Arizona republican., 1917-07-30
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 MADISON BARRACKS, IN. Y, July 29.-In a speech here tonight before TOO members of the officers reserve corps, Secretary of State Lansing, emphasizing the periol of German imperialism to the United States and the world declared his belief that the German people would not cast off the yoke of autocracy until the physical might of the united democ racies of the world has destroyed for ever the evil ambitions of the mili- tary rulers of Germany" That, he added is the only way to restore the peace of the world.
 Were every people on earth able to expres 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 a people can express their will is through democratic institu tions. Therefore, when the world is made safe for Democracy, when that great principle prevails, universal peace will be an accomplished fact.
 No nation of people will be fit more than the United States when that time comes. But it has not yet come A great people, ruled in thought and word as well as in deed by the most sinister government of modern times, is straining every nerve to supplant democracy by the autocracy they have been taught to worship. When will the German peo pie 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 forever the evil am bitions of the military rulers of Germany and liberty triumphs over it's arch enemies.
 MT. Lansing sought to drive home to the student officers the right eousness of the cause for which they had volunteered to go to France and fight asserting that America would win ''bccause our cause is the cause of justice ard of right and humanity The immediate cause of our war with Germany-the breaking of her promises as to indiscriminate sub marine warfare-has a far deeper meaning, he said-"a meaning which has been growing more evident as the war has progressed and which needed but this act of perfidy to bring it home to all thinking Ameri- cans. The evil character of the German government is laid before the world We know now that gov ernment is inspired with ambitions which menace human liberty, and that to gain it's end it does not hes 1 itate to break faith. to violate the most sacred rights, or to perpetrate intolerable violations of humanity. Tt needed but the words uttered | by the German chancellor to com plete 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 attacks on commerce | efficient. Do you realize that this | means, if it means anything, that the 1 promises to refrain from brutal sub marine 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 submarines l and that when the time came to act the German promises were unhesi
 tatingly torn to pieces like othel | scraps of papers,
 Tt is this disclosure of the char.
 acter of the imperial German gov ernment which is the underlying i cause of our entry into the war. w,
 had doubted, or at least many Amer | jeans had doubted, the evil pur
 poses of the rulers of Germany. Doub
 remained no longer In the light o events we could read the past ant see that for quarter of centur! the absorbing ambition of the mill
 tary oigarchy was the master of tn,
 German empire, was for world do
 minion.
 Asserting that the future of tn
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