Arizona republican., 1918-10-07

provisions concerning the protection of labor and insurance of laborers, which provisions shall oblige the treaty. making states to institute in their re- spective lands within a prescribed time, a minimum of similar, or at least equally efficient, institutions for the security of life and health as for 'he care of laborers in the case of illness, accident or invalidism.
 "Of direct importance are the con- clusions which the government in :he brief span of it's existence has been able to draw from the situation in which it finds itself and to apply prac- tically to the situation. More than four years of bloodiest struggle against world of numerically superior ene- mics are behind us, years full of the hardest battles and most painful sac | riflces. Nevertheless, we are of strong heart and full of confident faith in ou. l strength. resolved to bear still heav- i fer sacrifices for our honor and free dom and for the happiness of our pos 1 terity if it cannot be otherwise. (Ap- plause).
 | Grateful For Soldiers Heroism | We remember with deep and warm gratitude our brave troops who. under splendid leadership, have accomplished almost superhuman deeds throughout | the whole war and whose past deeds are a guarantee that the fate of us all will also in future be in good and de- pendable hands in their keeping. For bmonthS continuous, terrible and mur- derous battle has been raging in the | west. Thanks to the incomparable he- rolsm of our army, which will live as an immortal, glorious page in the his- tory of the German people for all time the front is unbroken.
 | This proud consciousness permits us to look to the future with confi- dence. But, just because we are in- spired by this feeling and the convic- tion that it is also our duty to make certain that the bloody struggle be not protracted for a single day be- yond the moment when a close of the war seems possible to us, which does not affect our honor, I have not, therefore, waited until today to take a step to further the idea of peace.
 Supported by the consent of all duly authorized persons in the en- pire, and by consent of all our allies acting in concert with us, I sent on the night of October 4-5, through the mediation of Switzerland a note to the president of the United States, in which I requested him to take up the bringing about of peace and to com municate to this end with all the bel ligerent states.
 Wilson's Ideas; Our Ideas
 "The note will reach Washington today or tomorrow. It is directed to the president of the United States be- cause he in his message to congress, January 8. 1918. and in his later pro- clamations, particularly in his New York speech of September 27, propos- ed a program for a general peace which we can accept as a basis for negotiations.
 q have taken this step not only for the salvation of Germany and it's all lies, but of all humanity which has been suffering for years through the l war.
 T have taken it also because I be- lieve the thoughts regarding the fu- l ture well-being of the nation which were proclaimed by MT. Wilson are in | accord with the general ideas cher ished by the new German govern ment and with it the overwhelming majority of our people.
 50 far as I am personally concern ed, in earlier speeches to other as- semblages, my hearers will testify | that the conception which I hold of a future peace has undergone no change since I was entrusted with the lead ership of the empires affairs.
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 "I Await the Outcome
 q see, hence. no distinction what ever between the national and inter national mandates of duty in respect of peace. For me, the deciding factor is solely that all participants shall with equal honesty, acknowledge these mandates as binding, and respect them as is the case with me and other members of our new government. And so, with an inner peace which my clear conscience as man and a ser want of the people gives me, and which rests at the same time upon firm faith in this great and true peo- pie, this people capable of every de- votion and upon their glorious armed power, I await the outcome of the first action which I have taken as the leading statesman of the empire.
 "Whatever the outcome may be, know it will find Germany firmly re- solved and united, either for an up right peace which rejects every sell fish violation of the rights of others or for a closing of the struggle fol life and death, to which our people will be forced without our own faul if the answer to our note to the pow CTS opposed to us should be dictated by a will to destroy us.
 q do not despair over the though that this second alternative may come. I know the greatness of thu mighty powers yet possessed by oul people and I know that the incontro
 vertible conviction that they were onl! fighting for our life as nation would s double those powers. (Applauseo r T hope, however, for the sake O
 all mankind that the president of tn
 United Hates will receive our offe
 as we meant it. Then the door would be open to a speedy, honorable peac' of justice and reconciliation for us a
 well as for our opponents.
 ; ONLY PEACE TERMS