Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-12-13

demnftfes. Just because this cru
SADIE formula expresses this distinctive
Judgment as to right OF plain men
| everywhere, it has been made diligent
| use of by the masters OF German in
| trigue to lead the people of Russia as
tray@and the people of every other
country their agents could reach in
| order that a premature peace might
| be brought about before autocracy has
| been taught it's final and convincing
1 lesson and the people of the world
| put in control of their own destinies.
But the fact that a wrong use has
been made of just idea is no reason
| why a right use should not be made
Of it 1t ought to be brought under
| the patronage of it's real friends. Let
| it be said again that autocracy must
! first be shown the utter futility of its
claims to power or leadership in the
modern world. 1t is impossible to ap-
| ply any standard of justice SO long as
such forces are unchecked and I'M
defeated as the present masters of
Germany command. Not until that
has been done can Right be set up as
arbiter and peacemaker among the
nations. But when that has been
done-as, God willing, it assuredly
will be-we shall at last be free to do
an unprecedented thing and this is
the time to avow our purpose to do it
We shall be free to base peace on
generosity ana JUSTICE, 10 the cOucluS-
ion of all selfish claims to advantage
even on the part of the victors.
Win the War, the One Object.
Let there be no misunderstanding.
Our present and immediate part is to
win the war and nothing shall turn
us aside from it until it is accomplish
ed. Every power and resource we
possess, whether of men, of money or
of materials, is being devoted and will
continue to be devoted to that purpose
until it is achieved. Those who de-
sire to bring peace about before that
purpose is achieved l counsel to carry
their advice elsewhere. We will not
entertain it.
We shall regard the war as won
only when the German people say to
us, through properly accredited repre-
sentatives, that they are ready to
agree to settlement based upon JUS
tice and the reparation of the wrongs
their rulers have done. They have
done a wrong to Belgium which must
be repaired. They have established
a power over other lands and peoples
than their own, over the great empire
of Austria-Hungary, over hitherto free
Balkan states, over Turkey, and with
in Asia-which must be relinquished.
Want Will Not Permit 1t.
Germany's success by skill, by. in
dustry, by knowledge. by enterprise
we do not judge or oppose, but ad-
mire rather. She had built up for
herself a real empire of trade and
influence, secured by the peace of
the world. We were content to abide
the rivalries of manufacture, science
and commerce that were involved for
us in her success and stand or fall as
we had or did not have the brains and
the initiative to surpass her. But at
the moment, when she had conspic-
uously won her triumph of peace she
threw them away to establish in their
stead what the world will no longer
permit to be esta blished, military and
political domination by arms, by
which to GUST where she could not
excel the rivals she most feared and
hated.
The peace we make must remedy
that wrong. 1t must deliver the once
fair lands and happy peoples of Bel
GUM and Northern France from the
Prussian conquest and the Prussian
menace, but it must also deliver the
peoples of Austria-Hungary, the peo-
pies of the Balkans and the peoples
of Turkey, alike in Europe and in
Asia, from the impudent and alien
domination of the Prussian military
and commercial autocracy.
We owe it, however, to ourselves
to say that we do not wish in. any way
to impair or to rearrange the Austria
hungarian empire IL is no AFFAIR Oh
ours what they do with their own life,
either industrially or politically.
In Their Own Hands.
We do not purpose to or desire to
dictate to them in any way. We only
desire to see that their affairs are
left in their own hands. in all mat
tiers, great or small. We shall hope
to secure for the peoples of the Bal
kan peninsula and for the people of
the Turkish Empire the right and op-
portunity to make their own lives
safe, their own fortunes secure
against oppression or injustice, and
from the dictation of foreign courts
or parties. And our attitude and pur-
pose with regard to Germany herself
are of a like kind. We intend no
wrong against the German Empire,
no interference with her internal af-
fairs. We should deem either tho
one or the other absolutely unjustifi-
able. absolutely contrary to the prin-
ciples we have protested to live by
and to hold most sacred throughout
our life as a nation
Fighting to Free Germany, Too.
The people of Germany are being
told by the men whom they now per-
NIT to deceive them and to act as
their masters that they are fighting
for, the very life and existence of
their empire, a war of desperate self
defense against deliberate aggression
Nothing could be more grossly or