American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-22

has been private. Through all SORTS
OF channels II has come 10 me, and Ia
an sorts Of puiscS, bat never with the
terms disclosed which the German GOV
erument would be willing TO accept.
That government has other valuable
naWus in its hands besides those ! ave
mentioned. II sim holdsy q valuable
hart of France. though with slowly re-
hSing grasp and practically the whole
al Belelum. lts armies press close
upon lius~ia and oyeiTun Poland at
their VIII. Il cannot go further, II dare
not a. back. II wishes to CLOSE us bar
ealn before Do IS too late and il has
mole left to offer for the pound Of
flesh IL will demand.
One Chance.
"Thc military masters under whom
Germany IS bleeding see very clearly
to what point fate has brought them.
II thoS fall back or are forced back an
inch. their power both abroad and at
home viii IAN to pieces like "a house
OF cards. II Is their power nt home
they are thinking about now more than
their power abroad. ID is that power
which is trembling under their very
feet and deep fear has entered their
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perpetuate their military power or
even their controlling political influ-
cncc.
Eff they can secure peace now with
the immense advantages still in their
hands which they have up TO this point
apparently gained. they will have jus
titled themselves before the German
people they viii have gained by force
s. t.Iat fI.r r.raVf.AI e.. traf. 49, e. ..
Immense expansion of German power,
an Immense enlargement of Ge@lan
industrial and commercial OppOrtuni-
ties. Their prestige will be secure and
with their prestige their political pow
er. II they fniled, their people will
thrust them aside II government ac-
countable to the people themselves will
be set up in Germany as it has been
In England, in the United States, in
France and in all the great countries
OF the modern time except Germany.
If they succeed, they are safe and Ger
many and the world are undone; if
they fail, Germany is saved and the
world will be at peace. II they sue
coed, America will fall within the
menace. We and all the rest of the
world must remain armed, as they will
remain and must make ready for the
next step in their aggression If they
fail, the world may unite for peace
and Germany may be of the union.
"Do you not now understand the
new intrigue, the intrigue for peace
and why the masters OF Germany do
not hesitate To use any agency that
promises TO effect their purposes, the
deceit of the nations? Their present
particular aim is to deceive all those
who throughout the world stand for
the rights of peoples and the self gov
eminent of nations for they see what
immense strength the forces of justice
and of liberalism are gathering out of
this war. They are employing liberals
in their enterprise. They are using
men, In Germany and without, as their
Spokesman, whom they have hitherto
dcSpiSed and oppressed. using them
for their own destruction Socialists.
the lenders of labor, the thinkers they
hive hitherto sought to silence. Let
them once succeed and the men now
their tools will be ground TO powder
beneath the weight of the great mill.
tnry empire they Wilt have set up; the
reNolutioniStS In Russia will be cut of
from all SlccOr or cooperation in
western Europe and II counter revolu
ton foStered and supported Germany
herself will lose her chance of free
dom, and all Europe will arm for tn,
next. the final struggle.
"The sinister intrigue is being n,
less actively conducted In this cOuntr
than in Russia and ina every cOuntr,
In Europe To which the agents nnc
dupes of the imperial German govern
ment can get access. That government
has many Spokesman here, in place.
high and low. They have learned dis
erection. They keep within the law. Il
IS opinion they utter now, NOT sedition
they proclaim the liberal purposes al
their masters declare this "A foreign
war which can set England at the cen
ter of the stage and talk of her nmbi
tton To assert economic dominion
Throughout the world: appeal to oul
ancient tradition of isolation in IN,
politics of the nations: and seek /,
undermine the government wiz fails,
professions of loyalty to its pri.
ciples.
No Headway.
"lut they will make no headNvnv
The false hrtray themselves also h
every accent. II is only friends ant
r%nrtiSunS of the German government
whom we haVc already Identified VIII,
inter these thinly disguised dislo,al
les. The tuctS are patent 10 an IA,
world and nowhere are they NOR,
plutnll seen than in the United States
where we are accustomed to deal viii
tuctS and not with SophiStries AN,
ilc great fact that Stands OUT ahoN,
Hll ihc rest is that This is Il people,
wan. q wan for freedom and iuStic,
aud self government among am the ma
ttnuS ot che world, q war To make m,
world safe for The peoples who lin,
!ou tt aud have made 10 their own
.he t'erm,u people themselves iuclud
rd and that with MS rests the choic,
ln hrtak Through am These hNpocrisic.
and patent cheats and musks of brut,
force ana help set the world free. o.
else stand aside and let it be domiuat