New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
I. r. Declares Republicans
Must Fight Delay in War
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with him when he goes wrong. In both
cases you are right. To desert such
ground is to be less than man. less
than an American
Just as it is our duty to support
!; every public servant who does right it
IS our equally emphatic duty fearlessly
to oppose him when he goes wrong.
and therefore to tell the exact truth
about him whether he is right or
whether he is wrong. To support a
pubic servant who does wrong is as
profoundly unpatriotic as to oppose a
public servant who does right To take
any other position is to show a servile
mind. Whoever takes any other posi-
ton shows that he is not fit to be a
free man in a free land The public
servant who does not approve such q
position Is not seeking to be the SER
want of the people, but the master Of
the people.
We arc in this war because of spe-
clal and intolerable grievances against
Germany; because, in addition to many
ether misdecds, she for two years fol-
I lowed course Of deliberate murder of
our unarmed and unoffending citizens,
men, women and children.
We fight for the future of our own
dear land, but we are also in the war
because IN common with all civilized
mankind we have been outraged by
Germany's callous and cynical brutal
tiles against we'll behaved weaker ma
tons. This is a war on behalf of
treaties as against scraps of paper,
for the freedom Of the sea against
world enslavement (for Germany has
been the real foe of freedom Of the
seas); 1t is war on behalf of small
well behaved nations against the dom
ineering and infinitely cruel arrogance
of the brutal and scientific German
n.ilitarism, a war for helpless women
and children against murdercrs, a war
for civilization against barbarism. hon
or against infamy, right against wrong
"a war against the powers Of dark
ness, Of death and of hell.
GAS for our own special grievance, it
is far more serious than any grievance
for which ever before we had to fight
a foreign foe. Germany has wronced
US far more seriously than Great Brit
ain wronged us during the years that
led up to our Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
No Submission
'No man can advocate submission to
Germany now without proving false
to the spirit of the men or 1776. Ger
many has waged war with utter faith
lessness and with inhuman cruelty.
The black infamy of her conduct tow
ard Belgium has no parallel in civil
lied history, since the close of the
dreadful wars Of religion in the seven
teenth century. Austria, Bulgaria and
Turkey have been her vassal states.
Turkey has behaved toward the Ar
menian and Syrian Christians and tow
ard the Jews in her dominions and
toward the Arabs with an even more
revolting cruelty than Germany her
SELF has shown. Unless we war on
Turkey precisely as we war on Ger
many we show that we are insincere
when he say that we wish to make the
world safe for democracy.
Nor can we keep our promise to
make the world safe for democracy
unless The subject races in Austria
are given real and not nominal
freedom. We are bound as a nation
now to remember that fine phrases.
that bold and lofty declarations of
purpose, are of worth only as they
are turned into brave deeds by men
who are both strong and true. Rhetoric
which is not made good, rhetoric which
has in it any element of hypocrisy and
insIncerity is an evil and not a de-
sirable thing
LET US keep stcadfastly in mind st.
Paul's warning when he bade' the
Romans beware of those who by good
words and fair speeches deceive the
hearts of the people, We of this ma
ton must now prove our truth by our
endeavor. We cannot with honor ac-
cept any ;nconclusive peace. Our aim
IS to beat Germany and the allies Of
Germany, and we cannot abandon a
single one of our allies, as long as that
ally is true to the common cause.
"The events of the past three and
half years have brought home to US
in startling fashion the truth that in
this country the man who is not Who'll
~ American and nothing but Ameri-
can is traitor to America. There
can be no such thing as a Gfty-ffty
allegiance. There are no better Amer
leans in this land than the Americans
of German blood who are Americans
and nothing else. It is shame and a
disgrace not to treat these men pre-
cisely as all other Americans are
treated. They are fit to serve in our
armies in any position from the major
general down; they are fit to hold any
position in civil life from President
down But the mon of German blood
who have tried to be both Germans
and Americans are not Americans at
all, but traitors to America and tools
and servants Of Germany against
America.
Denounces Enemy Societies
"Organizations like the German