Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-03

and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of man kind to any narrow interest of their own.
 Does noe every American feet that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia?
 Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart. in all the vital habits of her thought in all the intimate relations of her people that spoke their natural instinct, their habitual attitude towards life.
 The autocracy that crowded the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of it's power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character or purpose; and now it has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added in all their naive majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice and for peace. Here is fit partner for a league of honor.
 Spies in U. S. Employ
 One of the things that has served to convince that the Prussian autoc- racy was not and could never be our friends is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled out unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government ~ith spies and set up criminal intrigues every where afoot against our nation menac '"" nrr noa"o within and without. our industries and our commerce.
 German Bomb Plots
 Indeed, this is now evident that its spies were here even before the war began; and it is unhappily not a matter of conjecture, but a fact prov ed in our courts of justice. that the intrigues which have more than once come perilously near to disturbing the peace and dislocating the indus tries of the country. have been car ried on at the instigation, with the support, and even under the personal direction of official agents of the im- perial government accredited to the government of the United States.
 The Mexico Plot
 Even in checking these things and trying 10 eXtirpate them, we have sought to put the most generous in- terpretations possible upon them be cause We knew that their source lay. not in any hostile feeling or purpose of the German people towards us twhO were, no doubt. as ignorant of them as We ourselves were) but only '1 the selfish designs of q government | that did what it pleased and told its l people nothing. But they have play ed their part in serving to convince
 's at last that that government en, 'ertains no real friendship for us and means to act against our peace and I security at its convenience That il means to stir up enemies against us at our very doors. the intercepted note to the German minister at Mexi- 70 City is eloquent evidence. Autocratic Menace
 We are accepting this challenge Of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following ! SIIch methods u-o con ,,,-or l,,-o e, friend; and that in the presence of its organized power. always lying ir 1 wait to accomplish we know not what purpose. there can be no assured SC curity for the democratic govern ments of the world.
 1 We are now about tO accept the | gauge of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall. if necessary spend the whole force of the nation to check and nullify it's pretentions and it's power. We are glad. now that We see the fact with no veil of false Dretense about them to fight thus for | the ultimate peace of the world and | Tor the liberation of it's peoples: the | German peoples included for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obed- fence. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the trusted foundations i of political liberty.
 We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest. no dominion. We seek no indem- { mites for ourselves, no material ! compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but
 one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be
 satisfied when those righmts have been as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nations can make them. Just because we fight without rancor and without
 selfish objects. seeking nothing for ourselves but what we shall
 wish to share as free peoples, we shall, [ feel confident, conduct our operations as beligcrents without passion and ourselves observe
 with proud punctilio the princI- DieS Of riobf and of fair oIaN ,.,o