The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-06-22

been IN England, IN the Umte0 states
in France and in all the great coun
tries of the modern time except Ger
many. If they succeed, they are saft
and Germany and the world are un
done; if they fail, Germany is savet
and the world will be at peace. l.
they succeed, America will fall with
in the menace. We and all the res
of the world must remain armed, al
they will remain, and must MAKE
ready for. the next step in their ag
gression; if they fail, then the worlC
may unite for peace and Germany
may be of the union.
Do you not now understand the new
intrigue, the intrigue for peace, anC
why the masters of Germany do moi
hesitate to use any agency that prom.
ises to effect their purposes, the de.
ceit of the nations? Their present
particular aim is to deceive all those
who throughout the world stand for
the rights of peoples and the self-gov.
eminent of nations; for they see what
immense strength the forces of jus
tice and liberalism are gathering out
of this war. They are employing lib
eTdlS III JHelT enterprises.
They are using men, in Germany
and without, as their spokesman whom
they have hitherto despised and op-
pressed; using them for their own de-
struction-Socialists, the leaders of
labor, the thinkers they have hither-
to thought to silence. Let them once
succeed and the men, now their tools,
will be ground to powder beneath the
weight of the great military empire
they will have set up. The revolu-
tionists in Russia will be cut off from
all succor or cooperation in Western
Europe and counter revolution fos-
tered and supported; Germany her
self will lose her chance of freedom;
and all Europe will arm for the next,
the final struggle.
The sinister intrigue is being no less
actively conducted in this country
than in Russian and in every country
in Europe to which the agents and
the dupes of the Imperial German
Government can get access. The
Government has many spokesman
here, in places high and low. They
have learned discretion. They keep
within the law. 1t is opinion they ut
ter now, not sedition. They proclaim
the liberal purpose of their masters;
declare this a foreign war which can
touch America with no danger to
either her lands or her institutions;
set England at the center of the stage
and talk of her ambition to assert
economic dominion throughout the
world; appeal to our ancient tradition
of isolation in the policies of the ma
tons; and seek to undermine the Gov
eminent with false professions of 10y
atty to its principles.
But they will make no Roadway.
The false betray themselves also in
every accent. 1t is only friends and
partisans of the German Government
whom we have already identified who
utter these thinly disguised disloyal-
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 a peoples
war, a war for freedom and justice
anu SSll-SON6IIllleIlJ dulOHRSJ all IHe
nations of the world, war TO make
the world safe for the peoples who
live upon it and have made it their
own, the German people themselves
included, and that with us rests the
choice to break through all these hy-
pocrisies and patent cheats and masks
of brute force and help set the world
free, or else stand aside and let it be
dominated a long age through by
sheer weight of arms and the arbi-
trary choices of self-constituted mas
tiers, 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-
cal freedom must wither andeperish
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 resOlu-
ton, when every principle we hold
dearest is to be vindicated and made
secure for the salvation of the ma
tons. We are ready to plead at the
bar of history and our flag shall wear
a new luster. Once more we shall |
make good with our lives and for
tunes the great faith to which we
were born, and new glory shall shine
in the face of our people.