The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-16
ECRETARY REDFIELD'S
NOTABLE. ADDRESS
TIE Causes Of America War With Germany Of
Democracy and Autocracy In Their Spiritual Form
Called Right and Wrong and Are as DIFF
sereut az Heaven and He'll

whatsoever Il he and wherssoever
! located. these things should come to
, fruitsge and to power. Tor this evil
,hinE nfcnaces mankind. 1t is the
aes1!y foe OF ne cacifiF: for It In the
seeker and rrar ot.r % war. 1t II
| in It's very eos~nce 20. t1at peaceful
man must hate. 70 sae extent that
! they arc peaceful they must abhor
IT. Is they do no. ahhor It, they are
! friends of war and not OF peace eor
he that In not against 1t Is on its
side. So he who has the social spirit
must revolt against this thing. His
hope fs for q sweet, fragrant human
ity--a truly social state where the
common veal and the general good
saali he by the free consent of free
NOR worked out. There IL no room In
socialism, for ships sunk without trace,
FOR teesties which are scraps OF paper,
and .tbe slaughtered children and the
outraged women of Belgium ana
France cry out in horror at the mock
cry % socialistic theory which fails
to ride in horror at tho sight.
~Two great forces there are on
earth. - their political form we call
them democracy and antocracy. In
their spiritual form we call them right
and wrong. They are deadly foes. Be-
tween them there can never be peace.
Each by the essence of its nature
seeks to destroy the other. The pres
ence OF one is intolerable to the other.
Thsy are ss opposite rs heaven and
he'll. There are times when the age
|,long combat twixt these two seems
to cease Men slumber and talk In
their sleep as II the eternal battle
between evil and good had been set
tied SIS II some protocol had smooth
cd out tho differences between righte-
ouSness and wickedness and there was
therefore to be no more war. When
10. evil lifts It's head and by its acts
betrays its nature and the spirit of
right calls to the sons OF men. They
arise anew to the battle and the old,
old contest begins again.
Out of the dust of the present
strifes this same old terrible conflict
reveals itself ia our thought We fight
nor the people called the German
people. not even the political entities
known as the central powers. so much
as evil euthroned among them using
them for IFS purposes, possessing them
as devils are said to have done man
kind of old. IT does not a tier this that
there are those whom this devil may
seem an angel Of light. BY their fruits
%6 shall KNOW them ana tHaf ffNif-
age from the beginning of the war
till nov has been evil and again evil
and vet again. Offieial lying, official
cruelty. official lust, these revealing
things cannot he concealed. The pic
rare is known and read Of all men.
Against this evil men OF all CONT
nents stand together. men OF all reli-
ginas are united. men OF all colors,
all races and all languages make cam
mon cause. a most hopeful sign Ia
that for the first time Mohammedan
and Hindu Confucian and Hebrew,
Christian and PagaDs. men OF all
faiths have forgotten their differences
and are dying side by side In oppos
ing that v hich instinctiyely, but right
iy, they know to be evil, seeking to
control the world. Against this they
and we together offer ourselves, our
goods. our children, our lives and
sacred honor IN resistance. We deny
that might makes right. that national
falsehcod Is ever toierable. that cruel |
tv end lust are normal to a Christian
people. We deny that there Ia a Ger
man God or. II there be. that he In
such as we worship. We have put
our hands TO the pillow. These evil /
things we hate. We hate no coun- |
try, we hate no people. Nay. TO our
enemies themselves we wish no cruel /
~ done, hut the things which have |
teen wroukffs are| nfdtutis ara hs9~-'i
fui and we shall not withdraw our |
hands till they are destroyed"