Show 6 THE PISER PRESIDENT SAYS M MILITARY I 1 L DENIED U S RIGHT TO BE NEUTRAL FILLED COUNTRY WITH SPIES palled failed in attempt to spread sedition german people in grip of same sinister power that has D drawn rawn blood from Us washington june 15 president ezit IN FIlson in a flag fing day address delivered hero here on thursday declared that we c were forced into the world ride war by the extraordinary insults and aggressions of the military masters of germany germ any the presidents address in part Is as follows my fellow citizens we meet to celebrate flag fing day because this flag fing which we lionor and under which we serve is the emblem of our unity our power our thought thou glit and purpose as a nation it has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation the choices are outs ouis it floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices whether in peace or in war and ana et ct though silent it speaks to us speaks to us of the past of the men and women who went before us and of the records they wrote upon it we celebrate the day of its birth and from its birth until now it has witnessed a giedt history has floated on high the symbol of great events of a great plan of life N oi iced out by a great people we are about to carry it into battle to lift it where it will draw the fire of our enemies we are about to bid thousands hundreds of thousands it may be millions of our men the young the strong the capable men of the nation nallon to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away for what for some unaccustomed thing F for or ng for which it hns has never sought the fire before american armies were never before sent across the seas why are they sent now for some new purpose for which this great flag hns 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 americans have borne arras arms since the revolution these tire are questions which must be answered we are americans we in our turn serve america and can serve her with no private purpose we must use her flag as slie she has always used it we are arc accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve united states forced into war it is plain enough liow how we were forced into the war the extraordinary insults and aggressions of the imperial german government left us no self respecting choice but to take up arms in defense of our rights ns as a tree free people and of our lionor honor as a sovereign government the military masters of germany denied us the right to be neutral they filled our unsuspecting communities muni ties with vicious spies and conspirators spira tors 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 those agents were men connected with the off lelal embassy of the german government itself here in our own capital they sought by violence to destroy our industries dus tries and arrest our commerce they tried to incite mexico to take up aims against usand us and to draw japan into a hostile alliance her and that not by indirection but by direct suggestion from the foreign office in berlin they impudently denied u us s the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that th aliey ey would send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of europe and many of our own people were corrupted men alen began to look upon their o own onn nn neighbors with suspicion and to wonder in III their hot resentment and surprise sui prise whether cheth er there was any community in III which hostile ostile Ii intrigue did not lurk what great nation gutlon 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 tills this flag under which wo we serve would have been dishonored honored dl had bad we withheld out oui hand no eunity toward german people but that Is only part of the story atory we know now as clearly as we knew before we ne were ourselves engaged that we are not enemies of the german people and that they are arc not our en enemies emles they did not originate or desire this liis hideous war ar or wish that we should be drawn into it and e are vaguely conscious that we arc fighting their cause as they aliey will ai I 1 it some lay day see it as well 1 ell as our own they tire are themselves in tile alie grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly tal crib out arid and drawn blood from u us the whole world Is in the grip of that hint power ind and is trying out the gibat battle which shall determine whether it Is to be brought under its mastery or fling itself free the war was begun by the military masters of geimann Gei many who proved to bo be also the maters mastery of austrin austria hungary these men have never reg regarded aided ded nations as peoples men women nen and of like blood and frame as themselves for whom e existed andin whom governments had their life they have reg aided them aben inela deiny ly as serviceable ervI ceable organization tirla which they liry could by foice or hend fiend or to their own oin raj iu ap they lieve reg regarded aided the sn smaller santes in lint particular and the peoples people 10 ato lo could be avem overwhelmed helmed by funo ts 14 t s their natural tools and instruments of domination their purpose has lou lobig been avowed the demands made by austria austri upon serbia wore were a mere single step in 11 pinn which compassed europe and asia from berlin to bagdad they hoped those demands n might light not arouse europe but they meant to press them whether they lid did or not for then the thought themselves ready for the final issue of arms arm vast empire planned their plan mn was q to throw a broad belt of german military power and ditl political l control across the very cry center of eti eb rope and beyond the mediterranean into the heart of asia and austria hun gary was to he be as