Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-05
AMERICAS aim SET forth IN
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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are unchecked and indicated as the
present masters of Germany COM
mand. 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 will
ling. it assuredly will be-we shall at
last be free to do an unprecedented
thing and this is the time to avow
our purposes to do it. We shall be
free to base peace on generosity and
justice, to the exclusion of all selfish
claims to advantage even on the part
Of the victors.
Our Task to Win War.
Let there be no misunderstanding.
Our present and immediate task 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 material is being devoted and
will continue to be devoted to that
purpose, until it is achieved.
Those who desire to bring peace
about before that purpose is achiev-
ed, | counsel to carry their advice else
where. We will not entertain it. We
shall regard the war as won only when
the German people say to US, through
properly accredited representatives.
that they are ready to agree to a set
Element based upon justice and the
reparation of the wrongs their rulers
have done. They have done wrong
to Belgium which must be repaired.
They have established power over
other lands and peoples than their
own-over the great empire of Aus
tria-Hungary, over hitherto free Bal
kan states, over Turkey and within
Asia-which must be relinquished
Admire German Enterprise.
Germarv's success by skill, by in
dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise,
we did not grudge or oppose, but ad
mired rather. She had built up for
herself a real empire of trade and in
fluence, secured by the peace of the
world. We were content to abide
the rivalries of manufacture. science
and commerce that we're involved for
us in her success and stand or fall as
we mad or did not have the brains and
the initiative to surpass her.
But at the moment when she had
conspicuously won her triumphs of
peace she threw them away to es-
tablish in their stead what the world
will no longer permit to be establish
ed, military and political domination
by arms, by which to GUST where she
could not excel the rivals she most
feared and hated.
Peace Must Remedy Wrong.
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-
Piles of the Balkans and the people of
Turkey alike in Europe and in Asia
from the impudent and alien DONNA
ton of the Prussian military and COM
mercial autocracy.
Will Not Dictate Policy.
We owe it, however to ourselves
to say that we do not wish in any way
TO impair or to rearrange the .Austro-
Hungarian empire. 1t is no affair of
ours what they do with their own life,
either industrially or politically. We
do not propose 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 matters, great or
small. We shall hope to secure for
the peoples of the Balkan peninsula
and for the people of the Turkish en-
pire the right and opportunity to make
their own lives safe, their own for
tunes secure against oppression or in
justice and from the dictation OF
foreign courts or parties. And our
attitude and purpose with regard to
Germany herself are of a like kind
We intend no wrong against the Ger
man empire, no interference with her
internal affairs. We should deem
either the one or the other absolutely
unjustifiable, absolutely contrary to
the principles we have professed to
live by and to hold most sacred
throughout our life as a nation.
Germans Advised Falsely.
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
fer the very life and existence of tie;I
empire war of desperate self-defc,.se
against deliberate aggression. Nothing
could be more grossly or wantonly
false, and we must seek by the Utmost
CpCuness and candor as to our real
aiint; 10 convince them of its falseness
We are in fact fighting for the eman-
c paCion from fear, along with our
OF. from the fe9r as well as from
tn" fact of unjust attA,s by neiTlbcTs
~ rivals or schemt r. after world em-
pire. No one is threatening the ex-
istence of the Independence or the
peaceful enterprise of the German en-
pire.
The worst that can happen to the de-
triment of the German people is this,
and il they still, after the war is over.
continue to be obliged to live under
ambitious and intriguing masters in
terested to disturb the peace of the
world, men or classes of men whom
the other peoples of the world could
not trust, il might be impossible to
admit them TO the partnership of ma
tions which must henceforth be guar
anteed the worlds peace.
Partnership of Peoples.
That partnership must be partner
ship OF peoples, not a mere partner
ship of governments. IL might be i'm