Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-04

for democracy It's peace must oe
planted npon trusted foundations OF
political liberty.
We have no selfish ends to serve.
We desire no conquest. no dominion.
We seek no indemnitfes for ourselves.
no material compensation for the
sacrifices We shall freely make. We
are but one Of the champions or the
rights OF mankind. We shah be sat
isfied when those rights have been rs
secure as the faith and the freedom
OF the nations can make them.
No Fight With kaiser,s Allies
have said nothing Of the severn
ments allied with the imperial gov
eminent OF Germany because they
have not made war upon US or chal-
lenged us to defend our right and our
honor The Austro- Hungarian gov
eminent has not actually engaged in
warfare against citizens or the Unit
ed States on the seas. and take the
liberty, for the present at least. or
poStponing a discussion OF our rela-
tons with the authorities at Vienna.
We enter this war only where we are
clearly forced into it because there
are no other means of defending our
rights.
We are, let me say again, the sin
cere friends OF the German people.
and shall desire nothing so much as
the early establishment OF intimate
relations OF mutual advantage be-
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for them. for the time being, to be-
lieve that this is spoken from our
hearts We have oorne with their
present government through all these
bitter months because OF that friend
ship-exercising a patience and for
hearance which would otherwise have
been impossible
We shall. happily, stin have an
opportunity TO prove that friendship
in our daily attitude and actions to-
ward the millions OF men and women
Of German birth and native sympathy
who live amongst us and share our
life, and we shall be proud to prove
it toward all who are, in fact, loyal
to their neighbors and TO the govern
ment in the hour of test. They are.
most of them, as true and loyal
Americans as if they had never
known any other fealty or allegiance.
They win be prompt to stand with us
in rebuking and restraining the few
who may be of q different mind and
purpose.
If there should be disloyalty it viii
be dealt with with a firm hand OF
stern repression: but. IL il lifts its
head at all, it viii lift 1t only here
and there and without countenance
except from the lawless and malig-
nant few.
Right More Precious Than Peace
1t is distressing and oppressive
duty, gentlemen of the congress.
which I have performed in thus ad-
dressing YOU There are, it may be,
many months Of fiery trial and saeri-
fee ahead OF US. It is fearful
thing to lead this great, peaceful
people into war, into the most ter
rible and disastrous of all wars,
civilization itself seeming to be in
the balance.
peace, and we shall fight for the
things which we have always carried
nearest our hearts-for democracy,
for the right Of those who submit to
authority to have a voice in their
own governments, for the rights and
liberties Of small nations, for a uni
versaI dominion OF right by such a
concert of free peoples as shall bring
peace and safety to all nations and
make the world itself at last free.
To such task we can dedicate our
lives and our fortunes, everything
that we are and everything that we
have, with the pride of those who
know that the day has come when
America is privileged to spend her
blood and her might for the prin-
ciples that gave her birth and happi-
ness and the peace which she has
treasured God helping her, she can
do no other.
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