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WHY WE ARE AT WAR
WITH GERMANY
LECTURE NUMBER TWO
A Series of Lectu-es By Ephraim Douglas Adams, Executive Head
of History Department, of Leland Stanford Junior University
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“The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world j
from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment
controlled by an irresponsible government, which, having secretly planned
to dominate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without regard
either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established practices |
and long-cherished principles of international action and honor; . . This,
power is not the German people. It is the ruthless master of the German j
people. ... It is our business to see to it that the history of the rest of
the world is no longer left to its handling.”—President Wilson, August
27, 1917.
THE .MATERIAL AIMS OF GERMANY
Germany believes that she has the rii/ht to dominate the
world. Her militaristie autocracy believes this war is a step
toward such world domination, but that German demands for j
tin prrsent may rest satisfied with substantial gains in Eu
rope. For years German political writing has been full of the
“terms of ponce" after a war, and today those terms remain
unaltered. The Russian negotiations have served to prove that
what has for along time been public opinion, is now offiriul
opinion. The <{notations will show ns.
First, the more general purpose: “If we come victorious
out of this war, we shall be the first people on the earth, a
rich stream of gold will pour over our land." “Expansion of
our power both East ami West, if poxxibh- nho orrr xros; poli
tical and military domination combined, indissolubly con
nected with economical expansion, this is our aim." "The
territory open to future German expansion must extend from
the North Sea and the Raitic to ihe Persian Gulf, absorbing
the Netherlands and Luxemburg. Switzerland, the whole basin
-of the Danube, the Ralkan Peninsula and Asia Minor."
Second, the iiiuiniliutr aims: "Our relations with Turkey
have drawn us into this war. . . . the lSagdad Railway must
he extended by ns to the open sea, even to India itself." "I?el
gittm must remain under German domination . . . there exists
no better line of attack for the German army in a future war
with France.” whom it is nessessarv “to weaken to such it .de
gree that she can never again be dangerous to its." “Will any
body believe that we will hand over the lands which we have
occupied in the West, on which the blood of our people has
flowed7" We are not an institute for lengthening the life
of dying states."
Rut it is on Poland and Western Russia that Germany has
nil iilnini fixed her eyes. “We ought not to let fall tin* sword
from our hand before we have assured our future. Our east
ern boundaries must not remain when* they are." “Livonia.
Kurland. Esthonia, have been for more than seven centuries
sister-countries united through German traditions. It is true
Germans do not represent 10 per cent of the inhabitants; but
Ihrir character filters throU"h the whole." “Let us hravelv
organize great fureal m iijrnt inu.s of the inferior peoples. Pos
terity will lie grateful to us. We must coerce tlietu! Tliis is
one < f tlie tasks of war. Stieli foreetl migrations may appear
hard, lint it is the only solution. . . The ineffieient peoples
di semi raged and rendered itnlifferent to the future by the
spectacle of the superior energy of their conquerors, may then
crawl slowly towards the peaceful death of weary and hopeless
senility." The writer of this was here viewing especially the
non-fherman populatioux of South America.
How is America interested in the European political and
territorial results of this war? Well, first, we arc at war.
Germany believes that peace now, on the terms she outlines,
means a Germany victorious. That means a continuance of
military autocracy in Germany a continuance of an aggres
sive policy--a continuance of German faith in its special des
tiny to rule the world.
Against that German ideal we are fighting. Hut we are
also fighting to save the Americas from the "ue.it step" in
German imperialism. In the first year of the war, the one
l^reat fear expressed bv German officers was that a long ' ar
in Europe would “cause America to wake up.” Wake up to
what? Not to the.need of American participaion in the war.
The German officers thought America negligible for thin war.
Hut they did, and do,■ fear that America would awake to the
danger to herself, her ideals, her institutions, her interests,
and that being awakened, Germany's ue.rt step in world domin
ation would lie harder thau the present one.
There is no hope for a changed Germany—of establishing
those peaceful and friendly relations which should determine!
international conduct—if Germany gains her objects, or any
part of them, in thin war. She has net her heart upon certain
mat trial object*. We. must see to it that she does not pain
them.: Then her first step blocked, we may hope that her
people may awaken from their dream of empire. We fight
for a world peace, yes; but. we also fight for self-preservation,
and our best chance to save ourselves is this present moment
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SCHOOL ELECTION
HELO YESTERDAY
SHOWS DECREAS
One Hund-ed and One Votea Polle
At Booth; 200 Lest Than At
Last Election.
