Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-12-07
FIGHT TO VICTORY
DEMAND OF WILSON

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present and immediate task IN to win the
war and nothing shall turn us aside from
IL until 1t is accomplished. Every power
ana resource we possess, whether OF men,
OF money, or Of materials, is being de-
voted and will continue to be devoted 70
that purpose until II is achieved. Those
who desire to bring peace about before
that purpose Ia achieved l counsel to
carry their advice elsewhere. We viii
not entertain IL.
We shall regard the war as won only
through properly accredited representa-
tives. that they are ready to agree to a
ssan y based tS upon JUSTICE and the
have done. They have done a wrong to
Belgium which must be repaired. They
have established power over other lands
great empire OF Austria Hungary, over
hitherto free Balkan, states, over Turkey
and within Asia-which must be relin-
pushed.
ADMIRE INDUSTRY SKILL.
Germany's success by skill, by industry,
by knowledge, by enterprise we did not
s na Bsd Of h oppose but s sdmred s rather
pire OF trade and influence, secured by
the peace Of the world. We were con-
tent to abide the rivalries of manufac-
ture, 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 con-
spicuously won her triumphs OF peace she
threw them away, TO establish in their
stead what the world will no longer per-
NIT to be established. military and po-
litical domination by arms, by which to
GUST where she could not excel the rivals
she most feared and hated.
The peace we make must remedy tnat
wrong. 1t must deliver the once fair
lands and happy peoples Of Belgium and
northern France from the Prussian con-
quest and the Prussan menace. but 1t
must also deliver the peoples of Aus
tria- Hungary the peoples OF the Balkans
and the peoples Of Turkey alike in Europe
and Asia, from the impudent and aiier
dominion of the Prussian military and
commercial autocracy.
We owe 1t, however, to ourselves to
say that we do not wish in any way to
impair or to rearrange the Austro- Hum
| garian empire. II is no affair OF ours
what they do with their own life, either
industrially or politically. We do not
purpose or desire to dictate to them in
any way. We only desire to see that
their affairs are left in their own hands,
hope to secure Tor the peoples Of the
| Balkan peninsula and for the people of
| the Turkish empire the right and oppor-
tunity to make their own lives safe, their
| own fortunes secure against oppression
or injustice and from the dictation OF
| foreign courts or parties.
ATTITUDE TOWARD GERMANY.
And our attitude and purpose with re-
gard to Germany herself are OF q like
kind. We intend no wrong against the
| German empire; no interference with her
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the one or the other absolutely unjusti-
| fable, absolutely contrary to the prin-
| ciples we have professed to live by and
to hold most sacred throughout our life
The people of Germany are now being
| told by the men who they now permit
70 deceive them and to act as their mas
ters that they are fighting for the very
life and existence Of their empire war
of desperate self defense against DELHI
crate. aggression. Nothing could be more
orafr SaVUa ovaA "a
seek by the utmost openness and can
| dor as to our real aims to convince them
Of Its falseness. We are in fact fighting
| for their emancipation from fear, along
| with our Own-from the fear as well as
| from the fact OF unjust attack by neigh
bors or rivals or schemers after world
| empire. No one is threatening the ex-
istenee or the independence or the peace
full enterprise Of the German empire.
The worst that can happen to the detri-
| ment OF the German people Is this, that
II they should still, after the war Is over,
continue to be obligated to live under
ambitious and intriguing masters inter-
ested to disturb the peace OF the world,
men on classes Of men whom the other
| peoples of the world could not trust 1t
| might be impossible to admit them to the
partnership Of nations which must hence
/ forth guarantee the worlds peace. That
partnership must be q partnership OF
| peoples, not mere partnership of gov
ernnents. II might be impossible, also in
| such untoward circumstances, to admit
Germany to the free economic intercourse
| which must undoubtedly spring out of
/ the partnerships of q real peace. But
there would be no aggression in that; and
such situation. inevitable because of
| distrust would In the very nature of
| things sooner or later cure itself, by pro-
cesses which would assuredly set in.
| RiGHTiNG OF WRONGS.
The wrongs, the very deem wronge
committed in this war will have to be
righted. That of course. But they cam
not and must not be righted by the COM
mission Of similar wrongs against Ger
The world will not permit the commits
/ sion OF similar wrongs as a means of
PREPARATION and settlement. Statesmen
must by this time have learned that the
opinion of the world is everywhere wide
| wake and fully comprehends the issues
involved; No representative OF any self
governed win dare disregard 1t by at
tempting any such covenants of selfish
! ness and compromise as were entered into
The congress of Vienna. The thought of
me plain people here and everywhere
4 joy no privilege and have very simple and
| unsophisticated standards OF right and
wrong, IS the air all governments must
| nenceforth breathe IL they would live.
It Is In the full disclosing light of that
| thought that all policies must be con-
| cefved and executed in this midday hour
| OF the worlds life. German rulers have
world only because the German people
were not suffered, under their tutelage,
| to share the comradeship Of the other
| peoples Of the world. either in thought
| or IN purpose They were allowed to
have no opinion Of their own which
| might be set up as rule OF conduct
| for those who exercised authority over
/ them. But the congress that concludes
1 this war win feel the fun strength OF
| the tides that run now in the hearts
and consciences OF free men everywhere.
It's conclusions will run with those tides.
| TRUE FROM BEGINNING.
All these things have been true from
| the very beginning of this stupendous
| war. and i cannot help thinking that
! IL they had been made plain at the very
4 outset the sympathy and enthusiasm OF
\ the Russian people might have been once
i for all enlisted on the side or the al
| lies, suspicion and distrust swept away
and real and lasting union of purpose
| effected. Had they believed these
i things at the very moment OF their repo-
| luton. and had they been confirmed in
/ that belief since. the sad reverses which
/ have recently married. the Progress OF
i their affairs towards an ordered and
/ stable government Of free men might
| have been avoided. The Russian peo-
/ ple have been poisoned by the very same
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