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PRESS OP EL WOOD CALL LEADER ELWOOD. TND.
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The President’s Reasons—A Summary in His Own Words The President speaks best for himself. His full address to congress speaks best for him. But here, in extracts from that address, is a summary of the reasons he gives for America's participation in the war: to to to International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the seas where no nation had right of dominion and where lay the free highways or the world. By painful stage after stage has that law been built up with meager enough results, indeed. after all was accomplished that could be accomplished, but always with a clear view, at least, of what the heart and conscience of mankind demanded. This minimum of right the German government has swept aside under the plea of retaliation and necessity. l i to to 1 am not thinging of the loss of property involved. intense and serious as that is. but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of noncombatants, men, women and children engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people can not be. The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. tol to The wrong against which we now array ourselves are not common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life. Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic government backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances. to to to We have no quarrel wth the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. to to to Self-governed nations do not fill their neighboi states with spies or set the course of intrigue t bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest. Such designs can be successfully worked only under cover and where no one has the right to ask questions. to to to A steadfast concert for peace can never he maintained except by partnership of democratic nations. to to to Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? to to to One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friends is that from the outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our ofllces of government with spits and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of council, our peace wtihin and without, our industries and our commerce. Indeed it is now evident that its spies were here even before the war began. to to to We are accepting this challenge of hostil purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friends, and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world. to to to We are now about to accept gage of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall, if necessary. spend the whole force of the nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad now that we see the facts with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight thus for the ultmato peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included; for the rights of nations great and small and the privileges of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the trusted foundations of political liberty.
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