The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-17
ROOT DELIVERS FAITH
MESSAGE TO RUSSIANS
:.
Head of American Mission
Gives Assurance Of
Mutual Interest.
NO AXES TO GRIND
Says War Is Fight for Free
dom, for Success Of Which
Both Must Work.
NO AXES TO GRIND
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honor to speak is charged by the
government and the people OF the
United States of Amarica with mes
sage to the government and people Of
Russia. The commission is from DEM
ocratic republic.
For lao years the people have been
struggling with hard problems of self
government. With many shortcomings,
many mistakes, many imperfections,
we still have maintained order and re-
spcct for law, individual freedom and
national independence. Under the Sc
curity of our own common laws we
have grown in strength and prosperity.
HSut we value our freedom more than
wealth. We love liberty and we cherish
above all our possessions, the ideals
for which our fathers fought and suf
fcrcd and sacrificed that America
might be freee.
Brings Sympathy and Hope.
"Thc news of Russia's new found
freedom brought to America universal
satisfaction and joy. From all the land
sympathy and hope went out to the
new sister in the circle of demorcacies.
And the mission Is sent to express that
feeling.
The American democracy sends to
the democracy of Russia greeting of
sympathy. friendship and brother
hood, God speed.
AS we have developed our institu-
tons to serve needs of national char
Hcfnr md life will
Nelop your Institutions to serve the
needs of Russa's character and life.
AS we look across the sea we dis
tinEuish no party. no class. We see
great Russia as Il whole, as one
mighty, striving. aspiring democracy.
Together for Freedom.
We believe YOU will solve your
problems, that you will maintain your
liberty and that our two great nations
will march side by side in the
triumphant progress of democracy I'M
TN the old order everywhere has passed
away and the world is free.
One fearful danger threatens the
liberty of both nations. The armed
forces OF military autocracy are at
the gates OF Russia and the allies. The
triumph OF German arms will mean
the death of liberty in Russia. Amer
lea has come to realize that the
triumph of German arms means the
death of liberty. We who love liberty
and must fight for it, and fight now
when the free democracics of the world
may be strong in union and not delay
until they are beaten down separately
in succession.
Each Fighting for Other.
$50 America sends another message
to Russia--that we are going to fight
and have already begun to fight, for
your freedom equally with our own,
and we ask you to fight for our free
dom equally with yours. We would
make your cause ours and our cause
yours. and. with common purpose
and mutual helpfulness of a firm al
lance, make sure of victory over our
common foe
You will recognize your own senti-
meEts and purpose in the words OF
President Wilson to the American con-
Srcss when on the second of April las
he advised a declaration of war against
Germany. He said:
Quotes Wilson's Speech.
1--WE are accepting this challenge of
hostile purpose because we know that
in such Il government the German
Sovcrnmcnb following such methods.
we can never have a friend: and that
in the presence of it's organized power
lying in wait to accomplish we know
not what purpose there can be no
assured security for the democratic
governments of the world. We shall, if
necessary, spend the whole force Of
the nation to check and nullify it's
prctensions and it's power.
THE world must be made safe for
democracy. It's peace must be planted
upon the tested foundations of polit-
ical liberty. We have no selfish ends
to serve. We are but one of the cham
pions of the rights of mankind We
shall be satisfied when those rights
have been made as secure as the faith
and the freedom of nations can make
them" .n.
And you will see the feeling toward
Russia with which America has start
cd the great war. In another clause of
further declared:
Russia at Heart Democratic.
docs not every American feel 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 her best to
have always been in fact democratic
at heart in all the vital habits of her
thought. in all the intimate relation
ships of her people that spoke their
natural instinct, their habitual atti-
tude toward life.
1.-The autocracy that crowned the
summit of her political structure was
not, in fact, Russian in origin, chara c.
ter or purpose. and now it has been
shaken Off and the great, generous