much their tool and pawn as serbia or bulgaria or turkey or the ponderous states of the east t the dream had its heart at berlin it could have had a heart no nowhere bere else it rejected the idea of solidarity of 1 race entirely the choice of peoples pla played no part in it at all they ardently desired to direct their own affairs t would be aati satisfied fled only by undisputed independence they could be kept quiet only by the presence or the constant threat of armed men the german military nry statesmen lind had reckoned with nil fill that and were ready to deal with ith it in their own way and the they have actually carried the greater part of that ania amazing zing plan into execution look how things sta stand nd autria austria is at their mercy it ilas has acted 1 not lot upon its own initiative or upon tile the choice of its own people but at berlins dictation ever since the war begar its people now desire peace but cannot have it until leave Is granted from berlin the so called central powers are in fact but a single power leibla Is at its mercy should its hands le be but for n moment freed from hamburg to the persian gulf the net is spread why berlin seeks pence peace Is it not easy to understand tile the e eagerness ag for pence peace that has been manifested manire front from berlin ever since the ana snare re was set and sprung pence peace peace peace has been the talk of her foreign office for now a year and more not pence peace upon her own initiative but upon the initiative of the nations over which she now deenis deems herself to hold the advantage through all sorts of channels it hns has come to me and in all sorts of guises but never with the terms disclosed which the german EOV would mould be willing to accept that government still holds a valuable part of france though with slowly relating grasp and practically the whole of belgium it cannot go further it dare not go back it to close its bargain before it is 19 too late and it lias has little left to offer for the pound of flesh it will III demand the military masters under whom germany Is bleeding see very clearly to what point rate fate has brought them if they fall back or are forced buck back an inch their power both abroad end at home will fall to pieces like a house of cards if they can secure peace now with the immense nd vantages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained they will have justified themselves before the german people ahr alipy y IN will have leavo gained by y force what thoy they promised to gain by it an immense expansion of german power an immense enlargement of german industrial and commer commercial cini opportunities if they fall their people will thrust the them m aside a government accountable to the people themselves will be sot set up ap in germany as it lins has been in england in the united states in france and in all the great coun countries tiles of the modern time except germany if they succeed they are arc safe find and germany and an the world are undone if they fall germany Is saved and the world will be at peace if they succeed we and nil all the rest of the world must remain armed as they will remain and must make ready for the next stop step or oc aggression gres sion slon if they fall the may unite for peace and germany may be of the union seek to deceive world the present particular aim of the masters of germany is to deceive all those who throughout the world stand for the rights right of peoples and the self government of nations for they see sec what immense strength the forces of justice and of liberalism a are gathering out of this war the sinister intrigue Is being no less actively conducted in tills this country than in russia and in every country in europe to chich the agents and dupes ut r the imperial german government can got get access united states in war var for freedom the great fact that stands out above all the rest is that tills this Is a peoples war it a war for fiefdom and justice justlee and self government all the nations of the a war to make the safe for the peoples who mho live in it und and have made it their own the german people themselves included and that with us rests the clairj clinice CC to break through till all these hypocrisies and patent clients cheats and masks of brute force find and help set the world free or else baand aside aide and let it be dominated a long iong age through by sheer weight of nt arnis arms ind and the arbitrary choices of self masters by the nation which can maintain the biggest armicia and the lie most tri irresistible c armaments a amer to which lie world hns has afforded no pa parallel jallel and in III the face of ijiri ali Ij nh ilI political irce doin must wither and nd perish for ii us there Is hut but one choice cli oice wo we have made it woe lie be to flit ho man or group of men unit that seeks to stand tn in out our way in tills this lay day of elgh r resolution lien every principle wo we hold dearest Ps is to be vindicated and in inside secure bof tile he salvation of the nations nation wr we are ready to plead at the bar or history ory i bein tio thoroughly roughly qualified t look after thor ther ou onn entertainment for th farm la is a busy place whore where are tw fen un an widely scattered per th jaded jade clerk yeller stenographer an clusty business nian man ther kin lo be 10 no more restful enjo jonientz joni mont ent than a quiet snooze on a barrel stave hammock in th hi cool shade 0 a daulphy haidu haI iu iii tree where th rattle 0 till th cash carrier an th clatter ol 01 0 till th typewriter never penetrate where lb only sound that disturbs our delirium Is th hum 0 th bees or th tattoo 0 till th gaily plumaged 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