The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-11-14
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER a, 1911

Everything for which America
fought has been accomplished So
spoke President Wilson Monday in an
nouncing to Congress the signing o.
the armistice by Germany.
A backward glance over the course
of the war is irresistibly impressive Of
the operation of some supreme force
(which moves in a mysterious way His
wonders to perform" In its beginning
none of the parties to it had any con
ception of what it was to mean and
where it was to lead. Not one among
the yanqushed had any suspicion that
the path to the place in the sun on
which they set their militant feet was
merely the shining trail of Lucifers
fall. Not one of the yictors took up the
gauge of battle with the ideals on
which all insisted before they would
Law it down. Austria-fungary, direct
ed by Germany was bent on Balkan
prey: Germany, the army Of Wilhelm
H.. like that OF Frederick William, the
founder of Prussan militarism, devel-
oped as the master of destiny set
forth with boast and lust to take that
army's due. Turkey and Bulgaria
caught in the vortex Of the "inyincible
army" followed the banners of booty
onJ ~ tnadinyaI might
And on the other side, who went into
that struggle with the same inspira-
ton of his exit Russia modified for
racial and selfish reasons. France, the
fires OF her resentment slnouldering
since the outrages put upon her with
the welding of the German Empire.
sprang, unpreparcd as she was, to the
defense of liberty, but il was her own
liberty she sought to defend and her
own wrongs she sought TO ayenge.
Great Britain, striving to the last 10
avert war, drew the sword because OF
her fidelity to her plighted word, be
cause Of the violations Of the same
treaty by the invaders of Belgium, and
because she foresaw in the designs OF
the Prussians a menace to her OWL
dominions.
And our own country? We quit the
fight the accepted leader, the recog
nized savior, of the war for democ
racy." But that war had been in prog
ress nearly three years before we en-.
tered It. Even the Lusitania infamy
could not provoke the President into
hostilites Insult after insult was
brooked in the hope of safeguarding
our own peace by bringing Germany
to her senses through diplomatic rep.
RESERVATIONS But when Germany once
again returned to her policy Of
"frightfulness" on the sea we took oul
place in the struggle between autoc
racy and democracy, and backed by
our forces in the field and on the sec
the enemys Kingdoms crumbled ant
his armies collapsed and surrendered
Thus it is that a war begun from tht
motive of the pirate and prosecuted IL
the horrors that made the blackes
pages of the Dark Ages light; wal
which as never before has laid waste
lands and cities and slaughtered, en-
shaved, tortured and outraged nillioni
OF oifenseless human beings, ends II
the emancipation Of mankind, The
crushing Of thrones the obliteration o
dynasties the humiliation Of autoc
racy, the SCATTERING Of the bonds o
oppression and seryltude.
is there nothing-is there not every
thing in an this to signify that III,
whole tragedy, SO inscrutable in IT.
origin so horriiyiug and agonlzing fl
- pIo-le.s, so glorious in It's results
is but part in that majestic process
sion OF creation through which "on
unceasing purpose runs"