murderer-individuals.
But since we lack such a "league of
nations to enforce peace" it is the inescapable
duty of America to join in
the voluntary effort of other peoples
to go up against Germany until she
renounces her murderous threats and
promises to abide by the standards
which Christendom has established.
And thpn there is one other thing
which all good Americans hope will
follow the final victory, just as the
outraged citizens in the frontier
community, after fighting the outlaw,
might set up orderly government
to punish all individual offenders in
future, so we hope that the nations
now allied against Prussian brutality
will not rest until they have established
a "League of Nations" where
by all the peoples of the earth wil
unite their military and nava!
strength for the punishment of anj
individual nation which again break*
or threatens the world's peace. Ex
President Taft is head of a nation
wide organization now working foi
the organization of such a League o
Nations, and President Wilson ha:
eloquently pledged all the powers o
his great office to the accomplish
ment of the same end. Moreover, ir
France, in England, and in all the
allied countries, men are inspired b:
the same high vision. As the grea
Frenchman recently visiting Ameri
ca, M. Viviani. declared before ou:
? own House of Representatives:
"And when by force we have
at last imposed military victory,
our labors will not 'be concluded.
Our task will be, I quote
from the noble words of President
Wilson, 'to organize the society
of nations.'.... We will
shatter the ponderous sword of
militarism; we will establish
guarantees for peace; and then
we can disappear from the
world's stage since we shall
THJJERMANY
hting For Clarence
jressive Farmer.
| leave at the cost of our common
immolation the noblest
heritage future generations can
possess."
The allied nations now at war with
us, in answering President Wilson's
note last December, declared their
sympathy for "a league of nations to
insure peace and justice throughout
the world." And Premier LloydGeorge,
of England, possibly the
greatest personal force on earth today,
makes this prediction as to conditions
after the war:
'The nations will band them
selves together to punish the
first peace-breaker who comes
out. As to the armies of Europe,
every weapon will be a
sword of justice in the government
of men; every arm will be
a constabulary for peace."
In other words, America Is now
fighting "a war against war," a war
to prevent forever hereafter such
wars as that which now rages. But
the German ideal is militaristic. As
a recent authority has declared, "she
subordinates the civil power to the
military power; she glorifies war and
believes it not onjy to be necessary
once in a while but to be a legitimate
instrument of policy." As a nation
she has no patience with the ideal of
a league of nation, executing judgment
in righteousness. Such an ideal
to her is effeminate. She has freed
herself, she declares, from "the contemptible
sin of weakness." Force is
to her as a god. "The iron hand,"
or "the mailed fist" is the familiar
phrase that springs to any *!l-informed
mind when German policy is
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meiHiuiicu. uiouu.?, ..?
"the man of blood and iron," was
the real father of modern Germany,
and he has stamped the impress of
his warlike and unscrupulous nature
upon every feature of the nation. A
long list of German philosophers and
teachers have reiterated his views
until the German mind is thoroughly
inoculated with them. Writing in
the dispassionate years of the early
90's, twenty years ago, Dr. A. Lawrence
Lowell, now President of Harvard,
correctly described the trend
of German thought when he said:
"The Emperor is indeed an
ardent believer in the new
monarchical theory which
has recently come into vogue
in Germany?a theory that
decries universal suffrage and
proclaims the military monarchy
as the best posible form
of government?thus furnishing
one of many examples or the
wav the end of the century is
rejecting the principles and revising
the conclusions that have
been laboriously developed during
the last hundred years. The
fact is that ever since the bat-'
tie of Sadowa a profound change
has been coming over the German
character. The dreamy,
portical, mystical temperament
. has given way before the hard,
practical, organizing spirit of
the Prussians. The unity of the
Fatherland which the dreamers
failed to accomplish was brought
about by means of the drill-sergeant,
and hence the nation is
ruled by his methods."
Let us consider, for example, the
| teachings of one typical German philosopher
of recent years, Treitschke.
| Like many others of his class, he
preaches that war is necessary foi
the elimination of weak peoples; and
that the government need respect nc
promises, no moralities, when thej
' stand in the way of its progress. Lei
us quote his exact words:
" l ne siaie iias nu puwci iu
I limit its own power; hence no
I treaty when it becomes inconvenient
can be binding; hence
the verv notion of arbitration is
absurd; hence war is part of the
Divine order."
r In matters of difficulties with oth
f er governments, he declares, "it is
5 absurd to bluster about morality, oi
f expect the state to confront then
. with a catechism in her hand."
^ Nurtured on such teachings, is i
? any wonder that Germany, wishing
r | to drive through Belgium to attacl
t unprepared France, calmly ignorec
_ the treaty she had signed solemn 1:
^ promising never to invade Belgium?
contempuously dismissed the "incon
voniont" trpatv as a "scran of naper'
I and declared that necssity was suf
ficient excuse for her action?
As a matter of fact, the moderi
German Empire is built on fraud
The war with France in the 70's b;
which Germany established and en
riched itself was brought on by ai
admitted lie and forgery by Bismarcl
himself.
Or let us consider the writings o
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