14
KAISER PLOTS FOR
PEACE, WILSON WARNS
[Continued From First Pafte.]
which American soldiers now carry the Stars and Stripes to Eur
ope for the first time in history are not new to American tradi
tions because realization of German's war aims must eventually
mean the undoing of the whole world. He spoke in full as follows :
The Address
"My fellow citizens: We meet to
celebrate Flag Day because this flag
which we honor and under which
we serve is the emblem of our unity,
our power, our thought and purpose
as a nation. It has no other charac
ter than that which we give it from
generation to generation. The choices
are ours. It floats in majestic silence
above the hosts that execute those
choices, whether in peace or in war.
And yet, though silent, it speaks to
lis —speaks to us of the past, of the
men and women wtoo went before
us and of the recoils they wrote
upon it. We celebrate the day of its
birth, and from its birfch until now it
has witnessed a great history, has
floated on high the symkbol of great
eVents, of a great plan erf life work
ed out by a great people. We are
about to carry it into battle, to lift
it where it will draw the fite of our
enemies. •
Millions for Army
"We are about to bid thousands,
hundreds of thousands, it m&y be
millions, of our men, the youngv the
strong, the capable men of the na- <
tion, to go forth and die beneath it I
on fields of blood far away,—for |
what? For some unaccustomed ]
thing? For something for which it j
has never sought the fire before?J
American armies were never before r
sent across the sea. Why are they
sent now? For some new purpose,
for which this great flag has never
been carried before, or for some old, |
familiar, heroic purpose for which
it has seen men, its own men, die on
every battlefield upon which Amer
icans have borne arms since the Rev
olution?
"These are questions which must
he answered. We are Americans. We
: in our turn serve America, and can
serve her with no private purpose.
We must use her flag as she has al
ways used it. We are accountable at
the bar of history and must plead in
utter frankness what purpose it is
we seek to serve.
Forced Into War
"It is plain enough how we were
forced into the war. The extraordi
nary insults and aggressions of the
Imperial German government left us
no self-respecting choice but to take
up arms in defense of our rights as
a free people and of our honor as
a sovereign government. The mili
tary masters of Germany denied us
the right to be neutral. They filled
our unsuspecting communities with
vicious spies and conspirators and
sought to corrupt the opinion of our
people in their own behalf. When
they found that they could not do
that, their agents diligently spread
sedition amongst us and sought to
draw our own citizens from their
allegiance—and some of these agents
were men connected with the official
embassy of the German government
itself here in our own capital.
"They sought by violence to de
stroy our industries and arrest our
commerce. They tried to incite Mex
ico to take up arms against us and
tc draw Japan into a hobtile alliance
with her—and that, not by indirec
tion, but by direct suggestion from
the foreign office in Berlin. They
impudently denied us the use of the
high seas and repeatedly executed
their threat that they would send to
their death any of our people who
ventured to approach the coasts of
Europe. And many of our own peo
ple were corrupted. Men began to
look upon their own neighbors with
suspicion and to wonder in their hot
resentment and surprise whether
there was any community in which
hostile intrigue did not lurk. What
great nation in such circumstances
would not have taken up arms?
Much as we had desired peace, it
was denied us, and not of our own
choice. This flag under which we
serve would have been dishonored.
had we withheld our hand.
Xo Hatred l'or People
"But that is only part of the story.
We know now as clearly as we knew
before we were ourselves engaged
that we are not the enemies of the
German poople and that they are
not our enemies. They did not orig
inate or desire this hideous war or
wish that we should be drawn into
it; and we are vaguely conscious
that we are fighting their cause, as
they will some day see it, as well as
our own. They are themselves in the
grip of the same sinister power that
has now at last stretched its ugly
talons out and drawn blood from us.
The whole world is at war because
the whole world Is in the grip of
that power and is trying out the
great battle which shall determine
whether it is to be brought under its
mastery or fling itself free.
"The war was begun by the mili
tary masters of Germany, who
proved to be also the masters of
Austria-Hungary. These men have
never regarded nations as peoples,
men, women and children of like
blood and frame as themselves, for
whom governments existed and in
whom governments had their life.
They have regarded them merely as
serviceable organizations which they
could by force or intrigue bend or
corrupt to their own purpose. They
have regarded the smaller states, in
particular, and the peoples who
could be overwhelmed by force, as
their natural tools and instruments
of domination. Their purpose has
long been avowed.
