Arizona republican., 1918-04-13
WHY WE ARE ATWAR WITH
 GERMANY
EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS Executive Head, History Depart
 ment Leland Stanford Junior University

tfC OOJC(l UT tHtS war IS u 0CllfCT the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government, which, hav- ing secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without regard either to the sacred ob- legations of treaty or the long estab- ished practices and long cherished principles of international action and honor; This power is not the German people. It is the ruthless mas ter of the German people. It IS our business to see to it that the history of the rest of the world is no longer left to its handlins."-President Wilson, August 27. 1917."
 We Fight For Peaee and For Self
 Respect
 What sort of a peace does Germany nope to secure? That can be an- sWered in a sentence: a peace which VIII enable her to fulfill in the n,. War the aims she has failed to full I'll Tn this. What is the peace the AIles wish? Again the answer is orlet; a peace that will make sure that It shall not happen again."
 rms war has already killed (uot manned or wounded) over 5000. 900 young and vigorous men, yet Germany sun believes that war is essential To human progress, and that any ac, however atrocious, is permissible so iohs as It IS an act of war Against Ihat theory America has set her will.
 DoeS anyone still doubt that Ger many believes in war? Here are four leaders of Germany speaking: Per petual peace is a dream, and it is not even a beautiful dream: war forms part of the eternal order instituted Dy God. "A long peace not only ieaos to enervation, but allows of the existence of a multitude of pitifuI. trembling, miserable creatures
 who cling fast to life with loud cries aoout their right to exist, block the way for real strength, make the air leud, and altogether defile the blood or the nation" "The worst of hvnoo- rlses is the participation by Ger many in The Hague Conference, eye must not look for permanent peace as a result of this war; Heaven defend Germany from that" And Treitschke the historian tutor to the militarv class of Germany, taught over and over again that war was the onlv means of achieving world leadership: that war "is to be conceived as an ordinance set by Cod: that war is just and moral, and that the idea of eternal peace is both unjust and i'm moral and impossible"
 These theories, put in practice. have made of Germany the Cain of civiliza- tion-"his hand against every mans hand" In self-defense and in mere self-respect, America was forced to strike break. We could not sit still when we realized that it vas our duty ''to be and to remain the out-spoken moral opponents of the present Ger man policy, and of the German state so long as it holds this present Dot- icy, and carries on its present war Germany as at present dis posed. is the willful and deliberate enemy Of the human race (Josian Royce.)
 But if there be any who have not this larger vision of the issue of the war-who arc not moved to stake all on the abstract justice of our cause then let them ask themselves what self-respect as 9 nation demands of America, and of true Americans. under the treatment we received from Ger many.
 When the European war came Tn 1914, and while we were still neutral. what insult was not heaped upon our self-r respect? The Austrian Ambas- sador, Dumba, plotted to organize strikes in our munitions factories. and to buy up sgitators to incite ussrknen to discomfort. German spies, now con- victed and in jail. have admitted that they worked under tho direction of high German officials to commit acts in violation of our neutrality. Some of these same officials have admitted the expenditure of millions of dollars in illegal operations conducted "in direct defiance of our laws, and in fh- solent disregard of international dip- lomatic courtesy The catalogue of German crimes in America, and of German agents amongst us. while we were still neutral. if published in full. would be astounding almost to dis belief.
 The German acts have startled us at last to the knowledge that the nation which permits them without resent ment is no nation in that essential i -z i,tUr Without that quality, we are but a mass or disorganized peoples, having DO influence in world affairs. and ul- at the mercy Of that state which best knows how to carry on shameless intrigues amongst us Ger many is that state. We are fighting in tho hope of saving the world from her immoral ideas; but VIC are also te restore our self-respect.
 This is the eighth of q series of ten articles by Professor Adams.
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