Arizona republican., 1917-12-05

in her success and stand or fall as we had or did not have the brains and the initiative to surpass her But at the | moment when she had conspicuously | won her triumphs of peace she drew them away to establish in their stead what the world will no longer permit to be established, military and political domination by arms, by which to oust where she could not excel the rivals she most feared and hated. The peace we make must remedy that wrong. It must deliver the once fair lands and happy peoples of Belgium and northern France from the Prussian conquest and the PruSsian menace but it must also deliver the peoples of Austria Hungary, the peoples of the Balkans, and the people of Turkey, alike in Flu rope and in. Asia, from the impudent and alien domination of the Prussian military and commercial autocracy
 No Interference by U. 8.
 We owe It, however, to ourselves to say that we do not wish in any way to impair or to rearrange the Austro- Hungarian empire. It is no affair of ours what they do with their own life, either industrially or politically. We do not purpose or desire to dictate to them ln any way. We only desire to see that their affairs are left in their own hands, in all matters, great or small. We shall hope to secure for the peoples of the Balkan peninsula and for the people of the Turkish em- pire the right and opportunity to make | thelr own lives safe, their own fortunes secure against oppression or injustice and from the ,dictation Of foreign courts or parties.
 And our attitude and purpose with | fn l., kind. We intend no wrong against the German empire. no interference with her internal affairs. We should deem either the one v- the other abso- iutely unJustifiable, absolutely con- trary to the principles we have pro- fessed to live by and to hold most sacred throughout our life as a na- tion.
 The people of Germany are being told by the men whom they now permit to deceive them and to act as their mast CTS that they are fighting for the very ll1e and existence of their empire a war or desperate self defense against deliber- ate aggression. Nothing could be more grossly or wantonly false, and we must seek by the utmost openness and candor as 10 our real aims to convince them of US lalseness We are in fact, fighting TOT thelr emancipation from fear. along 1 with our own, from the fear as well as from the fact of unjust attack bv neigh bors or rivals or schemers after world empire No one is threatening the existence or the independence or the peaceful enterprise of the German em- pire.
 Germany in Peace
 The worst that can happen to the detrlment of the German people is this ana II they still, after the war is over. continue to be obliged to live under aholtlous and intriguing masters in- terested To disturb sne paace of the world, men or classes of men whom the other peoples of the world couJd moi trust, it might be impossible to admit , them to the partnership of nations , which must henceforth guarantee the worlds peace. That partnership must De partnership of peoples, not a mere ! partnership of governments. It might . De impossible, also, in such untowarC . circumstances, to admit Germany tt the Tree economic intercourse which must inevitably spring out of the other partnerships or a real peace. But 5 there would be no aggression in that } and such a situation. inevitably he on, or dlstrust, would in the very nature n, l things sooner or later cure itself b, 5 processes which would asuredly set in } Wrongs Must Be Rahted
 } Ihe wrongs, the very deep wrongs l committed in this war will have to be flghted. But they can not and mus not be righted by the commission o, , similar wrongs against Germany an( her allies. The world will not permi r the commission of similar wrongs a, means Of reparation and settlement statesmen must by this time hay, learned that the opinion of the world i. 1 everywhere wide awake and fully com. prehends the issues involved. No ren. resentative of any self-gOverned natior Will dare disregard it by attempting an, such covenants of selfishness and com promise as were entered into at th. congress Of Vienna The thought O. the pialn people here and everywhere throughout the world the people whe enjoy no privilege and have very sim. pie ana unsophisticated standards o right and wrong is the air all govern ments must henceforth breathe if the, would live. It is in the full disclos. ing light of that thought that all poli cles must be conceived and executed Tn this midday hour of the world lire. German rulers have been able t, upset the peace of the world only be cause the German people were not suf Iereu under their tutelage to share tn, coinraoeshlp or other people of tn world either in thought or in purnose They were allowed to have no oninio, or their own which might be set up a, a rule Of conduct for those who exer clseo authority over them But tn, congress that concludes this war vii reel the full strength of the tides tha run now In the hearts and conscience or Iree men everywhere. Its conclu slons Will run with these tides.
 # Russia Had Known
 All these things have been true iron the very beginning of this stupendou war: and l cannot help thinking tha 1T they had been made plain at tn very outset, the sympathy and enthu slasm of the Russian people migh nave been once for all enlisted on tn, sloe or the allies Suspicion and dis trust swept away and a real and last Ing union of purpose affected. Ha, they believed these things at the yer, moment of their revolution and ha, they been confirmed in that belief since the sad reverses which have recentll marked the progress of their affairs to ward an ordered and stable governmen or Tree men might have been ayerted The Russian people have been poisone, oy the very game falsehoods that hay kept the German people in the dar] and the poison has been administered b the same hands. The only possible an
 ldote Is the truth. It cannot be ut tered too plainly or too often.
 From every point of view, therefore. has seemed to be my duty to spea] these declarations of purpose, to ad these specific interpretations to wha took the liberty of saying to tn senate in January. Our entrance int the war has not altered our attitud 1 toward the settlement which mus