The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-11-16

vent by law within u own borders.
If they could not sell their goods cheap
err than we could sell ours, at a profit
to themselves, they could get a subsidy
from the government which made it
possible to sell them cheaper anyhow;
and the conditions of competition were
thus controlled in large measure by
the government itself. But that
did not satisfy the German govern
ment.
"All the while there was lying be-
hind its thought, in its dreams OF the
future, a political control which would
enable it in the long run to dominate
the labor and industry of the world
They were not content with success by
superior achievement; they wanted
success by authority. | suppose very
few of you have thought much about
the Berlin-to- Bagdad railway. The
Berlin-to- Bagdad railway was construc
ted in order to run the threat of force
down the flank of the industrial under
takings of half a dozen other countries
SO that when German competition came
in it would not be resisted too far
because there was always the posi-
bility of getting German armies into
the heart of that country quicker than
n other armies could be got there.
Look at the map of Europe now.
Germany, in thrusting upon us again
and again the discussion of peace,
talks about what? Talks about Bel
| gium, talks about northern France,
talks about Alsace-Lorraine. Well,
these are deeply interesting subjects
to us and to them, but they are not
talking about the heart of the matter,
"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. l saw a map in which
the whole thing was printed in appro-
pirate black the other day, and the
black Stretches all the way from Ham,
burg to Bagdad-the bulk of German
power inserted in the heart of the
world. If it can keep that, she can
keep all that her dreams contemplated
when the wal began. If she can keep
that her power can disturb the world
as long as she keeps railways pro-
vided, for / feel bound to put that pro-
vision in, always provided the present
influences that control the German
government continue to control it.
81 believe that the spirit Of freedom
can get into the hearts Of Germans
and find as fine a welcome there as Il
can find in al, other hearts. But tbs
shirt loE fraeqah does not suit ths
plans of the pan-Germans. Powel
cannot be used With concentrated force
against free peoples if it is used BY
free people.
"If you know how many intimatlon'
come to us from one of the centra
powers that is more anxious for peace
than the chief central power, and you
know that it means that the people il
that central power know that if thu
war ends as it stands they will in eff
feet be ~vassals of Germany, notwith
standing their populations are com
pounded with all the peoples of tina
part of the world, and Notwithstanding
the fact that they do not wish il
their pride and proper spirit of ma
%tionality to be absorbed and dominat
ed.
Germany is determined that the pc
litical power of the world shall belong
|, to her. There have been such ambl
tons before. They have been in par
realized. But never before have thos
/, ambitions been based upon so exac
, and precise and scientific plan of dom
ination.
"May l say that it is amazing t
me that any group of people should b
, so Uniformed as to propose, as som
groups il Russia apparently suppose
! that any reforms planned in the inter
, est of the people can live in the pres
! ence of a Germany powerful enoug
to overthrow them by intrigue or fore
ANY body of free men that compound
q with the present German government
is compounding for its own destruC
q ton. But that is not the whole of tn
: story. Any man in America, or any
: where else, who supposes that the fire
industry and enterprise of the worl
q can continue if the pan-German pla
/, is achieved and German power faster
. ed upon the world is as fatuous as tn
dreamers Of Russia.
4 "What l am opposed to is not tn
: feeling of the pacifst, but their stu
h pidity. My heart is with them, but m
) mind has a contempt for them.
/ want peace but / know how to get
a and they do not.
e You will notice that sent a frien
: Of mine, Col. House, to Europe, who
: as great a lover of peace as any mai
t in the world; but l did not send him o
: a peace mission; ! sent him to tax
part in a conference as to how the wa
was to be won, and he knows, as
d know, that that is the way to GO
peace, if you want it for more than
n few minutes.
"All Of this is a preface to the cor
: ference that | referred to with regar
to what we are going to do. If "
h are true friends of freedom-our ow
n or anvbodv,s else-we will see that I'll