The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-15

whom you meet, who is familiar with
the conditions that prevailed before
the war in he matter of International
competition. to find out the methods
of competition which the German
manufacturers and exporters used
under the patronage and support of
the government of Germany. You will
lind that they were the same sorts Of
competition that we nave tried to pre-
vent by law within our own borders.
If they could not sell their goods
cheaper than we could sell ours, at a
profit for themselves, they could get a
subsidy from the government which
made 1T possible to sell them cheaper
anyhoW and the conditions of compete
llon We're thus controlled in large
measure by the German government
itself. But that did not satisfy the
German government.
To Dominate World Labor.
All the while there was lying behind
us thought. in its dreams of the flu
ture. a political control which would
enable 1t IN the long run to dominate
n labor and the industry OF the world.
IheY We're not content with success by
superior achievements. they wanted
success by authority. / suppose very
rev OF you have thought much about
the Berlin-to-Bagdad railway. The Der
lin to Bagdad railway was constructed
IN order to run the threat Of force down
tne flank of the Industrial undertaking
OF half a dozen other countries SO that
When German composition came in it
would not be resisted too far, because
tnere was always the possibility of get
ting German armies into the heart of
that country quicker than any other
armies could be got there. Look at
the map of Europe now. Germany, in
thrusting upon US again and again the
discussion of peace talks about what?
Ialks 0 Belgium; talks about
northern France: talks about Alsace-
Lorraine. Well. those are deeply inter
estlng subjects to us and to them, but
lneS are not talking about the heart
OF the matter.
rake the map and look at it. Ger
many has absolute control Of Austria
practical control of the Bal
kan states. control of Turkey, control
OF Asia Minor. I saw q mar n which
pirate black the other day and the
black stretches all the way from Ham
purg to Bagdad-the bulk of German
power inserted into the heart of the
word; II 1t can keep that she has kept
all that her dreams contemplated
when the war began. If she can keep
tnat. her power can disturb the world
as long as she keeps railways proyid-
ed for l feel bound to put this pro
VISION IN. always provided the present
influences that control the German gov
continue to control it,
y believe the spirit of freedom can
get into the hearts of and find
as line welcome there as it can find in
any other hearts: But the spirit of free
dom does not suit the plans of the Pan
Power cannot be used with
concentrated force against free peoples
II It is used by free people.
you know how many intimations
come to u from one of the central
powers hat it is more anxious orspeac
than the chief central power: and YOU
knew n it means that the people in
that central power know that if the
War ends as it stands they will, in eff
rect, themselves be vaSsals of Germany.
notwithstanding that their populations
are compound with all the people of
that part of the world and notwith-
STANDING the fact that they do not wish
IN their pride and prope spirit of nat
~ionality to be SO absorbed and domi-
mated.
Germany is determined that the poll
tlcal power of the world shall belong
to her. There have been such ambit-
IONS there before. They. in part have
been realized. But never before have
those ambitions been based upon so ex-
act and precise and scientific plan of
domination.
May l not say that it is amazing to
me that any group of people should be
so Ill informed as to uppos as some
groups In Russia apparently ppo
that any reforms planned in the inter-
est of the people can live in the pres
ence Of a Germany powerful enough to
undermine or overthrow them by in
trigue or force? Any body Of free men
that compounds with the present Ger
MAJ government is compromising for its
own destruction, but that is not the
whole Of the story. Any mar in Ameri-
ca or anywhere else who suppose hat
the free industry and enterprise of the
world can continue if the Pan-German
plan is achieved n German power
fastened upon the world is as ~fatuous
as the dreamers of Russia.
What am opposed to is not the
feeling Of the pacifists. but their stu
pidity. My heart is with them, but my
mind has a contempt for them. | want
peace, but I know how to get it and
they do not. You will notice tina I
sent a friend of mine, Colonel House,
to Europe, h is as great a lover Of
peace as n man in the world, but I
did not send him on a peace mission;
| sent him to take part in a conference
as to how the war was TO be won and
he knows, as l know, that that is the
way to get eac if you want it for
more than a few minutes.
"All of this is q preface to that the
conference that 1 referred to with re-
gard to what we have to do. If we
are true friends of. freedom, our own
or anybody's, we will see that the
power of this country n the produce
tivity Of this country is raised to it's
absolute maximum and that absolutely
nobody is allowed to stand in the way
of it.
Up to Americans.
when I say that nobody is allowed
to stand in the way l don't mean that
they shall be prevented by the power
Of the government, but BY the power of
the American spirit. Our duty is if
we are to do this thing and show Am
erica to be what we believe her to be,
the greatest hope and energy of the
world then must we to stand together
night and day until the. job is finished
While we are fighting for freedom
we must see. among other things, that
labor Is free and that means a num-
her of interesting fhip0o II ,oo,ro not