Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-30
Germany Put America
Off While Waiting to
Build More U-Boats
WE MUST CRUSH
TEUTON AMBITION
That Is Only Way to Restore
Peace of World-Our Cause Is
Righteous and We Are Fight
ing Our Own Battles as Well
as Those of Allies


Madison Barracks, y. Y, July 90
In a speech here tonight before 100
members of the Officers Reserve
Corps, Secretary of State Robert Lam
sing, emphasizing the peril Of the Ger
man imperialism to the United States
and the world, declared his belief that
the yoke of autocracy until the physi-
cal might of the united democracies of
the world has destroyed forever the
evil ambitions of the military rulers
OF Germany" That, he added, is the
only way to restore the peace of the
world.
Democracies for Peace
Were every people on earth able to
express their will, there would be no
wars of aggression" he said, and, if
there were no wars OF aggression,
there would be no wars, and lasting
peace would come to this earth The
only way that q people can express
their will is through democratic insti
f1,fIn ~, SC
made safe for democracy, when that
great principle prevails, universal
peace will be an accomplished fact.
No nation of people will benefit
more than the United States when
that time comes. But it has not yet
come. A great people ruled in
thought and word as we'll as in deed
by the most sinister government of
modern times. is straining every
autocracy which they have been
taught to worship. When will the
German people awaken to the truth
When will they arise in their might
and cast off the yoke and become their
own masters? I fear that it will not
be until the physical might Of the
united democracies Of the world has
destroyed for ever the evil ambitions
of military rulers Of Germany and lib
erty triumphs over its arch enemy"
Our Cause Is Righteous
Mr. Lansing sought to drive home
to the student officers the righteous
mss of the cause for which they had
volunteered to go to France and fight,
asserting that America would win
because our cause is the cause Of JUS
tice and of right and of humanity"
The immediate cause of our war
with Germany-the breaking of her
promises as to indiscriminate subma-
rine warfare-has . far deeper mean
ing, he said. Continuing
Promises Were False
Il needed but the words reported 20
chancellor to complete the picture Of
the character Of his government when
he announced that the only reason why
the intensified submarine campaign
was DELAYED until February last was
that sufficient submarines could not be
built before that time to make the at
tacks on commerce efficient. Do you
realize that this means. if it means
anything, that the promises to refrain
from brutal submarine warfare which
Germany had made to the United
States were never intended to be kept
that they were only made in order to
gain time in which to build more sub
marines. and that when the time came
TO act the German promises were I'M
hesitatingly torn to pieces like other
scraps of paper?
YIN the light Of events we could
read the past and see that for a quar-
ter Of a century the absorbing ambi-
ton Of the military obligarchy which
was the master Of the German Empire
was for world domination
Fighting Our Own Battles
Asserting that the future of the
United States is at stake" Secretary
Lansing said that 'if any Of YOU have
the idea that we are fighting others
battles and not our own, the sooner
he gets away from that idea the better
it will be for him, the better it will
be for all Of US.
Ina CINE Germany victor in Europe
because America was neutral Who.
then. think you, would be the next vic
tim Of those who are seeking to be
masters of the whole eartho Would
net this country with its enormous
wealth arouse the cupidity Of an i'm
povtshed though triumphant Germany?
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