The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-04

and self-respect. but our liberty and safety are involved. Speaking on July 2g. lgI7 at the officers training camp at Madison Barracks, \. Y9 the Secretary of State said:
 .The evil character of the German Government is laid bare before the world We know now that that Gov cumcnt is inspired with ambitions which menace human liberty, and tha, to gain its end it does not hesitate to break faith, to violate the most sacred rights. or to perpeuate intolerablc acts of mhumamty Let us understand once for all that this is no war to establish au abstract principle of right It is war in which the future of the United States is at stake"
 The record out of which grows our deep conviction that it is necessary at once to put a curb on so powerful ana unscupuIous an enemy is set forth in am official publication .How the War Came to America"
 Judging the German Government now in the light of our honest attcmp, to keep the peace, We could see the grea, autocracy and read her record through the war. And we found tha. record damuabIe With a Ga- nattcal faith in the destiny of German kutw as the system that must rule the world. the Imperial Governments actions have through years of boast ing. double dealing, and deceit tended : toward aggression upon the rights of others. And if there still be any doub, as to which nation began this war there can be no uncertainty, as to which one was most prepared. most exuItaut at the chance, and ready u- staut.y to march upon other nations, even those who had given no oGense. The wholesale depredatjons and hide ous atrocities in Belgium and in Ser ! bia were doubtless part and parce. with the Imperial Governments pur- pose to terrorize small nations into ! abject submission for generations to come But in this autouacy has been blind For its record in those coun- 1 tries. and in Poland and in northern France has given not only to the al- lies but to liberal peoples throughout ! the world the conviction that this men ace to human liberties must be utterly sborn of its power for harm.
 "For the evil it has effected has ranged far out of Euope-out upon the open seas, where its submarines ! in defiance Of law and the concepts of humanity have blown up neutral yes seIs and covered the waves with the dead and the dying, men and women and children alike. Its agents have conspired against the peace of neutral nations everywhere, sowing the seeds of dissension, ceaselessly endeavoring : by toruous methods of deceit, of brib- . cry, false promises, and intimidation, to stir up brother nations one against the other, in order that the liberal world might not be able to unite, in order that the autocracy might emerge from the war.
 "AlI this We know from our own ex- ! perience with the Imperial Govern ment As they have dealt with Flu rope, so have they dealt with us and with all mankind. And so out of these years the conviction has grown that until the German Nation is divested of such, democracy can not be safe"
 Not Hostile to German People
 One thought which you should keep always in mind is the clear distinction between our attitude toward the Im- erfpal German Government and our attitude toward the German people !. The President said in his speech of June IA, 1917:
 ''We are not the enemies Of the Ger man people and they are not our eue-