The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-28
GERMANY WILL
 HAVE LITTLE VOICE
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 lutmost point of self denial. No man
 Or woman who has really taken ID
 what this war means can hesitate to
 give tO the very limit of what they i have, and it ia my mission here to- 1 night Co try Co make it clear once more what the war really means. Yca
 will need no other stimulation or re-
 hinder of your duty
 | At every turn of the war we gain 1 a fresh consciousness of what we arg
 to accomplish by f. When our hone
 and expectations are most excited we ' think more definitely than before of ! the issues that hang upon it and Q, 1 the purposes which must be realize < by means of it For it has positive l and well defined purposes which we l did not determine and which we can- 1 not alter. No statesman OF assembly ] created them no statesman or as- | sembly can alter them. They haya arisen out Of the very nature and cir | cumstances of the war The most | that statesmen or assemblies can do
 is to carry them out or be Ialse to them. They were perhaps not clear at the outset but they are clear now. "The war 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 Individual statesmen may
 have started the conflict, but naither i they nor their opponents can stop it 1 as they please Ii has become a peo-. ple's war and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune are inv oNed in it's , sweeping processes of change and set , tlement
 We came into it when it's character had become fully determined and .t
 was plain that no nation could stand i apart or be indifferent to it's outcome Its challenge drove to the heart of | everything we cared for and lived for 1 Our brothers iron, many lands. as well
 a. our own murdered dead under tba
 sea, were calling to us and We re 1 sponded, Iiercely Of course
 "The air was clear about Us We saw things in their fGH conyincus proportions as they were and We have seen them with steady eye, and l uncaangne comprehen ion ever since We accepted the issues of the var as
 facts not as any group Of men either | here or elsewhere had defined them
 and we can accept no outcome which does not squarely meet and settle l them Those issues are these:
 1 Shall the military power of any na- ! tion, or group of nations be suffered i 10 determine the fortunes of people over 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 purpose and intent? Shall peoples be ruied and doni- mated, even in heir internal affairs by arbitrary or ponsible force. or by
 their own will and choicco
 Shall there be a common standard Of right and privilege for all nations
 or shall the strong do as they will and
 the weak suffer without redress?
 Shall the assertion of righ, be hap
 hazard and by casual alliance or shall
 there be a common concert to obligc
 tEe observance of common rights?
 No man, no group Of men chos2
 thesc to be the issues of the struggle They are issues of it; aud they must be settled by no arrangement or compromise or adjustment of inter- ests, but definitely and once for ali
 and with a full and UneQmvocal ag- ccptanCe or the principle that the in jcrest Of the weakest is as sacred as
 tho interest of the strongest
 This is what we mean when wo| speak of 8 permanent peace. if we l speak sincerely intcmgcntly and with a real Knowledge and compro- hcnsion of the matter wc deal with
 "We are all agreed that there can bc no peace obtained ! y any kind of ! barsin or compromise with the gov 1 ernmen,s of the central empires be- | cause we have deallh with them al- 1 ready and have seen them deal with other governments that were parties to this struggles at Brest-8 itovsk| and Bucharest They have convinced
 us that they are without honor and
 do not intend justice They obsery
 no covenants, accept no principle but force and their interest We cannot
 come to terms with them. They made 1t impossible The German reople must by this time be fully aware that We cannot acecpt the word
 ot those who forced this war upon us We do not think the same thouehts
 or speak the same languase of agree ment.
 It is of capital importance that M
 should also ae explicitly agreed that no peace shall he obtained by any kind of compromise or abatement oi thD frfnriploQ MO bavo a,.,,taS .. fi,-