Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-12-06

SADIE formula expresses this distinctive
Judgment 20 to right Of plain men
everywhere. Il has been made diligent
use OF by the masters Of German In
trigue TO lead the people OF Russia as
tray-and the people Of every other
country their agents could reach IN
order that q premature peace might
be brought about before autocracy has
been taught its final and convincing
lesson and the people Of the world
put In control Of their own destinies.
But the fact that q WRONG use has
been made Of q Just idea IL no reason
why a right use should not be made
OF It. II ought TO be brought under
the patronage Of Its real friends. Let
II be said again that autocracy must
first be shown the utter futility OF its
claims to power or leadership In the
modern world. II Is impossible TO APP
ply any standard Of justice 80 long as
such forces are unchecked and un-
defeated as the present masters OF
Germany command. Not until that
has been done can Right be set up as
arbiter and peacemaker among the
nations. But when that has been
ione-as. God willing, II assuredly
will be-we shall at last be free to do
an unprecedented thing and this Is
the time to avow our purpose to do It.
We shall be free to base peace on
generosity and justice, TO the conclus-
ion OF all selfish claims to advantage
even on the part Of the victors.
Win the War, the One Object.
Let there be no misunderstanding.
Our present and immediate part is to
win the war and nothing shall turn
US aside from Il until II Is accomplish
ed Every power and resource we
possess, whether OF men, of money or
OF materials Is being devoted and will
continue 10 be devoted TO that purpose
until IL is achieved. Those who de-
sire 10 bring peace about before that
purpose is achieved | counsel 10 carry
their advice elsewhere We will not
entertain II.
We shall regard the war as won
only when the German people say 10
us, through properly accredited repre-
sentatives, that they are ready to
agree TO a settlement based upon JUS
tice and the reparation OF the wrongs
their rulers have done. They have
done a wrong 10 Belgium which must
be repaired. They have established
power over other lands and peoples
than their own. over the great empire
OF Austria. Hungary. over hitherto free
Balkan states. over Turkey, and with
In Asia-which must be relinquished.
Want viii Not Permit II.
Gefmany's success by skill. by In
dustry, by knowledge. by enterprise
We do not judge or oppose. but ad-
mire rather She had built up for
herself q real empire OF trade and
influence. secured by the peace OF
the world. We were content 10 abide
the rivalries Of manufacture, science
and commerce that were involved for
us in her success and stand or fall as
we had or did not have the brains ana
the initiative to surpass her. But at
the moment. when she had conspic-
uously won her triumph Of peace she
threw them away 10 establish In their
stead what the world will no longer
permit to be established, military and
political domination by arms, by
which to GUST where she could not
excel the rivals she most feared and
hated.
The peace we make must remedy
that wrong. II must deliver the once
fair lands and happy peoples OF Bel
,gium and Northern France from the
Prussian conquest and the Prussian
menace, but II must also deliver tho
peoples Of Austria Hungary, the peo-
ples Of the Balkans and the peoples
Of Turkey, alike In Europe and In
Asia, from the impudent and alien
domination Of the Prussian military
and commercial autocracy.
We owe 1t, however. to ourselves
to say that we do not wish In any way
to impair or to rearrange the Austria
Hungarian empire. II 10 no affair or
ours what they do with their own life,
either industrially or politically.
In Their Own Hands.
We do not purpose to or desire to
dictate to them In any way. We only
desire to see that their affairs are
left in their own hands, in all mat
tiers, great or small. We shall hope
to secure for the peoples Of the Bal
kan peninsula and for the people OF
the Turkish Empire the right and OPP
portunity to make their own lives
safe, their own fortunes secure
against oppression or injustice, and
from the dictation Of foreign courts
or parties. And our attitude and pur-
pose with regard to Germany herself
are Of q like kind. We intend no
wrong against the German Empire,
no interference with her internal al
fairs. We should deem either the
one or the other absolutely un1uStifi-
able, absolutely contrary to the prin-
ciples we have protested to live BY
and to hold most sacred throughout
our life a. Q nation.
Fighting 70 Free Germany Too.
The people Of Germany are being
told by the men whom they now per
NIT to deceive them and to act a.
their masters that they are fighting
for the very life and existence of
their empire, q war Of desperate self
defense against deliberate aggression.
Nothing could be more grossly or
wantonly false, and we must seek by
the utmost openness and candor as
to our real aims to convince them
Of fits falseness. We are In fact
fiRhting for their emancipation from
fear, along with our own, from the
fear as well as from the fact Of un-
I,u1 attach nv neiRhbors or rivals or