Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-20
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given you Where other nation you produce sucn
teachings as those? go -
today as conspiracy against the liberties OF the world
threat against representative government exan coup
with the spirit of the bully and the brigand
There the progress of the world when such
conspiracy and such ruthless war machine as we nave met WIN
here must opposed and by the united opposition OF
all of liberty When depoc government seeks to conquer
many peoples possible all others must enter an
alliance against it. 1t is plain aruh now as ever was nal
eternal vigilance the price liberty And liberty often demands
great She demanding them and the American
people the occasion and determined that the
world must be peaceful and justice loving people
or in other words, for the democracy of the world
The hope and greatest longing of mankind for per-
manent peace long been the dream of deals Our poets
have sung s Of the m9 Th9 e0b no longer and the battle flags
furled
In the parliament of man the federation of the world"
To ordinary of endowed with decent
spirit humanity fair of justice there seems to be
no sound why disputes should not be settled
settle the rights of Individuals the application OF law
and Justice either by impartial tribunal
conummaion requires frs reasonable and
governments be had from ministers of state who nave
characteristics of murderers and ROBBERS whose
diplomacy international intrigue deceit whose ioea
national progress is to murder conquer and ensaVe oe
people, treaties will to be considered mere scraps
of paper Absolute founded the divine right OF kings
openly they not bound by any sh moral cooe
as that they know no law except the
law of necessities and advantages Justice invoked by
to their purposes Let us recog
nize now this great TRUTH be such thing as
peace long any such government exists so long
as absolute monaches and the divine right OF kings
there will be oppression and conquest repeated revolt
establish liberty and representative government So long as the
will of one build great armament and without consult
ing representatives of people, declare in instant
wars are inevitable But with all nations possessing representa-
tive form government with the to declare war vested
onv in te neone legislative assembly, war practically
impossible almost selfevident truth that the way
permanent peace by first establishing the principle OF democracy
in the government of all nations.
this hghmnded adherence to the cause
of liberal government which brought about declaration war;
and you would be right saying that the immediate cause
personal and pressing Our people loved peace
wanted only be let alone to work out their peacetu oes
They shrunk from the horrors of war and had no desire NIX
and
negotiated begged rights the and the
lives of going their peaceful business be re-
spected and protested and accepted my
until had serepect We only partly awake
the fact that own land might next be attacked
And this is how driven into the conflict before the
war broke out every civilized accepted and abided by the
of merchant vessel of nation should
safe Under this long observed law American
citizens right about their peaceful business on the seas
with full confidence that matter upon what merchant snip ne
were travelling and of its so long
purely merchant ship that ship would not be sunk un
the passengers and taken from the ship and their se
secured Civilized always heretofore respected the
and refused poute its hands with the
wiu murder of and children This law applied 10 al
places both land sea- applied with double force the
peaceful village may be destroyed without necessarily Kill
ing the inhabitants but ship sunk at sea without warning leaves
chance The remorseless sea envelopes al eS
remained for Germany to break this most
humane and perperae great crime against u.s.
The Lusitana merchant liner, totally unarmed and unde.
Tended carving more thousand passengers consisting OF
men, women of little children, all bent on peaceful
sailing with of perfect security because they
supposed of nations would be observed was without
warning torpedoed and sunk by brutal hand as ever Weoe
scaipng knife fed Christians to the lions: and among the
their death hundred
men, children belonging and supposed to be
under the protection of nee may Dc tnose WI"
condone this act,-l
peaceovng and reasonable was demonstrated
and reSorted diplomacy 10 en-
from Germany disavowa of intention break
which submarine had violated and to re-
principle and obtain such PREPARATION
as was possible Germany instead of exhibiting
regret of justice argued and temporzed but finally
this promise TO the United States
will sunk by submarines without warning ana
without safety Of the lives OF noncombants PROVIDED Wat e
liners do not try to escape offer resistance
important this principle will be seen at glance Wnen
without American commerce must soon DC
from the and become hampered ana nemeo-
nation tardy concession grudngy gwen ana
learn nsncere was soon violated
frequently violated but peext or another Germany