Seemed Incredible
"The statesmen of other nations,
to whom that purpose was incred
ible, paid little attention; regarded
what German professors expounded
in their classrooms and German
writers set forth to the world as the
goal of German policy as rather the
dream of minds detached from prac
tical affairs, as preposterous private
conceptions of German destiny, than
as the actual plans of responsible
rulers; but the rulers of Germany
themselves knew all the while what
concrete plans, what well advanced
intrigues lay back of what the pro
fessors and the writers were saying,
and were glad to go forward unmo
lested, filling the throngs of Balkan
states with German princes, putting
German officers at the service of
Turkey to drill her armies and make
interest with her government, de
veloping plans of sedition and re
bellion in India and Egypt, setting
their fires in Persia. The demands
made by Austria upon Servia were a
mere single step In a plan which
compassed Europe and Asia, from
Berlin to Bagdad. They hoped those
demands might not arouse Europe,
but they meant to press them wheth
er they did not not, for they thought
themselves ready for the final issue
of arms.
Belt of Iron
"Their plan was to throw a broad
belt of German military power and
political control across the very cen
ter of .Europe and beyond the Medi
terranean into the heart of Asia; and
and Austria-Hungary was to be as |
much their tool and pawn as Servia
or Bulgaria or Turkey or the pon
derous states of the East. Austria-
Hungary, Indeed, was to become part
of the Central German empire, ab
sorbed and dominated by the same
forces and Influences that had orig
inally cemented the German states
themselves, The dream had its heart >
THURSDAY. EVENING,
at Berlin. It could have had a heart
nowhere else! It rejected the idea
of solidarity of race entirely.
"The choice or peoples played no
part in it at all. It contemplated
binding together racial and political
units which could be kept together
only by force—Czechs, Magyars,
Croats, Serbs. Rumanians, Turks,
Armenians, —the proud states of Bo
hemia and Hungary, the stout little
commonwealths of the Balkans the
indomitable Turks, the subtle peo
ples of the East. These peoples did
not wish to be united. Thev ardent
ly desired to direct their own affairs,
would be satisfied only by undis
puted Independence. They "could be
kept quiet only by the presence or
the constant threat of armed men.
They would live under a common
power only by sheer compulsion and
await the day of revolution. But
the German military statesmen had
reckoned with all that and were I
r
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ready to deal with it in their own
way.
Austria at Their Mercy
"And the/ have actually carried
the greater part of that amazing
plan into execution. Look how things
stand. Austria is at their mercy. It
has acted, not upon its own initia
tive or upon the choice of its own
people, but at Berlin's dictation ever
since the war began. Its people now
desire peace, but cannot have it un
til leave is granted from Berlin. The
so-called Central Powers are ir fact
but a single Power. Servia is at its
mercy, should its hands be but for a
moment freed. Bulgaria has con-,
sented to its will, and Rumania is
overrun. The Turkish armies, which
Germans trained, are serving Ger
many, certainly not themselves, and
the guns of German warships lying
in the harbor of Constantinople re
mind Turkish statesmen every day
that they have no choice but to take
their orders from Berlin. From
Hamburg to the Persian gulf the net
is spread.
"Is it not easy to understand the
eagerness for peace that has been
manifested from Berlin ever since
the snare was set and sprung?
Pecae, pecae, pecae has been the talk
of her foreign office for now a year
and more; not peace upon her own
initiative, but upon the initiative of
the nations over which she now
deems herself to hold the advantage.
A little of the talk has been public,-
but most of It has been private,
through all sorts of channels it has
come to me, and in all sorts of
guises, but never with the terms dis-
HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH
closed which the German gbvern
ment would be willing to accept.
"That government has other valu
able pawns in its hands besides those
I have mentioned. It still holds a
valuable part of France, though with
slowly relaxing grasp, and practical
ly the whole of Belgium. Its armies
press close upon Russia and over
run Poland at their will. It cannot
go further; it dare not go back. It
wishes to close its bargain before it
is too late and it has little left to
offer for the pound of flesh it will
demand.
Germany Bleeds
"The military masters under
whom Germany is bleeding see very
clearly to what point fate has
brought them. If they fall back or
are forced back an inch, their power
both abroad and at home will fall to
pieces like a house of cards. It Is
their power at home they are think
ing about now more than their pow
er abroad. It is that power which
is trembling under their very feet;
and deep fear has entered their
hearts. They have but one chance to
perpetuate their military power or
even their controlling political in
fluence. If they can secure peace
now with the immense advantages
still in their hands which they have
up to this point apparently gained,
they will have justified themselves
before the German people: they will
have gained by force what they
promised to gain by It; an immense
expansion of German power, an im
mense enlargement of German in
dvstrlal and commercial opportuni
ties. Their prestige will be secure,
and with their prestige their po
f al If the y 'a", their peo
ple wlll^thrust them aside; a gov
ernment accountable to the people
themselves will be set up in Ger
many as it has been in England,
in the United States, in France, and
in all the great countries of the
modern time except Germany. If
they succeed they are safe and Ger
many and the world are undone; if
they fail Germany is saved and the
world will be at peace. If they suc
ceed, America will fall within the
menace. We and all the rest of the
world must remain armed, as they
will remain and must make ready
for the next step In their aggression;
if they fall the world may unite for
peace and Germany may be of the
union.
