The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-14

hearts. They have but one chance to
perpetuate their military power or
even their controlling political influ-
ence. If they can secure peace now
with the immense advantages still in
their hands, which they have up to this
point apparently gained, they will have
justified themselves before the Ger
man people; they will have gained by
| force what they promised to gain by
it; an immense expansion of German
power. an immense enlargement OF
German Industrial and commercial OPP
portunity. Their prestige will be Sc
cure and with their prestige their po-
litical power. If they fail, their peo-
pie will thrust them aside; a govern
ment accountable to the people them
selves will be set up in Germany as 1t
has been in England, in the Unitec
States in France and in all the great
countries of the modern time, except
Germany.
Germany MAY Join Peace Union.
IF they succeed they are safe and
Germany and the world are undone,
| if they fail, Germany is saved and the
world will be at peace. If they sue
coed. America will fall within the
menace We and all the rest of the
world must rem ain armed, as they VIII
remain, and must make ready Tor the
next step in their aggression; If they
fail, the world may unite FOR peace ana
Germany be of the union.
DO you not now understand the
new intrigue, the intrigue for peace
and why the masters of Germany 90
not hesitate to use any agency that
promises to effecr their purposes, the
deceit of the nations? Their present
particular aim is to deceive all those
who thruout the world stand for the
rights of peoples and the self-goVern-
ment of nations; for they see what I'M
mense strength the forces OF justice
and liberalism are gathering out OF
this war. They are employing liberals
in their enterprise. They are uSlns
men, in Germany and without, as their
spokesmen whom they have hitherto
despised and oppressed. using them Tor
their own OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, the
Headers of labor, the thinkers they
have hitherto sought to silence Let
them once succeed and the men, now
their tools, will be ground to powder
beneath the weight of the great mill
tary empire they will have set up; the
reyolutionists in Russia will be cut OH
from all succor or cooperation IN
western Europe and a counter revolu-
ton fostered and supported; Germany
herself will lose her chance of free
dom; and all Europe will arm for the
next, the final struggle.
Intrigue i'll L. S. as in Russia.
"The sinister intrigue is being no
| less actively conducted in this coun-
trv than in Russia and in every coun-
| try in Europe 60 which the agents ana
dupes of the imperial German govern
ment can get access. That government
| has many spokesman here, in places
high and low. They have learned dis
cretion They keep within the law IL
| is opinion they utter now, not sedltloh:
They proclaim the liberal purposes OF
| their masters; declare this a torelsh
war which can touch America with no
danger to either her lands or her IN
situations; set England at the center OF
the stage and talk of her ambition 70
assert economic dominion turnout the
world: appeal to our ancient tradltloh
of isolation in the politics OF the ma
tioDs: and seek to undermine the gov
ternment with false professions of 10y
atty to it's principles.
But they will make no headway.
The false betray themselves also IN
every accent. 1t is only friends and
| DartisanS of the German government
whom we have already identified who
utter these thinly disguised disloyal-
4 ties The facts are patent to all the
! world and nowhere are they more
| plainly seen than in the United states,
where we are accustomed to deal with
facts and not with sophistries; and the
great fact that stands out above all
the rest is that this is peoples war,
a war for freedom and justice and self
| government amongst all the nations
of the world. a war to make the world
/
and have made it their own, the Ger
man people themselves included, and
| that with us rests the choice to break
thru all these hipocrisies and patent
cheats and masks of brute force and
help set the world free. or else stand
aside and let it be dominated thru a
long age by sheer weight of arms and
the arbitrary choice of self-constituted
master, by the nation which can main
tain the biggest armies and the most
irresistible armaments-a power to
which the world has afforded no par
allel and in the face of which politi-
eel freedom must wither and perish.
We Have Made Our Choice.
For US there is but one choice.
We have made it. Woe be to the man
or group of men that seeks to stand
in our way in this day of high reso-
luton when every principle we hold
dearest is to be indicated and made
secure for the salvation of the nations.
| We are ready to plead at the bar of
history, and our flag shall wear new
luster. Once more we shall make
good with our lives and fortunes the
great faith to which We We're born,
and new glory shall shine in the face
of our people"
DIES 0E INJURIES