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great empire of Austria Hungary, over
hitherto free Balkan states, over Tur-
key and within Asia-which must be
relinquished
Germany's success by skill, by in
dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise,
we did not grudge or oppose, but ad-
mired rather. She had built up for
herself real empire of trade and
influence, secured by the peace of the
world. We were content to abide the
rivalry Of manufacture, science and
commerce that were involved for us
in her success or fall as we had or
did not have the brains and the initi-
ative to surpass her. But at the mo.
ment when she had conspicuously
won her triumphs of peace she drew
them away to establish in their stead
what the world will no longer permit
to be established, military and polit-
ical domination by arms, by which to
.oust where she could not excel the
rivals she most feared and hated The
peace we make must remedy that
wrong. 1t must deliver the once fair
lands and happy peoples of Belgium
and northern France from the Prus.
sian conquest and the Prussian men.
ace, but it must also deliver the peo-
pies of Austria Hungary, the peoples
of the Balkans. and the people of Tur.
key, alike in Europe and in Asia, from
the impudent and alien domination OF
the Prussian military and commercial
autocracy.
No Interference by United States.
We owe it, however, to ourselves tc
say that we do not wish in any way
to impair or to rearrange the Austro
Hungarian empire. 1t is no affair OF
ours what they do with their own
life, either industrially or politically
We do not purpose or desire to die
tate to them in any way. We only
desire to see that their affairs are
left in their own hands, in all mat
ters, great or small. We shall hope
to secure for the peoples of the Bal
kan peninsula and for the people Of
the Turkish empire the right and op
portunity to make their own lives
safe, their own fortunes secure
against oppression or injustice anG
from the dictation of foreign courts
or parties.
And our attitude and purpose with
regard to Germany herself are of g
like kind. We intend no wrong
against the German empire, no inter
ference with her internal affairs We
should deem either the one or The
other absolutely unjustifiable, abso
lutely contrary to the principles we
have professed to live by and to holi
most sacred throughout our life as {
nation.
The people of Germany are being
told by the men whom they now per
NIT to deceive them and to act a.
their masters, that they are fighting
| for the very life and existence of theil
empire, war of desperate self
defense against deliberate aggression
| Nothing could be more grossly o.
wantonly false, and we must seek b.
the utmost openness and candor al
to our real aims to convince them o
| it's falseness. We are, in fact, fight
ing for their emancipation from fear
along with our own, from the fear al
well as from the fact of unjust at
tack by neighbors or rivals or schem
ers after world empire. No one il
threatening the existence or the in
dependence or the peaceful enterpris
of the German empire.
Germany in Peace.
The worst that can happen to tn
detriment of the German people i
this, and if they still, after the wa
is over, continue to be obliged to liv
under ambitious and intriguing mas
! ters interested to disturb the peace o