Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-12-08


ike 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
sOlutely unjustifiable absolutely CON
trary to the principles We have pro-
fessed 10 live by and - hold most
sacred throughout our life as a ma
ton.
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 and existence of their en-
pire; war OF desperate self-Gefense
against deliberate aggression. Nothing
could be more grossly or wantOnly
false, and we must seek by the ut
most openneSs and candor as 70 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
ing the existence of or the indepen-
dence or the peaceful enterprise Of
tn German empire.
Net Again TO Be Trusted.
TIE worst that can happen 10 the
Germs people is this. that II they
should s,jll, after the war is over,
continue 70 be obligated to live under
ambitious end intriguing masters in
terested TO disturb the peace Of the
world, men or classes OF luea whom the
other peoples OF the world could not
trust, II might be impossible 10 admit
them 70 the partnership OF nations
which must henceforth guarantee the
worlds peace. That partnership must
be a partnership OF peoples. not mere
partnership OF governments. 1t might
be impossible. also, in such untoward
circumstances. 70 admit Germany TO
the free economic intercourse which
must inevitably spring out Of the other
partnerships Of a 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 Righted
The wrongs. the very deep wrongs.
committed in this war will have 10 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 as a means
of PREPARATION and settlement. States
men must by this time have learned
that the opinion Of the world is every
where wide awake and fully compre-
hends the issues involved. No repre-
sentative Of any self governed nation
viii dare disregard II By attempting
any such covenants Of selfShness and
compromise as We're entered into at the
congress OF Vienna. The thought Of
the plain people here and everywhere
throughout the world. the people who
enjoy 40 privilege and have very sim
pie and unsophiSticated standards Of
right and wrong is the air all govern
ments must benceforth breathe If they
would live 1t IS In the fun diSclos-
ing light Of that thought that ali poll
cies must be conceived and executed in
this midday hour Of the worlds life,
People Have No Say.
German rulers have been able 10 up
set the peace OF the world only because
the German people were not suffered
under their tutelaEe TO share the com
radeship of the other peoples OF the
world either in thought or in purpose.
They were allowed 10 have no opinion
of their own which might he set mp as
a rule OF conduct for those who exer-
ciSed authority over them But the
congress that concludes this war will
feel the fun strength Of the tides that
run now in the hearts and consciences
Of freedom everywhere. Its conelu-
sions will run with these tides.
"An these things have been true
from the very beginning of this stu
pendous war, and I cannot help think
ing that If they had been made plain
81 the very outset the sympathy and
enthusiasm Of the Russian people
might have been once for all enlisted
on the side Of the allies. suspicion and
distrust swept away. and & real and
lasting union Of purpose effected. Had
they believed these things az the very
moment Of their revolution and had
they beer confirmed in that belief
since. the sad severses which have r.
Gently marked the progress If their
affairs towards an ordered and stable
government Of freemen might have
been avoided.
The Russian people have been
poisoned by the very same falseho0dS
that have kept the German people in
The dark. and the poison has been sd-
mInistered by the very same hands
The only possible sntidote is the truth
It cannot be uttered too plainly or too
often
Freedom Of the Seas.
'.From every point Of view. te5 "a
fore. il has seemed to be my duty 20