The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-03
DEMOCRACY AGAINST DYNAsTIEs

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DEMOCRACY AGAINST DYNAsTIEs
DREsIDENT WILSON has said congress will Declare
that state of between the United States and
the German government
The United States will join with the other great democraces
Of the earth to bring this to early end.
The United States will not fight alone for its hand but
cooperation with Britain and free Russia doing
everything that powerful nation may honoraby do for the
success of the cause it has espoused
This will involve the utmost practicable coopera
ton in and action with the at
with Germany, and the extension Of the most liberal financial
credits in order that be added to theirs
not the American people against the German people but
democracy against absolu The weakness Of democracy
is in the diffusion Of power The strength Of absoluism is in
the concentration Of its intelligence and resources.
folly embark upon enterprise which will make
the world Free all slave with less cooperation among the
democratic peoples the greatest that be
achieved.
Reluctantly has the president recommended the resort to
With patience with tenderness the president labored
with the Hohenzern government to show the Of its
way keep in amty The president fair to German
cesse and generous in dealing with dynashc mistakes
Out Of its deliberate choice the Hohenzolern gov
unchanged Of the government
that millions of out of Germany 188 giving
to this country literally millions Of of Teutonc blood
makes it's submarines against the whole world sending
to the bottom Of the sea- the ships and the citizens of friend
and foe ia
Not out of enmy the United States this DONE
hatred to the world by
that seemed best adapted gain Hohenzoern victory
desired the mind autocracy cen
from spirit modern democracy
that such would be productive than unproducve
1t deliberate preference between submarine
and peace with America. :.esl 4.s
Fatnous absolutsm has dug its own grave Democracy
hour stronger richer in trained and veteran
ers richer navies that the richer productive
power denas
by which won. f
The United States preponderant factor 1t is the
element which, thrown into the scale, tips against
autocracy The submarine campaign
Its transient than snow, for America alone
build after little time for organization merchant
ships than the submarines of autocracy destroy.
Great Britain will be fed France and Russia will be sup
Piled and the dynasty that dragged Germany into this browning
catastrophe will fall perhaps by the act Of the people
themselves who have yet time to emulate the example of
Russia.
democracy Germany would find easy with
democracy of mankind absoluism Germany deal
with make peace with 1t faces defeat by
which its will be laid low the
upon it.
The president with his nerring vision that the
lions Of citizens of Teutonc BIRTH
loyal to America. only of the most limited of
the stupidity doya to whom he says that there be stern
repression Of anything that of treason.
And why should not those of Teuon blood be loyal?
The bone and sinew of them hardy stock that fled
from inolerable absoutsm after the revolution of 1848
The leopard has not changed its spots
By all the methods which be devised time Of war
these of 48 and their descendants,
fought for America in two wars will assemble 10y
atty to America and to plead with their blood brothers
off the shackle Of auocracy taking from the blood stepped
pages of Russian history its last and most glorious
The call has and America will respond Let be
Bridgeport is slow to rally at the striking
There immediate addition navy which will
carry the bulk actual combat The regular
be brought to its maximum strength There
Il the National Guard which ought to be filled.
Now is the time those of sound body and brave
to enlist The doubt the waiting is There is
disputing between peace party and war party.
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