The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-14
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stroy our industries and arrest our
commerce.
They tried to incite Mexico to take
up arms against us and to draw ia
pan into a hostile alliance with her,
and that. not by indirection, but by
direct suggestion from the Foreign
Office in Berlin. They impudently de-
MED US the use of the high seas and
repeatedly executed their threat that
they would send to their death any of
our people who ventured to approach
the coasts of Europe.
And many Of our own people were
corrupted. Men began to look upon
their own neighbors with suspicion
and to wonder in their hot resentment
and surprise whether there was any
community in which hostile intrigue
did not Turk. What great nation in
such circumstances would not have
taken up arms? Much as we had de-
sired peace, it was denied US. and not
OF our own choice. This flag under
which we serve would have been dis
honoured had we withheld our hand.
Fighting Their Cause"
"Rut that is only part of the story.
before we we're ourselves engaged that
we are not the enemies Of the German
people and that they are not our
enemies. They did not originate or de-
sire this hideous war or wish that we
should be drawn into 1t; and we are
vaguely conscious that we are fighting
their cause, as they will some day see
1t, as well as our own.
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the same sinister power that has now
at last stretched its ugly talons out
and drawn blood from us. The whole
world Is at war because the whole
world is in the grip of that power and
is trying out the great battle which
shall determine whether it Is to be
brought under its mastery or fling it.
self free.
1.-THE war was begun by the military
masters OF Germany. who proved to be
also the master of Austro Hungary.
These men have never regarded ma
tons as peoples. men, women and chill
dren Of like blood and frame as them
selves, for whom governments existed
and in whom governments had their
life. They have regarded them mere.
ly as serviceable organizations which
corrupt to their own purpose.
Smaller States Prey.
They have regarded the smaller
states, in particular, and the peoples
who could be overwhelmed by force,
as their natural tools and instruments
OF domination. Their purpose has long
been avowed The statemen Of other
nations, to whom that purpose was in
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what German professors expounded in
their elassrooms and German writer's
set forth to the world as the goal of
German policy as rather the dream of
minds detached from practical affairs.
as preposterous private conceptions of
German destiny, than as the actual
rlans of responsible rulers; but the
rulers OF Germany themselves knew
all the while what concrete plans. what
we'll advanced intrigues lay back of
what the professors and the writer's |
were saying, and were glad to so for
ward unmolested, filling the thrones of /
Balkan states with German princes, |
putting German officers at the service /
Of Turkey to drill her armies and /
make interest with her government. |
developing plans of sedition and re-
bellion in India and Egypt settling /
their fires in Persia.
'The demands made by Austria upon
Seryia were a mere single step In
rlan which comprised Europe and
Asia, from Berlin to Ragdaad. They
roned those demands might not arouse
EUROPE. but they meant to press them
whether they did or not, for they
thought themselves ready for the final
issue Of arms.
..Their plan was to throw broad
.,lt Of German military power and
Ethical control across the very center
Of Europe aud beyond the Mediterran-
can into the heart Of Asia: and Aus
tria.Hungary was to be as much their
tool and pawn as Servia or Bulgaria or
Turkey or the ponderous states OF the
East.
Austria. 70 Become PART.
austria. Hungary, indeed. was to
become part Of the central German