Show iq WHY WE FIGHT 0 the following extracts from a speech made by french american abbiss ambassador idor josserand Jus indicates the ideals for which the allies are fighting tint thit th it vilest of all govern me ments ants the geiman gelman whom and what are the they fighting with that ardol and singleness of purpose Is it a government a race a creed a nation I 1 in truth it I 1 Is s laiq nine ne of these what they fight is treachery perjure perjury falsehood corruption basti lity tyranny and ind me meanness inness of people info n ho destroy for no othel reason than that thit th it they thy have the power to do so who inho 4 cannot see something clean without polluting ruining or killing it i t church a girl a child a famili hearth with such men so disposed of i whatever what hate eier v er race oi 01 creed and un til they undergo a thorough mental change no under standing is possible and no discussion is of my good but there is no need of any discussion whether might makes I 1 I 1 right in accordance with their monstrous say sa ing is of no importance foi fol we in ho today stand united posses both right and ind might the most stubborn eis should be set a thinking by what the world sees now it is the tact fact more I 1 and more obvious from month to month from year to year that we were defending right which has caused the increase of our might those constant additions to our 4 ranks in which the north and south east and west are mingled and the decisive addition has come to us in the present year through the entrance of the united states in the war the material value of your support is i immense the moral value even greater in his appeal to the american people in april last the president was able to say siy there is not a single selfish element so far as I 1 can see in the cause we are fighting for we are fighting for what we believe and wish to be the rights of mankind and for the future peace and security of the world in 1 the same bour ancestors and mine fought in that local war of independence which gave birth to your na tion a forerunner of that general war of independence in which the cause of liberty throughout the w orld is now at stake the havoc wrought by that power of evil which we aie ale fighting has been terrific we shall so manage all of us that it will be unable ever to work worl such lum again but the destruction accomplished is unexampled in peaceful industrial noble minded gibat hearted bel glum a country that has won the admiration of the whole world with the single exception of the power of evil there are now houses destroyed the dead cannot be counted the same sime with servia the same with france prance wh whenever elever the Bar barbarian birian has set foot all is ruin one of 4 the most beautiful 1 fertile 9 and industrial spots in the world northern france is now barren nd no houses no in habitants no trees time and c care cire ire ha hav hae v e been taken to des troy tools to destroy the humble furniture the place of some villages is marked only by heaps of crumb crumbled ld stones life and the power of evil cannot exist together our ideal the one which makes us work together as 14 4 a unit was defined long ago in this piece of ancient ad vice recently quoted by one of the new york papers paper q 1 never value anything as profitable to thyself which J shall compel thee to break thy promise to lose thy self respect to hate any man min to suspect to curse to act the hypocrite to desire anything which needs wall and cur 4 4 bains 11 so spoke eighteen centuries ago one who was t r worthy to be the president of a modern republic and who though an emperor was no kaiser marcus aurelius 4 4 we trust in the furuie it belongs to men of good will your country is full of them ouis too |