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PRESIDENT WILSON DELIVERED
Line DAY ADDRESS JUNE H.
President Wilson delivered the fol
lowing address at the Flag Day exer
cises in Washington, June 14:
My Fellow Citizens: We meet to
celebrate Flag Day because this (lag
which we honor and under which we
serve is the emblem of our unity, our
power, our thought and purpose as a
Nation. It has no other character than
that which we give it from generation
to generation. The choices are ours. It
floats in majestic silence above the
hosts that execute those choices,
whether in peace or in war. And yet,
though silent, it speaks to us—speaks
to us of the past, of the men and wo
men who went before us and of the
records they wrote upon it. We cele-
Prate the day of its birth; and from
its birth until now it has witnessed a
e;eat history, has floated on high the
symbol of great events, of a great plan
of life worked out by a great people.
We are about to carry it into battle,
to lift it where it will draw the fire of
( xi enemies. We are about to bid thou
sands, hundreds of thousands, it may
be millions, of our men, the young,
the strong, the capable men of the
Nation, to go forth and die beneath it
on fields of blood far away—for what?
For some unaccustomed thing? For
something for which it has never
sought the fire before? American ar
mies were never before sent across
the seas. Why are they sent tow? For
some new purpose, for which this great
hag has never (been carried before, or
for gome old, familiar, heroic purpose
for which it has seen men, its own
men, die on every battle field upon
v-liich Americans have borne arms
since the Revolution?
Accountable at Bar of History,.
These 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 she has always used it.
We are accountable at the liar of his
tory and must plead in utter frankness
what purpose it is we seek to serve.
It is plain enough 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 as a free peo
ple and of our honor as a sovereign
government. The military masters of
Germany denied us the right to be neu
tral. They filled our unsuspecting com
munities with,vicious spies and .con
spirators and sought to corrupt the
opinion of our people in their own be
half. When they found that they could
not do that, their agents diligent!
tpread sedition amongst us and sough!
to draw our own citizens from their
allegiance—and some of those agents
■were men connected -with the official
embassy of the German government
itself here in our own Capital. They
sought by violence to destroy our in
dustries and arrest our commerce.
1 hey tried to incite Mexico to lake up
arms against us and to draw Japan
into a hostile alliance with her—and
that, not by Indirection, but by direct
suggestion from the foreign office in
Berlin. They impudently denied us (lie
use of the high seas and repeatedly ex
ecuted their threat that they would
send to their death any of our people
who ventured to approach the coasts
of Europe. And many of our own peo-
ple were corrupted. Men began to look
upon their own neighbors with sus
picion and to wonder in their hot re- j
seutment and surprise whether there
was any community in which hostile
intrigue did not lurk. What great na- !
tion in such circumstances would not
have taken up aims? Much as we had j
desired peace, it was denied us, and
not of our own choice. This flag under
which we serve would have been dis
honored had we withheld our hand,
i But that is only part of the story.
We know now as clearly as we knew
before we were ourselves engaged that
v.e are not the enemies of the German
people and that they are not our ene
mies. They did not originate or desire
this hideous war or wish that we
should be drawn into it; and we are
vaguely conscious that we are fighting
their cause, as they will some day see
. it, as well as our own. They are them
selves in the grip of the same sinister
power that has now at last stretched
its ugly talons out and drawn blood
from us. The whole world is in the
g:ip of that power and is trying out
the great battle which shall determine
whether it is to be brought under its
mastery or fling itself free.
War Begun by German Militarists.
The war was begun by the military
masters of Germany, who proved to he
also the masters of Austria-Hungary.
These men have never regarded na
tions as peoples, men, women, and
children of like blood and frame as
themselves, for whom governments ex
isted and in whom governments had
their life. They have regarded them
merely as serviceable organizations
vhich they eoyld by force or intrigue
bend or corrupt to their own purpose.
They have regarded the smaller states,
in particular, and the peoples who
could be overwhelmed by force, as
their natural tools and instruments of
domination. Their purjmse lias long
been avowed.
Developed Plans of Rebellion.
The statesmen of other nations, to
whom that purpose was incredible,
paid little attention; regarded what
German professors expounded in their
classrooms and German writers set
forth to the world as the goal of Ger
man policy as rather the dream of
minds detached from practical affairs,
; s preposterous private conceptions of
German destiny, than as the actual
plans of responsible rulers; but the
rulers of Germany themselves knew all
the while what concrete plans, what
well-advanced intrigues lay back of
v\ hat the professors and the writers
v ere saying, and were glad to go for
ward unmolested, filling the thrones
of Balkan states with German princes,
putting German officers at the service
of Turkey to drill her armies and make ,
interest with her government, develop
ing plans of sedition and rebellion in
India and Egypt, setting their fires in
Persia. The demands made by Austria
upon Serbia were a mere single step
in a plan which compassed Europe and
Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad. They
hoped those demands might not arouse
Europe, hut they meant to press them
whether they did or not, for they
thought themselves ready for the final
iseue of arms.
