New Britain herald., 1917-12-04
WAR WILL BE DECL AIRED ON
GERMANY'S ALLY, AUSTRIA
Stirring Speech President Wilson Declares that Germany Must Be
Crushed in Order Save the World
PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECH

| to see that their affairs are left in
their own hands, in all matters, great
or small. We shall hope to secure for
the peoples Of the Balkan peninsula
and for the people Of the Turkish en-
pire the right and opportunity to
| make their own lives safe, their own
| fortunes secure against oppression or
injustice and from the dictation Of for
eign courts or parties
And our attitude and purpose with
regard to Germany herself are of
! like kind. We intend no wrong against
| the German empire, no interference
with her internal affairs. We should
deem either the one or the other alb
solutely unjustifabe, contrary to the
principles we have protessed to live
By and to hold most sacred throughout
our life as a nation.
"The people of Germany are being
told by the men whom they now per-
nit to deceive them and to act as
| their masters that they are fighting for
the very life and existence Of their
empire. a war of desperate self-de-
Tense against deliberate aggression.
Nothing could be more grossly or wan
tOnly false, and we must seek by the
utmost openneSs and candor as to our
real aims to convince them of its
falseness We are in fact fighting for
their emancipation from fear, along
with our own, from the fear as we'll
as from the fact of unjust attack by
neighbors or rivals or schemers after
world empire. No one is threatening
the existence OF the Independence or
the peaceful enterprise OF the German
empire.
'"The worst that can happen to the
, de1rmcnt Of the German peoples is
this that, if they. after tho war is
over, CnItiHliC to hC obliGrd 10 live un-
der ambitious and iniri2suing masters
interested to disturb the peace Of the
world. men or classes Of men whom
the other peoples, Of the world could
not trust, it might be impossible to
admit them TO the partnership of ma
tons which must henceforth protect
the worlds peace. That partnership
of governments must be q partnership
of peoples, not mere partnership of
governments. 1t must be impossible,
also. in such untoward circumstances,
to admit Germany to the free econom-
ic intercourse which must inevitably
sprig nout of the other partnerships of
Il real peace. But there would be no
aggression in that; and such Situa-
ton inevitable because Of distrust,
would in the very nature of things,
sooner or later cure itself by processes
which would assuredly set in.
The wrongs, the very deep wrongs.
committed in this war will have to be
righted. But they cannot and must
not be righted by the commission of
similar wrongs against Germany and
her allies. The world will not per-
NIT the commission Of similar wrongs
as a means Of reparation and settle
ment. Statesmen must by this time
have learned that the opinion of the
world is everywhere wide awake and
fully comprehends the issue involved
No representative of any self governed
nation will dare disregard it by at
tempting any such covenants of sell
fishness and compromise as were en-
tered into at the congress of Vienna.
1t is in the full disclosing light of
that thought that all policies must bc
conceived and executed in this mid
day hour of the worlds life. Ger
man rulers have been able to upset
the peace of the world only because
the German people were not suffered
under their tutelage to share the
commondership Of the other peoples
of the world either in thought Or in
purpose. IneN were 0llOWed TO nave
no opinion of their own which might
be set up as a rule of conduct for
those who exercised authority over
them. But the congress that con-
cludes this war will feel the full
strength Of the tides that run now
in the hearts and consciences of free
men everywhere.
"All these things have been true
from the very beginning of this stu
pendouS war. and cannot help Think
ing that if they had been made plain
at the very outset the sympathy and
enthusiasm of the Russian people
might have been once for all enlisted
on the side of the allies: suspicion and
distrust swept away and real and
lasting union of purpose effected.
Had they done these things at the very
moment of their revolution, and had
they been confirmed in that belief
since, the sad reverseS which have re-
Gently marked the progress Of their
affairs towards an ordered and stable
government of freemen might have
been avoided. The Russian people
have been poisoned by the very same
falsehoods that have kept the German
people in the dark and the poison has !
been administered by the very same |
hands. The only principal antidote Is |
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