Arizona republican., 1917-04-13

thought perhaps the kings were at their old tricks. That the United States of America has made up it's mind finally, makes it abundantly clear to the world that this is no struggle Of that charac- ter but great fight for human iiberty.
 They naturally did not know at flrst what we had endured in Europe for years from this military caste-it had never reached as far as the United States. Prussia is not a democracy. The kaiser promised that it will be a democracy after the war. think he is right. But Prussia not merely is not a democracy: Prussia was not a state. russia was an army. It had it's great institutions, it's great universities, it had developed it's science. All these were subordinate to the one great pre- dominant purpose of an all conquering army to enslave the world.
 That is what we had to deal with in ills old worn-out country. It was an army that in recent times had waged three wars, all of conquest, and the in- cessant tramp of it's legions had gone to the PrusSian head.
 The Kaiser, when he witnessed it on a grand scale at his reviews, got drunk with the sound of it. He deliv- cred the law to the world as a new pastor on Sinai delivering the law from the thunder clouds. But make no mis- take. Europe was uneasy. Europe was uneasy. Europe was half intimidated.
 Europe was anxious. Europe was ap- prehensive. It knew the whole time what it meant. What we did not know was the moment when it would come.
 This is the menace, this is the op- pression from which Europe has suf-
 fered for 50 years. They had to take into account this menace which was their constant pre- occupation, as a
 cloud ready to burst over the land.
 France No one knew except Frenchmen what they endured from this tyranny-patiently, gallantly, with dignity, prepared till the hour of de- liverance came. The best energies of Democratic France have been devoted to preparing against the impending terror The brave things France was capable of was paralyZed. This is the state of things we have to encounter. "The most characteristic of all Prus- sian institutions is the Hindenburg line. What is a Hindenburg line? A Hindenburg line is line drawn on ter ritories of other people, warning them that the inhabitants of these territories SlIdIl HOl CIOSS II at peril Ol llleli nv eS That line has been thrown across Flu rope for 50 years.
 This has been an undoubted fight for the emancipation of Europe and the emancipation of the world. It was at first hard for the people of America who tried to appreciate that Germany had never interfered in a single sweep their freedom. But at last they have daily to endure the same experiences. Americans were told they were not to be allowed to cross and recross the Atlantic except at their peril. Ameri- can ships were sunk without warning. American subjects were drowned with out apology, as a matter of German right.
 At first America could not believe it. They could not think it possible | that any sane people could behave in that manner, and they tolerated it once and they tolerated it twice, until at last it became clear that the Ger
 mans really meant it. Then America acted and acted promptly.
 The Hindenburg line was drawn