American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-22
PRESIDENT WILSON
EXPOSES GERMANY
In Flag Day Address Chief Executive
Says Germany Has Effected Greater
Part of Her Conquest Plan.

nicd u~. ana NOT of our own choice.
This FINK under which we serve would
have been dlshonorcd had we with
held our band.
"Hut This is only part of the story.
We know now avs clearly as we knew
before we we're ourselves engaged that
we are not the enemies OF the Ger.
man people and that they are not our
enemies. They did not originate or de-
sire This hideOus war or wish thnt we
should be- drawn into It. and we are
vaguely conscious that we are fighting
their cause, as they viii some day
see IL, as we'll as our own. They are
themselves IN the grip Of the same sin
lister power hat has now at last
stretched us ugly tulons out md
drawn blood from us. The whole world
is at war because the whole world is
In the grip Of that power and is try
Ing out the great battle which shall
determine whether II Is rs be brought
under us mastery or fling Itself free.
''lhe war was begun by the military
Minister'S of Germany, who proved To be
also the masters of AUSTRIA Hungary.
These men have never regarded na-
lions as peoples, mer. women and chill
drcn of like blood and frame as them
selves, from whom governments had
their life. They have regarded them
merely as seryiceuble organizations.
which they could by force or intrigue
bend or corrupt to their own purpose.
They have regarded the smaller states,
in particular. and the peoples who
Gould be- overwhelmed by force. as their
natural tools and instruments OF dom
nation. Their purpose has long been
uVuWcd. The statesmen of other ma
tlons. to whom that purpose was in
credible, paid little attention regarded
what German professors cXpOunded ia
their clissroums and German writer's
set forth 10 The world as the goal Of
German policy as rather the dream of
minds detached from practical affairs
as prepnsterous private conceptions of
German destiny, than as the actual
pluns of responsible rulers. but the
rulers of Germany themselves knew nll
The while what concrete plans. what
well advanced intrigueS lay back of
whit the professors and the writer's
were saying. aud We're glad 10 go for
ward mmolested. filling the thrones ot
the Bnlknns with German princes, put
ting German Officers Ht the service of
Turkey to drtll her urmics and make
interest with her government. develop.
ing plun~ at ~cditiou and rebellion iu
India and Egypt. setting their fires iu
Persia. The demands made by Aus.
tria upon Serbia were "a mere single
step in a plan which %compaSsed Eu.
rope and Asia, from Berlin Il Bugdad
They hoped those demands might NOT
arouse Europe. but they meant to press
them whether they did or not, for They
thought themselves ready for the final
issue of rms
Into Asia.
Their plan was to throw a broad
belt of German military power and po-
litical control across the very center
OF Europe and beyond the Mediterra.
mean into the heart Of Asia ana Aus.
trln Hungary was TO be as much THEN
tool and pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria
or Turkey or the ponderous states ui
the cu~t. Austria Hungary. indeed
was To become part of the central Ger
man empire. absorbed and dominated
by the same forces and Influences thai
had originally cemented the German
states themselves. The dream had it,
heart ut Berlin. ID could have had Z,
heart nowhere else, II rejected th,
ldtu of solidarity of race entirely. Tn,
choice OF peoples played no part in It
|nt an. II concentrated binding to
grther rucial and political units which
could be- kept together onl, hy force
C.cth-. MusyurS. CrnntS. serbs Ron.
muuiJnS. Turks. Armcniuus- the proud
sfufps OF HDhpmin and hungary fr
STOUT little commemorative of he nI
luuS the ludamftnhIe Turks th, snh
tlp ppopIcs 81 the east These nennl,.
dld not wish to be- united Tho, ard
eutly Desired a. direct their own nf
fairs. would De- satisfied ont, hy undis
putcd Independence The, could D,
kept quiet only hv the presence, OF TIA,
constant threat of arniyd mru The,
would live under a common pnNrr nnl,
hs sheer cnmpul-iou and await the da,
of revolution. suf tho German mill
tnr, statesmen hll reckon,d with ul