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(Fly William Rnglish Walling'
Nothing Is more certain in this war
than that the attitude of the American
people toward the German people and
our attitude toward the German gov
ernment are two separate and distinct
things. The President has lost no op
portunity to voice the American posi
tion in this matter. In all 0f his ad
dresses since the beginning of the war
he has touched upon this distinction.
But he has only been able to discuss
limited phases of this great and vitally
Important subject in each speech; it
is only when we put all of his refer
| ences to the German people together
l that we realize how completely he has
, stated the feeling of America.
| Let us show briefly how the Presi
dent has stated (1) the relation of the
j German government to the German
people, (2) the attitude of the Ger
man people toward its government and
toward the present war, (?,) the feel
ing of the people of the United States
toward the German people, and (4)
the reasons why we are at present en
gaged in fighting both the German
government and the German people.
German Government and People.
In his message calling for a declara
tion of war against Germany, Presi
I dent \\ ilson* spoke of the German gov
ernment as one that “did what it
pleased and told the people nothing."
and further referred to that govern
ment as an “autocracy backed by or
ganized force which is controlled
wholly by its will, and not by the will
of its people.”
Since this great address the Presi
dent's references to the character of
the German government and its atti
tude toward the German and other
, peoples have been frequent. One quo
tation from his Flag Day speech (June
: 14) will be sufficient to define his
I well known position:
“Thp war wnu hDo-im Kv tu ^
I masters of Germany, who proved to
f be also the masters of Austria-Hun
1 £3ry. These men have never regarded
1 nations as peoples, men, women, and
| children of like blood and frame as
| themselves, for whom governments ex
isted and fn whom governments had
; their life. They have regarded them
j merely as serviceable organizations
| which they could, by force or intrigue,
| bend or corrupt to their own n^rrose.”
Position of the German People.
The President has carefully and re
peatedly stated the tragic position of
t the German people at the present mo
j) ment as we Americans see it. He has
said that this people did not originate,
choose, or desire this hideous war,
“or wish that we should be drawn into
it' (June 14). “It was not upon
their impulse that their government
acted in entering the war. It was
not with their previous knowledge or
approval.” (April 3.)
The President has gone out of his
way to pay a sincere tribute to the
sterling qualities of the German peo
£ P'e as recognized by the overwhelming
£ majority of Americans. In his ad
. dress to the American Federation of
. Labor at Buffalo (Nov. 13) he said:
“I believe that the spirit of free
dom can get into the hearts of Ger
mans and find as fine a welcome there
as it can find in any other hearts, but
the spirit of freedom does not suit the
plans of the pan-Germans.”
But it is not necessary for us to
enter further into the virtues or other
characteristics of the German people.
The essential question involved is
their attitude toward the people oi
America. The President has stated at
the very beginning of the war that we
did not believe that the German peo
ple cherished toward us “any hostile
feeling or purpose.” (April 2.)
“ Att ude Toward German People.
- Feeling that it was impossible that
the German people, apart from the
German ruling classes can, or did, har
bor any hostility toward America (see
above), the President thus expressed
the general conviction that “we are
not the enemies of the German peo
ple and they are not our enemies.'
(June 14.)
The belief is almost universal in this
country that “we are fighting theii
cause as they will some day see it, as
well as our own.” (June 14.)
In the opening message of the wai
the President categorically declared:
“We have no quarrel with the Ger
man people. We have no feeling to
ward them but one of sympathy anc
friendship.”
This expression met with the prac
tically unanimous approval of the en
tire American people. In his Fla;
Day speech (June 14) the Presiden
further declared:
“This is a people's war, a war fo
I freedom and justic anti self-gowern
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."
Why We Fight Both German Govern*
ment and German People.
In his reply to the Tope the Presi
dent said:
"The American people believe that
peace rests upon the rights of peoples,
not the rights of governments—the
rights of peoples great or small, weak
or powerful—their EQUAL, right to
freedom and security and self-govern
ment and to a participation upon fair
terms in the economic opportunities of
the world—the German people of
course themselves included if they
will accept equality and not seek
domination."
Here it is important to note that
we can offer a friendly relation with
the German people only “if they will
accept equality and not seek domina
tion." in other words, the German
people have not yet made it clear
that they are prepared to accept equal
ity and not seek domination.
The President accurately says in
the same speech:
c\Ve must await some new evi
dence (A the purposes of the great
peoples of the central powers.”
It is not only that the great peoples
of the central poweirs (Germany and
Austria-Hungary) are not permitted
to declare their real opinion, but we
have as yet no sufficient gromnd for
concluding that their opinion will be
favorable tot our offer of a position of
equality among the nations.
“The people of Germany are- being
told by the a«*n whom they now' per
mit to deceive them and to act as
traeir master* that they are fighting
for the very life and- existence of
tlwir Empire, a war of ciesperater self
defense against deliberate aggression.”
the President dleclared it* his message
to congress (Dec. 4). Here it is im
portant to note not only that the Ger
man government deceives, the German
people and a<tts as its master, hut
that the German people are submit
this mastery and deception.
The President has further pointed
(in has reply t® the Pope) to another
fact of universal' knowledge, namely,
that the Germnap people are submit
ting with “temporary zest" to the
domination of the present ruling
classes. (Aug. 27.)
It is evident that some great change
in the situation will have to inter
vene before a people that submits
with a temporary' zest to such a brutal
despotism as that of the kaiser and
the Prussian military caste will aban
don this amazing infatuation. The
President and the American people
realize that if the German armies are
victorious the zest of the German peo
ple in their government may prove
lasting and may even become stronger
than ever, while the defeat of these
armies is bound, sooner or later, to
have the opposite effect. The Presi
dent has expressed our attitude in his
Flag Day address:
“They (the rulers of Germany) have
but one chance to perpetuate their
military power or even their control
ling political influence. If they can
secure peace now with the immense
advantages still in their bands, which
they have up to this point apparently
gained they will have justified them
selves 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 indus
trial and commercial opportunities.
Their prestige will be secure, and with
their prestige political power. If they
fail, their people will thrust them
aside; a government accountable to
the people themselves will be set up in
Germany as it has been in England
in the United States, in France, and
in all the great countries of the mod
era time except Germany.”
Here it is recognized the blind loy
alty of the German people in such that
the military victory of Prussian des
potism over the democratic nations
will in their minds justify Prussian
despotism. The German people are sc
hypnotized by the past and recent sue
cesses of the German military ma
chine that they totally disregard its
crimes against other peoples. Nor dc
they realize, as the President points
out In his last message, that if ths
■ German power is not “crushed am
utterly brought to an end” by a de
; cisive military defeat this would in
: evitably “make it necessary to creats
a permanent hostile combination of na
• tions against the German people, whs
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are Its instruments” (Dec. 4)—result
ing in an economic boycott even more
feared in Germany than military de
feat and more injurious. Here the
spokesman of the American people
puts the. whole matter in a nutshell.
We must and shall eoutinue the war
.against the German government—
either by military operations or by
boycott—until it is either defeated or
overthrown by the German people.
And as long as the German people
continue to support the present ruling
class we shall be obliged to continue
this war, which, whether military or
economic, is necessarily directed
against the German people as well as
the German government.
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