The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-06-21

apparently gained they viii have JUS
titled themselves before the German
people; they will have gained by force
what they promised to gain by it; an
immense expansion of German power.
an immense enlargement of German
| industrial and commercial opportuni-
ties. Their prestige will be secure and
with their prestige their political pow
er. If they failed, their people will
| thrust them aside; a government ac-
| countable 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 Ger
many and the world are undone: if
they fail, Germany is saved and the
world will be at peace. If they sue
ceed 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 the
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
promises to effect their purposes, the
deceit of the nations? Their present
particular aim is to deceive all those
who throughout the world stand for
the rights of peoples and the self gov
eminent 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
in their enterprise. They are using
men, in Germany and without, as their
spokesman, whom they have hitherto
despised and oppressed, using them
for their own truction-Socialists
the 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 mill
tary empire they will have set up; the
revolutionists in Russia will be cut off
from all Succor or cooperation in
western Europe and q 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.
"The sinister intrigue is being no
less actively conducted in this country
than in Russia and in every country
in Europe to which the agents and
dupes of the imperial German govern
ment can get access. That government
has many spokesman here, in places
high and low. They have learned dis
erection. They keep within the law. 1t
is opinion they utter now, not sedition.
They proclaim the liberal purposes of
their masters; declare this a foreign
war which can set England at the cen
ter of the stage and talk of her ambi-
ton to assert economic dominion
the world; appeal to our
tradition of isolation in the
politics of the nations and seek TO
the government with false
professions of loyalty to its prin-
ciples.
No Roadway
But they will make no headway.
The false betray themselves also in
every accent 1t is only friends and
partsans 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 people's
war, a war for freedom and iuStice
and self government among all the ma
tiOnS of the world, a war to make the
world safe for the peoples who live
upon it and have made it their own.
the German people themselves includ-
ed. and that with us rests the choice
to break through all these hypocrisies
and patent cheats and masks of brute
force and help set the world free. or
else stand aside and let it be dominat-
I'D long age through by sheer weight
If arms and the arbitrary choices of
self constituted masters, by the nation
which can maintain the biggest armies
md the most irresistible armament
power to which the world has af-
orded no parallel and in the face of
which political freedom must wither
nd perish.
For us there is but one choice. We
ave made it. Woe be to the man or
,rOup of men that seeks to stand in
ur way in this day of high resolution.
rhen every principle we hold dearest
5 to be indicated and made secure
or the salvation of the nations. We
re ready to plead at the bar of his
Dry and our flag shall wear new
lister. Once more we shall make good
18th our lives and fortunes the great
lith to which we were born and
ew glory shall shine in the face of
ur people"