Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-09
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BY SPEAKERS WHO
SOUND WAR CALL
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ton and Lincoln and Bunker Hill and
Lexington and the civil war. The
other kind OF pacifsm which exists
occasionally among honest-minded
people is partially weak-mindedness,
mainly cowardice. 1t is based upon
the belief that there is nothing better
than human life, and in that it de-
grades and lowers human life.
1T was because Prussianism be-
lieved that America had no ideals and
lived by gold alone and set life, mere
life, human functional, enjoyment,
above everything else, that they said,
We mean to blow to death and to
destruction all ships, whether of
friendly neutrals or not on the high
seas to accomplish our purpose in de-
stroying France and Great Britain, but
you might be announcement to US, per-
haps, so il you went on certain day
tricked out as clown in ship paint
ed like a BARRIERS pole, you may go
once a week to England
Autocracy Speaks.
"Ah, my friends, there spoke the
militaristic Prussian autocracy, that
knows no policy but that Of blood,
iron and force, that cannot appreci-
ate the soul of an honest, peaceful
folk striving for a better world and
for better things. Because, through
two and half long years, America
had borne wkh almost everything in
the hope that peace would come from
this awful struggle. they assumed that
America was as devoid Of soul as a
BARRIERS pole.
~ have had the pleasure and the
privilege OF seeing two great people
upon the verge of war. 1t has been
said that every man has two coun-
tries, France and his own, and the
great English philosopher, Mr.. Lecky,
spoke OF France as the one country
which had, through purely disinter-
ested and unselhsh motives, unsheath-
ed the sword and unstintingly given
of its blood and OF its treasure to aid
a small and obscure people struggling
5000 miles away, because the princi-
pies and ideals Of that people so APP
pealed to the people Of France that
they were willing to put their own
nation into bankruptcy and to go to
the extent of an awful war to aid
Washington and the English-speak-
ing colonists in striking off the letters
of liberty imposed upon them by a
Hanoverian king, supported by Hes
SLAMS and Indians.
Maintaining Dignity.
"The president told us the other
day, in that splendid paper which will
go down as a state paper with WASH
ington's farewell address and Mon
roe's great pronunciamento, that we
had reached point where we could
no longer submit and remain great,
free nation. A nation, like an in
dividual, has got to live with itself.
An individual cannot live and be free
and self-respecting unless he main
tains his dignity and his personal
honor. The United States Of Amer
lea could no longer have gone on re-
tanning its own respect and the re-
spect Of the world while submitting
indefinitely to insult and injury, to
the destruction of its citizens and to
their assassination upon the high
seas.
1T was idle to talk international
law after the violation of Belgium.
Our Department of State, with pa
thence that / have admired, time and
time again, though have sometimes
deplored it, kept up for long months
a controversy with the German for
eign Office, foreign Office which
knew no law save necessity--kept up
controversy with that foreign Office
at time when thousands of women
were being systematically by i'm
perial German decree deported into
the foulest and most hideous bondage
known since the beginning of time.
Talk about international law, with
such foreign Office, with such gov
eminent committing such hideous
crimes against God and humanity!
What sad waste of time!
Philosophy of Force.
"As great philosopher said, III
you want to know how philosophic
principles work, watch them in the
street. II you want to know how
the philosophy of force works, watch
It in Belgium, and in North France;
have seen villages systematically
RACED and destroyed; l have heard
from the children of 2 or 8 the story
of how they shot "grandpapa" over
there, or over here; and the children
were witnesses, so that they, too,
might know what the philosophy OF
blood and iron meant, so that they
might know what PAM ermanisn,
was, so that they might fear the Teu-
tonic name and respect the necessity
which could dispense with the law Of
God and man. All, those children
will remember. They have learned
the lesson. But more than that, the
world has learned, America has
learned--and America is ready to
perform her task in the spirit OF the
fathers OF the nation sternly, calmly
unflinchingly, aligned with the dem.
ocracies OF Belgium, Of France, oil
Great Britain, of the, new Russia In
the great struggle for human rights
international law and American
honor"
| Stimson Sounds Alarm.
| Mr.. Stimson. in his address, SOUNDED
| the gravest note OF alarm. This mus
be war to the death, he declared.
I'VE have nothing against the Ger
| man people, but against that irrespon
sible autocracy over them we meal
business he declared.
He spoke of documents in the Wa
department files at Washington
which show that Germany, II tn
British feet were removed and il i
! had freedom of the seas. could Ian,
387 900 men on our eastern shore
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