Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-06-20

4hCoC DiCtl nave HCfCE IcSdIucu tions as peoples, men, women, and children of like blood and frame as themselves. for whom governments e. isted and in whom governments had their life. They have regarded them merely as serviceable organizations which they could by force or intrigue bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They have regarded the smaller states, in particular, and the peoples w1o could be overwhelmed by force, as their natural tools and instruments of domination. Their purpose has long been avowed.
 Attitude Toward German People.
 Their plan was to throw broad belt of German military power and political control across the very center of Flu rope and beyond the Mediterranean in to the heart of Asia ; and Austria-Hun- gary was to be as much their tool and pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey or the ponderous states of the East. The dream had its heart at Berlin. It could have had heart nowhere else It rejected the idea of solidarity of race entirely. The choice of peoples played no part In it at all. They ar dently desired to direct their own af- fairs, would be satisfied only by undis- puted independence. They could be kept quiet only by the presence or the constant threat of armed men. The German military statesmen had reck- oned with all that and were ready to deal with 1t in their own way.
 Policy One of Deceit.
 Is 1t not easy to understand the eag- erness for peace that has been mani fested from Berlin ever since the snare was set and sprung? Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of her foreign office for now a year and more; not peace upon her own initiative, but up on the initiative of the nations over which she now deems herself to hold the advantage. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me, and in all sorts of guises, but never with the terms disclosed which the German gov ernment would be willing to accept. That government still holds valuable part of France, though with slowly re- laxing grasp, and practically the whole of Belgium. It cannot go further; 1t dare not go back. It wishes to close its bargain before it is too late
 The military masters under whom Germany is bleeding see very clearly fn Eofn h~ny,nht hoI1o If they fall back or are forced back an inch, their power both abroad and at home will fall to pieces like a house of cards. If they can se- cure peace now with the immense ad- vantages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have Justified them selves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by it: an immense expansion of German power an i'm mense enlargement of German indus trial and commercial opportunities. Ii they fail, their people will thrust them aside; a government accountable 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 mod ern time except Germany. If they sue ceed they are safe and Germany and the world are undone; if they fail Ger many is saved and the world will be at peace. If they succeed, we and all the rest of the world must remain armed, as they will remain, and must make ready for the next step of az gression; if they fail, the world may unite for peace, and Germany may be of the union.
 Have Sought to Deceive World.
 The present particular aim of the masters of Germany is to deceive all {In xryOr1I ta n6