The Arvada enterprise., 1918-04-11
Ukraine, in RumaniA. The real test
| Of their Justice and fair play has come

Ukraine. in Rumania. The real test
Of their justice and fair play has come.
From this We may Judge the rest.
They Are enjoying In Russia cheap
triumph In which no brave or gallant
people. helpless by their own act, lies
for the time at their mercy. Their
fair professions are forgotten. They
nowhere set up Justice. but every.
where impose their power and exploit
everything for their own use and az
grandixement; and the peoples Of con-
Quersd provinces are invited to be free
under their dominion.
Are we not Justified In believing
that they would do tho same things
at their western front II they were
not there face to face with armies
whom even their countless divisions
cannot overcome?
II, when they have felt their check
to be final they should propose favor
able and equitable terms with regard
to Belgium and France and Italy,
could they blame us II we concluded
that they did so only to assure them
selves OF free hand in Russia and
the East?
Their purpose undoubtedly Is to
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
build upon that dominion an empire
Of force upon which they fancy they
can then erect an empire Of gain and
commercial supremacy-an empire a.
hostile to the Americas as to the Eu-
rope which It will overawe-an empire
which will ultimately master 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
10 part. They are rejected for the
ideals OF power: for the principle that
the strong must rule the weak. that
trade must follow the flag. whether
those to whom 1t Is taken welcome II
or not, that the peoples Of the world
are to be made subject to the patron,
age and overlordship OF those who
have the power to enforce II.
That program once carried out, Am
erica and all who care or dare to
stand with her must arm and prepare
themselves to contest the mastery Of
the world. mastery in which the
rights Of common men. the rights Of
women. and OF all who are weak.
must. for the time being. be trodden
under foot and disregarded, and the
old. age-long struggle for freedom and
1ght begin again at its beginning.
Everything that America has lived
for and loved and grown great to win.
dictate and bring to q glorious realixa.
ton will have fallen in utter ruin and
the gates of mercy once more pitt.
lessly shut upon mankind!
That program once carried out, Am.
possible! And yet is not that what
the whole course and action Of the
German armies has meant wherever
they have moved? do not wish
even In this moment of utter disillu.
siOnment to Judge harshly or upright.
eously. Judge only what the Ger.
man arms have accomplished with un'
plying thoroness turnout every fail
region they have touched.
What. then, are We to do?
For myself. ! am ready. ready still
ready even now, TO discuss n fair ant
Just and honest peace at any time
that II Ia sincerely proposed-a peace
In which the strong and the veal
shall fare alike. but the answer wher
] proposed such n peace. came from
the German commanders In Russia
and ] cannot mistake the meaning ol
the answer.
accept the challenged!
know that you accept Il. All tn.
world shall know that you accept 1t
1t shall appear In the utter sacri
flee and self-forEetfulness with
which we shall give all that we low.
and all that we have to redeem tbs
world and make II tit for free mer
like ourselves to live In. This now
IL the meaning OF all that we do.
| Let everything that we say. IN,
fellow countrymen. everything tha'
We hencefOrth plan and accomplish
ring true to this response. until IN,
majesty and might Of our concerted
power shall fill the thought and ut
terly defeat the force OF those who
flout and mlsprixc what We homo
and hold dear.
Germany has once more said tina
force. and force alone. shall decide
whether justice and peace shal
reign In the affairs Of men. whether
right ~ America conceives II o,
dominion as she cOnceivcs II shall
determine the destinies Of mankind
| There IL. therefore. but one re
sponse possible from us: Force
force to the utmost. force without
stint or limit. the righteous and tri
umphant force which shall make
right the law OF the world and cas-
every selfish dominion down In III,
dust!