The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-07
Will Use Force to Utmost
President Says, to Win
War for Right.
NO CHOICE OFFERED
Enemy Has Shown No Desire
for Justice: Hungers
for Spells.
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spoke for Germany whether it wa.
justice or dominion and the execution
OF their own will upon the other ma
tons OF the world that the German
leaders were seeking. They have an
swered, answered in unmistakabl,
terms. They have avowed that it wa
not justice but dominion and the un.
hindered, execution of their own will
The avowal has not come from Ger.
lnany's statesmen. 1t has come from
her military leaders who are her rea
rulers. Her statesmen have said tina
they wished peace. and were ready tt
discuss its terms whenever their oppo
nents were willing to sit down at tn
conference table with them. Her pres
ent chancellor has said--in indefinite
and uncertain terms, indeed and II
phrases. that often seem to deny theil
own eahing, but with as much plain
ness as he thought prudent-that h,
believed that peace should be base,
upon the principles which We had de
clared would be our own in the fina
settlement.
Action Of GERMANS
Has eslisd Their Words.
"AtABrest- Iltovsk her civilian dele
gates spoke in similar terms:
Protested their desire to conclude
fair peace and accord to the peoples
with whose fortunes thye were deal
ing the right to choose their own al
legiances. But action accompanied
and followed the profession. TheiI
military masters, the men who act 70
Germany and exhibit her purpose II
executions proclaimed a very differen
conclusion. We cannot mistake wha
they have done in Russia, in Finland
in the Ukraine, in Rumania. The
real test of their justice and fair pla:
has come. From this we may judg
the rest.
"They are enjoying in Russia cheal
triumph in which no brave or gallan
nation can long take pride. A grea
people. helpless by their own act, lie
for the time at their mercy. Their
fair professions are forgotten. The,
nowhere set up justice, but eVerywher
impose their power and exploit every
thing for their own use and aggran
disenlent: and the people of conquere'
provinces are invited to be free under
their dominion.
Are we not justified in believing
that they would do the same things n
their western front il they were no
there face to face with the armies
whom even their countless division.
cannot overcomeo II when they hav,
felt their check to be final. they SHOULD
propose favorable and equitable terms
with regard to Belgium and France an6
Italy, could they blame MS if we con
Guided that they did so only to assure
themselves of a free hand in Russia
and the east?
Their purpose is undoubtedly tc
make all the Slavic peoples, all the
free and ambitious nations of the Bal
tic peninsula, all the lands that Tur-
key has dominated and misruled sub.
ject to their will and ambition and
build upon that dominion an empire
OF force upon which they fancy that
they can then erect an empire Of gain
and commercial supremacy-an empire
as hostile to the Americas as to Eu-
rope which It will overawe--an en-
ptTe which will ultimately maste,
Persia, India and the peoples of the
far east. In such program our ideals
the ideals OF Justice and humanity and
liberty, the principle of the free self
determination of nations upon which
all the modern world insists can play
no part. They are rejected for the
idelas of power for the principle that
the strong must rule the weak, thai
trade must follow the flag, whether
those to whom it is taken welcome il
or, not, that the peoples of the world
are TO be made subject to the patron