The Arvada enterprise., 1917-04-05

/ hope that 1t VIII be your pleasure to
deal with them as having been framed
after very careful thought by the
branch OF the government upon which
the responsibility OF conducting the
war and safeguarding the nation will
most directly fall.
Would indicate Principles Of Justice.
While we do these things. these
deeply momentous things, let US be
very clear and make very clear to all
the world what our motives and our
objects are. Ny own thought has
not been driven from its habitual and
normal course by the unhappy events
OF the last two months. and | do not
believe that the thought OF the nation
has been altered or clouded by them.
| have exactly the same things in
mind now that had in mind when |
addressed the Senate on the 22nd OF
January last, the same that | had il
mind when | addressed the Congress
on the 3rd OF February and on the 10Th
OF February.
Our object, now, as then, Is to vim
dictate the principles OF peace and
justice in the life of the world as
against selfish and autocratic power
and to set up amongst the really free
and self-governed peoples OF the world
such concert OF purpose and OF ac-
ton as win henceforth insure the OBJ
servance OF these principles.
Neutrality is no longer feasible or
desirable where the peace OF the
world is involved and the freedom of
Its peoples, and the menace to that
peace and freedom lies in the exist
snce OF autocratic governments
backed by organized force which Is
controlled wholly by their will. not by
the will OF their people. We have
seen the last Of neutrality in such
circumstances.
Quarrel with Government, Not People.
We are at the beginning OF an age
in which 1t will be insisted that the
same standards of conduct and OF re-
sponsibility for wrong done shall be
observed among nations and the gov
ernments that are observed among
the individual citizens Of civilized
states
We have no quarrel with the Ger
man people We have no feeling
toward them but one of sympathy and
friendship. 1t was not upon their i'm
pulse that their government acted in
entering this war. 1t was not with
their previous knowledge or approval.
1t was war. determined upon as
wars used to be determined on in
the old unhappy days when peoples
were nowhere consulted by their
rulers and wars were provoked and
wRged in the interest of dynasties
or Of little groups of ambitious men
who were accustomed to use their
fellow men as pawns and tools.
Selfgoverned nations do not fill
their neighbor states with spies or
set the course of intrigue to bring
about some critical posture OF affairs
which will give them an opportunity
to strike and make conquest. Such
designs can be successfully worked
only under cover. and where no one
has the right to ask questions.
Cunningly contrived plans Of decep-
ton or aggression, carried. it may
be from generation to generation, can
be worked out and kept from the
light only within the privacy of
courts or behind the carefully guard.
ed condolences OF a narrow and pri.
illeged class. They are happily i'm
possible where public opinion com.
mands and insists upon full infor-
nation concerning all the nations
affairs.
Secs New Hope In Russian Revolt.
A steadfast concert for peace can
never be maintained except BY part.
nership OF democratic nations. No
autocratic government could be
trusted to keep faith within 1t or OBJ.
serve its covenants. II must be a
league OF honor. u partnership OF
opinion.
Intrigue would eat its vitals away;
the plottings OF inner circles who
could plan what they would and rcn.
der account to no one would be a
corruption seated at its very heart,
Only free peoples can hold their pur.
pose and their honor steady to a
common end and prefer the interests
OF mankind to any narrow interest OF
their own.
Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added to oar hope
Tor the future peace OF the world by
the wonderful and heartening things
that have been happening within the
last few weeks In Russia?
Russia was known by those who
knew 1t best to have been always in
fact democratic at heart. in all tho
vital habits OF her thought, in all the
intimate relationships of her people
that spoke their natural instinct, their
habitual attitude towards life.
The autocracy that crowned the
summit OF her political structure. long
as II had stood and terrible as was
the reality OF its power. was not in
TACT Russian In origin. character or
purpose; and now 1t has been shaken
of and the great, generous Russian
people have been added in all their
native majesty and might TO the forces
that are fighting for freedom In the
world, for justice and for peace Here
Ia a III partner for league OF honor
Plots Aimed at Unity Of America.
ono OF the things that has served
10 convince US that the Prusslan uu
tocracy was not and could never be
our friend IL that from the very out
set OF the present war IL has filled
our unsuspccting communities and
even our offices OF government with
spies and set criminal intrigucs every
where afoot against our national unity
or council, our peace within and with
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