Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-15
HEAR REMARKABLE PREsENTA-
TON OF CAUSES LEADING UP
TO POSSIBILITIES.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
MAN COMPARES IDEALS
For America There is But One Issue
in This Dlemma-HaIf Way War
mpossible--America Must Furnish
Men and Money to Uproot Prussair
Ideal Of Government From Europe.


Des Moines, June 10 Iowa bank
ers yesterday in convention at Des
sMoines listened to a renarka Bile re-
view of the causes leading up to the
present war with Germany and clear
statement of the issues involved in the
war by Prof. D. w. Johnson, Of Column
bia University. New York City, who
took the place of Columbia's president.
Nicholas Murray Butler, on the bank
ers program. He contrasted the
Prussian ideal of government as de-
veloped by the house of Hohenzollern
with the American ideal and proved
that they are Numerically opposed
and can not exist side by side He
traced the history of the house of
Hohenzollern from the days before
Columbus discovered America when
the present kaiser's ancestors ruled
over small tract Of country sur
rounding the little town Of Berlin. BY
conquest and the blood and iron policy
the successive rulers of this family
added to their kingdom from time to
time until their rule extended over
great empire. Now William II is en-
deavoring to conquer the world.
American Ideal Must Win.
For Americans theresis but one is :
sue in this dilemma" he said. The
Prussian ideal must perish, the Am
erican ideal must live. We fight not
to avenge the Lusitania, mot to rebuild
Louvain, not to exact reparation for
murdered women and children, not to
destroy the German people. We fight
to slay the government which taught
its people to commit such deeds. We
fight that never again may a great
nation with cynical insolence throw in
the face of the world the base asser-
tons that treaties are scraps of paper,
that necessity knows no law, that
might is the right of the strongest.
that the state can do no wrong. We:
fight to hurl the Hohenzollern and his
dangerous doctrine of divine right
upon the scrap heap of useless trump
cry, and to set the German people in
his place, that they may learn to rule
themselves. Here, indeed, is a cause
worthy of our treasure and our blood.
Half Way War Impossible.
How shall the end be achieved?
Not by halfway war, not by con-
ella ton or compromise. Great ends
are not achieved by petty measures.
The Prussian ideal of government is
deep rooted in Central Europe and
capable of surviving many incon-
elusive wars. Our mission is to furnish
the men and money to bring decisive
victory.
For such victory three. things are
most, essential The imperial German
armies must be defeated on the battle
field and driven from the lands they
conquered The German people must
learn that, for all it's inefficiency.
democracy is stronger than disciplined
autocracy. Restitution Of the fruits of
past conquests must be required, Bos-
mia and Herzegovina Alsace Lorraine,
and Poland restored to rightful SOW
ereignty.
The German people must learn that
the dream of a central European en-
pire founded on military conquest is
forever dashed to earth. Repara ton
for grievous wrongs. so far as these
may be repaired by money indemnities,
must be exacted. The German people
must learn that upon the guilty ag-
falls the heavy burden of restoring
ravished lands, rehabilitating burned
and pillaged cities, supporting ruined
homes and indemnifying those whose
innocent loved ones were foully
wronged or slain,
War in the past has been immense
ly profitable TO Germany. She must
be taught that it is the most costly
crime nation can commit. With these
ends achieved we may reasonably hope
that the German people. sick Of the
bloody disasters born of Prussian mill
tarism, will awaken from the trance in
which they live and throw off the
hateful Hohenzollern yoke. If they
do not, then we must fight to force the
central citadel Of Prussian power. We
must not lay down the sword till the
HohenZollern throne Is empty"