St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-04-07
ton and in the equipment of our

war with Germany with the mdterlal
which they can obtain only from Us
or BY our ass STANCE They are in
the field and we should help them in
every way to be effective there.
Il hail take the liberty Of suc-
sestins-, through che soFa,2l 6 l.
tive departments OF The gc,ernn u
fer the consid Grafton Of your COM
II tees, measures for the accomplish
ment Of the several Offices / 81
mentioned I hope that t VII be-
your pleasure 10 deal 9Th t1:C D
full thought by the branch Of tie ~'gg-
eminent upon which the resnon ibtli-
ty of conducting the war ard s'ie-
guarding the nation VIII nc3t d. eet
ly fall.
Says COuntry'S Arms
Must &c Kept Clear.
while we do these things ~
deeply momentoGs things, set u ,
very Gear, and maize cle9r 4 =
the world. what our +motire N o.
objects are. Ny ow., thour'et Aas
not been driven from Is hN5't TIA
and normal course b tho unho p
events OIL tue l. 81 Nv y Ii J--I.-N ".
do not believe that the thcf =,
the nation has been altered or c,c;ld
ed by them.
81 have exactly the same til ngs
in mind now that had in mind when
| addressed the Senate ON the 22d OF
January last, the same that | had in
mind when l addressed the Congress
on the third of February and on II
26th of February. Our object now,
as then, is to vindicate the principles
of peace and the justice in the life
of the world as against selfish and
autocratic power and to set up
amongst the really free and self
governed peoples Of the world such
a concert of purpose and of action
as will henceforth insure the OBJ
servance of those principles.
Neutrality is no longer feasible
or desirable where the peace of the
world is involved and the freedom of
it's peoples, and the menace to that
peace and freedom lies in the exist
ence Of autocratic governments back
ed by organized force which is con-
trolled wholly by their viii, not by
the will of their people. We have
seen the last of neutrality in sach
circumstances.
Nations, Like Men,
Must Be Honorable.
1--WE are at the beginning of an a~e
in which it will be insisted that T.
same standards of conduct and Of =
ponsibility for wrongs done shall
observed among nations and the
governments that are obseyT"f
among the individual citizens CT G
iliZed states.
1--WE have no quarrel with the Ger
man people. We have no feeling TO-
wards them but one of sympathy 80
friendship. 1t was not upon thei'
impulse that their government acted
in entering this war. 1t was not
with their previous knowledge or ap-
prevail.
ut was a war determined upon as
wars used to be determined upon in
the old, unhappy days when peoples
were nowhere consulted by their rul-
ers and wars were provoked land
waged in the interest of dynasties or
of little groups of ambitious men
who were accustomed to use their
fellowmen as pawns and tools.
Scores Germany's
Intrigues Here.
"Self-governed nations do not fill
the neighbor states with spies or set
the course Of intrigue to bring about
some critical posture of affairs which
will give them an opportunity to
strike and make conquests. Such de-
signs can be successfully worked only
under cover and where no one has
the right to ask questions.
''Cunningly contrived plans of de-
ception or aggression, carried, it may
be, from generation to generation,
can be worked out and kept from the
light only within the privacy of
courts or behind the carefully guard
ileged class. They are happily i'm
possible where public opinion COM
pands and insist upon full informa-
tion concerning all the nations af-
fairs.
"a steadfast concert for peace can
never be maintained except by
partnership of democratic nations.
No autocratic government could be
trutsed to keep faith within it or
observe it's covenants. 1t must be
league of honor, a partnership of
opinion. Intrigue would eat its vi
tails away, the plotting of inner
circles who could plan what they
would and render account to no one
would be a corruption seated at its
very heart. Only free peoples can
hold their purpose and their honor
steady to common end and prefer
the interests of mankind to any mar
row interest of their own.
Russia Fit Partner
In League of Honor.
''Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added to our
hope for the future peace of the
world by the wonderful and hearten-
ing things that have been happen
ing within the last few weeks in
Russia was known by
hose who knew it best to have been
always in fact democratic at heart,
n all the vital habits of her thought. |
n all the intimate relationships Of |
ler people that spoke their natural |
instinct, their habitual attitude to-
wards life.
THE autocracy that crowned the
'ummit Of her political structure.
ong as it had stood and terrible as
vas the reality of its power, was
rot in fact Russianin origin, char
pcter, or purpose, and now it has
'een shaken off and the great, gen