The school election held yesterda
for the purpose of electing cand
dates to the school board to fill tV
positions recently made open by tl
resignation of J. D. O’Neill and tl
expiration of the terms of Ca
Schmidt and J. A. Brevig, showed
decrease of over two hundred vote
in comparison with the last electio
held in the fall of 1917.
The number of votes ran aboi
even for the candidates, Mrs. C. 1
Hall receiving 91, J. A. Slippern, 9)
and J. A. Brevig, 94 the total beir
one hundred and one.
The election judges were M. •
Cooney, Harry Davis and Joe Rol
erts.
The board will consist of Mrs. 5
J. Sweeney, Mrs. C. H. Hau, Ge
W. Pennington, J. A. Slippern ar
J. A. Breivg.
Much disappointment has been e
pressed by the election judges ovi
the poor showing made by the N
nanaites in the matter of the ele
tion. Several of the most prominei
citizens of the town failed to a
pear at the polls and very little i
terest was show’n in the matter. T1
judges hold that the number of voti
polled in a community show tl
sentiency of the people in these pu
lie matters and for that reasc
think that a better showing shou
have been made yesterday, and moi
interest taken in the matter.
Two votes were counted out l
the judges, which accounts for tl
difference of one or two votes b
tween the candidates.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3.—
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j By J. HAMPTON MILES I
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Born ir.co sin, from whence no scholar knows,
Nor knoweth he—as down the aisles of time
He glides along—the fate to which he goes,
Be he a sage, or tyro born of crime.
The countless trails that from the crib doth wend,
Leads each e’er on to some mist shrouded goal -
To some retreat, though creed indexed the end,
The grave takes all of mortal man as toll.
We live not by the motto death erased,
Nor by the lilt of idylls yet unsung;
A churl may scale the ramparts yet untraced
And carve thereon a script of alien tongue.
A psalter sang perhaps by ancient clan
Who penned its creed on long past faded scroll,
But great and small that yawning vault must span
To realms hence—the grave must have its toll.
In greatest hours, when triumph sheathes thy sword,
Dost thou, O Sire, let praise thy conscience swathe? |
When legions pause and bow unto thy word
And on thy brow is placed the laurel wreathes;
Within thy heart is there one throb of love?
Or in thy brain a thought of thy own soul?
If not, thy all, for which thou e’er hast strove
Must pay the tithe—the grave must have its toll.
Traditions van may to that realm speed
Where pomp is grace and rank a sacred shield,
Where scath is wrought to succor lives of greed
That dine in state on fruits that others yield;
Be thou the belle of earth’s exalted few,
Or he who penned the most secluded scroll.
Thy life shall fade as doth the sparkling dew
At morn’s approach—the grave must have its toll.
Though caste divides, by social unhewn line.
The palace born from those who spin and shear,
The great beyond—if it exists—is thine.
And likewise mine and all God’s children here;
And when that barque the sea of death shall sail
Where faults and acts and sin-born tempests roll,
The rural swain and he who seeks the grail
Shall each in turn pay to the grave its toll.
If only man could all the faults forgive
Of other men, and kindly thoughts impart,
Ungrateful soul with man would never live
And ne’er the hand would go without the heart.
Approach thy grave as babes in slumber dream
Through twilight’s glow, when evening shadows stroll;
Let thy reward be thine own acts anti them
And thou has paid the grave its legal toll.
The jewelled crown whose lustre veins the gloom,
Sheds not a ray along the strand of grace;
The blood-stained sword that wrought a brother’s doom
Carves not a path unto God’s holy place;
The gilded shrine where hoary heads bow low,
Nor silvery chimes, doth priest or curate tell
Of realms hence—where souls of men will go,
To Heaven’s gate, or in the vales of Hell.
But on life rolls, and down the lanes of chance
Man passes on to some uncertain goal;
No message comes from those who traveled thence,
But all men know the grave will take its toll.
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