Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-10
Says United States Must Assist in Bringing German
Government to Terms, But Would Not Involve
Others of Central Powers.
WANTS AN ARMY OF A MILLION men
Recommends Adoption of Universal Military Service Cooperation
With Entente Allies Granting of Liberal Financial Credits
and Use of Navy in De stroyng Submarines

could use at sea, except these, which
it is impossible to employ as it is EN-
ploying them without throwing to the
winds all scruples of humanity or of
respect for the understandings that
were supposed to underlie the inter-
course Of the world.
I am not thinking of the loss of
property involved, immense and seri-
GUS as that is, but only of the wanton
and wholesale destruction Of the lives
Of nOncombatants, men, women and
children, engaged in pursuits which
have always, even in the darkest pc
RODS of modern history, been deemed
innocent and legitimate. Property can
be paid for; the lives of peaceful and
innocent people cannot be.
The present German submarine
warfare against commerce is war
fare against mankind. It is a war
against all nations. American ships
have been sunk, American lives taken,
in ways which it has stirred us deeply
to learn of, but the ships and people
of other neutral and friendly nations
have been sunk and overwhelmed in
the waters in the same way. There
has been no discrimination. The chal-
lenge Is to all mankind. Each nation
must decide for itself how it will meet
1t.
The choice we make for ourselves
must be made with moderation Of
counsel and temperance of judgment
BETTING our character and our mo-
tives as a nation. We must put ex-
cited feeling away. Our move will not
be revenge or the victorious asser-
ton of the physical might of the ma
ton, but only the vindication of right,
Of human right, of which we are only
a single champion.
"could Never Be Friend"
One of the things that has served
to convince me that the Prussian au-
tocracy was not and could never be
our friend Is that from the very out
set of the present war 1t has filed our
unsuspecting communities and even
Jul OlnNCo VI SONCl Win SDlCS
and set criminal intrigues everywhere
,afOOt against our national unity of
counsel, our peace within and without,
our industries and our commerce.
Indeed 1t is now evident that its
spies were here even before the war
began, and it is unhappily not a mat
ter Of conjecture, but a fact proved
in our courts of justice, that the in
trigues which have more than once
come perilously near to disturbing the
peace and dislocating the industries
of the country have been carried on
at the instigation, with the special,
and even under the personal direction
Of official agents of the imperial gov
eminent accredited to the government
of the United States.
Even in checking these things and
trying to eXtirpate them we have
sought to put the most generous in
depreciation possible upon them be-
cause we knew that their source lay
not in any hostile feeling or purpose
of the German people toward US (who
were no doubt as ignorant of them
as we ourselves were), but only in
the selfish designs of a government
that did what it pleased and told its
people nothing.
Makes Purpose Clear.
"While we do these things, these
deeply momentous things. let us be
very clear and make very clear to all
the world what our motives and our
objects are. My own thought has not
NAL course by the unhappy events OF
the last two months; and do not be-
lieve that the thought of the nation
has been altered or clouded by them.
81 have exactly the same thirtgs in
mind now that I had in mind when
addressed the senate on the 22d OF
January last; the same that l had in
mind when I addressed the congress
on the Sd of February and on the 26tt
of February. Our object now, as then
is to indicate the principles of peace
and the justice in the life of the world
as against selfish and autocratic pow
err and to set up among the really free
and self-governed peoples of the worlt
such concert of purpose and of &C
ton as will henceforth insure the sb
Servance of those principles.
Neutrality Not Feasible.
Neutrality is no longer feasible oil
desirable where the peace of the worlt
| is involved and the freedom of it:
peoples, and the menace to that peac,
and freedom lies in the existence of au
tocratic governments backed by organ
lied force which is controlled who'll,
by their will, not by the will of thei
people. We have seen the last of neu
trality IL such circumstances.
We are at the beginning of an ag,
! in which it will be insisted that tn,
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States army men, admit this natio,