Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-06

and Rumania, of Austria Hungary,
and Of Germany herself.
Oppressed races have turned their
eyes to westward, and 10. out OF the
sea arise thousands of ships ard MIL
lions of men who have dedicated their
lives to a reconstruction.
In the words of the Czechosiovaks
Of America we get mental grasp
of the seething forces under Teutonic
domination in the southern oiaV
countries. There they are beginning
to understand the secret of the mys-
terious morale evidenced by the en-
tente allies in recent months.
TIL significance Of the recent Con
gress of Oppressed Races held IN
Rome, has perhaps escaped the at
tention of many thinking Americans
The Congress was really the organl-
cation meeting of revolt against
further oppression by Austro- Hun
garian monarchy.
The preamble of the resolutions
adopted follows:
The delegates who have answered
the call Of the Italian Committee on
agreement among the races subject 10
Austro- Hungarians, Czecho SloVaks,
Roumanians, Jugo-Slavs. Servians and
| Poles. gathered in Rome On April oth
to meet representatives of the allied ma
tons adopts and subscrIbes to the fol-
lowing declarations:
This war was not provoked, not de-
sired, and therefore suffered by the leo
ples throughout the world that today
resist the overbearing violence or as-
gressive imperialism. the struggle mas
shown more than anything in hlstorH
the profound dntltheSis between t'e I'M
perialistic ideal of the 1omina ton Hf
weaker nationalities and the ideal of the
self determination of peoples, that they
may freely work out their rational uni
ty and be the peaceful masters OF their
own destinies.
This struggle will mark either the
triumph of ethical and civic freedom
or of imperialistic dictatorship: either
the regime that finds the guarantee of
right in peace or the regime that needs
the iron hand of militarism, war and
political arrogance to enforce its will.
The fundamental aim in the policy
Of Austria Hungary has been the stir
ring up of dissension and division
among the natonalites that comprise
the monarchy. Through the working
out of this system, only. can a minority
of 100000 Germans and Magyars gov
ern and keep in subsection majority
of more than 3o00ooo0 Slavs and Latins.
This system is essential to Germany
nation in accord with her own i'm
peralistic program. The Germans and
/ Magyars of the Hapsburg monarchy
realize that without the help of Ger
many they could not resist the pressure
Of the Slav and Latin majority and Of
their aspirations to emancipate them
selves"
The following resolutions ap-
pended to the preamble were unani-
mously and enthusiastically adopted;
| RESOLVED: That represen-
| tatives of the nationalities
wholly or partly subject to the
domination of Austro- Hun
garians, Italians. Poles, Rou-
| manians. Czechs. Juso Slavs.
| have united in affirming the fol-
lowing principles by which their
common action shall lie guided:
/ I. Each of these peoples pro-
claims its right to establish its
! o"l anu otaIC uii'S
and to achieve full political and
economic independence.
>. Each of these peoples rec
ognizes in the Austr Hungarian
monarchy the instrument of
Germanic domination and the
fundamental obstacle to the
realization of It's aspirations and
it's rights.
3. This assembly. cJnse-
quently, recognizes the necessity
for a common warfare against
the common oppressors in order
that our people may attain its
complete freedom and a complete
national unity as a single free
state.
In previous interpretations of the
tendency of events we rave attempt
ed to convey to our readers the
significance Of the drawing together
Of all peoples opposed TO Germanisr
(the inhuman outgrowth of Kultui
and militarisml, and the undeniably
explosive character of the popular
temper under Prussianistic control.
In his address at FaneuI Hall
Boston. Thursday. President Faunce
of Brown University said:
Because we believe in the peace.
full ideals of America, in the grea'
federative principle upon which oul
Government is built, we are hoplns
to lead the strong Nations of the
globe to such a covenant of peace a.
shall make war first Improbable
then absurd, then impossible, among
the rational and civilized Nations o.
the earth.
America wants todav nothing bu
! freedom for herself and for all 9th
ers. America covets no foot of for
| eign soil, wants no indemnity. seek:
no revenge. She seeks only to re-
move the fearful shape which now
fills earth and sea and sky with dan.
ger and death for peaceable men,
Elsewhere he said:
AN international celebration of the
Fourth of July implies new inter.
national effort in behalf of demCc-
racy. Such world wide observance
is the sure forerunner of world wide
cooperation in a covenant of inter
national peace and international up
earth.
The man wbaeA.Srot believe ir
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