The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-04-12


and exhibit her purpose in execution
r-acl.amed a very different conclusion
We cauno, mistake what they nave
done-,n Russia. IN Finland and
the Ukraine. IL Rumania- fhe reaI
tes. OF their Justice and far play mas
o,,e Prom this We may Judge the
rest They are enjoying IN Russia a
rhsao triumph in which no brave or
gaIlart nation can long take pride
A great people helpless BY their own
ac, les for the time at their mercy
Their fair professions are forgotten.
they nowhere set up justice, but e''
ervwhere impose their power ana ex-
nlo,t everything for their own use
and agErandizement; and the peoples
of conquered provinces are invited 10
he free under their dominion.
Are we not justified In believing
that they would DO the same Things
a, their western front II they were
no. there face to face with armies
whom even their countless drives
cannot overcome H. when they nave
.eIt their check 20 be final they
should propose favorable and eqnitaple
terms with regard TO Gelgium and
/ France and Italy could they blame US
/ II we concluded that they did go only
/ TO assure themselves OF a free hand
in Russia and the east.
Domination Over Slavs.
"Thelr purpose undoubtedly is 70
/ make all the Slavic peoples, all the
free and ambitious nations OF the Bal
t,c penInsula, all the lands that Tur
kew has dominated and misruled sub
iect TO their will and ambition and
build upon that dominion an empire
OF force, upon which they fancy they
can then erect an empire OF gain and
commercial supremacy-an empire as
hostile to the Americans as to th'
Europe which it will overawe, an EN-
pire which will ultimately master
/ Persia, India and the peoples OF the
! far east. In such a program oul
ideals. the ideals OF justice and hu
manity and liberty, the principle o
the free self determination OF nations
upon which all the modern world In
sists, can play no part. They are re
jected for the ideals of power; for tn
principle that the strong must rul
the weak, that trade must follow tn
flag whether those to whom II Is take
welcome IL or not. that the peoples c
the world are to be made subject I
the patronage and overlordship c
those who have the power to enforc
It.
THAT program. once carried ou
America and all who care or dare t
stand with her must arm and prepar
themselves to contest the mastery
the world, mastery in which IN
rights OF common men, the right {
women and OF all who are weak mus
for the time being, be trod under FOO
and disregarded. and the old, age Ion
struggle for freedom and right begi
again at It's beginning. Everythin
, that America has lived for and love
> and grown great to vindicate an
, bring TO a glorious realization wi
, have fallen in utter ruin and II
, gates of mercy once more pitilessl
shut upon mankind
' Challenge Accepted.
! "The thing Is preposterous and II
, possible' And yet is not that VIII;
E. the whole course and action OF II
e German armies has meant wherev'
1 they have moved? | do not wish, eve
t in this moment OF utter disillusio
/ ment. to judge harshly or unrighteou
( ly. Judge only what the Germa
e arms have accomplished with unpit
!. ing thoroughness throughout eve
5 fair land they have touched.
2 What. then. are we to do?
D For myself, | am ready. ready sti
d ready even now, to discuss a fair al
d Just and honest peace at any time tn
r It is sincerely proposed peace
u which the strong and the weak sht
Y fare alike, but. the answer, when
proposed such peace. came from Z
l. German commanders in Russia, al
y cannot mistake the meaning OF tn
e answer.
:, II accept the challenge!
r, II know that you accept II. All I
o world shall know that you accept
e 1T shall appear In the utter sac
6 fee and self forgetfulness with whi
3 we shall give all that We love and
y that we have to redeem thV wo
e and make II At for free men like o
s. selves to live In. This now is
TX meaning OF all that we do.
C. LET everything that We say,
fellow countrymen. everything u
we henceforth plan and accompli
ring true to this response. until
NJ majesty and might OF our concer
sc power shall fill the thought and uti
ly defeat the force OF those who A.
20 and misprise what we honor and h
nc dear.
nc Germany has once more said I
ey force. and force alone, shall dec
is. whether justice and peace shall re
sd In the affairs Of men. whether right
On America conceives 1t, or dominion
'i' she conceives 1t. shall determine
destinies OF mankind.
I'm "There is. therefore. but one
ne sponse possible from us: