The Tupelo journal., 1917-06-22
PRESIDENT WILSON'S FLAG DAY
ADDRESS.
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we are vaguely conscious that we
are fighting their cause, as they will
some day see it, as well as our own.
They are themselves in the grip of
the same sinister power that has now
at last stretched it's ugly talons put
and drawn blood from us. The whole
world is at war because the whole
world is in the grip of that power
which shall determine whether it is
. to be brought under its mastery or
fling itself free.
''The war was begun by the mill
tary masters of Germany, who proved
to be also the masters of Austria
Hungary. These men have never re-
garded nations as peoples, men,
women and children of like blood and
frame as themselves, fro whom COX
ernments existed and in whom gov
'ernments had their life. They have
regarded them merely a servicable
organizations which they could by
force or intrigue bend or corrup to
their own purpose. They have re-
garded the smaller states, in particu-
lar, and the. peoples who could be
overwhelmed by force, as their natu-
raj toolssand Instruments of domi-
nation. Their purpose has long been
evowed.
"The statesmen of other nations,
to whom that purpose was incredible,
paid little attention; regarded what
German professors expounded in
their classrooms and German writer's
set forth to the world as, the goal of
German policy as rather the dream
of minds detached from practical af-
fairs, as preposterous private concep-
tons of German destiny, than as the
actual plans of responsible rulers;
but the rulers of Germany themselves
knew all the while what concrete
plans, what we'll advanced intrigues,
lay back of what the professors and
the writers were saying, and were
glad to go forward unmolested, filling
the thrones of Balkan states with
German princes, putting German Off
GERS at the service of Turkey to drill
her armies and make interest with
her Government, developing plans Of
sedition and rebellion in India and
Egypt, setting their fires in Persia.
German Plan of Conquest.
1.-THE demands made by Austria
upon Serbia were a mere single step
in a plan which comprised Europe
and Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad.
They hoped those demands might not
arouse Europe, but they meant to
press them whether they did or not,
for they thought themselves ready
for the final issue of arms.
"Their plan was TO throw e. broad
belt of German military power and
political control across the very cen
tire of Europe and beyond the Medit-
into the heart of Asia; and
Austria-Hungary was to be as much
their tool and pawn as Serbia or Bull
garia or Turkey or the ponderous
states of the East. Australian
gary, indeed, was to become part of
the Central German Empire, alb
sorbed and dominated by the same
forces and influences that had orig
inally cemented the German states
themselves.
"The dream had its heart at Ber-
lin. 1t could have had a heart no
where else! 1t rejected the idea of
solidarity of race entirely. The choice
of peoples played no part in it at all.
1t contemplated binding together
racial and political units which could
be kept together only by force
Czechs, Magyars, Croats, Serbs, Rou-
manians, Turks, Armenians-the
proud States of Bohemia and Hun
gary, the stout little commonwealth