Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-11-16

much about the archaeological rail-
way. The Berlln.to Bagdad railway was
constructed IN oder to run the threat
OF force down the rank of the indus
trial undertakings OF half dozen 9th
err countries, so that when German
competition came In II would not be re-
sisted too far-because there was al
ways the possibility of getting Ger
man armies into the heart OF that
country quicker than any other armies
could be got there. Look al the map
OF Europe now. Germany, In thrust
ing upon us again and again the dis
cussion Of peace talks about what
Talks about Belgium, talks about
Northern France, talks about Alsace'
Lorraine. Well thoga are deeply In.
terestlng subjects TO us and to them,
but they are not talking about the
heart Of the matter
Take the map ard look at II. Ger
many has absolute control OF Austria
! Hungary, practical control Of the Bal
kan States, control of Turkey. control
OF Asia Minor. ! saw a map In which
the whole thing vas printed In appro-
pirate black the other day, and the
black stretched all the way from Ham
burg to Bagdad bulk of German
power inserted into the heart OF the
world. II II can keep that she has
! kept all that her dreams contemplated
when the wa began II she can keen
i that. her power can disturb the world
at long as she keeps Railways pro
yided. for feel bound to put this pro-
viso in. always provided the present
influences that control the German
government continue 20 control IT,
Il believe that the spirit OF free
dom can get into the hearts OF Ger
mans and find as fine a welcome there
as II can in any other hearts. But
the spirit OF freedom does not suit the
plan OF the pan-Germans. Power can
NOT be used with concentrated force
against free peoples II it is used by
free people ...
You know how many limitations
come to us from one Of the central
powers that il is more anxious for
peace than the chief central power;
and you know that 1t means that the
people in that central power know
that II the war ends as it stands. they
will in effect themselves be yassals Of
Germany, Notwithstanding that thar
populations are compounded with all
the people OF that part OF the world,
and Notwithstanding the fact that they
do not wish in their pride and proper
spirit Of nationality to be so absorbed
and dominated
Germany is determined that the
political power OF the world shall be-
long to her. There have been such
ambitions before They have been in
part realized. But never before have
those ambitions been based upon so
exact and precise and scientific plan
OF domination.
MAY not say that 1t Is amazing
to me that any group OF people should
be so Uniformed as to suppose as
some groups In Russia apparently sun
pose that any reforms planned in the
interest OF the people can live In the
presence OF Germany powerful
enough to undermine or overthrow
them by intrigue or force. ANY body
of free men that compounds with the
present German government is COM
pounding for its own destruction. But
that Is not the whole of the story. ANY
man in America. anywhere else. who
supposes that the free industry and
enterprise OF the world can continue
II the panGerman plan is achieved and
| German power fastered upon the world
is as fatuous as the dreamers OF Rus
STA
What am opposed TO is not the
feeling of the pacifsts, but their stu
p'dlty My heart is with them, but
my mind has a contempt for them.
want peace, but know how to get II,
and they do not,
"You will notice that | sent friend
OF mine, Colonel House 20 Europe, who
is as great lover OF peace as any
man in the world; but did not send
him on a peace mission; | sent him to
take part in conference as to how the
war was to be won, and he knows as
know, that that is the way to get
peace, II you want 1t for more than 0
few minutes.
"All OF this Is a preface to the con
ference that referred to with regard
/ to what we are going to do. II We are
true friends of freedom-our own OF
anybody else's-we wifi see that the
power Of this country and the produc
tiyity OF this country Is raised to Its
absolute maximum and that absolute
ly nobody is allowed to stand In the
wav cf 1t.
when say that nobody is allowed
to stand In the way. | don't mean that
they shall be prevented by the power
of the government but by the power
Of the American spirit Our duty, !
we are to do this great thing and show
America to be what we believe her t
be, the greatest hope and energy o
the world, then must be to stand to
gether night and day until the job i
finished.
while we are fighting for freedom
we must see, among other things, tina
labor Is free; and that means a mum
her OF interesting things. 1t mean