The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-08
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not Square
With The Views Of The Forum

The Manitoba Free Press:
Whether in a review Of recent events in an
attempt to survey the prospect opened up as we
pass from the fourth into the fifth year Of the
great world war, the role which the United
daily more formidable, must stand out the
most significant fact, alike to the people of the
Allied nations and to the embattled hosts Of
oppression against which the Allies are arrayed.
1t may be doubted whether any more eloquent
and darnning comment upon German aggression
can be found than that which is implied in the
gradual transformation Of the great Republic
from the state of strict neutrality from which
she viewed the conflict in the days of its out
break to that full participation by which she is
now committed in the partnership of the demo-
cratic nations to any sacrifice Of blood treas
uIe mat may De HeGqeu 10 uesu0y uICeLiy thooe
forces now universally recognized as striking at
the very roots of human liberty. On August g.,
1914, President Wilson could say: Every man
who really loves America will act and speak
in the true spirit of neutrality which is the spirit
of impartiality and fairness and friendliness to
all concerned" But in the three years that fol-
lowed Germany revealed to the people Of the
republic by blazing deeds Of violence and un-
speakable aggression the fact that this fight
was in which the liberty Of democratic peo-
Piles at stake, and in which the power Of the
United States which Springs out Of freedom"
must be used for the service of freedom" And
today the glowing phrases OF her president, per-
haps more than those of any statesman of the
Allied nations, illumine and make clear the
course and goal Of the conflict
Her entry to the made complete that part
nership Of democratic nations without which
Premier LLOYD George has declared that "the
tanned" and at the same time it gave the needed
assurance that no matter what the course Of
the struggle or what privatons it may impose on
the Allied nations the outcome must be that
which President Wilson has himself character
lied as "a new international order, based upon
broad and universal principles Of right and JUS
tice--no mere peace of shreds and patches"
The record of the United States since April
1917, when she made the momentous decision
which brought her into the war has been one
which future generations of Americans will read
with pride and which is viewed by her Allies
with profound gratitude and admiration. A
ton less prepared for war than any of the larger
powers, she has flung into the theater of war on
a distant continent more than a million men,
who have proved themselves the peers of those
with whom in these recent days they have
struggles of the war; and her army over
France and England. To the defeat of the Ger
contributed alike by the efficiency of her great
people in the work Of food production and con-
servation and in the building of ships-contr-
buttons not less essential to the success OF AL
lied arms than the placing of trained troops in
the field. ~--4
ment Of the United States has been one of the
most unpleasant surprises which the govern
ment Of Germany has experienced, even as the
contribution which she will yet make, as her
vast resources are brought into effective employ
ment, will hasten and assure the final and COM
plete overthrow Of German militarism.