Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-03

tr1gue would eat it's V1taiS away; the plottings of inner circles who could count to no one would be a corruption seated at its very heart Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end
 and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. Hope for Future Peace.
 Does not every American feel that
 assurance has been added to our hope
 cCr the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heart-rending things
 that have been happening within the
 last few weeks in Russia?
 Russia. was known by those who
 knew it best to have been always in
 fact democratic at heart, in all the intimate relationships of her people
 that spoke her national instinct, their
 habitual attitude towards life.
 Autocracy Not of Russian Origin.
 "The autocracy that crowned the
 sumrnit of her. political structure, long
 as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of it's power, was not in fact
 Russian in origin. in character or pur-
 pose; and now it has been shaken and the great, generous Russian people
 have been added in all their naive majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice and for peace. Here is a | fit partner for league of honor. intrigues of Prussian Autocracy.
 ''One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussain au- tocracy was not and could never be cur friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigueS everywhere afoot against our national unity of council, our peace within and with n1 iTldI fri md Spies Here Before the War. Indeed, it is now evident that it's spies were here even before the war began; and it is unhappily not a mat ter of conjecture but a fact proved in our courts of justice that the intrigues ilously near to disturbing the peace and disiocating the industries of the country have been carried on at the inst t-gation, with the support and even agents of the imperial government ac- credited to the government of the United States.
 Even in checking these things and | trying to extirpate them we have sought to put the most generous in depreciation possible upon them be- cause we knew that their source lay, not in any hostile feeling or purpose l of the German people towards us (who were, no doubt as ignorant of them as We ourselves were), but only in the selfish designs of a government that did what it pleased and, told it's people
 nothing. But they have played their part in serving to convince us at last that that government entertains no | real friendship for us and means to act against our peace and security at | its convenience. That 1t means to stir | up enemies against us at our very | doors, the intercepted note to the Ger | man minister at Mexico City is e1o- quent evidence. |
 1 hostile purpose because we know that | in such a government, following such ! methods, we can never have friend; and that in the presence of its organ ized power, always lying in wait to
 pose, there can be no assured security
 for the democratic governments of the world.
 Foe to Liberty.
 we are now about to accept gage of battle with this natural foe to lfb- erty and shall. if necessary, spend the
 whole force of, the nation to check and nullify its pretensfons and it's power. We are glad, now that we see the
 about them, to fight thus for the ulti-
 mate peace of the world and for the liberation of it's peoples, the German peoples included; for the rights of ilege of men everywhere to choose ! their way of life and obedience. "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the trusted foundations of polit- ical liberty. We Desire No Conquest. l We have no selfish ends to serve We desire no conquest. no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves,
 no material compensation for the sac rifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights | of mankind. We shall be satisfied when | those rights have been as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nations can make them.
 Fight Without Selfish Objects. Just because we fight without ran
 and without selfish objects, seek