Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-08-03
CRUSH GERMANY
TO BRING PEACE
No Hope Of Revolution, Says
Secretary Lansing.
NOT, FIGHTING FOR OTHERS
Berlin Government is Menace to HUI.
man Liber.y-Promises Made to
United States to Gain Time.

In a speech at Ma lison Bar.
racks, N. Y, before 1900 members
OF the officers reserve corps, Secretary
OF State Robert Lansing, emphasizing
The peril Of German imperiali M to TIE
United States and the world, dec AIRED
bis belief that the German reop-e
would not cast off the yoke of auto
cracy until the physical might of tie
united democracies of the world has
destroyed forever the evil ambitions
Of the military rulers of Germany"
That, he added, is the only way to
restore the peace of the word
"Were every people on earth able
20 express their will, there would be
10 wars of aggression" he said, "and,
# there were no wars of aggression.
there would be no wars, and lasting
peace would come to this earth. The
only way that a people can express
their will is through democratic il
stitutions. Therefore, when I'VE work!
is made safe for democracy, when tnat
great principle prevails, unlVersa!
peace will be an accomplished fact.
mo nation of people will be fit more
than the United States when that time
comes. But it has not yet come.
great people, ruled in thought AM
word as we'll as in deed by the mos,
sinister government Of modern times:
is straining every nerve to suprlant
democracy by the autocracy which
they have been taught to wor hip.
When will the German people awake.
to the truth? When will they arse
their might and cast off the yoke and
become their own masters? l fear
that it will not be until the physica!
might of the united democracies CT
the world have destroyed forever the
evil ambitions of the military rulers
of Germany and liberty triumphs over
it's arch enemy"
Mr.. Lansing sought to drive home TO
the student officers the righteousness
of the cause for which they had volun'
teerei to go to France and fight, as
serting that America would win "be'
cause our cause is the cause of justice
and right and OF humanity.
The immediate cause of our wal
with Germany-the breaking off hel
promises as to indiscriminate subma'
rine warfare-has far deeper mean
ing. he said, "a meaning which has
been growing more evident as the war
has progressed and which needed but
this act of perfldy to bring it home to
all thinking Americans. The evil cher.
acter of the German government is laid
bare before the world. We know now
that that government is inspired with
ambitions which menace human liberty
and that to gain its end it does not
hesitate to break faith, to violate the
most sacred rights, or to perpetrlte
intolerable acts on humanity.
at needed but the words reported to
have been uttered by the German
chancellor to complete the picture OF
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 sufficient. Dc
you realize that this means, if it means
anything, that the promises to refrain
from brutal submarine warfare, which
Germany had made to the Unite.
States, were never intended to be p
that they were onlydn in order
gain time in which to build more sui
marines, and that when the time cam,
to act, the Ge!man promises were lii
hesitatingly torn to pieces like othC
scraps Of paper"