The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-04-12

THE MOVING REASON FOR BEING I'm THE WAR
The underlying issue of the against auto
cacy The war not caused by clash Of those anag
onstc principles else Russia would have been found eague
with Germany Austria Turkey and Bulgaria Of with
Great Britain France Belgium and Italy But Russia
has become Democratic it found that all the principal
countries constituting group begerents have repre-
sentative and all those countries constituting
the other group have autocrac Absoutism
last stand on the civilized earth is the territory of the
trial With the group that trumphs triumph also
the principle upon which the Of constituent
members founded The loss and gain would be alto
geher Democracy would suffer in prestige and spirit
nal influence throughout the world by the defeat the dem
ocratc would retrogressve influence to
which not in this country would be altogether mper
vous while it might for the progress Of
democracy in those countries where is but precarouy
established This particularly Of republics on the
continent the south of Of these democracy
precept rather than practice
The fact that this has to be- stated by the
president and affirmed by congress- the political cleavage of
the is why every who believes in free gov
eminent give his sympathy the cause But
events have carried far beyond the point of determining
where sympathy properly lies This and
this had long been given TO the entente We had given
them the advantage Of fendy neutrality whose legal
faults whatever they have been have justified by
the partay which democracy to another that
at'wa with autocracy.
Stated definite concrete TERMS the defeat Of auto
in this the destruction of the potent
warmakng forces The ambitions which cause
most do not abide in the hearts Of the They live
only in the minds of the ruling classes The left
free consult their desires their will
will not decree offensive They win make for
the conquest OF either territory markets.
resent isolated constructive ndgnies Those
motives and provocatons for only with small class of
who make their will decisive in auocratc gov
erpment but find their numbers mpoten in democratic
Tt the of Germany Austria
reasoned out this In Austria there popular
quescence The people consulted And if the
German people asquesced with apparent enthusiasm it
because, trained in creduty and docy they easily
deuded into the belief that for them of defense
The overthrow of the autocratc principle in it's last places
Of Judgment may be to end warmang forever Indeed
it will not But it will be minimize the danger of and
utterly preclude the outbreak of scale comparable
with the of this Here then is rational motive
of senterest for going with Germany 1t is to make
certain the defeat of which has shown the
bon and the threaten the peace and the vel
fare OF the world Our hostility peoples racial
but governments oppression The is to destroy
and thus free the peoples governed in the
they get the of their national
lives their power will longer be to the world and
obstacle to civilization
This is tenabe and sound for taking sides In the
conflict and which will be historically justified for hav
ing handed down heritage not impaired but enrichedLew
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