Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-07-11
WAR TILL KA|SER|SM
ENDS, SAYS WILSON
CAN BE NO THOUGHT OF PEACE
UNTIL DESTRUCTION OF
MILITARY AUTOc7ACY.
President ForcibIy Answers all FeeIers
For Compromise at Gathering at
the Tomb of Washington on
independence Day.

Washington.zPre Wilson on
July answered all feelers for a
compromise peace, with q new and
unqualified conservation of America TO
the struggle for cleaning military au-
tOcracy from the earth.
At an Independence Day gathering
on the gentle slopes of Mount Vernon.
home and tomb of George Washington.
and surrounded by scenes which looked
upon the creation of this nation, the
president addressed a small gathering
of officials and of diplomats of the al
lied nations.
But he spoke to the world and he
spoke the logical sequel to his force
without stint or limit" declaration of
several weeks ago.
Reign Of Law.
Unreservedly, the president declared
that there could be no thought of a
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 sin
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 renewed German peace offensive,
or whether he merely took the occa-
sion 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
as follows:
Gentlemen of the diplomatic corps
and my fellow citizens:
Il 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
him 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 future upon it, saw
1t with modern eyes that turned away
from a past. which men of liberated
spirits could no longer endure.
Meant for Mankind.
1T is for that reason that we can
mn foo Al.
presence of this sacred tomb, that this
is place of death. n was place of
achievement. A great promise that
was meant for all mankind was here
given plan and reality. The associa-
tons by which we are here surrounded
are the inspiring associations of that
noble death which is only a 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 a class, but for q
people. 1t has been left for US TO see
to 1t that 1t shall be understood that
they spoke and acted, not for a single
people only, but for all mankind
They were thinking not of themselves
and of the material interests which
conferred In the little groups of land
holders and merchants and men of af-
fairs with whom they were accus-
toned to act, in Virginia, and the
colonies to the north and south of her.
but of people which wished to be
done with classes and special inter
ests and the authority of men whom
they had not themselves chosen to rule
over them. They entertained no Dr.:
vate purpose, desired no peculiar priv
iiege. They were consciously planning
that men of every class should be free
and America a place to which men out
of every nation might resort who
wished to share with them the rights
aud privileges of free men. And we
take our cue from them-do we not
We Intend what they intended.
Our Purpose in War;
we 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
this, that 1t Is our inestimable privilege
to concert with men out of every ma
ton what shall make not only the
liberties of America secure, but the
liberties of every other people as we'll
We are happy in the thought that we
are permitted to do what they would
have done had they been in our place
There must now be settled once for
all what was settled for America in