The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-26

have made 1t their own, the German people themselves included"
 Why We Fight Both German Govern.
 ment and German People. In his reply to the Pope the Presi dent said
 The American people believe that peace rests upon the rights of peoples. not the rights of gOYernments-the rights of peoples great or small, weak or powerfui-their EQUAL, right to freedom and security and self-govern- ment and to a participation upon fair terms in the economic opportunities of the wOrld-the German people of course themselves included if they will accept equality and not seek domination"
 Here it is important to note that we can offer a friendly relation with the German people only ''if they will accept equality and not seek domina- tion," In other words, the German people have not yet made 1t clear that they are prepared to accept equal ity and not seek domination.
 The President accurately says in the same speech:
 f'We must await some. new evi- dence 0t the purposes of the great peoples of the central powers"
 It is not only that the great peoples of the central powers Germany and Austria-Hgngary) are not permitted to declare their real opinion, but we have as yet no sufficient gronnd for concluding that their opinion will be- favorable tC our offer of a position of equality among the nations
 ''The people of Germany are, being told by the naen whom they now per mat to deceive them and to act as their masters that they are fighting for the very life and existence of their Empire, war of desperate self defense against deliberate aggression" the President declared iR his message to congress (Dec. A. Here it is inn portant to note not only that the Ger man government deceives the German people and a8ts as it's: master but that the German people, are submit this mastery and deception.
 The President has further pointed Gin his. reply to the Pope) to another fact of universal knowledge, namely, that the Germnap people are submit ting with temporary zest" to the domination Of the present ruling classes. (Aug. 27)
 It is evident that some great change in the situation will have to inter- vene before q people that submits with temporary zest to such Zrutal despotism as that of the kaiser. and the Prussian military caste will aban- don this amazing infatuation. The President and the American people realize that if the German armies are victorious the zest of the German peO- pie in their government may prove lasting and may even become stronger than ever, while the defeat of these armies is bound, sooner or later, to have the opposite effect The Presi- dent has expressed our attitude in his Flag Day address:
 "They (the rulers of Germany have but one chance to perpetuate their military power or even their control ling political influence If they can secure peace now with the immense advantages still in their hands, which they have up to this point apparently gained they will have justified them selves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by it; an immense expansion of German power, an i'm mense enlargement of German indus trial and commercial opportunities. Their prestige will be secure, and with their prestige political power. If they fail, their people will thrust them aside; government accountable to the people themselves will be set up in Germany as it has been in England, in the United States, in France, and in all the great countries of the mod ern time except Germany"
 Here it is recognized the blind loy- alty of the German people in such that the military victory of Prussian des- potism over the democratic nations will in their minds justify Prussian despotism. The German people are so hypnotized by the past and recent sue cesses of the German military ma chine that they totally disregard its crimes against other peoples. Nor do they realize, as the President points out in his last message, that if the I German power is not crushed anC utterly brought to an end" by de
 cisive military defeat this would in
 evitably make it necessary to create l a Dermanent hostile combination of ma