The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-11-15

about Belgium, talks about Northern
France, talks about AlsaceLorraine.
Well, those are deeply interesting sab
jects to us and to them, but they are
not talking about the heart of tho
matter.
Germany After World Dominance.
Take the map and look at It. Ger
many has absolute control of Austria
Hungary, practical control of the Bal
kan states, control of Turkey, control
of Asia minor. I saw a map in which
the whole thing was printed in appro-
pirate black the other day and the
black stretched all the way from Ham.
burg TO Bagdad-the bulk of German
power inserted into the heart of the
world. II 1t can keep that she has
kept all that her dreams contemplated
when the war began. If she can keep
that her power a disturb the world
as long as she keeps railways pro-
vided, for | feel bound to put this pro-
viso in, always provided the present
influences that control the German
-overnment continue to control IL.
II believe that the spirit of freedom
car get into the hearts of tie Germans
and find rs fine a welcome there as il
| CdH u'i III any OLllci uCdIbo. Dul liz
spirit Of freedom does not suit the
plans of the Pan-Germans. Power can
not be used with concentrated force
against free peoples if it is used by
free people.
Central Power Fears Germany.
"YoG know how many limitations
come to us from one of the central
powers that it is more anxious for
nna n thpn xha aItnT nzntral nuyAr
and you know that 1t means that the
people in that central power know
that If the wal ends as it stands they
will in effect themselves be vassals
of Germany Notwithstanding that their
populations are compounded with all
the people of that part Of the world
and Notwithstanding the fact that they
do not wish in their pride and proner
and dominated.
Germany is determined that the
political power Of the world shall be-
long to her. There have been such
ambitions before. They have been in
part realized. But never before have
those ambitions been based Upon so
exact and precise and scientific a plan
of domination.
~ S~AfRNA'A u . VIC 80 DiScSNi SpSs
May l not say it is amazing 10 me
that any group of people should be so
i'll informed as to suppose, as some
groups in Russia apparently suppose,
that any reform planned in the in
terest OF the people can live in the
presence of a Germany powerful
enough to undermine or overthrow
them by intrigue or force?
ANY body of free mer that com
pounds with the present German gov.
eminent is compromising for its own
destruction. But that is not the whole
story. Any man in America or any
where else who supposes that the
free industry and enterprise of the
world can continue if the Pan-German
plan is achieved and German power
fastened upon the world is as fatuous
as the dreamers of Russia.
What / am opposed to is net the
feeling OF the pacifists, but their stu.
pidity. Ny heart is with them, but
my mind has a contempt for them.
want peace, but know how to get II
and they do not.
Win Var to Get Peace.
You will notice that | sent a
friend of mine-Colonel House-to
Europe. who is as great a lover OF
peace as any man in the world, but
did not send him on a peace mission.
| sent him to take part in a confer
ence as to how the war was to be won.
And he knows, as l know, that that
is the way to get peace IL you want
it for more than a few minutes.
"All of this is a preface to the con.
ference that i referred to with regard
to what we are going to do. If we are
true friends of freedom-our own or
anybody else's--we will see that the
power of this country and the produe.
tivity of this country, is raised to its
absolute maximum and that absolutely
nobody is allowed 10 stand in the way
OF it.
Labor Must Be Free.
while we are fighting for freedom
we must see, among other things
that labor is free, and that means a
number of interesting things. II
means not only hat we must do what
we have declared our purpose to do
see that the conditions of labor are not
rendered more onerous by the war
but also that we shall see to it that the
instrumentalities by which the condi
IlOUS OIL IdDOT are lmpTONeu, are not
blocked or checked. That We must do
That has been the matter about which
l nave taken pleasure in comforting
from time to time with your presi
dent. Mr.. Gompers. And / want
to express my admiration OF
his patriotic courage, his large Wis,
ion and his statesmanlike sense oil
what Is alongside of a mind that
knows how to pull in harness. The
horses that kick over the traces will
have TO be put in a corral.
Now to stand together means that
nabody must interrupt the processes
of our energy, III the interruption car
possibly be avoided without the alb
soluN invasion of freedom. To put II
concrstely, that means this: Nobody
has a right to stop the processes of la
Dor until all the methods of concilia
ton and settlement have been ex
hausteds and ! might as well say righl
here that ! am not talking to you
alone. YOU sometimes stop the course
Of labor, hut there are others who dc
the same. And that l am speaking oil
pav ouyu ovNariapra NOT nnIv h,f that