The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1917-06-16
PRESIDENT WILSON MAKES GREAT FLAG DAY
ADDRESS IN DEFENDING WORLD DEMOCRACY


gression; If they fail the world may
unite for peace and Germany may be
of the union.
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 effect their puroses, the
deceit of the nations their present
particular aim is to deceive all those
who throuout the world stand for the
rights of peoples and the self govern
ment of nations; for they see what
immense strength the forces of JUS
tice and of liberalism are gathering
out of this war They are employ
ing liberals in their enterprise. They
are using men in Germany and with
out, as their spokesmen whom they
have hitherto despised and oppressed,
using them for their own destruction
socialists. the leaders of labor, the
thinkers, they have hitherto sought
to silence.
Let them once succeed and the
men, now their tools, will be ground
to powder beneath the weight of the
great military empire they will have
set up; the revolutionists nj Russia
will be cut off from all succor or CO.
operation in western Europe and Il
counter revolution fostered and sup
ported Germany herself will lose her
chance of freedom; and all Europe
will arm for the next. the final strug-
gle.
The 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
government can get access. That
government has many spokesmen here.
in places high and low They have
! learned discretion. They keep. within
the law. 1t is opinion they utter now
no 'sedition. They proclaim the liberal
purposes of their masters; declare this
a foreign war which can touch Amer
lea with no danger to either her lands
or her institutions; set England at
the center of the stage and talk of her
ambitiops to assert economic dominion
throughout the world; appeal to our
ancient tradition of isolation in the
politics of the nations, and seek to
undermine the government with false
/ professions of loyalty to it's principles
But they make no headway. The
| false betray themselves in every ac-
cent 1t is only friends and parti-
slams of the German government who
we, have already identified who utter
these thinly disguised disloyalists.
The facts are patent to all the world
| and no where 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 peoples war.
a war for freedom and justice and
I self government against all the ma
. tons Of the world, war to make
! the world safe for the peoples who live
! upon it and have made IL their own.
/ the German people themselves included
>nd that with us rests the choice to
! break through all these hypocrises and
patent chets and the masks Of brute
force and help set the world free or
elise stand aside aud let II be DONNA ted
"a long age through hypocrsies ana
patent cheats and the arbitrary
choices of self-constituted masters, by
ne natio which can maintain the big
I yest armies and the most Irresistible
armamens--a power to which the world
has afforded no parallel and in the
face of which political freedom must
wither and perish
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 resolve
when every principle we hold dearest
-s TO bo ,ca1ea md made secure
for the salvation of the nations, We
are ready TO plead at the bar Of history
and our nag shall wear new lustre
once more we shall make good with
our lives and fortunes the great faith
to which we We're born and a new
glory shall shine in the face of our
people"
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