Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-30
ONLY PHYSICAL MIGHT
CAN BRING WORLD PEACE
United Democracies Of Earth Must
Destroy Evil Ambitions of Ger
many's Military Rulers.
AUTOCRACY WITHOUT HONOR
Lansing Drives Home to Young Off.
GERS knowledge Of Why They Are
Fighting-Hopcs Whole Story OF
Berlin's Duplicity May BE Told.
IUTOCRACY WITHOUT HONOR
IBy Associated Press.l

MADISON BARRACKS. y. Y, July
29.-In a speech here tonight before
LOO members OF the officers reserve
corps. Secretary of State Robert Lam
sing. emphasizing the peril of Ger
man imperialism to the United States
and the world. declared his belief that
the German people would not cast off
the yoke OF autocracy until the physi-
cal might of the united democracies
Of the world have destroyed the evil
ambitions of the military rulers of Ger
many" That. he added. is the only
way TO restore the peace of the world.
Were every people on earth able
TO express their will. there would be
no wars Of aggression" he said. "and
II there were no wars Of aggression,
there would be no wars. and lasting
peace would come to this earth. The
only way that people can express
their will is through democratic In
stitutious. Therefore. when the world
is made safe for democracy. when that
great principle prevails. universal
peace will be an accomplished fact"
WILL WIN BECAUSE ITS
CAUSE IS JUST ONE
Mr.. Lansing sought to drive home to
the student officers the Righteousness
Of the cause for which they had volun-
teered TO go to France and fight. as
serting that America would win be
cause our cause is the cause OF JUS
tice and of right and Of humanity"
The immediate cause of our war
with Germany-the breaking Of her
promises as TO indiscriminate subma-
rine warfare-has a far deeper mean
ing lie said. "a meaning which has
been growing more evident as the war
has progressed. and which needed but
this act of perfidy to bring 1t home
to all thinking Americans. The evil
character of the German government is
laid bare before the world. We know
now that that government Is inspired
with ambitions which menace human
liberty. and that to gain it's end IL
does not hesitate to break faith. 10
violate the most sacred rights. or 20
perpetrate intolerable acts of inhu-
manity.
1T needed but the word reported to
have been uttered by the German Chan
cellor to complete the picture of the
character of his government. when he
announced that the only reason why
the intensified submarine campaign was
delayed until February last was that
sufficient submarines could not be built
before that time to make the attacks
on commerce efficient. Do you realize
that this means, If it means anything.
that the promises to refrain from
WI oh
many had made to the United States.
were never intended to be kept; that
they were only made in order to gain
time in which to build more subma-
rines. and that when the time came to
act. the German promises were unhesi-
tatingly torn to pieces. like other
scraps OF paper?
Absorbing AMBITION
OFF MILITARY OLIGARCHY
we had doubted. or at least. many
Americans had doubted the evil pur-
poses of the rulers of Germany. Doubt
remained no longer. In the light OF
events we could read the past and see
that for quarter OF century the alb
sorbing ambition of the military oil
garchy. which was the master of the
cIHpiIc, was LOT wOTlu uO-
minion."
Asserting that "the future of the
United States is at stake" Secretary
Lansing said that "if any OF you have
the idea that we are fighting others
battles and not our own, the sooner
he gets away from that idea the bet
ter II will be for him, the better 1t
will be for all of us"
Answering those who, he said. might
think it improbable that Germany
would have attacked the United States
If she won the war and the United
States had remained neutral. Mr.. Lam
sing cited things which Germany has
been guilty Of which were thought.
improbable. yes. impossible" before
the war-violation OF treaties, tho
crimes of murder, extortion and van
dalism In Belgium and France. sub
marine brutality and bomb dropping
on cities. ''Yet, Cod help us. these
things have come to pass" he exclaim-