The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-12-27
Has Ample Power to Handle NAL
contents, Says Attorney
General Gregory.
SACRIFICES MUST BE MADE
Some Called Upon to Break With
Friends and Kindred As Those
Did Who Secured Liberties
Enjoyed Today.
BY THOMAS W. GREGORY,
Attorney General Of the United States.

tuttsS WHO, lea ny RoOu or Ddu motives,
seek TO hamper our work in the war
justify me as the chief law officer OF
the executive branch of the govern
inent in calling attention TO the duties,
moral and legal, OF All persons owing
temporary or permanent allegiance to
the United States.
The German government began this
war by II contemptuous breach of It's
formally plightcd faith made In solemn
treaty and from the beginning until
now has more than mnde good this
ominouS earnest Of It's intention und
ten. per. The president has shown us
how one by one, as opportunity offered, |
the safeguards which civilization has |
been able during the centuries To throw
around neutrals and the nonfightlng
people Of warning nations were ruth
lcssly torn down; how, patient and long
suffering remonstrunce and request
were met by fair words, aud fairer
promises made only to be broken.
We all know as but sober fact, plainly |
stated, that the imperial government
has allowed no rule Of war. no prin- |
ciple OF civilization, no consideration
of humanity, no teaching Of Christian
lty to stand between 1t and the work.
Ing out of Its Illegal purposes. For
half n century that government has
schemed and prepared to dominate the
world by "blood and iron" For half
n century the officials of the imperial
government, from the kaiser down,
Including eve the teachers of their
children, have prostltuted the minds
Of their youth until the whole people
has been led to n liberation, If not APP
p~roval, OF the hideous outragcs and
bnrbarities practiced by that govern
ment In this war. While yet we were
neutral. struggling to keep free from
the conflict, the representatives of that
government In this country planned
to destroy our factories and our rail-
roads. forged our public papers, de-
ccived us when convenient, violated
our hospitality and our sovereignty,
while they plotted against terrific
rial Integrity; they deliberately and
with malice and %affrontlng forewarn-
Ing drowned our helpless women and
babes and declared II public holiday
that their own innocent children might
celebrate the murder.
Seek to Rule.
They have bombarded unfortifed
towns and bombed the unprotected
homes OF their foes, taking their toll Of
wounded and dead from the aged and
lnfirm. the young and the helpless.
They have made barren desert of the
garden spots of the earth they have
needlessly pillaged and willfully
burned towns; they have reduced to
slavery men, women and children (;
they have wrecked and torn asunder
Its efficiency.
AS the war has gone on. the ultimate
aim Of the imperial government has
become more and more clear. Drunk
with the sense of its WI power and
It's asserted superiority, II has pro-
posed to secure Il dominating position
for itself and for its system over the
entire world. Nowhere yielding to the
people their rlghtful powers, and
everywhere seeking to uphold eutoc-
rncy and despotism, Ii has shown its
intention to perpetuate absolute gov
eminent of which 1t admittedly Is the
head and front. Its "kultur" IS
avowed to he the acme of human good
ness and endcGvor, and Is to boG-t the
ruiership of the world, gained 10y force
and arms.
The world must fight to preserve
itself. or this there can be no doubt.
Kings Against Peoples.
Heretofore, save In rare cases, war
has been "A fight between armies; but
this war, because OF the initial prepar-
alton for 1t by m autocracy which
prostituted II whole mighty nation 10
It's purpose Is n contest between peoples
themselves. 1t is correspOndingly in
tense and relentless. The march OF
events shows that II Is now n war of
system-kings against peoples. II
our enemy win kings VAL dominate
the world. because no democracy fights
with or for them. The Prusslan auto
crat and the brutal Turk will impose
upon Us their Wills, tell US what we
may do, what we may not do, and the
horrors and atrocities OF Belgium and
Armenia leave no doubt what this
means.
Thus our own very life came to be
bound up in the outcome of this war
long before we entered II, and even
years before the war broke. To the
man OF vision II Is as clear as sunlight
that the aim and the plan Of the i'm
perial government was and IL TO con
quer the world. nation by nation. II
was FIRST to defeat France and Russia
next to dominate Great Britain. and
with Europe at Its feet TO turn ia
America. "Kultur" and the German
sword were to rule around the world
Copuress, Gave Pledoe.