Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-15
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 AT WASHINGTON MONUMENT (Continued from Page Three) German government would be willing | to accept That government has other valuable pawns in its hands besides those I have mentioned
 Holds Part of France and Belgium "It still holds a valuable part ot France, though with slowly relaxing grasp, and practically the whole of Belgium. Its armies press close upon Russia and overrun Poland at their will. It cannot go further; it dare not go back It wishes to close its bargain before it Is too late and it
 has little left to offer for the pound of flesh it will demand.
 Military Masters Trembling
 "The military masters under whom Germany is bleeding see very clearly to what point Fate has brought them.
 an inch, their power both abroad and at home will fall to pieces like a
 house of cards. It is their power at home they are thinking about now
 more than their power abroad. It is that power which is trembling under their very feet; and deep fear has en- tered their hearts. They have but one chance to perpetuate their military power or even Lne1r pOI1CI- cal 2nfuences If they can @>cure peace now with the immense advan-
 tages still in their hands which they
 have up to this point apparently gain
 ed, they will have justified themselves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they prom
 ised to gain by it: an immense ex-
 panSion of German power, an immense enlargement of German industrial and commercial opportunities. Their pres
 f1prn T1yTIl hn their prestige their political power. If they
 fail, their people will thrust them aside; a government accountable to the people themselves will be set up in Germany as 1t has been in Eng land, in the United States, in France, and in all the great countries of the modern time except Germany. If they succeed they are safe and Germany fail Germany is saved and the world will be at peace. If they succeed, America will fall within the menace.
 We and all the rest of the world must remain armed, as they will remain and must make ready for the next step in their aggression; if they fail the world may unite for peace and Germany may be of the union.
 New Intrigue for Peace
 'Do you not now understand the new intrigue, the intrigue for peace, and why the masters of Germany do not hesitate to use any agency that promises to affect their purpose, the receit of the nations? Their present particular aim is to receive all those who throughout the world stand for the rights of peoples and the self gov crnment of nations; for they see what immense strength the forces of justice and of liberalism are gathering out of this war. They are employing liber als in their enterprise. They are using men, in Germany and without, as their spokesmen whom they have hitherto despised and oppressed, using them for their own deSru ction-socialis the leaders of labor, the thinkers they have hitherto sought to silence. Let them once succeed and these men, now their tools, will ge ground to powder beneath the weight of the great military empire they will have set up; the revolutionists in Russia will be cut off from all succor or CO., operation in western Europe and a counter revolution fostered and sup ported; Germany herself will lose her chance of freedom; and all Europe gle.
 Active Tn Every Country
 'HThe sinister intrigue is being no less actively conducted in this coun- try than in Russia and in every coun- try in Europe to which the agents and dupes of the imperial German govern ment can get access. That govern ment has many spokesmen here, in places high. and low. They have learned discretion. They keep within not sedition- They proclaim the lib- eral purposes of their masters; de- clare this foreign war which can touch America with no danger. to set England at the center of the stage and talk of her ambition to as- sert economic dominion throughout the world appeal to our ancient tra- -G the nations: and seek to undermine the government with false professions of loyalty to it's principles.
 A War for Freedom and Justice
 "But they will make no headway. The false betray themselves always in every accent. It is only friends and partfsans of the German govern ment whom we have already identified who utter these thingIy disguised dis royalties. 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, war for freedom and justice and elf-government amongst all the nations of the world, a war to make it their own, the German people them selves included; and that with us rests the choice to break through all these hypocrisies and patent cheats and masks of brute force and help set the world free, or else stand aside and let 1t be dominated long age through by sheer weight of arms end the ar choices of self-constituteG by the nation which can, maintain the biggest armies and the most irresistible armaments-a pow ar to which the world has afforded no parallel and in the face of which po- itical freedom must Wither, and per sh.
 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