Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
HARVARD MAN
SAYS GERMANS
MUST De BEATEN
PROFESSOR A. LAWRENCE LOW
ELL, PRESIDENT OF HARVARD,
SAYS STALEMATE WOULD MAKE
WHOLE WORLD ARMED CAMP

NEW YORK, Sept 1.-THE whole
world a series of armed camps, pre-
paring for another fray and compelled
to adopt German methods of warfare
this picture of the result of a drawn
hattie. a stalemate, with Germany in
her present state of mind, was pre-
sented lats night by DR.. A. Lawrence
Lowell, president of Harvard Univer-
sitv and chairman of the executive
committee of the League to Enforce
Peace, in his address at the annual
dinner of the National Safety council.
He declared that with the fall of
military autocracy must be removed
the oppression of one race by another,
and for that reason I'VE cannot con-
slider the return to Germany of her
former colonies, that their people may
be exploited as they have been in the
past. Americans have no love for the
rule of the inferior by the more civil
lied races; and if at the present stage
of history that is unavoidable, it must
be done with due regard to the welfare
of the subject race, and we cannot be
party to anyething lese."
Can anyone contemplate without
horror said DIR. Lowell, " planet
whose inhabitants devote their efforts
to devising scientific processes for
making it unfit for human habitation?
Pet such is the result that We must
at least contemplate if the present
war should decide nothing, leaving
the belligerents with their former am
billions and principles, with fiercer
hatreds and better knowledge of what
the next var will signify.
"If, on the other hand, the side on
which we are fighting wins, it may
mean better world, recognized on
basis of justice and peace; and
much of the result may depend upon
US, both in the field and at the coun-
Gil table.
Let us be perfectly clear in our
own minds. We proclaim that we are
fighting for democracy, bpt President
Wilson has put it more accurately
when he said that we are at war to
make the world safe for democracy
We are not fighting to impose any
form of government upon an unwilling
people That would be contrary to
our principle of political liberty. If
any people prefer to be ruled by a
monarch it is their affair, provided
the mind their own business, leave
other nations alone and live peacably
with their neighbors A military au-
tocracy, that goes forth conquering
and to conquer, the world must sub
due. or it will have no peace.
1--WE are at war to prevent any ma
ton from imposing an autocratic mill
tary system on the world or on any
people. and when the allies have sue
ceeded in so doing, they, and any
other peoples that sincerely desire
better and more peaceful world, must
solemnly resolve that no such catas-
trophe shall occur again. For this
purpose they must not again split
apart into discordant frag ments or
hostile groups, but must combine to
police the world, and bring in reign
of international justice among men
We often boast that we are both an
idealistic and practical people, and IN
the reorganization that will follow
this war we have the only chance we
shall probably ever have to show these
qualities on a worldwide scale. We
are now a world power engaged in a
world war and we cannot, by shrink
/ ing into ourselves when it is over
eyade our duty or shut our eyes to
our own future security. In league
with the other free nations of the
earth we must set up an internatioal
court of justice with sheriff armed
with such a force as may needed to
| summon offenders before the tribunal
By so doing, we can fulfill a great
destiny for our nation and bring peace
and goodwill among men,"