Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-12-12

l deem either the one or the other ab solutely unjustifiable, absolutely con trary to the principles we have pro fessed to live by and to hold most sacred throughout our life as na- tion.
 German People Deceived.
 "The people of Germany are being 1 told by the men whom they now per init to deceive them and to act as their masters that they are fighting for the very life and existence of their em- | pire; war of desperate self-defense | against deliberate aggression. Nothing | could be more grossly or wantonly | false, and we must seek by the ut most openness and candor as to our | real aims to convince them of it's false ness. We are in fact fighting for their emancipation from fear, along with our own-from the fear as well as from the fact of unjust attack by neighbors or rivals or schemers after world empire. No one is threaten ing the existence of or the indepen- dence or the peaceful enterprise of tn German empire
 Not Again to Be Trusted
 "The worst that can happen to the German people is this, that if they should still. after the war Is over, continue to be obligated to live under ambitious and intriguing masters in terested to disturb the peace of the world, men or classes of men whom the oil A. %J trust, it might be impossible to admit them to the partnership of nations which must hencelo orth guarantee the worlds peace. That partnership must be partnership of peoples, not mere partnership of governments. It might be impossible also in such untoward circumstances. to admit Germany to the free economic intercourse which must inevitably spring out of the other partnerships of real peace But there would be no aggression in that; and such a situation, inevitable be- cause of distrust would in the very nature of things sooner or later cure itself, by processes which would as suredly set in.
 Wrongs Must Be Riehted.
 "The wrongs. the very deep wrongs, committed in this war will have to be lighted. That of course. But they cannot and must not be righted by the commission of similar wrongs against Germany and her allies.
 "The world will not permit the com mission of similar. wrongs as. means of reparation and settlement States men must by this time have learned that the opinion ofethe world is every where wide awake and fully compre- hends the issues involved. No repre- sentative of any self-governed nation will dare disregard 1t by attempting any such covenants of selfishness and compromise as were entered into at the congress of Vienna. The thought of the plain people here and everywhere throughout the world, the people who enjoy no privilege and have very sim pie and unsophisticated standards of right and wrong, is the air all govern ments must henceforth breathe if they would live. It is in the full disclos-
  cies must he conceived and executed in this midday hour of the worlds life.
 People Have No Say.
 "German rulers have been able to up- set the peace of the world only because the German people were not suffered under their tutelage to share the con- radeship of the other peoples of the world either in thought or in purpose They were allowed to have no opinion of their own which might be set up as a rule of conduct for those who exer- cised authority over them. But the congress that concludes this war will feel the full strength of the tides that run now in the hearts and consciences of freedom everywhere. Its conclu sions will run with these tides.
 "All these things have been true from the very beginning of this stu pendous war; and I cannot help think ing that if they had been made plain at the very outset the sympathy and enthusiasm of the Russian people might have been once for all enlisted on the side of the allies. suspicion and distrllst swept away. and real and lasting uni of purpose effected. Had they believed these things at the very moment of their revolution and had they been confirmed in that belief since the sad reverses which have re- gently marked the progress of their affairs towards an ordered and stable government of freemen might have been avoided.
 "The Russian people have been