The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-05
AMERICAS PURPOSE


lipation in the struggle. II is an Eng
lish view OF the American Purpose
one which possibly gives US all the
credit high aim and unselfish pur-
pose that could be giyeE.
The review says in part:
From a military point of view.
it would seem Germany has in her
campaign in the West, staked every
thing on the combined success Of this
series of operations on land and Of the
submarine war at sea She was pro-
missed by her high command a COM
plete and final victory before the sum-
mer was over, provided her people
would consent to a large further exp
endure of human life The toll has
been paid and perphaps exceed, but
/ it Is ncw manifest that the promise
has not been and came, be made good,
THE struggle is not only in the field
The allies in virtue of their predomi-
nance control the overseas trade rout-
es of the worlds chef supply ground
of materials, The German fleet is
sealed up in practical impotence,and
the empires naval effort after twen-
ty years of ambitious and costly pre-
paration in confined to the sporadic
activity of its submarines.
THE decisive weapon in war has
often been found and is likely TO be
found again in economic pressure.
When countries were self-supporting,
this was made effective by the defeat
of their armies. the occupation of
THAR territory and the consequent
paralysis of their national life Today
under the new conditions of the mo-
dern world the allied blockade is work
ing toward the same paralysis.
1.-The aim of the Allies from the
first day of the war has been to de-
troy Germany's power for evil. They
were defeating and discrediting those
elements in her government and SOC
iety which have been responsible for
her outrages on civilization. Unhappi-
ly these sinister forces still have the
upper hand. The democracy in which
for short time German statesmen
allowed themselves to indulge were
forgotten at the first breath of milt-
airy success.
THE so-called peace made with
Russia at Brest-Litovsk and the
treatment of the Ukraine and of
Rumania, reveal a Germany wholly
impenitent and still in full pursuit of
policy of territorial and economic
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The utterances of
her press and her spokesman since
the opening of the offensive in March
are permeated with the same spirit.
With that policy, and the spirit which
animates it, we can make no terms,
"The allies are fighting. as | have
said before, for a clean peace In the
forces at their disposal the manhood
of America, which has so CALAMITY
helped to hold the fort during the
critical hours, supplies a contanly
growing and what promise to become
predominating factor. The Allied
nations of Western Europe owe to
the great republic a double debt of
gratitude. First, because to the full
est extent of her resources with mon
ey. ships, food and men she has rang
ed herself by their sides in the cause
of right at a supreme crisis in the
worlds destiny. Next, and not least,
for the moral weight of her whole
hearted and unselfish cooperation.
From her detached position she has
surveyed the struggle in its boardest
lines. She cannot be suspected of hav-
ing any interest in secondary or utter
ior aims. Her single object is seen to
be that sinister and perverted ideals
of which German policy and German
teaching had become the potent and
aggressive vehicles should be rooted
out of the world Above all she has
emphasizes and bought into the fore
ground the one method for the attain
ment of the allier purpose.