Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-04
KAISER ALLIES
MUST BE CRUSHED
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done can right be set up as arbiter
and peacemaker among the nations,
But when that has been done--aa,
God willing, it assuredly will be-
we shall at last be free to do an un-
precedented thing and this H. the
time to avow our purpose to do 1t,
We shall be free to base peace on
sion of all selfish claims to advan-
tage even on the part of tho victors,
No Turning Aside
Let there he no MISUNDERSTANDING
Our present and immediate task Is
to win the war and nothing shall
turn us aside from 1t until 1t Is ac-
com plished. Every power and re-
source we possess, whether of men,
of money or of materials Is being
devoted and will continue to be de-
voted to that purpose until 1t Is
achieved. Those who desire to ortns
peace about before that purpose Is
achieved, l counsel to carry their ad-
vice elsewhere. We will not enter
tain 1t. We shall regard the war
only as won when the German people
say to us, through properly accredit-
ed representatives that they are
ready to agree to q settlement based
upon justice and the reparation of
the wrongs their rulers have done.
They have done a wrong to Belgium,
which must be repaired. They have
established a power over other lands
and peoples than their own-over
the great empire of Austria-Hungary.
over hitherto free Balkan states,
over Turkey, and within Asia-whicn
must be relinquished.
Spurns Triumphs of Peace
Germany S success by skill, by in
dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise,
we did not grudge or oppose, but
admired rather. She had built up
for herself q real empire of trade
and influence, secured by the peace
of the world. We were content to
abide the rivalries of manufacture,
science and commerce that were in"
Volved for us in her success and
stand or fall as we had or did not
have the brains and the initiative to
surpass her. But at the moment
when she had conspicuously won her
triumphs of peace. she threw them
away to establish in their stead what
the world will no longer permit to
he established, military and political
domination by arms, by which to
oust where she could not excel the
rivals she most feared and hated.
The peace We make must remedy
that wrong. 1t must deliver the once
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gium and Northern France from the
Prussian conquest and the Prussian
menace, but it must also deliver the
peoples OF Austria Hungary, the
peoples of the Balkans and the
peoples of Turkey, alike in Europe
and in Asia, from the impudent and
alien domination of he Prussian
military and commercial autocracy.
To Make Fortunes Secure
we owe 1t, however. to ourselves,
ITO say that we do not wish in any
way to impair or to rearrange the
Austro- Hungarian empire. 1t is no
affairs of ours what they do with
their own life, either industrially OF
politically We do not purpose or
desire to dictate to them in any way.
We only desire to see that their af-
fairs are left in their own hands, in
all matters, great or small We shall
hope to secure for the peoples of the
Balkan peninsula and for the people
Of the Turkish empire the right and
opportunity 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 purpose with
regard to Germany herself are of
like kind. We intend to wrong
against the German empire, no in'
reference with her internal affairs. |
We should deem either the one OF
the other absolutely unjustifiable, |
absolutely contrary to the principles !
we have professed to live by and to
hold most sacred throughout our
life as a nation.
Rulers Deceive People
The people of Germany are being |
told by the men whom they now
permit TO deceive them and to act as
their masters that they are fighting |
for the very life and existence of |
their empire, a war of desperate !
self-defense against deliberate ag-