The Arizona copper camp., 1917-04-07

mate relationship of her people that
sloke their natural instinct, their ha-
bitual attitude towards life.
"The autocracy that crowned the
summit of her political structure, long
as it had stood and terribly as was
the reality of it's power, was not in
fact Russian in origin, character or
purposes, and now it has been shaken
off and the great generous Russian
people have been added in all their ma
tive majesty and might to the fo 'ces
that are fighting for freedom in ,he
world, for justice and for peace. Here is
fit partner for league of honor.
Zone of the things that has served
to convince us that tn e Prussian
autocracy was not and could never
be our 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 ev-
erywhere afoot, against our nationa.
unity of council, our peace within and
without, our industries and our com.
merce.
Indeed this is now evident that it's
spies were here even before the war
began; and it is unhappily not a
| matter hut 20 oo%
proved in our courts of justice that
the intrigues which have more than
once come perilously near to disturb
| ing the peace and dislocating the in
dustries of the country have been car
ried on at the instigation, with the
support, and even under the personal
direction of official agents of the i'm
perial government accredited to the
government of the United States.
Even in checking these things ana
| trying to extirpate them we have
sought to put the most generous in
terpretations possible upon them be-
cause we know that their source lay,
not in any hostile feeling or purpose
of the German people toward 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 enter
tains no real friendship for us and
means to act against our peace and
security at it's convenience. That it
means to stir up enemies against us
at our very doors, the intercepted note
to the German minister at Mexico City
is eloquent evidence.
1--WE are accepting this challenge
| of hostile purpose because we know
that in such a government follow
ing such methods, we can never have
friendship and that in the presence
of it's organized power, always lying
in wait to accomplish we know not
what purpose, there can be no as
sured security for the democratic gov
ernments of the world.
We are now about to accept the
gage of battle with this natural foe
to liberty and shall, if necessary
spend the whole force of the nation
to check and nullify it's pretensions
and it's power. We are glad, now that
we see the facts with no veil Of false
pretense about them, to fight thus for
| the ultimate peace of the world and
for the liberation of it's peoples, the
! German peoples included; for the
rights of nations great and small and
the privilege of men everywhere to
choose their way of life and of obe-
dience. The world must be made safe
for democracy. It's peace must be
planted upon the trusted foundations
of political liberty.
1--WE have no selfish ends to serve
We aesire no conquests, no dominion
We seek no indemnities for ourselves
no material compensation for the sacri-
fices 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. Just because we fight
without rancour and without selfish
| objects, seeking nothing for ourselves
but what we shall wish to share as free
| peoples, we shall, feel confident, con-
duct our operations as belligerents with
out passion and ourselves observe with
| proud punctillio the principles of right
| and of fair play we profess to be fight
| ing for.
Il have said nothing of the govern
ments allied with the imperial govern
ment of Germany because they have
not made war upon us or challenged us