Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-05

the commission iof similar wrongs
against Germany and her allies. The
world will not permit the commission
of similar wrongs as means of repair
alton and settlement.
World Understands Issue.
Statesmen must by this time have
learned that the opinion of the world
is everywhere wide awake and fully
comprehends the issues involved. Nc
representative of any seh-governed
nation will dare disregard it by at
tempting any such covenants of self
ishness and compromise as were en-
tered into at the congress at Vienna
The thought of the plain people here
and everywhere throughout the world
the people who enjoy no privilege and
have very simple and unsophisticated
standards of right and wrong, is the
air all governments must henceforth
breathe if they would live. 1t is in
the full disclosing light of that thought
that all policies must be conceived
and executed in this midday hour OF
the worlds life German rulers have
been able to upset the peace Of the
world only because the German people
were not suffered under their tutelage
to share. the comradship of other peo-
Piles of the world either in thought
or in purpose.
Had No Voice.
They were allowed to have no opin.
ion of their own which might be set
I'D as a rule q conduct for those who
exercised authority over them. But
the congress that concludes this war
will feel the full strength Of the tides
that run now in the hearts and con-
sciences of free men everywhere. Its
conclusions will run with those tides.
All these things have been true
from the very beginning of this stu
pendous war; and | cannot help think
ing that if they had been made plain
at the very outset, the sympathy and
enthusiasm of the Russian people
might have been once for all enlisted
on the side, of the allies, suspicion and
distrust swept away and real and
lasting union of purpose affected.
Russians Have Been Poisoned.
Had they believed these things at
the very moment of their revolution
and had they been confirmed in that
belief since, the sad reverses which
have recently marked the progress
of their affairs toward an ordered and
stable government of free men might
have been avoided.
The Russian people have been
poisoned by the very same falsehoods
that have kept the German people in
the work, and the poison has been
administered by the very same hands.
The only possible antidote is the truth.
1t cannot be uttered too plainly or too
often.
Re-iterates Former Statement.
From every point of view, there
fore, it has seemed \to be my duty TO
speak these declarations of purpose.
to add these specific interpretations
to which / took the liberty OF saying
to the senate in January. Our en-
trance into the war has not altered
our attitude toward the. settlement
which must come when it is over. /
said in January that the nations of
the world were entitled not only to
free pathways upon the sea but also
to assured and unmolested access to
these pathways / was thinking. and /
am thinking now, not of the smaller
and weaker nations alone, which need
our countenance and support, but also
of the great and powerful natioos, nd
of our present enemies as well as our
present associates in the war.
| was thinking. and am thinking. OF
Austria herself, among the rest as well
as of Serbia and of Poland.
Seek Permanent Peace.
Justice and equality of rights can
be had only at great price. We are
seeking permanent, not temporary,
foundations for the peace OF the world
and must seek them candidly and fear
lessly, as always the right will prove
to be the expedient.
What shall we do then to push this
great war of freedom and justice to
its righteous conclusion? We must
clear way with a thorough hand all
impediments to success and we must
make every adjustment of law that
will facilitate the full and free use of
our whole capacity and force as a
fighting unit
War On Austria.
One very embarrassing obstacle that
stands in our way is that we are at
war with Germany but not with her
allies. | therefore very earnestly rec
ommend that the congress immediate
ly declare the U. S. in a state of war
with Austria-Hungary
Does II seem strange to you that
this should be the conclusion of the
argument have addressed to you? 1t
is not. II is. in fact, the inevitable
logic of what | have said. Austria
Hungary. is for the time being not her
own mistress. but simply the vassal
of the German government We must
face the facts as they are and act up
on them without sentiment in this
stern business.
The government of Austria-Hungary
is not acting upon its own initiative
or in response to the wishes and feel
ings of its own peoples. but as the in
strument of another nation. We must
meet its force with our own and re-
gard the central powers as but one.
No Other Course.
The war can be successfully con-
Quoted in no other way. The same
logic would lead also TO a declaration