The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-05

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of the German empire to terms and
end the war.
What this win involve is clear. II
1 viii involve the utmost practicable
/ cooperation in counsel and action
with the governments now at war
with Germany, and, as incident to
that, the extension to those govern
mentsi or the most liberal financial
credits, In order that our resources
may, so far as possible, be added to
theirs.
Urges Universal Service.
1t will involve the organization and
mobilization Of all the material re-
sources of the country to supply the
materials of war and serve the Incl
dental needs of the nation in the
most abundant, and yet the most
economical and efficient way posi-
BILE.
1t will involve the immediate full
equipment OF the navy in all respects
but particularly in supplying 1t with
the best means of dealing with the
enemy's submarines.
1t will involve the immediate addi-
ton to the armed forces of the Unit
ed States already provided for by law
in case OF war, at least 100000 men,
who would, in my opinion, be chosen
upon the principle of universal la
bility to service, and also the author
ization of subsequent additional in
crements of equal force so soon as
they may be needed and can be
handled In training.
Gould Never Ee Friend"
One of the things that has served
to convince me that the Prussian au-
tGcracy was not and could never be
our friend Is that from the very out
set of the present war 1t has filled our
linsuspecting communities and even
our offices of government with spies
md set criminal lntrigues everywhere
afoot against our national unity of
counsel. our peace within and without,
our Industries and our commerce.
Indeed 1t is now evident that its
spies were here even before the war
began, and 1t is unhappily not matt
ter of conjecture. hut fact proved
IN our courts of justice. that the in
trignes which have more than once
come perilously aear to disturbing the
peace and disocating the industries
Of the country have been carried on
AT the instigation, with the special
and even under the personal direction
of official agents of the imperial gov
ernment accredited 10 the government
Of the United States.
Even in checking these things md
trying to eStifpute them we have
sought to put the most generous in
depreciation possible upon them be-
cause we knew that their source lay
not in any hostile feeling or purpose
OF the German people toward US (whn
were no doubt as ignorant OF them
as we ourselves were), hut only In
the selfish designs of government
that did what it pleased and told its
people nothing.
Makes Purpose Clear.
"While we do these things these
deeply momentous things. let us he
very clear and make very clear to all
the world what our motives and our
objects IRE. My own thought has not
heen driven from its hahitual and nor
NAL course by the unhappy events Of
the last two months; md / do not be-
lieve that the thought of the nation
has been altered or clOuded 10y them.
Il have exactly the same things In
mind now that | hat In mind when |
addressed the senate on the 22d of
January last; the same that HAD in
mind when addressed the congress
on the I'd of February and on the Goth
of February. Our object now. MS then.
Is TO vindicate the principles of peace
and the Justice in the life of the world
as against selfish ana nutocratic pow
er and to set up among the really free
and self-governed peoples of the world
such concert Of purpose and of ac-
ton as will hencefolth insure the OBJ
seryance of those principles.
Neutrality Not Feasible.
Neutrality is no longer feasible or
desirable where the peace of the world
Is Involved and the freedom of its
peoples, and the menace TO that peace
and freedom lies in the existence of au>
tocratic governments backed by organ
tied force which is controlled wholly
by their will, not by the will of their
people. We have seen the last of neu-
rality In such circumstances.
We are ut the beginning of an age
" which II viii he insisted that the
same standards Of conduct and of re-
sponsibility for wrong done shall be OBJ
served among pations and their gov
ernments that are observed among the
Individual citizens Of civilized states.
No Quarrel With People.
We have no quarrel with the German
people. We have no feeling toward
them but one of sympathy and friend
ship. Ii was not upon their impulse
that their government acted in enter
Ing this war. II was not with their
previous knowledge or approval.
1t was war determined upon as wars
used to be determined on in the old,