The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-06-27
and with their prestige their political

IT, ! i Leaders Fear Failure.
IF they fail, their people will thrust
them aside, a. government accountable
to the people themselves will be set up
in Germany as it has been in England,
in the United States, in France, and in
all the great countries Of the modern
time except Germany:
If they succeed they are safe and
Germany and the world are undone;
If they fail, Germany is saved and
the world will be at peace. If they
succeed, America will fall within the
menace. We and all the rest of the
world must remain armed, as they will
remain, and must make ready for tho
next step in their aggression; if they
fail, the world may unite for peace
and Germany may be of the union.
do you not now understand the new
intrigue, the intrigue for peace, and
why the masters of Germany do not
hesitate to use any agency that prom
ises to effect their purposes, the de-
ceit of the nations?
Aim Is to Deceive.
Their present particular aim is to
deceive all those who throughout the
world stand for the rights of peoples
and the self-governmento of nations, for
they see what immense strength the
forces of justice and of liberalism are
gathering out Of this war
"They are employing liberals lE
their enterprise. They are using n4enz
in Germany and without, as their
spokesman whom they have hitherto
despised and oppressed, using them
for their own destruction-~social
their leaders of labor, the thinkers
they have hitherto sought to silence.
LET them once succeed, and the
men, now their tools, will be ground to
powder beneath the weight of the great
military empire they will have set
up; revolutionists in Russia will be cut
off from all succor or cooperation in
western Europe, and a counter revolu-
ton fostered and supported; Germany
herself will lose her chance of free
dom, and all Europe will arm for the
next, the final struggle.
Intrigue in Many Lands.
"The sinister intrigue is being no less
actively conducted in this country than
in Russia and in every country in Eu-
rope to which the agents and dupes of
the imperial German government can
get access. That government has many
spokesman here, in places high and
low.
"They have learned discretion. They
keep within the law. 1t is opinion
they utter now, not sedition. They
proclaim the liberal purposes of their
masters, declare this foreign war
which can touch America with no dan
ger to either her lands or her insti-
tutions, set England at the center of
the stage and talk of her ambition to
assert economic dominion throughout
the world, appeal to our ancient tradi-
ton Of isolation in the politics of the
nations, and seek to undermine the
government with false professions of
loyalty to it's principles.
Will Make No Roadway.
y.
The false betray themselves also in
every accent. 1t is only friends and
partisans of the German government
whom we have already identified who
utter these thinly disguised disloyal.
ties.
"The facts are patent to all the
world, and nowhere are they more
plainly seen than in the United States
where we are accustomed to deal with
facts and not with sophistries; and
the great fact that stands out above
all the rest is that this is a peoples
war, war for freedom and justice
| and self-government, among all the ma
lions Of the world, a war to make the
world safe for the peoples who live on
it and have made it their own, the
German people themselves included
and that with us rests the choice tc
break through all these hypocrisies
and patent cheats and masks of brute
force and help set the world free, OIL
else stand aside and let it be domi
mated a long age by sheer weight Of
arms and the arbitrary choices of self
constituted masters, by the nation
which can maintain the biggest armie.
and the more irresistible ornaments
Ia power to which the world has af
forded no parallel and in the face O.
which political freedom must withel
and perish.
Ready to Plead at Bar of History.
For us there is but one choice. w,
have made it. Woe be to the man o.
group of men that seeks to stand il
our way in this day of high resolution
when every principle we hold deares
is to be indicated and made secur,
for the salvation of the nations. W.
are ready to plead at the bar of his
tory, and our flag shall wear a new
luster. Once more we shall max,
good with our lives and fortunes tn,
great faith to which we were bor1
and new glory shall shine in tn,
face Of our people"
Japan to Send Mission to U. S.
| Washington, June 15.-Japan will
send a mission to the United States
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