The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-12-06


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 abb
solutely unjustlfiable, absolutely con
trary to the principles we have pro
fessed to live by and to hold most
sacred throughout our life as ma
ton.
German People Deceived.
1.-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 en-
plre; war of desperate self-defense
against deliberate aggression. Nothing
could be more grossly or wantonly
false, and we must seek by the ut
most openness and candor as TO our
real aims to convince them of its false
ness. We are in fact fighting for their
emancipation from fear, along with
our own-from the fear as well as
from the fact of unjust attack by
neighbors or rivals or schemers after
world empire. No one Is threaten
dence or the peaceful enterprise of
tn German empire.
Not Again to Be Trusted.
1.-THE worst that can happen to the
German people is this, that If they
should still, after the war is over,
| continue to be obligated to live under
| ambitious and intriguing masters in
terested to disturb the peace of the
world men or classes of men whom the
| other peoples of the world could not
trust, 1t might be impossible to admit
| them 70 the partnership of nations
which must henceforth guarantee the
worlds peace. That partnership must
be partnership Of peoples, not mere
partnership of governments. 1t might
be impossible, also. in such untoward
circumstances, to admit Germany to
the free economic intercourse which
must inevitably spring out Of the other
partnerships OF real peace. But
there would be no aggression in that {;
and such a situation, inevitable be-
cause of distrust, would in the very
nature of things sooner or later cure
itself. by processes which would as
suredly set in.
Wrongs Must BE Riehted.
1.-THE wrongs. the very deep wrongs,
committed in this war will have to be
righted. That of course. But they
cannot and must not be righted by the
commission of similar wrongs against
Germany and her allies.
THE world will not permit the com
mission OF similar wrongs rs means
of reparation and settlement States
men must by this time have learned
that the opinion of the world is every
where wide awake and fully compre-
bends the issues involved. No repre-
sentative of any selfgoverned nation
will dare disregard II by attempting
any such covenants of selfishness and
compromise as were entered into at the
congress of Vienna. The thought of
the plain people here and everywhere
throughout the world, the people who
enjoy no privilege and have very sim
pie and unsophisticated standards Of
right and wrong, is the air all govern
ments must henceforth breathe if they
would live. II is In the full diSclos-
ing light OF that thought that all poll
cies must be conceived and executed in
this midday hour Of the worlds life.
n.--I. L.H. kIa
German rulers have been able TO up
set the peace of the world only because
the German people were not suffered
under their tutelage to share the com
radeship of the other peoples of the
world either in thought or in purpose
They were allowed to have no opinion
Of their own which might be set up rs
q rule of conduct for those who exer'
cised authority over them. But the
congress that concludes this war will
feel the full strength of the tides that
run now in the hearts and consciences
of freedom everywhere. Its conclu
slons will run with these tides.
"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 plair
at the very outset the sympathy ant
enthusiasm of the Russian people
might have been once for all enlisted
on the side of the allies, suspicion ant
distrust swept away and real ant
lasting union of purpose effected. Hat
they believed these things at the yer,
moment of their revolution and haC
they been confirmed in that belle
since, the sad reverSes which hare re
Gently marked the progress Of theil
affairs towards an ordered and stable
government Of freemen might hav,
been avoided.
1.-THE Russian people have beer
poisoned by the very same falsehood
that have kept the German people II
the dark, and the poison has been ad
ministered by the very same hands
The only possible antidote is the truth
1t cannot be uttered too plainly o. too
often.
Freedom Of the Seas.
"From every point of view, there
fore, II has seemed TO be my duty t.
speak these declarations of purpose. tc
add these specific interpretations tC
what | took the liberty of saying to thu
senate In January. Our entrance into
the war has not altered our attitude
towards the settlement that must com,
when It is over. When | said In Janu
airy that the nations of the world wer,
entitled not only to free pathways up