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LANE GIVES REASONS
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WASHINGTON, June 4.-On the eve of war registration day Secretary Lane made speech before the Home club of the interior department tonight in which he addressed a word to those who have not seen clearly the reason for the cOuntry's call upon its young men and in ringing sentences answered the question why are we fighting Germany"
 America is at war, Mir. Lane said, in self defense and because she could not keep out; She is at war to save herself with the rest of the world from the nation that has linked itself with the Turk and adopted the method of Mahomet, setting itself to make the world bow before policies backed by it's organized and scientific military sys- tenn.
 Tomorrow is registration day." said the secretary. Tt is the duty of all, their legal as well as their patriotic duty to register if within the call. There are some who have not clearly seen the reason for that call. To these l would speak a word.
 Why are we fighting Germany? The brief answer is that ours is a war of self defense. We did not wish to fight Germany. She made the attack upon us: not on our shores, but on our ships, our lives, our rights, our future. For two years and more we held to a policy that made us apologists for things which outraged mans common sense of fair play and humanity.
 At each new Offense-the invasion of Belgium the killing of civilian Belgians. the attacks on Scarborough and other defenseless towns, the laying of mines in neutral waters, the fencing off the seas-and on and on through the months we said: this is war-archaic, unciViliZed war. but war. All rules have | been thrown away; all nobility; mar , has come down to the primitive brute. i And while we cannot justify we will not intervene. It is not our war.
 . Then why are We in? Because we could not keep out. The invasion of i Belgium which opened the war. led to 1 the invasion of the United States by slow steady. logical steps. Our sym pathies evolved into a conviction of self interest. our love of fair play rip ened into alarm at our own peril We talked in the language and in the spirit of good faith and sincerity. as i honest men should talk, until we dis covered our talk was construtd as cow ardice. And Mexico was called upon to l COW us. We talked as men would talk i who cared for peace and the advance ment of their own material interests, { until we discovered that we were l thought to be nation of mere money
 makers, devoid of all character-until, indeed, we were told that we could not
 walk the highways of the world without permission of a Prusslan soldier, that our ships might not sail without wear ing a striped uniform of humiliation,
 marrow path of national subservience We talked as men talk who hope for honest agreement, not for war, until
 we found that the treaty torn to pieces
 at Liege was but the symbol of policy
 that made agreements worthless l. against a purpose that knew no word but success.
 And so we came into this war for ourselves. It is a war to save America. to preserve self-respect. to justify our ; right to live as we have lived, not as l some one else wishes us to live. In the } name of freedom we challenge with
 ships and men, money and an undaunt- ed spirit, that word 'verboten' which
 Germany has written upon the sea and ; upon the land For America Is not the
 name of so much territory. It IS a nv ing spirit born in travail grown in the , rough school of bitter experiences, a
 living spirit which has purpose and
 pride-knows why it wishes to live ana to what end. knows how it comes to be
 respected or lue NOliu, anu iNPSo e'
 retain that respect by living on with
 the light of I.incoln's love of man as Its old and new testament.
 Tt is more preciuos that this Amer :
 ca should live than that we AInerlcans
 should live. And this America as We
 now see has been challenged from the
 first of this war by the strong arm of a power that has no sympathy with ouf purpose, and will not hesitate to de- stroy us if the law that we respect, the
 rights that are to us sacred, or the
 spirit that we have stand across her set will to make this world bow before , her policies. backed b. her organized ! and scientific military system. The
 world of Christ "a neglected but not a rejected Christians come again face to I face with the world of Mahomet, who
 wiled to win by force.
 With this background of history and in this sense, then, we fight Germany !, Because of Belgium-invaded, outraged !, enslaved impoverished Belgium We : cannot forget Liege, Louvain and Car , dinal Mareier. Translated into terms ? of American history these names stand l for Bunker Hill, Lexington and Patrick
 Henry.
 I Because of France, invaded. desc S crated France, a million of whose heroic l sons have died to save the land of La : fayette. Glorious golden France, the i preseryer of the arts, the land of noble
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