The daily progressive-miner., 1917-11-10

The sporadic activities of few agi- tators who, led by good or bad motives seek to hamper our work in the war justify me as the chief law officer of the executive branch of the Govern ment in calling attention to the dutie } moral and legal, of all persons owing temporary or permanent allegiance to the United States.
 The German Government began this war by contemptuous breach of it's formally plighted faith made in solemn treaty and from the beginning until now has more than made good this 2mnous earnest of it's intention and . ~or. The President has shown us hlw one by one. as opportunity offered the safeguards which civilization has been able during the centuries to throw
 round neutrals and the nonfghting lessly torn down; how patient and suffering remonstrance and request were met by fair words and fairer promises made only to be broken.
 No Rule of War Held Sacred by
 the German Imperial Government
 We all know as but sober fact, plain ly stated, that the Imperial Govern ment has allowed no rule of war, no principle of civilization, no considera- tion of humanity, no teaching of Chris tianity to stand between it and the working out of it's illegal purposes. For half a century that Government has schemed and prepared to domin- ate the world by blood and iron For half a century the officials of the Imperial Government, from the Kaiser down including even the teachers of their children, have prostituted the minds of their youth until the whole people has been led to a toleration if not approval, of the hideous out rages and barbarities, practiced by that Government in this war. While yet We were neutral, struggling to
 
 sentatives of that Government in this country planned to destroy our factor ies and our railroads, forged our pub lie papers, deceived us when conven- tent, violated our hospitality and our sovereignty, while they plotted against our territorial integrity; they delib- l ing forewarning drowned our helpless women and babes and declared a pub lie holiday that their own innocent children might celebrate the murder. Cruelty Under a System That
 is "DiaboIical in Its Efficiency"
 They have bombarded unfortified towns and bombed the unprotected homes of their foes, taking their toll of wounded and dead from the aged They have made barren desert the garden spots of the earth; they have i needlessly pillaged and willfully burn | ed towns; they have reduced to slav- cry men, women, and children; they | have wrecked and torn asunder famil- 1 ies with a system diabolical in it's ef- fciency; they have wantonly defiled and destroyed the temples of God. They have done all of these things l that they might strike terror into the hearts of men so as more easily to conquer and rule them.
 1 As the war has gone on, the ulti- mate aim of the Imperial Government has become more and more clear. Drunk with the sense of its own pow CT and it's asserted superiority, it has proposed to secure a dominating posit- ion for itself and for it's system over the entire world. Nowhere yileding to the people their rightful powers, and everywhere seeking to uphold auto cracy and despotism, it has shown it's intention to perpetrate aboslute gov ernment of which it admittedly is the head and front. Its ''kultur" is avow- ed to be the acme of human goodness and endeavor, and is to boast the rulership of the world, gained by force and arms.
 The world must fight to preserve itself. Of this there can be no doubt Present War Becomes Conflict
 Between Peoples Themselves" Heretofore, save in rare cases, war has been a fight between armies; but this war, because of the initial pre- paration for it by an autocracy which prostituted a whole mighty nation to its purpose is contest between peo- pies themselves. It is corresponding intense and relentless. The march of events shows that it is now a war of