The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-06-21
PRESIDENT WILSON
EXPOSES GERMANY
In Flag Day Address Chief Executive
Says Germany Has Effected Greater
Part of Her Conquest Plan.

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lister power that has now at las
stretched its ugly talons out ant
drawn blood from US. The whole Worlt
is at war because the whole world il
in the grip of that power and is try
ing out the great battle which shall
determine whether it is to be brought
under its mastery or fling itself free.
1.-THE war was begun by the military
masters of Germany, who proved to be
also the masters of Austria-Hungary
These men have never regarded ma
lions as peoples, men, women and chill
dren of like blood and frame as them
selves from whom governments had
their life. They have regarded them
merely as serviceable organizations
which they could by force or intrigue
bend or corrupt to their own purpose
They have regarded the smaller states,
! in particular, and the peoples who
.ould be overwhelmed by force, as their
natural tools and instruments of dom
ination. Their purpose has long been
aYowed. The statesmen of other ma
lions, to whom that purpose was in
credible, paid little attention regarded
what German professors expounded in
their classrooms and German writers
set forth to the world as the goal of
German policy as rather the dream of
minds detached from practical affairs
as preposterous private conceptions of
German destiny, than as the actual
plans of responsible rulers, but the
rulers of Germany themselves knew all
the while what concrete plans, what
well advanced intrigues lay back of
what the professors and the writer's
were saying, and We're glad to go for
ward unmolested, filling the thrones of
the Balkans with German princes, put
ting German officers at the service of
Turkey to drill her armies and make
interest with her government, develop
ing plans of sedition and rebellion in
India and Egypt, setting their fires in
Persia. The demands made by Aus
tria upon Serbia were a mere single
step in a plan which comprised Eu-
rope and Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad.
They hoped those demands might not
arouse Europe, but they meant to press
them whether they did or not for they
thought themselves ready for the final
issue of arms.
Into Asia.
Their plan was to throw a broad
belt of German military power and po-
litical control across the very center
Of Europe and beyond the Mediterra-
mean into the heart of Asia; and Aus
tria-Hungary was to be as much their
tool and pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria
or Turkey or the pOnderous states of
the east. Austria-Hungary, indeed,
was to become part of the central Ger
man empire, absorbed and dominated
by the same forces and influences that
had originally cemented the German
states themselves. The dream had its
heart at Berlin. 1t could have had d
heart nowhere else! 1t rejected the
idea of solidarity of race entirely. The
choice of peoples played no part in it
at all. 1t contemplated binding to-
gether racial and political units which
could be kept together only by force
Czechs, Magyars, Croats, Serbs, Rou-
Turks, ArmenianS-the proud
states of Bohemia and Hungary, the
stout little commemorative of the Bal
kans, the indomitable Turks, the sub
tie peoples of the east. These peoples
did not wish to be united. They ard
emily desired to direct their own af-
fairs, would be satisfied only by undis-
puted independence. They could be
kept quiet only by the presence of the |
threat of armed men. They |
would live under common power only |
by sheer compulsiOn and await the day |
Of revolution. But the German mill
tary statesmen had reckoned with all |
that and We're ready to deal with it
in their own way.
"And they have actually carried the
greater part of that amazing plan into
execution! Look how things stand.
Austria is at their mercy. 1t has act
ID, not upon its own initiative or upon
he choice of its own people, but at
3erlin'S dictation ever since the war
,egan. Its people now desire peace,
tut can not have it until leave is
granted from Berlin. The SO-called
'entral powers are, in fact, but a sin
sle power. Seryia is at its mercy,
hould its hands be but for moment
reed. Bulgaria has consented to its
will, and ROumania is Overrun. The
Turkish armies, which Germans
are serving Germany, certain
: not themselves, and the guns of Ger
nan warshipS lying in the harbor at
'onstantinOple remind Turkish states 6
len every day that they have no [
hoice but to take their orders from q
'erlin. From Hamburg to the Persian =
ulf, the net is spread.
rs it not easy to understand the :
agernesS for peace that has been man.
,ested from Berlin ever since the l.
mare was set and sprung? Peace. o
eace, peace, has been the talk of her t
)reign office for now year and o
Iore: not peace upon her own initia- "
We, but upon the initiative of the ma b
Ons over which she now deems herself 7
hold the advantage. A little of the n
Tx has been published, but most of it =
rs been private. Through all sorts !,
channels it has come to me, and in u
l sorts of guises, but never with the u
rms disclosed which the German gov
nment would be willing to accept.
hat government has other valuable
Iwns in its hands besides those have In
entiOned. 1t still holds valuable o.
Irt of France, though with slowly re- =,
king grasp and practically the whole n'
Belgium. Its armies press close 81
ION Russia and Overrun Poland at ST
cir will. 1t cannot go further. it dare m
It go back. 1t wishes to close its bar tn
in before it is too late and it has of
tie left TO offer for the pound of til
ssh it will demand. M
One Chance. II,
The military masters under whom sh
'rmany is bleeding see very clearly ca
what point fate has brought them. oy
they fall back or are forced back an ~ ~
IN their power both abroad and at 81
me Will fall to pieces like house eu
cards. 1t is their noyvor ne -, en-