Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-11-13

| SALT Lake CITY. Cotopaxi 10 sew
enty-two miles west Of Pueblo.
WHOLE NATION MUST
UNITE TO WIN WAR
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f, it, but l am willing to let the state
ment have just made await the YER
dict of history. And the thing that
needs to be explained is why. Germany
started the war. Remember what the
position of Germany in the world was
AS enviable position as any nation
occupied. The whole world stood at ad-
miration of her wonderful intellectual
and material achievements, and all the
intellectual men Of the world went to
school to her.
"She had a place in the sun. Why
was she not satisfied? What more
did she want? There was nothing in
the world of peace that she did not
already have and have in abundance.
"You have one part of the answer to
the question why she was not salts
fed in her methods of competition
There is no important industry in
Germany upon which the government
has not laid its hands to direct it and
when necessity arose to control It,
CONTROL OF INDUSTRY.
"The methods of competition which
the Germany manufacturers and ex-
porters used under the patronage and
support of the government of Ger
many, were tie same sorts OF compe-
tition that we have tried to prevent
by law within our own borders. II
they could not sell their goods cheap
er than we could sell ours, at a profit
to themselves, they could get a sub
sidy from the government which made
it possible to sell them cheaper, any
how ;-and the conditions of competi-
ton were thus controlled in large
measures by the German government
itself. But that did not satisfy the
German government.
"All the while there was lying be
hind its thought, in its dream of the
future, political control which would
enable 1t in the long run to dominate
the labor and industry of the world
They were not content with success
| by superior achievements; they want
| ed success by authority.
GERMANY's REAL OBJECT.
II suppose very few of you have
thought much about the Berlin-to-Bag
dad railway. The Berlin-to-B agdad
railway was constructed in order to
run the threat of force down the flank
of the Industrial undertakings of halt
dozen other countries, so that when
German competition came in it would
not be resisted too far-because there
was always the possibility of getting
German armies into the heart of that
country quicker than any other armies
could be got there. Look at the map
of Europe now. Germany, in thrust.
ing upon us again and again the dis
cussion of peace talks about what?
Talks about Belgium, talks about
northern France, talks about Alsace-
Lorraine. Well, those are deeply in
teresting subjects to us and to them,
but they are not talking about the
heart of the matter.
HAMBURG TO BAGDAD.
''Take the map and look at 1t. Ger
many has absolute control of Austria
Hungary, practical control of the Bal
kan states, control of Turkey, control
of Asia-Minor. I saw map in which
the whole thing was printed In appro-
pirate black the other day and the
black stretched all the way from Ham,
burg to Bagdad-the bulk Of German
power inserted into the heart of the
world. If Germany can keep that, she
has kept all that her dreams contem-
plated when the war began. II she
can keep that, her power can disturb
the world as long as she keeps tt
always provided, for feel bound to
put this proviso in-always provided
the present influences that control the
German government continue to con-
troll it.
THE DUTY OF AMERICA.
"If we are true friends of freedom
our own or anybody else's-we will
see that the power Of this country
and the productivity Of this country
are raised to the absolute maximum
and that absolutely nobody is allowed
to stand in the way of it.
when I say that nobody is allowed
to stand in the way, don't mean that
they shall be prevented by the power
of the government but by the power
of the American spirit Our duty, if
we are to do this great thing and show
America to be what we believe her to
be-the greatest hope and energy of
the world-then must we stand to-
gether night and day until the job is
finished.
FREEDOM FOR LABOR.
"Whie we are fighting for freedom
we must see, among other things, that
labor is free, and that means a num-
Der of interesting things. 1t means
not only that we must do what we
have declared our purpose to do, see
that the conditions of labor are not
rendered more onerous by the war
but also that we shall see to it that