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Show CAUSE OF THIS WAR T F I am permitted to put that cause -L in a sentence, it is because a certain cer-tain group of nations have set gain above God, have set national aggrandizement aggran-dizement and aggression above national nation-al righteousness and fair dealing. As a consequence of that, we have witnessed an increasing savagery of war ; so that it is no longer a question of even the most modern science in the art of warfare, war-fare, with an aim and purpose to ameliorate amel-iorate its severity and protect the innocent, in-nocent, but a complete surrender to ., the bestial. As they have it now, it is no longer a contest of bodies of men against bodies of men. It is no longer an open conflict upon a fair plane, where genius and strategy and courage work out a national problem. But it is, in part at least, the assassination by sea and casual slaughter by air, and the killing of women and children children chil-dren as they enter the candy shops to make their petty purchases are slain by unseen missiles that come from unseen enemies. It is the casual, pitiless slaughter of the unoffending and the defenseless. "And now, by the rotation of events and the irresistible logic of righteousness righteous-ness which summon every brave arm to the right side of the cause, the United Uni-ted States has entered this war. And it will never turn back until it has given the world peace ; not merely a cessation , of conflict, but peace based upon righteousness right-eousness "It is a fight for principle and right, and America responds to it; not gayly, as a nation which likes to fight, but bravely and prayerfully, resolved that it will fight to the end in a cause for democracy." Secretary of War Baker. |