Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-04
Continued from Page one,)

everywhere 1t has been made diiigent
use of by the masters of German in
trigue to lead the people OF Russia
astray-and the people of every other
country their agents could reach. in
order that a premature peace might
sbe brought about before autocracy
has been taught it's final and convinc-
ing lesson and the people of the world
out in control of their own destinies
But the fact that wrong use has
been made of just idea is no reason
why right use should not be made of
it. 1t ought to be brought under the
: patronage Of it's real friends
AUTocRAcY DOOMED.
let 1t be said again that autocracy
must first be shown the utter futility
Of its claims to power or leadership
in the modern world. 1t is impossible
to apply any standard of justice so
long as such forces are unchecked and
undefeated as the present masters of
Germany command. Not until that
ehas been done can right be set up as
erbiter and peacemaker among the
nations. BUT WHEN THAT HAS
BEEN DONE-AS, GOD WILLING,
IT ASSURERDLY WILL BE-wE
SHALL AT LEAST BE FREE TO DO
AN UNPRECEDENTED THING AND
THIS IS THE TINE TO AVON OUR
PURPOSE TO DO 1T. WE SHALL BE
FREE TO BASE PEACE ON GENER-
OSITY AND JUSTICE, TO THE EX-
CLUSION OF ALL SELFISH
CLAIMS TO ADVANTAGE EVEN ON
THE PART OF THE VICTORS
Let there be no misunderstanding
Our present and immediate task is to
win the war and nothing shall turn us
aside from it until it is accomplished
Every power and resource we possess,
whether of men, of money, or of ma
terials, is being devoted and will con-
tinue to he devoted to that purpose
until it is achieved.
MUST RIGHT THE WRONGS.
THOSE WHO DESIRE TO BRING
PEACE ABOUT BEFORE THAT
PURPOSE IS ACHIEVED l COUN-
Sci TO CARRY THEIR ADVICE
ELSEWHERE. WE Will. NOT EN-
TFHTAlN IT. WE SHALL REGARD
THE WAR AS WON, ONLY WHEN
THE GERMAN People SAY TO US,
THROUGH PROPERLY ACCREDIT-
ED REPRESENTATIVES., TIL A T
THEY ARE READY TO AGREE TO
"a SETTLEMENT BASED UPON
JUSTICE AND THE EPARATION
OF THE WRONGS THEIR RULERS
HAVE DONE. They have done a
wrong to Belgium which must be re-
paired. They have established n power
over other lands and peoples than their
own-over the great empire of Austria
Hungary, over hitherto free Balkan
states, over Turkey and within Asia
which must be relinQuished
Germany's success by skill, by in
dustry by knowledge, by enterprise
we did not grudge or oppose, but ad-
mired, rather. She had built UP for
f, herself Il real empire of trade and in
tluence, secured by the peace of the
world. We were content to abide the
rivalries of manufacture, science and
commerce that were involved for us
in her success and stand or fan as we
had or did not have the brains and the
initiative 10 surpass her
THREW AWAY TRlUMPHS.
But at the moment when she had
,conspicnousy won her triumphs of
peace she threw them away, to es-
tablish in their stead what the world
VII no longer permit to be established
military and political domination by
arms, by which to GUST where she
could not excel the rivals she most
feared and hated, The peace we make
must remedy that wrong. 1t must
deliver the once fair lands and happy
peoples of Belgium and northern
, France from the Prussan conquest
and the Prussian menace, but it must
also deliver the peoples of Austria
Hungary, the peoples of the Balkans
and the copies of Turkey alike in
Europe and Asia, from the inpudent
and alien dominion of the Prussian
military and commercial autocracy,
NO AFFAIR OF OURS.
I'VE owe il, however, to ourselves
to say that we do not wish in any way
to impair or to rearrange the Austro-
Hungarian empire. 1t is no affair OF
ours what they do with their own
life, either industrially or politically
We do not purpose or desire TO die.
tate to them iii any way. We only
desire TO see that their affairs are left
in their own hands in all matters
great or small. WE SHALL HOPE TC
SECURE FOR THE PEOPLES or
THE BALKANS PENINSULA ANE
FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE TURK
ISL EMPIRE THE RIGHT AND OPP.
PORTUNITY TO MAKE THEIH
OWN LIVES SAFE, THEIR OWN
FORTUNES SECURE AGAINST
OPPRESSION OR INJUSTICE AMI
FROM THE DICTATION OF FOR
EIGN COURTS OR PARTIES.
And our attitude and purpose will
regard to Germany herself are of a 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.
4. solutely unjustifiable, absolutely con.
trary to the principles we have pro.
fessed to live by and to hold most sa-
cred'throughout our life as a nation.
THE GERMANS DECEIVED.
The people of Germany are being
told by the men whom they now per.
NIT to deceive them and to act as theil
masters that they are fighting for tn,
very life and existence of their EN-