The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-07-17
WAR TILL KA|SER|SM
lends, SAYS WILSON
GAN BE NO THOUGHT OF PEACE
UNTIL DESTRUCTION OF
MILITARY AUTOCRACY.
President Forcibly Answers all Feelers
q For Compromise at Gathering at
the Tomb Of Washington on
"a Independence Day.

July 4 answered all feelers for
compromise peace, with new and
4 unqualified conservation of America to
the struggle for cleaning military au-
t0cracy from the earth.
At an Independence Day gathering
pn the gentle slopes of Mount Vernon,
home and tomb Of George Washington,
md surrounded by scenes which looked
upon the creation of this nation, the
president addressed small gathering
OF officials and Of diplomats of the al
He'd nations.
HID But he spoke to the world and lie
spoke the logical sequel to his 'force
without stint or limit" declaration of
several weeks ago.
N Reign Of Law.
Unreservedly, the president declared
that there could be no thought of q
peace which did not mean the destruc-
ton of military autocracy, or it's reduc-
ton to virtual impotence.
"A reign of law. based on the con-
sent of the governed and sustained
by the organized opinion of mankind"
was the way he summarized In q sim
gle sentence the. objects of humanity
IN the world war.
Whether the president was address
Ing his remarks directly to the recent
speech Of German Foreign Secretary
Won kuehlmann or to the foreshadows
Of a renewed German peace offensive,
or whether he merely took the occa-
don of the celebration of American in
depedence to emphasize to the world
the war aims of the nation can only be
OWNED.
Text Of Speech.
The presidents speech in full was
- follows:
Gentlemen Of the diplomatic corps
and my fellow citizens:
am happy to draw apart with
you to this quiet place of old counsel
In order to speak little Of the mean
ing of this day of our nations indie
pendence. This place seems very still
and remote. 1t is as serene and I'M
touched by the hurry Of the world as
1t was In those great days long agone
when General Washington was here
and held leisurely conference with the
men who were to be associated with
MIN In the creation Of nation. From
these gentle slopes they looked out up
on the world and saw it whole, saw it
with the light of a future upon it, saw
II with modern eyes that turned away
from past which men of liberated
spirits could no longer endure.
Meant for Mankind.
1T is for that reason that we can
70 to-,
presence of this sacred tomb that this
- place of death. 1t was place of
achievement. great promise that
was meant for all mankind was here
4tven plan and reality. The associa-
lions by which we are here surrounded
are the inspiring associations of that
noble death which is only glorious
consummation. From this green hill
side we also ought to be able to see
with comprehending eyes the world
that lies about us and should conceive
anew the purposes that must set men
free.
1T is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of their
own character and purpose and of the
influence they were setting afoot-
that Washington and his associates,
like the barOns of Runnymede, spoke
and acted, not for class, but for
people. 1t has been left for us to see
70 it that it shall be understood that
tney spoke and acted, not for single
people only; but for all mankind.
They were thinking, not of themselves
and of the material interests which
centered in the little groups of land
holders and merchants and men of af-
Ialrs with whom they were accus-
TONED to act. in Virginia, and the
colonies to the north and south of her,
4 nut of people which wished to be
cone with classes and special inter-
ests and the authority of men whom
tney had not themselves chosen to rule
over them. They entertained no pri-
vate purpose, desired no peculiar priv
Mege. They were consciously planning
mat men of every class should be free
ana America place to which men out
~ every nation might resort who
washed to share with them the rights
anu privileges of free men. And we
nke our cue from them-do we not?
we intend what they intended.
8 Our Purpose in War.
d I'VE here in America believe our
participation in this present war to be
only the fruitage of what they planted.
Our case differs from theirs only in
tnis, that it is our inestimable privilege
g concert with men out of every ma
non what shall make not only the
nDerties of America secure, but the
4Derties of every other people as well.
We are happy in the thought that we
re permitted to do what they would
rave done had they been in our place.
There must now be settled once for
~ what was settled for America in
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