Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-04-12
World Dominion RulIt Is East.

World Dominion Built In East.
"Their purpose is undoubtedly to
make all the Slavic peoples, all the
free and ambitious peoples of the Bal
tic peninsula, all the lands that Tur-
key has dominated and misruled, sub
ject to their will and ambition, and
build upon that dominion an empire
OF force upon which they fancy that
they can then erect an empire OF gain
and commercial supremacy-an en-
| pire as hostile to the Americas as to
the Europe which 1t will overawe-an
empire which will ultimately master
Persia. India, and the peoples Of the
far East.
/ I'm such a program our ideals, the
ideals Of justice and humanity and lib
erty, the principle of the free self
determination of nations upon which
all the modern world insists, can play
| no part.
"They are rejected for the ideals Of
power, for the principle that the
strong must rule the weak, that trade
n.ust follow the flag, whether those
| to Fhom it is taken welcome it or not,
that the peoples of the world are to
be made subject to the patronage and
over-lordship of those who have the
power to enforce it.
Would Mean World Conflict.
This program once carried out,
America and all who care or 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
for the time being be trodden under
foot, and disregarded. and the old, age
long struggle for freedom and right
begin again at It's beginning.
Everything America has lived for
and grown great to vindicate and
bring to glorious realization will
have fallen in utter ruin and the gates
of mercy once more pitilessly shut up
on mankind.
1.-THE thing Is preposterous and inn
possible; and yet, is not that what the
whole course and action of the Ger
man armies have meant wherever they
have moved? / do not wish, even in
this movement of utter establishment,
to Judge harshly or unrighteously.
Judge only by what the German arms
have accomplished with Implying
thoroughness throughout every fair re-
gion they have touched.
"What, then, are we to do? For my
self, am ready. ready still, ready even
now, to discuss fair, just and honest
reace al any time that 1t is sincerely
| proposed-a peace in which the strong
and the weak shall fare alike. But
the answer, when I proposed such
| peace, came from the German comman-
| iers In Russia and ! cannot mistake
the meaning of the answer.
"Force to Utmost" Only Answer.
II accept the challenge.
al know that you accept It. All the
world shall know that you accept 1T.
! IT shall appear in the utter sacrifice
and self-forgetfulness with which we
| shall give all that we love and all that
we have to redeem the world and make
| it fit for free men like ourselves to
| live in.
"This now is the meaning of all that
we do. Let everything that we say,
my fellow countrymen, everything that
we henceforth plan and accomplish.
ring true to this response till the majes-
/ ty and might Of our concerted power
shall fill the thought and utterly defeat
/ the force of those who flout and mis-
| prize what we honor and hold dear.
Germany has once more said that
force alone, shall decide whether JUS
tice and peace shall reign in the af-
fairs of men, whether right as Amer
lea conceives 1t or dominion as she
conceives it shall determine the des-
/ TIMES of mankind.
There is. therefore, but one re-
Spouse possible from us: Force, force
to the utmost, force without stint or
limit, the righteous and triumphant
force which shall make right the la v
of the world and cast every selfish
dominion down in the dust"
- Mn.a, ur~ah,,lar&y