Aim to Deceive
"Do you not now understand the
new intrigue, the intrigue for peace,
and why the masters of Germany
do not hesitate to use any agency
that promises to effect their purpose,
the deceit of the nations? Their
present particular aim is to deceive
all those who throughout the world
stand for the rights of peoples and
the self-government of nations; for
they see what immense strength the
forces of justice and of liberalism
are gathering out of this war. They
are employing liberals in their enter
prise. They are using men, in Ger
many and without, as their spokes
men whom they have hitherto de
spised and oppressed, using them for
their own destruction,--Socialists
the leaders of labor, the thinkers
they have hitherto sought to silence i
Let them once succeed and these
men, now their tools, will be ground
to powder beneath the weight of
the great military empire they will
have set up; the. revolutionists In
Russia will be cut off from all suc
cor or co-operation In Western
Europe and a counter revolution fos
tered and supported; Germany hert
self will lose her chance of free
dom; and all Europe will arm for
the next, the final struggle.
"The sinister Intrigue Is being no
less actively conducted In this coun
try than in Russia and In every
country in Europe to which the
agents and dupes of the Imperial
German government can get access.
That government has many spokes
men here, in places high and low.
They have learned discretion. They
keep within the law. It Is opinion
they utter now, not sedition. They
proclaim the liberal purposes of
their masters; declare this a foreign
war which can touch America with
no danger to either her lands or her
institutions; set England at the cen
ter of the stage and talk of her
ambition to assert economic domin
ion throughout the world: appeal to
our ancient tradition of Isolation in
the politics of the nations; and seek
to undermine the government with
false professions of loyalty to Its
principles.
"But they will make no headway.
The false betray themselves alwavs
in every accent. It Is only friends
and partisans of the German govern
ment whom we have already Iden
tified who utter these thinly dis
guished disloyalties. The facts are
JUNE 14, 1917.
potent to all the world, and nowhere
are they more plainly seen than In
the United States, where wc are ac
customed to deal with facts and not
with sophistries; and the great fact
that stands out above all the rest Is
that this is a peoples' war. a war for
freedom and justice and self-govern
ment amongst all the nations of the
world, a war to make the world safe
for the peoples who live upon it and
have made It their own, the German
people themselves included; and that
with us rests the choice to break
through all these hypocrisies and
patent cheats and masks of brute
force and help set the world free, or
else stand aside and let it be dom
inated a long age through by sheer
weight of arms and the arbitrary
choices of self-constituted masters,
by the nation which can maintain
the biggest armies and the most ir
resistible armaments —a power to
which the world has afforded no
parallel and In the face of which
political freedom must wither and
perish.
"For us there is but one choice.
We have made It. Woe be to the
man or group of men that seeks to
stand in our way In this day of high
resolution when every principle we
hold dearest is to be vindicated and
made secure for the salvation of the
nations. We are ready to plead at
the bar of history, and our flag shall
wera a new luster. Once more we
shall make good with our lives and
fortunes the great faith to which we
were born, and a new glory shall
shine In the face of our people."
Draft Policy Outlined
by Attorney General
Washington, June 14. Attornej
General Gregory has outlined thi
policy of the Department. of Justlc<
In handling; of registration cases:
"In instances where reglstratlor
w * B omitted through ignorance or in
i.n j n Persons are now being per
mltted to register under paragraph 4<
or the registration regulations befor<
the county board, and those so regis
tering are held to answer to the granc
!.!££ on tlle ir own recognizance.
. in.?? 6 who have knowingly and
y f ?"ed to register and nov
apply are being registered, but plac
bon ds with sureties.
1 i" OB e who continue to defy thi
jaw and such as have interfered wltl
its enforcement or aided in its evasioi
£1! ' m Prlsoned or held to thi
grand juries on very substantia
bonds.
GERMANY HOI/US AMERICAN
By .Associated I'resj
Copenhagen, June 14.—Michael J
Stark, of Chicago, an employe of th
International Harvester Company a
Neuss, Prussia, arrived here fron
Germany last night. He had beei
trying since February 6 to obtaii
a passport and was just given por
mission to leave Germany. He say
a number of Americans of his ac
quaintance have been absolutely re
fused passports until the war is over