The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-06-21
press that feeling.

- Auo american democracy sends >t<
the democracy Of Russia a greeting OF
sympathy, friendship brotherhood
GodSpeed. Distant America knows
little Of the special conditions of Rms
sion life which must give form to the
government and laws which Won are
ABOUT to create AS we have devel
oped our institutions TO serve the
needs OF our national character and
I1fe, so we assume that you win de
Velop your institutions to serve the
needs OF Russian character and life
AS we look across the sea, we dis
tlngulsh no party, no class. We see
great Russia as a whole, as one
mighty, striving, aspiring democracy
we know the self-control, essential
Kndtlness, strong common sense. cour
age and noble idealism of the Russian
character.
We have faith in you all. We nrav
LOT GODS blessing upon you all. We
Del1eVe You will solve your problems.
tnat you will maintain your liberty.
and that our two great nations will
march side by side in triumnhant
progress of democracy until the old
order everywhere, has passed awav
and the world is free.
One Fearful Danger.
"One fearful danger threatens the
liberty of both nations. The armed
forces of a military autocracv are at
the gates OF Russia and the allies. The
triumph or German arms will mean
the death of liberty in Russia. No
enemy is at the gates or America, but
America has come to realize that the
triumph OF German arms means the
death OF liberty in the world; that we
who love liberty and would keep it
must fight for it, and fight for it now
when the free democracies of the
world may be strong in union, and
not delay until they may be beaten
down separately in succession.
See, America sends another mes.
sage to Russia that we are going to
hight and have already begun to fight,
Tor your freedom equally with our
own, and we ask you to fight for our
freedom equally with yours We would
make your cause ours and our cause
yours, and with a common purpose
and mutual helpfulness of a firm al
lance make sure Of victory over our
common foe.
You will recognize your own senti-
ments and purposes in the worlds of
President Wilson to the American
Congress, when on the second of April,
last, he addressed a declaration OF
war against Germany. He said:
we are accepting this challenge of
hostile purpose because we know that
in such a. government (the German
government following such methods,
we can never have a friend; and that
in the presence of it's organized power,
always lying in wait to accomplish we
know not what purpose, there can be
no assured security for the democratic
now about to accept the gauge of bat
tie with this natural foe to liberty,
and SHALL if necessary, spend the
whole force Of the nation to check and
nullify its pretensions and its power.
"safe For Democracy"
"The world must be made safe for
democracy. Its peace must be plant
ed upon the tested foundations of pill
tical liberty. We have no selfish ends
DO serve. We desire no conquest, no
dominion. We seek no indemnities
for ourselves, no material compensa-
ton for The sacrifices we shall freely
make. We are but one of the cham
pions of the rights OF mankind. We
shall be satisfied when those rights
have been made as secure as the faith
and the freedom of nations can make
,hem.'
"And you will see the feeling toward
Russia with which America has en-
,ered the great war in another clause
IF the same address. President VIII
son further declared:
"Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added to our hope
or the future peace of the world by
he wonderful and hearten1ng things
hat have been happening within the
asst few weeks in Russia? Russia was
1nown by those who knew her best TO
AVE been always in fact democratic
Il heart in all the vital habits OF her
bought. in all the intimate relations
hips of her people that spoke their
Natural instinct, their habitual atu-
ude toward life.
"'The autocracy that crowned the
ummit of her political structure long
q It had stood and terrible as was the
eality of, dts power, was not in fact
Iussian in origin, character or pur.
ose, and now it has been shaken on
nd the great generous Russian people
ave been added, In all their native
,aiestv and might, to the forces that
"a fehting for freedom in the world
Or Justice and for peace. Here Is %
4 partner for league OF honor