| Show WHAT WE AI ARE FIGHTING FOR I Not riot Only to Make World orld Safe Sate but for for fors for's s Safety of ot Our Own Country Farm a and Fireside T r When we went to war on the i of April the phrase that thrilled I through the co country In Justification of ot our act was to make the world t safe sate for democracy f This In a 3 broad sense Is what t J America Is fighting for but nations R do not go to war without some specific issue to touch off oft the d dynamite f i 4 The spark in this Instance was the declaration by Germany German in clear Y S. S lation of all International law that In pursuance of her submarine cam cam- k she would continue to murder 7 T American citizens and destroy American Ameri Ameri- can property on the high seas There was only one answer the United States could make and still hold her place among nations and that was t war Because she Is fighting their common common common com com- mon enemy however America has not embraced all the alms alms aims which the complex company of nations forming the entente may be for tor We Ve went to war on one Issue issue issue-an an American Issue the Issue the right of ot our citizens to sail the high seas without being threatened by foreign warring I powers Italy may want the Trentino France may demand Lorraine Alsace I others may ask Indemnities We c have not entered the world war war to help them get what they want but simply to force torce Germany to retract retract re re- tract a policy which destroys Amen Amerl- can life and property By Dy throwing her strength Into the tho struggle on the side of ot the allies alUes and against Germany the United States undoubtedly will further the alms of r the entente but Germany must have havet t recognized this and weighed it well welli i before she decided that her ruthless submarine with America as an enemy enemy enemy ene ene- my meant more to her ber than to keep America neutral and give up the sinkIng sinking sink sink- Ing of ot neutrals America bo be ready for fori Wb When n will peace If It Germany should r renounce campaign ait as a- asIt the ruthless submarine It affects neutrals would the aims alms of 54 the United States be satisfied and should we be ready to withdraw from i ithe the war I No for this reason The submarine is only one phase the phase the phase that di directly directly dl- dl affected the United States States States-of of ofa a policy which has shocked and made unsafe a whole world The working out of oC this policy to the end would mean an unthinkable condition of international In International International In- In brigandage The United States has declared war on this this' policy and until Germany not only renounces renounces re re- re- re the submarine campaign but also gives evidence of ot renouncing the policy by her guiding principle in dealing with foreign powers the United States States' will not have attained her aim I The The same policy sank the Lusitania Lusi- Lusi tania crushed Serbia and Belgium and no settlement which does not provide for the liberation and the ther restoration r of Serbia and Belgium can atone for the Lusitania Thoughtless Thought Thought- less and malicious statements have I been made that we are fighting Europe's Europe's Eu EU- ropes rope's battles battIes protecting entente capital etc The truth Is that we weare weare I Iare are fighting for our Independence for our ver very lives In the face of a a. policy of ot national brigandage which I Ihas i ihas has already crushed weaker nations nations' and which with the aid of ot turbulent Mexico threatened our southern bor bor- der Only the complete renunciation of this this policy can make make the world safe for us I I a |
