The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-28

mote the loan. That will be done-ably and
enthusia sticaly done--by the hundreds of thou
sands of loyal and tireless land women who
have undertaken to present 1t to you and to our
fellow citizens throughout the country: and l
have not the least doubt of their complete sue
cess: for know their spirit and the spirit OF
the country. My confidence is confirmed, too,
by the thoughtful and experienced cooperation
OF the bankers here and everywhere, who are
lending their Invaluable aid and guidance. 1
have come rather, to seek opportunity to
present to you some thoughts which trust will
serve to give you, in perhaps fuller measure
than before, vivid sense of the great issues
involved, in order that you may appreciate and
accept with added enthusiasm the grave sgnif-
canoe of the duty of supporting the Govern
ment by your men and your means to the utmost
point OF sacrifice and self denial No man or
woman who has really taken in what this
means can hesitate to give to the very limit Of
what they have, and ii is my mission here to-
night to try to make it clear once more what
the war really means. You will need no other
stimulation or reminder OF your duty
War Itself Makes Aims Clear.
At cvery turn of the war we gain fresh
consciousness Of what we mean to accomplish by
it. When our hope and expectation most
excited think more definitely than before of
the issues that hang upon it and of the purposes
which must be realized by means Of 1t. For it
has positive and we'll defined purposes which
We did not determine and which cannot alter.
No statesman assembly created them; no
statesman assembly can alter them. They
have arisen out Of the very nature and circum-
stances Of the war. The most that statesmen
assemblies can do Is to carry them out or
be false to them. They were perhaps not clear
at the outset, but they clear now. The
has lasted more than four years and the whole
world has been drawn into it. The common
will Of mankind has been substituted for the
particular purposes Of individual states. In
divdual statesmen may have started the
stop 1t as they please. 1t has become peoples
war and peoples Of all sorts and races, OF every
degree OF power and variety Of fortune. are
involved in its sweeping processes OF change
and settlement. We into it when its
character had become fully defined and It
plain that no nation could stand apart or be
indifferent to its outcome. Its challenge drove
to the heart OF everything cared for and
lived for. The voice OF the had become
clear and grpped hearts. Our brothers
from many lands. we'll muir
dered dead under the sea, calling to us
and responded. fercely and Of course.
The air was clear about We things
in their full. convincing proportions they
were, and we have seen them with steady eyes
and unchanging comprehension since. We
accepted the issues of the war as facts. not as
any group Of men either here elsewhere had
defined them. and we can accept outcome
which does not squarey meet and settle them.
Those issues these:
Shall the military power Of any nation or
group Of nations be suffered to determine the
fortunes OF peoples whom they have no
right to rule except the right of force?
Shall strong nations be free to wrong weak
nations and make them subject to their pur-
pose and interest?
Shall peoples be ruled and dominated even
in their own internal affairs by arbitrary and
irresponsible force or by their own will and
choice?
Shall there be a common standard of right
and privilege for all peoples and nations or
shall the strong do as they will and the weak
suffer without redress?
Shall the assertion Of right be haphazard
and by casual alliance shall there be a COM
mon concert to oblige the observance Of COM
mon rights?
There Can Be No Peace by Bargain.
No man. group of men, chose these to
be the issues OF the struggle. They are the
issues OF 1t, and they must be setted-by no
arrangement compromise adjustment of
interests but definitely and for all and
with a full and unequivocal acceptance Of the
principle that the interest of the weakest is
sacred as the interest of the strongest.
This is what when we speak OF
a permanent peace. IL speak sincerely in
telligently and with real knowledge and COM
prehension OF the matter we deal with.
We all agreed that there can be no
peace obtained by any kind Of bargain or COM
promise with the governments OF the Central
Empires, because we have dealt with them
already and have seen them deal with other
governments that were parties to this struggle,
at Brest- -Litovsk and Bucharest. They have
convinced that they are without honor and
do not intend justice. They observe cove
nants, accept principle but force and their
own interest. We cannot "come to terms" with
them. They have made 1t impossible. The
German people must by this time be fully
aware that we cannot accept the word OF those
who forced this war upon We do not