Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-08-04
CRUSH GERMANY
TO BRING PEACE
No Hope Of Revolution, Says
Secretary Lansing.
NOT FIGHTING FOR OTHERS
Berlin Government ls Menace to HUI
man Liberty-Promises Made tc
United States to Gain Time.

Hiah I'peTty-IToniScS madc 10
United States to Gain Time.
In a speech at Madison Bar.
racks, N. Y, before 1900 members
Of the officers reserve corps, Secretary
OF State Robert Lansing, emphasizing
the peril Of German imperialism to the
United States and the world, declared
his belief that the German pcopie
would not cast off the yoke OF auto
cracy until the physical might of the
united dcmocracics of the world has
destroyed forever the evil ambitions
OF the military rulers of Gcrmlny.''
That, he added, is tho only way tc
restore the peace OF the word.
Were every people on earth able
to express their will, there would be
no wars Of aggression" he said, "and
IL there were no wars of grrSSion
there would be no wars, ana lasting
peace would como to this earth. The
only way that Il pcop,c can express
their will is through democratic In.
stitutions. Therefore, when the worli
Is made safe for democracy, when that
great principle prevails, universal,
peace will be an accomplished fact.
mo nation OF people will be fit more
than the United States when That time
comes. But it has not yet come. A
great people, ruled in thought and
word as well as In deed by the most
sinister government Of modern times
Is straining every nerve to supplant
democracy by the autocracy which
they have been taught to worship
~
to the truth? When will they arise in
their might and cast off the yoke anG
become their own masters? fear
that 1t will not be until the physical
might of the united democracies OF
the world have destroyed forever the
evil ambitions of the military ruler
of Germany and liberty triumphs over
Its arch enemy"
Mr.. Lansing sought TO drive home tc
the student officers the righteousness
OF the cause for which they had volun
teered to go to France and fight, as
sorting that America would win "be
cause our cause Is the cause of justice
and right and Of humanity"
The immediate cause of our wal
with Gcrmany-the breaking off her
promises rs to indiscriminate subma
rine warfare-has far deeper mean
Ing. no said, "a meaning which has
been growing more evident as the wal
has progressed and which needed bul
this net Of perlidy TO bring 1t home tc
all thinking Americans. The evil char
acter of the German government Is laic
bare before tho world. We know now
that that government Is inspired with
ambitions which menace human llbert,
and that to gain It's end It does no,
hesitate to break faith, to violate ths
most sacred rights. or 10 perpetrate
intolerable acts on humanity.
1T needed but the words reported tc
have been uttered by the German
chancellor to complete the picture OF
the character Of his government, when
he announced that the only reason why
tho intensified submarine cnmDaigr
was delayed until February last was
that sufficient submarines could not
BIO built before that time to make The
attacks on commerce sufficient. Dc
you realize that this means, II 1t means
anything, that the promises to refrain
from brutal submarine warfare, which
Germany had made to the United
States. were never intended TO be kept
that they were only made in order tc
gain time in which to build more sub
marines, and that when the time came
to act, the German promises were un
hesitatlngly torn to pieces like othe,
SCRAPS of paDcr'"