The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-07

future peace of the world and the
future welfare and happiness Of its
peoples.
ga genuine and practical CO.
operation of the free peoples Of the
world in some common covenant that
will combine their forces to secure
peace and justice in the dealings of
nations with one another.
Warns Against German Peace.
In his Russian note. and again in
his address at Washington on the
fourteenth day of June. President
Wilson gave a solemn warning
against the sort Of peace desired by
German military power, peace
which would not only defeat the OBJ
jects of the United States in enter
ing the war. but would place this ma
ton in grave danger Of future ag-
erosion from Germany. He pointed
out that the military masters of
Germany planned to throw a broad
belt OF military power across the
very center Of Europe and beyond
the Mediterranean into the heart Of
Asia. This purpose has been nearly
fulfilled through the subsection to
German uses of Austria Hungary,
Bulgaria and Turkey and through
the conquest Of Serbia and Rumania.
The only chance left to the masters
Of Germany of retaining the advan-
tage thus gained, and of perpetual
ing their own domination over the
German people. is the enactment OF
an immediate peace upon terms fav-
orable to themselves. Should they
succeed in this, their prestige and
political power would be sure. Am
erica itself would be menaced, and
this nation and all the rest Of the
world will be compelled to remain
armed to the teeth to make ready
for the next assault by the German
military power.
Note to Russia.
I'm his note to the revolutionary
government of Russia, May 20. 1917,
President Wilson justly said that:
The position OF America In this
war is so clearly. avowed that no
man can be excused for mistaking
it, She seeks no material profit nor
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of any kind. She Is
fighting for no advantage or selfish
object of her own. but for the liberia
tons Of peoples everywhere from the
Of autocratic force.
We, the men and women Of the
trade union and socialist move
ments of America, organized into
the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy. in submitting this record
to our fellow citizens, assert that in
all history no government has ever
stated it's aims on entering a war or
while such war was being fought
with anything approaching the def
clarity and candor reveal
ed by these utterances. We assert,
moreover, that in all essential par
ticulars the aims thus set forth are
"a 1Ff IvF nntn vrvHk H.
ideals of democracy and information
alism for which the American labor
has always stood and
which are fundamental to its being.
Pledged TO Freedom.
I'VE rejoice at the fact that we
are thus solemnly committed to the
principle Of the complete autonomy
and independence Of nations. Only
on the basis OF this generous nation
alism can anything like a great and
worthy internatioNalism be estab-
lished. We rejoice too, that this ma
ton is thus solemnly pledged not
only to refrain from attempting to
extend its own dominion over any
other nation. or people, but to use
its great influence to the end that no
nation shall attempt to extend its
policy over any other nation or pee-
pie. We approve unreservedly the |
drawn by the President |
between the German people and their |
and we believe that by |
insisting that peace cannot be made |
with the Hohenzollern dynasty, but |
only with a democratized Germany, |
the president of the United States |
has, as BELTS his great station, rem
dered noble service to the cause of
democracy.
we affirm, then. that the aims
and purposes Of this nation have,
been stated with sufficient cIearness
and definiteness to satisfy every hon
est mind, and that 1t is our profound
conviction that the purposes for
which we are to serve and sacrifice
are the great purposes of interna-
tional democracy"