New Mexico state record., 1917-08-03
LANSING TALKS
ON IMPERIALISM
DECLARES DEMOCRACY'S MIGHT
MUST RUIN AMBITION OF
MILITARY RULERS.
NO WAR OF AGGRESSION
EVIL CHARACTER OF GERMAN
GOVERNMENT LAID BARE BY
SECRETARY OF STATE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. - The United States
government, it is stated, will take no
notice of the latest German peace ef-
fort, issued in the form of an inter
view by Chancellor Michaelis, blaming
the allies for the continuation OF the
war. Secretary Lansings speech, al
though delivered before the Michaelis
interview was published, is taken as
complete answer in stating that
peace can come only when the united
force of the worlds democracies has
I overthrow the German military sys-
tenn.
Madison Barracks, N. YIN a
speech here before 100 members OF
the officers reserve corps, Secretary
of State Robert Lansing, emphasizing
the peril of German imperialism to
the United States and the world, de-
cared his belief that the German peO-
pie would not cast off the yoke of au-
tocracy until the physical might OF
the united democracies of the world
has destroyed forever the evil ambl-
tions of the military rulers OF Ger
many" That he added, is the only
way to restore the peace of the world.
Were every people on earth able
to express their will there would be
no wars of aggression" he said, and
if there We're no wars of aggression,
there would be no wars and lasting
peace would come to this earth. The
only way that a people can express
their will is through democratic in
stitutions. Therefore, when the world
is made safe for democracy, when
that great principle prevails, universal
peace will be an accomplished fact.
mo nation of people will be tit
more than the United States when
that time comes. But it has not yet
come. A great people, ruled In
thought and word as well as in deed
by the most sinister government or
modern times, is straining every
nerve to supplant democracy by the
autocracy which they have been
taught to worship. When will the
German people awaken to the truth!
When will they arise in their might
and cast off the yoke and become
their own masters? fear that it Will
not be until the physical might OF the
united democracies of the world nave
destroyed forever the evil ambitions
of the military rulers of Germany and
liberty triumphs over its archenemy.
Mr.. Lansing sought to drive home
to the student officers the righteous
ness of the cause for which they had
volunteered to go to France and fight
asserting that America would win be
cause our cause is the cause OF JUS
tice and of right and humanity
The immediate cause of our war
with Germany - the breaking of her
promises as to indiscriminate subma-
rine warfare-has far deeper mean
ing. he said, "a meaning which has
been growing more evident as the war
has progressed and which needed but
this act of perfidy to bring it home to
all thinking Americans. The evil
character VI tlt bell man 6o'Si A'i'SAA>
is laid bare before the world. We
know now that the government Is In
spired with ambitions which menace
human liberty and that to gain its
end it does not hesitate to break
faith, to violate the most sacred
rights, or to perpetrate intolerable
acts of humanity.
ut needed but the words reported
to have been uttered by the German
chancellor to complete the picture OF
the character of his government when
he announced that the only reason
why the intensified submarine cam
; paign was delayed until February last
was that sufficient submarines could
: not be built before that time to make
the attacks on commerce efficient. Df
YOU realize that this means, if i
means anything, that the promises tt
refrain from brutal submarine war
fare. which Germany had made to the
, United States, were never intended tt
be kept, that they were only made II
= order to gain time in which to buile
more submarines, and that when the
| time came to act, the German prom
ises were unhesitatingly torn to piece!
like other scraps of paper?'"