El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-06

DRESDENT WILSON'S Fourth Of July speech at Mount
Vernon is ringing answer to the weak, half yelled
bids Of foreign minister Kushmann and chancellor Won
HertEng for a compromise peace. OUR PRESIDENT
STANDS sTEADFAST FOR PEACE WITH VICTORY.
HE REFUSES TO CONTEMPLATE PEACE WITHOUT
is the earnest conviction Of the American people that
there be compromise peace because there can be no
compromise between right aud wrong That is the ideastc
view Applying It practically there can be no peace treaty
with nation which tears up treaties at VIII so long as
that nation has the power to break promises and make
There be one Of two outcomes to the war. The
German people can overthrow their dynasty (or it
overthrow for he) and secure peace fair terms The
entente allies need only to be convinced Of the triumph
Of a night spirit over evil spirit IN GERMANY. That
outcome The other the complete crushing Of the
German dyuas government and the German people too
al Germany broken hurled into the dust for
the German people themselves to say That is the Amer
lean viewpoint We snsi NOT tolerate any lord Lansooes
this country with dreams Of patched up peace which
would leave Germany able to prepare at once for another
war victor in fact.
This is what president Wilson doubtless meant when
he said that determined to overthrow autoacy
at least humble It into impotence He had the two pos
sble eventualties in mind.
Although one surises the president conceived his speech
the quiet Of his study at the white house would be
quite easy TO imagine from its lofty tone and the inspTa
ton Of its thought that he gathered together his ideas at
Mount Vernon at the he spoke. For his speech
bTeathes the sprt OF washington IRON rst to last One
recognizes under slightly different phraseoogy, IN his
suuncaon Of American principles guiding in this
the Old time tried principles set forth IN the Declaration
Of Independence and the constitution Of the United States
The right individuals life liberty the pursuit Of
happiness government with the consent OF the governed
emancipation from the yoke Of tyrannous despotisn-
recognizes them all having been familiar from the
school days Of childhood.
It comes to this that standing the grassy slope Of
Mount Vernon under the great spreading trees where
Washington conferred with his advisers the making
Of the American nation out Of the 10 original colonies
standing the old white mansion in the quiet Of whose
library Washington worked out many Of his decsions
standing close tomb where reposes all that earthly
Of the great American leader Woodrow Wilson reiterated
his guiding principles Of the American people, which pTin-
cpes have remained unchanged through 142 years And
he expanded them He gave them meaning. He voiced
them applying to the United States Of America only
the comfort and reinsurance Of all those small peoples
which suffer under the domination Of imperial misrue but
now with hope dzwnng IN their eyes look to America for
deFeranc He voiced them for great nations and smaller
nations which, fearful Of being oVeidden and ensaved by
the German might look to US for aid to avert that awful
menace
Wei did the president say that German lust for power
snesng itself by turning loose the forces Of he'll upon
earth has aroused another force Of greater power namely,
the force Of righteousness, force which presently shall
overwhelm the evil resistlessly.
We know It. The German leaders perhaps beginning
to it-one cannot tel for But they VIII it.
The whole German and AustToHungaTian and Bulgarian
and Turkish hordes VIII It. The doom OF the
hated isolated desp0sms Of central Europe IS sealed
They shall be stripped Of their gains and be beaten into
the dust TO the end, the enemy would have the
world believe, that Ango-Saxon dominion may be
established the earth mote that the Teuton mind
not conceive idealistic divorce itself from
thoughts Of conguest but that right may prevail and
shaved peoples may be liberated and that free peoples may
not be euslaved- We shall more stand for d German
Of the present rule Of Russian provinces BY German mobiles
the vicega government BY and for Germany which has
been set up IN Belgium
President Wilson claims to voice the sentiments Of the