The Tupelo journal., 1917-06-22

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many power, an immense enlargement
of German industrial and commercial
opportunities, Their prestige will be
secure and with their prestige their
political power.
IF they fail, their people will
thrust them aside; a Government ac-
countable to the people themselves
will be set up in Germany, as it has
been in England, in the United
States, in France, and in all the great
countries of the modern time except
Germany. If they succeed they are
safe and Germany and the world are
undone; if they fail Germany is
saved and the world will be at peace.
eff they succeed, America will fall
within the menace We and all the
rest of the world must remain armed,
as they will remain, and must make
ready for the next step in their ag-
gression; if they fail, the world may
unite for peace and Germany may be
of the union.
"Do you not now understand the
new intrigue, the intrigue for peace,
and why the masters of Germany do
not hesitate to use any agency. that
promises to effect their purpose, the
deceit of tn enations? Their present
particular aim is to deceive all those
who throughout the world stand for
the rights of peoples and the self
government of nations, for they see
what immense strength the forces of
justice and Of liberalism are gather
ing out of this war.
How the Intrigue Works.
"They are employing liberals IN
| their enterprise. They are using
men, in Germany and without, as
their spokesman whom they have
hitherto despised and oppressed,
using them for their own destruction
Socialists, the leaders of labor, the
thinkers they have hitherto sought
to silence.
"Let them once succeed and these
men, now their tools, will be ground
to powder beneath the weight of the
great military empire they will have
set up; the revolutionists in Russia
will be cut off from all succor or CO.
operation in Western Europe and a
counter revolution fostered and sup
ported; Germany herself will lose her
chance O freedom and all Europe
will arm for the next, the final
struggle.
"The sinister intrigue is being nc
les. actively conducted in this coun-
try than in Russia and in every coun-
try in Europe to which the agents and
dupes of the imperial German Govern
ment can get access. That Govern.
ment has many spokesman here, in
places high and low. They have
learned discretion. They keep within
the law. It is opinion they utter
now, not ,sedition. They proclaim the
liberal purposes of their masters;
declare this a foreign war which can
touch American with no danger to
| either her lands or her institutions
| set England at the centre of the stage
and talk of her ambition to assert
economic dominion throughout the
world; appeal to our ancient tradi-
ton of isolation in the politics of the
nations, and seek to undermine the
Government with false professions of
loyalty to it's principles
A Peoples War.
"But they will make no Roadway.
The false betray themselves always
in every accent. It is only friends and
partisans of the German Government
whom we have already identified who
utter these thinly disguised disloyal-
ties.
"The facts are patent to all the
world, and nowhere are they more
| plainly seen than in the United
| States, where we r accustomed to
deal with facts and not with sophis-
tries; and the great fact that stands
out above all the rest is that this is .
peoples war, = war for freedom and
justice and self-government amongst
all the nations Of the werld, \ war to
make the world safe fer the peoples
who live upon it and have made it
their OWE, the German people them
selves included, and that with rs
rests the choice to break through all
these hypocrisies and patent cheats
and masks Of brute force and help
set the world free, or else stand aside
and let it be dominated long age
through by sheer weight of arms and
the arbitrary choices Of self-consti-
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