New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-13
AMERICAN WAR
AIMS OUTLINED i.
President Wilson Sends Stir
ring Note to Russia.
SEEKS NO MATERIAL GAIN

tSHsS0 0tdiSS - Ti9nlln9 TOT the LID.
GRAFTON Of Peoples Everywhere From
the Aggressions Of Autocratic Force.
Germany Desperately Trying to Es.
cape Inevitable, Ultimate Defeat.
Washington, June IL. President
Wilson, in communication to the
new government of Russia, has made
plain the war aims of the United
States and it's position on mo annex
alton, no indemnities." The president
communication says:
In view of the visit of the Amer
lean commission to Russia to discuss
the best and most practical means of
cooperation between the two peoples
in carrying the present struggle for
freedom of all peoples to a successful
consummation it seems opportune and
appropriate that I should state again,
in the light of this new. partnership,
the objects the United States has had
in mind In entering the war.
''The war has begun to go against
Germany and in their desperate de.
sire to escape the inevitable, ultimate
defeat those who are in authority in
Germany are using every possible in
strumentality, are making use even of
the influence of groups and parties
amcng their own subjects to whom
they have never been just or fair or
even tolerant, to promote a propa-
ganda on both sides of the sea which
will preserve for them their influence
at home and their power abroad, to
the undoing of the very men they are
using. $50
The position of America in this
war is so clearly avowed no man can
be excused for mistaking it. She seeks
no material profit or ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of any kind. She is fighting for no
advantage or selfish object of her
own, but for the liberation of peo-
pies everywhere from the aggressions
Of autocratic force.
The ruling classes in Germany
have begun of late to profess a like
liberation and justice of purpose, but
only to preserve the power they have
set up in Germany and the selfish adj
vantages which they have wrongly
gained for themselves and. their pri-
yate prospects Of power all the way
from Berlin to Bagdad and beyond.
Government after government has,
by their influence without open con.
quest of territory, been linked togeth-
er in net OF intrigue directed against
nothing less than the peace and lib
erty of the world.
Wrongs Done Must Be Undone.
1.-THE meshes of that intrigue must
be broken, but cannot be broken un-
less wrongs already done are undone,
and adequate measures must be taken
to prevent it from ever again being
rewoven or repaired. ,,g, !.
1--WE are fighting for the liberty, the
self-gOvernment and the indicated
development of all peoples and every
feature of the settlement that con.
cludes this war must be conceived and
executed for that purpose s.Efs
Wrongs must first be Tighted and
then adequate safeguards must be
created to prevent this being commit
ted again. We ought not to consider
remedies merely because they have a
pleasing and sonorous sound.
mo people must be forced under
sovereignty under which it does not
wish to live. No territory must
change hands except for the purpose
of securing for those who inhabit it a
fair chance of life and liberty. No
findemnities must be insisted on ex.
cept those that constitute payment
for manifest wrongs done. No read
justments of power must be made ex-
cept such as will tend to secure the
future peace of the world and the
welfare and happiness of it's people.
And then the free peoples of the
world must draw together in some
common government, some genuine
and practical cooperation that will,
in effect, combine their force to Sc
cure peace and justice in the dealing
of nations with one another.
"The brotherhood of mankind must
no longer be fair but empty phrase.
1T must be given a structure of
force and reality. The nations must
realize their common life and effect
workable partnership to secure that
life against the aggressions of au-
tocratic and self-pleasing powers.
"For these things we can afford to
pour out our blood and treasure For
these things we have always protested
to desire and unless we pour out blood
and treasure now and succeed we may
never be able to unite or show con-
ouering force again in the great cause
of human liberty. sl3
'The day has come to conquer or
submit. If the forces of autocracy can
divide us they will overcome us; if
we stand together victory is certain
and the liberty which victory will Sc
cure. We can afford to be generous,
but we cannot afford then or now to
be weak or omit any single guarantee
of Justice and spcllritv - s.s