Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-04

lit must also deliver the peoples Of Aus
tria- Hungary, the peoples Of the Bal
kans, and the peoples Of Turkey alike
from the impudent and alien domina-
ton of the Prussian military autoc-
racy.
I'VE owe it to ourselves, however, to
say that we do not wish to rearrange
the Austria-Hungarian empire. 1t Is
no affair of ours what they do with
their own life. We only desire to see
that their affairs are left in their own
hands in all matters great or small.
We hope to secure for the Balkans and
the Turkish empire the right to make
their own lives safe, their own for
tunes secure against injustice and from
the dictation Of foreign courts and par
ties. And our attitude with regard to
Germany herself is Of like kind. We
intend no wrong against the German
empire, no interference with her in
the one or the other absolutely un.
justifiable. absolutely contrary to the
principles we have professed to live
by.
German People Deceived.
"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 of their empire, war of
self defense against aggression. Moth
ing could be more grossly false and we
must present clearly 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 un-
just attack by neighbors or rivals or
schemers after world empire. No one
is threatening the existence Of the in
dependence or the peaceful enterprise
Of the German empire.
ostracism Possible.
THE worst that can happen to the
detriment Of the German people Is
this, that II they should still, after the
war is over, continueI to be obliged to
live under ambitious and intriguing
masters. men or classes OF men whom
the other peoples can not trust. II
might be Impossible to admit them 70
the partnership Of nations which must
guarantee the peace Of the world. It
circumstances ito admit Germany to
the free economic intercourse which
must spring up from partnership OF
real peace. But there would be no ag-
gressior in that, and such situation
would in the very nature of things
sooner or later cure itself by processes
which would assuredly set in.
Wrongs Must 30 ,Rishted.
"The wrongs, the very deep wrongs
committed in this war will have to be
righted, but they can not or must not
be righted by commission Of similar
wrongs against Germany\and her allies
The world will not permit the COM
mission Of wrongs as q means OF
settlement or reparation. The thought
Of the plain people here and every
where thruout the world the people
who enjoy no privilege and have very
simple and unsophisticated standards
Of rights and wrongs is the air all gov
ernments must henceforth breathe II
they would live. German rulers have
been able to upset the peace Of the
world only because the German peo-
pie were not permitted to share the
comradship of other peoples Of the
world either in thought or purposes.
Russian Mind Poisoned.
"All these things have been true
from the very beginning Of this
great war, and can not help but think
that had they been made plain at the
outset the sympathy and the enthus-
iasm Of the Russian people might have
been once for all enlisted on the side
Of the allies aad a real and lasting
union of purpose effected. Had they
believed these things at the beginning
of their revolution tle sad reverses
since in their affairs might have been
avoided. The Russian people have
been poisoned by the very same false
hoods that have kept the German peo-
pie in the dark and the poison has been
administered by the very same hands.
The only possible antidote. is the
truth.
From every point Of view, therefore,
1t has seemed to be my duty to speak
these truths.