Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-19

down separately in succession.
So, America sends another mes
sage to Russia-that we are going
to fight, and have already begun to
fight for your freedom equally with
our own, and we ask you to fight for
our freedom equally with yours. We
would make our cause yours and
with a common purpose from an al
lance which would make sure of
victory over our common foe.
You will recognize your own sem
timents and purposes in the words
of President Wilson to the Ameri-
can congress, when on the second or
April last he advised a declaration
of war against Germany. He said:
We are accepting this challenge
of hostile purpose because we know
that In such a government (the Ger
man government) following such
methods. we can never have friend;
and that in the presence of its or
ganiZed power, always lying in walt
to accomplish we know not what
purpose, there can be no assured Sc
curity for the democratic govern
ments of the world. We are now
about to accept the gage of battle
with this natural foe to liberty, and
shall, II necessary, spend the whole
force of the nation TO check and
nullify it's pretensions and its pow
err. We are glad, now, that we see
the facts with no veil of false pre-
tense about them, to fight thus for
the ultimate peace of the world
and for the liberation of it's peoples.
the German peoples included; for
the rights of nations. great and
small, and the privilege of men ev-
erywhere to choose their way of life
and of obedience
The world must be made safe for
democracy. It's peace must be
planted upon the tested foundations
Of political liberty. We have no
selfish ends to serve. We desire no
conquest, no dominion. We seek no
indemnities for ourselves, no ma
terial compensation for the sacri-
fees we shall freely make. We are
but one of the champions of the
rights of mankind. We shall be
satisfied when those rights have
been made as secure as the faith
and the freedom of nations can
make them
And you will see the feeling to-
ward Russia with which America
has entered the great war in an
other clause of the same address
President Wilson further declared:
Does not every American feel
that assurance has been added to
our hope for the future peace of
the world by the wonderful and
heartening things that have been
happening within the last few
weeks in Russia? Russia was
known by those who knew her best
to have been always in fact demo-
cratic at heart in all the vital hab-
its Of her thought, in all the inti-
mate relationships of her people
that spoke their natural instinct
their habitual attitude toward life.
THE autocracy that crowned the
summit of her political structure.
long as II had stood and terrible as
was the reality Of its power, was
not in fact Russian in origin char
acter or purpose, and now it has
been shaken off and the great, gen.
erous Russian people have been
added, in all their native majesty
and might, to the force that are
fighting for freedom in the world,
for Justice and for peace. Here is
a fit partner for a league of honor
That partnership of honor in the
great struggle for human freedom
the oldest of the great democracies
now seeks in fraternal union with
the youngest. Practical and Spe-
cific methods and the possibilities
of our allies cooperation, the mem
bers of the mission would be glad
to discuss with the members of the
government of Russia"