The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-04-11

who act for Germany and exhibit her purpose in
execution, proclaimed very different conclusion.
We cannot mistake what they have done in Russia,
in Finland, in the Ukraine, in Rumania. The real
test of their justice and fair play has come From
this we may judge the rest
ENJOY CHEAP TRIUMPH IN RUSSIA.
'They are enjoying in Russia cheap triumph
in which no brave gallant nation can long take
pride great people, helpless by their own act lies
for the time at their mercy. Their fair professions
are forgotten They nowhere set up justice, but
everywhere impose their power and exploit every
thing for their and ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and the
peoples of conquered provinces invited be free
under their dominion.
care we not justified in believing that they
would do the things at their Western front if
they were not there face to face with armies whom
even their countless divisions cannot overcome: If,
when they have felt their check to be final, they
should propose favorable and equitable terms with
regard to Belgium and France and Italy could they
blame us if we concluded that they did SO only to
assure themselves of free hand in Russia and the
East?
PURPOSE is TO DOMINATE EUROPE.
"Ther purpose is undoubtedly to make all the
Slavic peoples all the free and ambitious nations of
the Baltic peninsula, all the lands that Turkey has
dominated and misruled subject to their will and
ambition and build upon that dominion empire of
gain and commercial supremacy = an empire as
hostile to the Americans to the Europe which it
will overawe-an empire which will ultimately mas
ter Persia, India and the peoples of the Far East
"In such program our ideals, the ideals of
justice and humanity and liberty, the principle of
the free self determination of nations upon which
all the modern world insists, can play no part.
They rejected for the ideals of power, for the
principle that the strong must rule the weak, that
fraI fclID
it is taken welcome not that the peoples of the
world to be made subject to the patronage and
overordshp of those who have the power to enforce
it.
FREEDOM WILL FALL IN UTTER RUIN.
"That program, once carried out, America and
all who dare to stand with her must arm and
prepare themselves to contest the mastery of the
world, mastery in which the rights of common men,
the rights of women and of all who are weak must
fer the time being, be trodden under foot and dis
regarded, and the old, ageong struggle for freedom
and right begin again at its beginning. Everything
that America has lived for and loved and grown
great to vndicate and bring to glorious realization
will have fallen in utter ruin and the gates of mercy
once more pitilessly shut upon mankind.
THE thing is prep0sterous and impossible, and
yet is not that what the whole course and action of
the German armies has meant wherever they have
moved? do not wish, in this moment to utter
establishment, to judge harshy or unrighteously
judge only what the German arms have accomplished
with Implying thoroughness throughout every fair
region they have touched.
GERMAN ANSWER NOW PLAIN.
what, then, what we to do? For myself, L
am ready, still ready, now to discuss fair and
Just and honest peace at any time it is sincerely
proposed peace in which the strong and the weak
shall fare alike. But the answer, when proposed
such peace, came from the German commanders in
Russia, and cannot mistake the meaning of the
answer.
II accept the challenge. know that you accept
it. All the world shall know that you accept it. 1t
shall appear in the utter sacrifice and forget
funess with which shall give all that we love and
all that have to redeem the world and make it fit
for free men like ourselves to live in. This is now
the meaning of all that we do.
Let everything say, my fellow countrymen
everything that we henceforth plan and accomplish,
ring true to this response till the majesty and might
of our concerted power shall fill the thought and
utterly defeat the force of those who out and mis-
prize what we honor and hold dear.
SELFISH DOMINION MUST BE CAST DOWN.
Germany has once more said that force and
force alone shall decide whether justice and peace
shall reign in the affairs of men, whether right as
America conceives it or dominion as she conceives
1t shall deterine the destinies of mankind There is
therefore, but one response possible from u.s. Force
force to the utmost force without stint or limit the
righteous and triumphant force which shall make
right the law of the world and cast every selfish
dominion down in the dust"