Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-07

complished. Every power and re-
source we possess, whether of men,
of money, or of materials, is being
devoted and will continue to be de-
| voted to that purpose until 1t is
| achieved. Those who desire to
| bring peace about before that pur-
! pose is achieved / counsel to carry
their advice elsewhere. We will
not entertain it, We shall regard
the war as won only when the Ger
man people say to us, through prop
erly accredited representatives, that
they are ready to agree to settle
ment based upon justice and the
reparation of the wrong their rul-
ers have done. They have done a
wrong TO Belgium which must be
repaired. They have established
power over other lands and people
than their oWn-over the great en-
pire of Austria-Hungary, over hith-
erto free Balkan states, over Tur-
KEY and within Asia-which must be
relinquished.
German Industrial
Skill Not Begrudged
Germany's SUCCESS by skin. BY in
dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise
we did not grudge or oppose. but
admired, rather She had built up
for herself a real empire of trade
and influence, secured by the peace
OF the world. We were content to
abide the rivalries of manufacture,
science, and commerce that were in
Volved for US i'm her success and
stand or fall as we had or did not
have the brains and the initiative to
surpass her. But at the moment
when she had conspicuously won
her triumphs of peace she threw
them away, to establish in their
stead what the world will no longer
permit to be established, military
and political domination by arms,
by which to Dust 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 hap
py peoples of Belgium and northern
France from the Prussian conquest
and the Prussian menace, but 1t
must also deliver the peoples of
the Balkans and the peoples of
Turkey, alike in Europe and in Asia,
from the impudent and alien domi-
nation of the Prussian military and
commercial autocracy.
We owe il, however, to ourselves
to saw that we do not wish i'm 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 dictate to them in any
way.
We only desire to see that their
affairs are left in their own hands.
in ali matters, great or small We
shall hope to secure for the peoples
of the Balkan peninsula and for the
people of the Turkish empire the
right and opportunity to make their
ovn lives safe, their own fortunes
necare against oppression or injus-
tee and from the dictation Of for
eign courts or parties. -.
And our attitude and purpose with
regard to Germany herself are of
like kind. We intend no wrong
against the German empire, no in
reference with her internal affairs.
We should deem either the one or
the other absolutely unjustiiable,
absolutely contrary to the principles
we have professed to live by and
to hold most sacred throughout our
life as a nation.
The people of Germany are being
told by the men whom they now
permit to deceive them and to act as
their masters that they are fighting
for the very life and existence Of
their empire, a war of desperate
self-defense against deliberate ag-
gression. Nothing could be more
grossly or wantonly false, and we
must seek by the utmost openness
and candor as to Or real aims to
Of
Must Get New Rulers.
To Join in world Peace
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 aft
er world empire. No one is threaten
ing the existence or the indepen-
dence or the peaceful enterprise of
the German empire.
The worst that can happen to the
detriment of the German people is
this, that if they should still, after
the war is over, continue to be OBJ
liged to live under ambitious and in
triguing masters interested to dis
turb the people of the world, men
or classes of men whom the other
| peoples of the world could not trust,
ii might be impossible to admit them
to the partnership of nations which
must henceforth guarantee the
worlds peace. That partnership
must be a partnership of peoples.
not a mere partnership of govern
ments 1t might be impossible, also,
in such untoward circumstances, to
admit Germany to the free economic
intercourse which must inevitably