Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-15
WORLD MUST NOT MAKE PEACE WHILE GERMANS AGGRESS|ONS
 ARE SECURE, SAYS PRESIDENT

direct suggestion rom the foreign of flee in Berlin.
 Germans Not Enemies.
 They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly exc cuted their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of Eu. rope.
 And many of our own people were corrupted. Men began to look upon their own neighbors with suspicion and to wonder in their hot resentment and surprise whether there was any com munity in which hostile intrigue did not turk. What great nation in such circumstances would not have taken up arms. Much as we had desired peace, it was denied us, and not of our own choice This flag under which we serve would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand.
 But that is only part of the story. We know now as clearly as we knew before We were ourselves engaged that we are not the enemies of the German people and that they are not our enc mics. They did not originate or de- sire this hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it; and we are vaguely conscious that We are fighting their cause, as they will some day see i it .as we'll as our own. They are them selves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now stretched its ugly | talons out and drawn blood from us. The whole world is at war because the whole world is in the grip of that pow CT and is trying cut the great battle which shall determine whether it is to be brought under its mastery or fling itself free.
 Dream of Germany.
 The war was begun by the military masters of Germany, who proved to be also the masters of Austria-Hungary. These men have never regarded na- tions as peoples, men, women and children of like blood and frame as themselves, for whom governments ex- isted and in whom governments had their life; they have regarded them merely as serviceable organizations, which they could ly force or intrigue bend or corrupt to their own purposes.
 They have regarded the smaller states, in particular, and the peoples who could be overwhelmed by force, as their natural tools and instruments of domination. Their purpose has long been avowed.
 The statesmen of other natiops to whom that purpose was incredible; paid little attention; regarded what the German professors expounded in their class rooms and German writers set forth to the world as the goal of German policy as rather the dream of minds detached from practical affairs, | as preposterous private conceptions of German destiny, than as the actual plans of responsible rulers. But the rulers of Germany themselves knew all | the while what concrete plans, what | welladvanced intrigues, lay back of | what the professors and the writers | were saying, and were glad to go for ward unmolested, filling the Balkan states with German princes, putting | German officers at the service of Fur key to drill her armies and make in- terest with her government, develop ing plans of seditiOn and rebellion in Egypt setting their fires in Persia.
 People Not Considered.
 The demands made by Austria upon her which compassed Europe and Asia from Berlin to Bagdad. Austria-Hun gary, indeed, was to become part of the Central German empire, dominat- ed by the same powers and influences that had originally cemented the Ger man states themselves. The dream had its heart at Berlin. It could have had part nowhere else. It rejected the ideal of solidarity of race entirely. '
 The choice of peoples played no part in it at all. It contemplated bind ing together racial and political units which could be kept together only by Magyrs .Croats. Serbs, Turks, Armenians-the proud states of Bohemia and Hungary, the stout little comn.onwealths of the the indomitable Turk, the subtle peoples of the east. These peo- ples did not wish to be united. They evidently desired to direct their own accounts. They could be kept quiet only by the constant threat of armed men. They would live under a com mon power only by sheer Compulsion and await the day of revolution. But the German military statesmen had reckoned with all that and were ready to deal with it in their own way
 Net Has Been Spread.
 And they have actually carried the greater part of that amazing plan into execution. Look how things stand. Austria is at their mercy. It has acted, not upon it's own initiative or upon the choice of it's own choice. but on Berlin's dictation, ever since the war began. It's own people desire peace but cannot have it unless leave is granted from Berlin. The so-caiied Central powers are, in fact. but sin gle power. Servia is at its mercy. Bull garia has consented to its will, and