Mohave County miner., 1917-12-08

like kind. We intend no wrong against the German empire, no inter ference with her internal affairs. We should deem either the one or the other absolutely unjustifiable, abso- !lutely contrary to the principles we have professed to live by and to hold most sacred throughout our life as a nation.
 ''The people of Germany are being told by the men who mthey now per init 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-de- fense against deliberate aggression. Nothing coudd be mo re grossly or wantonly false, and we must seek by the utmost openness and candour as to our real aims to convince them of it's falseness.
 ''The worst that can happen to the detriment of the people is this, that if they should still, after the war is
 over, continue to be obliged to live under ambitious and intriguing mas ters interested to disturb the peace
 or the world, man or classes of men whom the other peoples of the world could not trust, it might be impos- sible to submit them to the partner ship of nations which must hence forth guarantee the worlds peace.
 ''That partnership must be part jnership of peoples, not mere part nership of governments. It might be impossible, also, in such untoward circumstances, to admit Germany to the free, economic intercourse which must inevitably spring out of the other partnerships of a real peace.
 But there would bt no aggression in that; and such a situation, inevi
 table because of distrust, would in the very nature of things, affect our enimies as well as our friends"
 "The wrongs, the very deep wrongs, committed in this war will have to be righted. That of course. But they cannot and must not be righted by the commission of similar wrongs against Germany and her allies. The world will not permit the commission of similar wrongs as a means of rep aratiOn and settlement.
 Statesmen must by this time have learned that the opinion of the world is everywhere widewake and fully comprehends the issues involved No representative of any selfgovern- ed nation will dare disregard it by at- tempting any such covenants or self ishness and compromise as were en- tered into at the congress of Vienna
 "The thought of the plain people here and everywhere throughout the world, the people who enjoy no priv ilege, and have very simple and un- sophisticated standards of right and wrong, is the air all governments must henceforth breathe if they would live. It is in the full disclosing light of that thought that all policies must be conceived and executed in this midday hour of the worlds strife.
 German rulers have been able to upset the peace of the world only be- cause the German people were not suffered unde' their tutelage to seek the comradeship of the other people of the world either in thought or in purpose. They were allowed to have no opinion of their own which might l be set up as a rule of conduct for those who exercised authority over them.
 "AIl these things have been true from the very beginning of this stu penduous war; and I cannot help thinking that if they had been made plain at the very outset, the sympa- thy and enthusiasm of the Russian people might have been once for all enlisted on the side of the allies, sus- piciOn and distrust swept away and a real and lasting union of purpose eff fected.
 Had thy believed these things at the very moment of their revolution and had they been confirmed in tha belief since, the sad reverses which have recently marked the progress of their affairs toward an ordered and stable government of free men might have been avoided. The Russian people have been poisoned by the very same falsehoods that have kept the German people in the dark, and the poison has been administered by the very same hands. The only pos sible antidote is the truth. It can not be uttered too plainly or too often.
 "Fr'om every point of view there fore, it has seemed to be my duty to speak these declarations of pur- pose, to add these specific interpre- tations to what I took the liberty of saying to the senate in January. Our l entrance into the wan has not al- tered our attitude towards the settle ment that must come when it is over. s
 "When l said in January that the , nations of the world were entitled not f only to free pathways upon the sea,