The sun., 1917-07-30
CALLS GERMANY
FAITHLESS FOE
Lansing Says Promise Was
Broken to Commit Intoler-
able Inhumanity.

MADISON BARRACKS, n. Y, July az
we know now that to gain its ends
Germany does not hesitate to break
faith, TO violate the most sacred rights
or TO perpetrate intolerabie acts OF in
humanity" said Secretary OF State
Lansing tonight In addressing the 100
members of the oficers' Reserve Corps
The Secretary was emphasizing the In
ference he drew from the recent speech
of Chancellor Michaelis. in which the
German statesman explained that the
delay in, starting ruthless submarine
warfare was TO afford time 10 build more
U-boats.
"It needed but the words reported to
have been uttered by the German
Chancellor" said Mr.. Lansing. ITO COM
plete the picture of the character OF his
Government. Do you reaiize that this
means. II it means anything. that the
promises to refrain from brutal sub
marine warfare which Germany had
made to the United States were never
intended to be kept. that they were made
only In order TO gain time in which to
build more submarines. and that, when
the time came to act. the German prom
ises were unhesitatingly torn to pieces
like other scraps OF paper'1''
Safeguard for Peace.
The Secretary devoted much Of his
address to the menace OF German i'm
perialism to the world
Were every people, on earth able to
express their will there would be no
wars" he said. "But the time has not
come. great people, ruled in thought
and word as we'll as in deed by the most
sinister government OF modern times, Is
straining every nerve to- supplant de-
mocracy by the autocracy which they
have been taught to worship, When
the German people awaken TO the
truth, then they will rise In their might
and cast or the yoke and become their
own masters"
Mr.. Lansing sought to drive home TO
the student officers the righteousness OF
the cause for which they had volun-
teered to fight, asserting that America
would win because our cause Is the
cause of Justice and of right and hu-
manity."
The immediate cause OF our war with
Germany-the breaking OF her promises
as to indiscriminate submarine warfare
has far deeper meaning" he said,
"a meaning which has been growing
more evident as the war has progressed
and which needed but this act OF per-
tidy to bring II home to all thinking
Americans The evil character of the
German Government is laid bare before
the world"
Future of United states at stake.
Asserting that the future of the
United States is at stake" Secretary
Lansing said that III any OF YOU have
the Idea that we are fighting others bat
ties and not our own, the sooner he gets
away from that idea the better II will
be for him, the better II will be for all
Of us
Imagine Germany victor in Europe
because the United States remained neu-
trail Who then, think you, would be
the next victim of those who are seek
ing to be masters OF the whole earth
Would not this democracy be the only
obstacle between the autocratic rulers
of Germany and their supreme ambi-
tion? Do you think that they would
withhold their hand from so rich a
price
Mr., Lansing cited acts Of which Ger
many has been guilty and which were
thought improbable, yes. impossible '
before the war-volation NJ treaties
the crimes OF murder. extortion and
vandalism In Belgium and France. sub
marine brutality and bomb dropping on
cities Yet. God help us. these thinRe
have come to pass he exclaimed and
iron crosses have been awarded the per-
petrators,"