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AUTOGRAPHS DOoM AND END OF
INTRIGUE FOREVER is GOAL
OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT
TELLS SLAvS.
PREPARATION INDEMNITfES
ONLY CALLED UNSUITABLE
Opposes Status Quo Existing Before
War and Says Results Sought Are
Readjustment of Political
Power to Insure Future
Worlds Peace.


Washington, June Ii. - Presiden
Wilson, in communication to the new
government of Russia, has made plaiI
the war aims of the United State.
and its position on mo annexation, &c
indemnities."
mo territory must change hands
except for securing for those who in
habit fair chance of life and liberty
the communication says.
mo indemnities must be insisted on
except those that constitute payment
for manifest wrong done.
Future Peace of World Keynote.
mo readjustments of power must
| be made, except such as will tend to
secure the future peace of the world
and the future welfare and happiness
of it's people,"
The Presidents communication in
full is:
I'm view of the visit of the Ameri-
can commission to Russia to discuss
the best and most practical means of
cooperation between the two peoples
in carrying the present struggle for
freedom of all peoples to a successful
consummation, it seems opportune and
appropriate that I should state again,
in the light of this new partnership,
the objects the United States has had
in mind in entering the war.
Objects Much BecIouded.
Those objects have been very much
bec]ouded in the past few weeks by
mistaken and misleading statements,
and the issues at stake are too mo-
mentous, too tremendous, too signifi-
cant for the whole human race to per-
NIT any neutrality-suspicious. or misun-
derstandings, however slight, to re-
main uncorrected for moment.
1.-THE war has begun to go against
Germany, and in their desperate de-
sire to escape the inevitable, ultimate
defeat, those who are In authority in
Germany are using every possible in
strumentality, are making use even
Of the influence of groups and parties
among their own subjects to whom
they have never been just or fair or
even tolerant, to promote propagan-
da on both sides of the sea which will
preserve for them their influence at
home and their power abroad, to the
undoing of the very men they are
using.
America Fighting for Liberty.
"The position of America in this
war is so clearly avowed no man can
be excused for mistaking it. She seeks
no material profit or ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of any kind. She is fighting for no
advantage or selfish object of her own,
but for the liberation of peoples every
where from aggressions of autocrat1c
force.
THE ruling classes in Germany
have begun of late to profess a like
liberality and justice of purpose, but
only to preserve the power they have
set up in Germany and the selfish ad-
vantages which they have wrongly |
gained for themselves and their pri- |
vate prospects of power all the way |
from Berlin to Bagdad and beyond.
Government after government has, |
by their influence without an open |
conquest of it's territory, been linked |
together in a net of intrigue directed |
against nothing less than the peace |
and liberty of the world.
1.-THE meshes of that intrigue must |
be- broken, but cannot be broken I'M
ess wrongs already done are undone,
and adequate measures must be taken
oy preventing it from ever again be-
ng rewoven or repaired.
cot course, the imperial German
and those whom 1t is
Using for their own undoing are seek
ng to obtain pledges the war will end
N the restoration of the status quo
ante.
German Imperialism Must Go.
at was the status quo ante out of
which this Ubiquitous war issued forth,
he power of the imperial German
within the empire and its
domination and influence
outside of that empire. That status
must be altered in such fashion as to
prevent any such hideous thing from
aver happening again.
1--WE are fighting for the liberty, the
;elf-government and the indicated de-
,elopment of all peoples, and every
eature of the settlement that con-