Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-15
government would be willing to
accept.

| the whole OF belgium. 1tS dTuAoS press
close upon Russia and overrun Poland
at their will. 1t cannot 80 further; 1t
dare not 70 back. It wishes to close its
bargain before 1t Is too late and it has
little left to offer for the pound Of fesh
It will demand.
SEEK POWER At HOME.
"The military masters under whom
Germany Ia bleeding see very clearly
to what point fate has brought them
II they fall back or are forced back
An inch. their power both abroad ana
at home will fall to pieces like house
Of cards. 1t is their power at homo
they are thinking about now more
than their power abroad. It Is thss
power which is trembling under their
very feet; and deep fear has entered
their hearts.
They have but one chance to per
petuate their military power or even
their controlling political influence II
they can secure peace now with the
immense advantages still in their
hands which they have up to this
point apparently gained, they VIII
have JUSTIFIED themselves before the
German people; they will have gained
by force what they promised to gain
by It; an immense expansion Of Ger
man power, an immense enlargement
of German industrial and commercial
opportunities. Their prestige VIII be
secure, and with their prestige their
political power.
!, ~ they fall, the4r people will
thrust them aside; government
accountable 70 the people them
selves will be set UP In Germany
as it has been In England, IN the
United States, In France, and In
all the great countries Of tire mod
ern time except Germany.
III they succeed they are safe
and Germany and the world are
undone; II they fail. Germany 10
saved and the world will be at
peaca. II they succeed, America
Will fail within the menace. We
| and all the rest Of the world must
remain armed, 40 they will re-
main, and must make ready FOR
the next stop In their aggression;
n they fall, the world may unite
for peace and Germany may be Of
the union.
DO you not now understand the new
intrigue, the intrigue for peace, and
why the masters Of Germany do not
hesitate to use any agency that prom
ises to effect their purpose. the deceit
Of the nations? Their present partic.
ular atm Is to deceive all those who
throughout the world stand for the
rights Of peoples and the self govern
ment Of nations; for they see what i'm
mense strength the forces OF Justice
and of liberalism are gathering out OF
this war.
WARNING TO pAclFisTs.
They are employing liberals in theil
enterprise. They are using, as theiH
spokesmen. men in Germany and with
out, whom they have hitherto despfsed
and oppressed, using them for theil
own ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the lead
ers OF labor, the thinkers they have
hitherto sought to silence. Let them
once succeed and the men. now theiH
tools, will be ground to powder BE-
meath the weight Of the great military
empire they will have set up; the
revolutionists IN Russia will be cut on
from all succor or cooperation In Yves.
tern Europe and q counter revolution
fostered and supported: Germany her
self will lose her chance Of freedom;
and all Europe will arm for the next,
the nnal struggle.
1.-THE sinister Intrigue 10 being no
less actively conducted In this
| country than In Russia and In
every county In Europe to which
the agents and dupes OF the I'M
periaI German government can get
aeesss. That government has many !.
spokesmen here, In plaees high
| and low. They have learned die.
erection. They keep within the laas.
II 10 opinion they utesr now, not
sedttion.
"They proclaim the liberal pur-
| poses Of their masisrsi declare
thIs a foreign war which can touch
| America With no danger 20 either
| her lands or her Institutions; set
| Enuland at the center Of the staoe
and talk Of her ambition TO aeoeH
| economic dominion throughout the
| world; appeal TO our ancient trad'-
tIon Of Isolation In the politics OF
| the nations; and seek to under
n,ine the government with false
| professions o. loyalty - 10 pin
elptes.
But they will make no headway
The false betray themselves In every
accent It is only friends and pardsans
Of the German government whom w
have already identified who utter these
thinty disguised dlsloyalties. The facts
are patent to all the world and no
where are they more plainly seen than
in the United States. where We are &C
customed to deal with facts and moi
with sophistries; and the great TACT
that stands out above all the rest IL
that this is peoples war. war fos
freedom and justice and self govern
ment amongst all the nations Of the
world, a war to make the world safe
for the peoples who live upon IT and
have made It their own, the German
people themselves included. and that
with M rests the choice to break
through all these hypocFisies and pat
eut cheats and masks Of brute force
and help set tho world free, or else
stand aside and let 1t be dominated
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