Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-09

whence they came or why. You wanted
the land populated and gave no
thought of the reasons that induced
them to come.
although the Atlantic had by ca
BILE and steamship been contracted till
it was no wider than the Mississippi
You thought that America was isolated
But in the white house sat one mah
who thought otherwise and this man,
President Wilson said, Keep still
don It discuss the war,
But America did not heed the warn
ing. The war was discussed everywhere
and finally the talk drifted to the
kaiser, He listened and misunderstood.
Believing that America was so honey
combed with German sentiment that
lit would not dare declare war and
thinking that if war was declared Ger
man sentiment would paralyze the arm
of the government Kaiser Wilhelm
announced his ruthless submarine cam
paign.''
All this happened, Mr.. Marshall de-
clared, because Americans would not
keep their mouths shut on war topics.
If the kaiser he said, had known what
he knows today-that the United
States could raise $4,000 100000 in six
weeks and organize an army of a mil
lion men in less than six mOnths-he
would never have sund the Lusitania
Tor any other ship on which there was
a single American.
6 All this time, Wilson, criticised by
many as too proud to fight sat in
the white house watching, loving peace
as he loves his God and hoping that
neutrality might be preserved. Then
when the kaiser thought America di-
vided and announced that he would
sink all ships coming within certain
limits, the last straw was laid on the
camel's back and on the second day of
April, 1917, President Wilson present.
ed the facts to congress and that body
almost unanimously voted to declare
war.
"The people are to blame but be
lieve that the Americans will fight
this fight as they have always fought
ready to spend their money and shed
their blood in order to win. The kais
Ter has submitted the decision to the
barbaric method of battle, we have no
choice but to do the same.
"But we must retain our ideals, we
must not kill our principles. 1t is not
lOuA HuAB BOsO W VAlIOINC tAlIiss Oh INV
German people that they themselves
do not want If the Germans want to
keep the house of Hohenzollern we
will be satisfied if we can keep it with
in Germany under sentence of death
.if it steps as much as six inches over
the German line. !"
The one compensation of this war,
Mr.. Marshall believes, is the fact that
.disproves the charge often made
against the American people, that they
are money mad race without cour-
age. "This can never be said again, -
he continued, "for no nation has ever
raised as many men or as much money
in as short a time as the United States
''It is my belief said Mr. Marshall
'Fthat this is divinely madee and a
divinely kept government, destined to
make the whole world free, whose cor
nerstone is not composed of written
documents but consists of the Golden
Rule, <Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you,
"This war. +" concluded Mr.. Marshall
"will never be settled for good by any
mere treaty OF peace. There mus5 De
some power to make peace. l hope tc
see world tribunal The only way for
real peace is to have every person in
the world represented in the govern
ment. The war had TO come to work out
the salvation of the world