El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-05

as II had stood and terrible as Was
the reality Of its power, was not II
fact Russian In origin, character, anf
now 1t has been shaken of and the
great, generous Russian people HAYS
been added IN all their naive majest,
and might to the forces that are fight
Ing for freedom In the world, fol
justice and for peace. Here is a III
partner for a league of hoAor.
German Intrigue
zone of the things that has served
to convince us that the Prussian au
tocracy was not and could never be
our friend is that from the very
outset OF the present 1t has filled our
transporting communities and even
our offices OF government with spies
and set criminal i~ntrigues every
where afoot against our national
unity OF council, our peace within
and without, our industries and our
commerce.
Indeed 1t is now evident that its
spies were here even before the val
began; and 1t is, unhappily. not a mat
ter of conjecture, but a fact proved in
our courts of justice, that the in
trigues which have more than once
come %perilously near to disturbing
the peace and d~islocating the indus
tries OF the country have been carried
on at the i%nstigation, with the sup
port, and evan under the personal di.
rection of official agents Of the i'm
perial government accredited to the
government of the United States.
Even in checking these things and
trying to exterminate them we sought
to put the most generous interpreta-
lions possible upon them because we
knew that their source lay, not in any
hostile feeling or purpose OF the Ger
man people towards us (who were, no
doubt, as ignorant of them as we our
selves were) but only in the selfish
designs of a government that did
what it pleased and told its people
nothing. But they have played their
part in serving to convince, at least
that that government entertains no
real friendship for us and means to
act against our peace and security at
its convenience. That 1t means to
stir up enemies against us, the inter-
cepted note to the German minister at
Mexico City is eloquent evidence.
Can Never Be Friendly
"We are accepting this challenge
of hostile purpose because we know
that in such a government, following
such methods, we can never have a
friendship and that in the presence OF
its organized power, always lying in
wait 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 gauge OF battle,
with this natural foe to liberty and
shall, if necessary, spend the whole
force OF the nation to check and multi
fly its p~retensions and its power. We
are glad now, that we see the facts
with no veil of false pretense about
them, to fight thus for the ultimate
peace of the world and for the liber-
alton of its peoples, the German peo-
pie included; for the rights Of ma
tions great and small, and the privi-
Of men everywhere to choose
their way of life and of obedience.
The world must be made safe for
Its peace must be plant
ed upon the trusted foundations of po-
litical liberty.
Desire No Conquest
flMe have no selfish ends to serve. ,
We desire nc conquest; no dominion.
We seek no indemnities for ourselves
no material compensation for the sac !
we shall freely make. We are
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of mankind. We shall be sat
isfied when t hese rights have
been made as secure as the
and the freedom of the
can make them. Just
because we fight without rancour and :
without selfish objects, seeking moth
ing for ourselves but what we shall
wish to share as free peoples, we
shall, | feel confident, conduct our
operations as belligerents without
and ourselves observe with
proud punctilio and principles of right
of fair play which we profess to :
be fighting for. :
Other Central Powers /,
81 have said nothing for the gov. 8
ernments allied with the imperial {
government of Germany because they
have not made war upon us or cha1-
us to defend u right and our |
honor. The Austro-H hungarian gov :
eminent has, indeed, ayowed its un- |
qualified endorsement and acceptance s
Of the reckless and lawless submarine !
warfare adopted now without disguise {
by the imperial German government, |
and it has therefore not been possible .
for this government to receive Count |
the ambassador recently c
accredited to this government by the q
imperial and royal government OF
Austria, Hungary. But that govern Y
has not actually engaged in war t
'are against citizens Of the United 1
on the seas, and | take the lib t
srty for the present at least, of post !
a decision of our relations /
with the authorities at Vienna. We f
this wal only where we are
forced into it because there |
are no other means OF defending our :
ut win be all the easier for us to
conduct ourselves as belligerents in {
/ high spirit of right and fairness be- !
we act without animus, not in J
toward a people or with the !,
lesire to bring any injury or disad- |;
vantage upon them, but only in
irmed opposition to the responsible |,