River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-06-14
WAR AIMS OF UNITED STATES
ARE OUTLINED IN STATEMENT
SENT BY PRESIDENT TO
PEOPLE OF RUSSIA.
TEUTON IMPERIALISM
MUST BE DESTROYED
America Will End War Only When
German Intrigue Is Broken, Presi-
dent Says and Calls on Russia
to Help Conquer Com
mon Enemy.

Washington, June II. - President
Wilson, in communication to the new
government of Russia, has made plain
the war aims of the United States
and it's position on mo annexation, no
indemnities."
mo territory must change hands
except for securing for those who in
habit fair chance of life and liberty"
the communication says.
mo indemnities must be insisted on
except those that constitute payment
for manifest wrong done.
Future Peace of World Keynote.
mo readjustments of power must
be made, except such as will tend to
secure the future peace of the world
and the future welfare and happiness
of it's people"
The Presidents communication in
full is:
I'm view Of the visit of the Ameri-
can commission to Russia to discuss
the best and most practical means OF
cooperation between the two peoples
in carrying the present struggle for
freedom of all peoples to a successful
consummation, it seems Opportune and
appropriate that I should state again,
in the light of this new partnership,
the objects the United States has had
in mind in entering the war.
Objects Much BecIouded.
"Those objects have been very much
beclouded in the past few weeks by
mistaken and misleading statements,
and the issues at stake are too mo-
mentous, too tremendous, too signifi-
cant for the whole human race to per-
nit any neutrality-suspicious. or misun
derstandings, however slight, to re-
main uncorrected for moment.
"The war has begun to go against
Germany, and in their desperate de-
sire to escape the inevitable, ultimate
defeat, those who are in authority in
Germany are using every possible in
strumentality, are making use even
OF the influence of groups and parties
among their own subjects to whom
they have never been just or fair or
even tolerant, to promote propagan-
da on both sides of the sea which will
preserve for them their influence at
home and their power abroad, to the
undoing of the very men they are
using.
America Fighting for Liberty.
''The position of America in this
war is so clearly avoWed no man can
be excused for mistaking it. She seeks
no material profit or aggrandizement
of any kind. She is fighting for no
advantage or selfish object of her own,
but for the liberation of peoples every
where from aggressions of autocratlc
force.
1.-The ruling classes in Germany
have begun of late to profess a like
liberality and justice of purpose, but
onlysto preserve the power they have
set up in Germany and the selfish adj
yantages which they have wrongly
gained for themselves and their prl-
vate prospects of power all the way
from Berlin to Bagdad and beyond.
Government after government has,
by their influence without an open
conquest Of its territory, been linked
together in a net of intrigue directed
against nothing less than the peace
and liberty of the world.
1.-THE meshes of that intrigue must
be broken, but cannot be broken un-
less wrongs already done are undone,
and adequate measures must be taken
by preventing it from ever again be-
ing rewoven or repaired.
"Of course, the imperial German
government and those whom it is
using for their own undoing are seek
ing to obtain pledges the war will end
in the restoration of the status quo
ante.
German Imperialism Must Go.
at was the status quo ante out OF
which this ubiquitous war issued forth,
the power of the imperial German
government within the empire and its
widespread domination and influence
outside of that empire. That status
must be altered in such fashion as to
prevent any such hideous thing from
ever happening again.
1--WE are fighting for the liberty, the
self-government and the indicated de-
velopment of all peoples, and every
feature of the settlement that con-
cludes this war must be conceived and
executed for that purpose.
Wrongs must first be righted and
then adequate safeguards must be Gre
ated to prevent this being committed
again. We ought not to consider rem
edies merely because they have
pleasing and sonorous sound.
Practical questions can be settled
only by practical means. Phrases will
not achieve the result. Effective read
justments will, and whatever readjust-
ments are necessary must be made.
But they must follow principle and
that principle is plain.
Worlds Future Peace Is Aim.
mo people must be forced under
sovereignty under which it does not