The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-18
Has Ample Power to Handle MaI- contents, Says Attorney
 General Gregory.
SACRIFICES MUST BE MADE
Some Called Upon to Break With Friends and Kindred As Those Did Who Secured Liberties
 Enjoyed Today.
By THOMAS w. GREGORY,


 Attorney General of the United States.
 The sporadic activities of few agi- tatOrs who, led by good or bad motives, seek to hamper our work in the war justify me as the chief law officer of the executive branch of the govern ment in calling attention to the duties, moral and legal, Of all persons owing temporary or permanent allegiance to the United States.
 The German government began this war by cOntemptuOus breach of It's formally plighted faith made In solemn treaty and from the beginning until now has more than made good this OminOuS earnest of its intention and temper. The president has shown us how one by one, as opportunity offered, the safeguards which civilization has been able during the centuries to throw around neutrals and the nOnfghting people of warning nations were ruth lessly torn down; how patient and long suffering remOnstrance and request were met by fair words, and fairer promises made only to be broken.
 We all know as but sober fact, plainly stated, that the imperial government has allowed no rule of war, no prln- ciple of civilization, no consideration of humanity, no teaching of Christian ity to stand between it and the work ing out of its illegal purposes. For half a century that government has sChemed and prepared to dominate the world by blood and iron" For half q century the officials of the imperial | government, from the kaiser down, including even the teachers of their children, have prostituted the minds of their youth until the whole people has been led to a toleratiOn, If not ap- provRl, of the hldeOuS Outrages and barbarlties practiced by that govern ment in this war. While yet we were neutral, struggling to keep free from the conflict. the representatives of that government in this country planned ! to destroy our factories and our rall- roads, forged our public papers, de ceiyed us when convenient, violated our hospitality and our sovereignty, while they plotted against our terrlto- rial integrity; they deliberately and with malice and affrOntlng forewarn- Ing drowned our helpless women and 1 babes and declared a public holiday that their own innocent children might 1 celebrate the murder.
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 They have bOmbarded unfortifled towns and bombed the unprotected | homes of their foes, taking their toll of wounded and dead from the aged and lnfirm. the young and the helpless. They have made barren desert of the garden spots of the earth; they have needleSSly plllaged and wlllfully burned towns; they have reduced to slavery men, women and children they have wrecked and torn asunder families with a system diabolical In | It's efficiency.
 AS the war has gone on, the ultimate aim of the imperial government has become more and more clear. Drunk with the sense Of Its own power and its asserted superiority, It has pro- | posed to secure q dominating position | for Itself and for Its system over the entire world. Nowhere yielding to the people their rightful powers, and everywhere seeking to uphold autoc- racy and despotism, It has shown its intention to perpetuate absolute gov ernment of which 1t admittedly Is the l head and front. Its 'kultur" is avowed to be the acme of human good ness. and endeavor, and Is to boast the rulershlp of the world, gained by force and arms.
 The world must fight to preserve itself. Of this there can be no doubt, Kings Against Peoples.
 Heretofore, save In rare cases, war has been fight between armies; but this war, because of the initial prepar- alton for It by an autocracy which prostituted whole mighty nation to It's purpose is a contest between peoples themselves. It Is correspondingly in- tense and relentless. The march of 1 events shows that 1t Is now a war of system-kings against peoples. If our enemy win, kings will dominate the world, because no democracy fights 1 with or for them. The Prussian auto crat and the brutal Turk will impose upon us their wills, tell us what we may do, what we may not do, and the horrors and atrocities of Belgium and Armenia leave no doubt what this | means.
 Thus our own very life came to be bound up in the outcome of this war long before we entered 1t, and even | years before the war broke. To the man of vision 1t is as clear as sunlight that the aim and the plan of the i'm perial government was and Is to con- quer the world, nation by nation. It was first to defeat France and Russia, next to dominate Great Britain, and with Fnropo e& its feet tO tIlrn tO