Their plan was to throw a broad
belt of German military power and
political control across the very cen
ter of Europe and beyond the Medi
terranean into the heart of Asia; and
Austria-Hungary was to be as much
their tool and pawn as Serbia or Bul
fiatia or Turkey or the ponderous
states of the east. Austria-Hungary, in
deed. was to become part of the-cen
tial German Empire, absorbed and
dominated by the same forces and in
fluences that had originally cemented
the German states themselves. The
dream had its heart at Berlin. It could
have had a heart nowhere else! It re
jected the idea of solidarity of rac
entirely. The choice of peoples played
no part in it at all. It contemplated
binding together racial and political
units which could be kept together
only bv force Czechs, Maygars,
Croats, Serbs, Roumanians, Turks,
Armenians—the proud states of Bo
hemia and Hungary, the stout little
commonwealths of the Balkans, the
indomitable Turks, the subtle peoples
of the east. These peoples did not wish
to be united. They ardently desired to
direct their own affairs, would be sat
isfied only by undisputed independ
ence. They could be kept quiet only
by the presence or the constant threat
of armed men. They would live under
a common power only by sheer com
pulsion and await the day of revolu
tion, But the German military states
men had reckoned with all that and
were ready to deal with it in their own
way.
Austria at Germany’s Mercy.
And they have actually carried the
greater part of that amazing plan inlo
execution! Book how things stand.
Austria is at their mercy, li has acted,
not upon its own initiative or upon the
choice of its own people, but at Ber
bn's dictation ever since tlie war be
gan Its people now desire peace, but
tan not have it until leave is granted
from Berlin. The so-called Central
Powers are in fact but a single power.
Sf rbia is at its mercy, should its hands
be but for a moment freed. Bulgaria
has consented to its will, and Romim
i.ia is .overrun. The Turkish armies,
which Germans trained, are serving
Germany, certainly not themselves,
and the guns of German warships ly
ing in the harbor at Constantinople re
mind Turkish statesmen every day
that they have no choice but to take
| their orders from Berlin. From Ilam
j burg to the Persian Gulf the net is
!spread.
Is it not easy io understand the
ergerness for peace that has been
manifested front Berlin ever since the
snare 'was set and sprung? Peace,
peace, peace has been the talk of bet
foreign office for now a year and
more; not peace upon her own initia
tive, but upon the initiative -of the
nations over which she now deems
herself to hold the advantage. A little
of the talk has been public, but most
| of it has been private. Through ail
| sorts of channels it has come to me,
j and in all sorts of- guises, hut never
| with the terms disclosed which the
1 C-crman government would be willing
to accept. That government has other
j valuable pawns in its hands besides
■ those I have mentioned. It still holds
a valuable part of France, though with
slowly relaxing grasp, and practically
the whole of Belgium. Its armies press
. close upon Russia and overrun Poland
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE-THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS, JULY 5, 1917.
at their will. It can not go farther;
it dai e not go hack. It wishes to close
its bargain before it is too late and it
has little to offer for the pound of
flesh it will demand.
The military masters under whom
Germany is bleeding see very clearly
O) what point (ate has brought them.
If they fall back or are forced hack an
inch, their power both abroad and at
home will fall to pieces like a house
of cards. It is their power at home
they are thinking about now more than
their power abroad. It is that power
which is trembling under their very
Teet; and deep fear has entered their
hearts. They have but one chance to
perpetuate their military power or
e\en their controlling political in
fluence. If they can secure peace now.
with the immense advantages still in
their hands which they have up to
this point apparently gained, they will
have justified themselves before the
German people; they will have gained
by force what they promised to gain
1> it—an immense expansion of Ger-
man power, an immense enlargement
ox German industrial and commercial
opportunities. Their prestige will he
secure, and with their prestige their
political power, if they tall, their peo
ple will thrust them aside; a govern
ment accountable to the people them
selves 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 modern time excepi
Germany. If they succeed they are
safe, and Germany and the world are
undone; if they fail, Germany is saved
and the world will be at peace. If they
succeed, America will fall within the
menace. We and all the rest of the
v onld must remain armed, as they
will remain, and must make ready for
the next step in their aggression; it
they fail, the world may unite foi
peace, and Germany may he of the
union.
Hopes to Deceive all Democracy.
Do you not now understand the new
intrigue, the intrigue for peace, and
c by the masters of Germany do not
hesitate to use any agency that prom
ises to effect their purixtse, the deceit
o! the nations? Their present particu
lar aim is to deceive all those who
throughout the world stand for the
r.ghts of peoples and the self-govern
ment of nations; for they see what
immense strength the forces of jus
tice and of liberalism are gathering
out of this war. They are employing
liberals in their enterprise. They are
ming men. in Germany and without,
a: their spokesmen whom they have
hitherto despised and oppressed, using
them for their own destruction—so
cialists, the leaders of labor, urn
thinkers they havfrUiitherto sought to
si’ence. Let them once succeed and
these men, now their tools, will be
ground to powder'"Beneath the weight
of the great military empire they will
have set up; the revolutionists in Rus
sia will be cut off from all succor or
rt-operation in western Europe and a
counter revolution fostered and sup
ported; Germany herself will lose her
chance of freedom; 'and all Europe
will arm for the next, the final strug
gle.
The sinister intrigue is being no less
actively conducted in this country
th.an in Russia and in every country
in Europe to which the agents and
dupes < f the Imperial German govern
ment can get access. That government
Las many spokesmen here, in places
high and low. They have learned dis
cretion. They keep within the law. It
i opinion they utter now, not sedi
tion. They proclaim the liberal pur
poses of their masters; declare this a
fin'gn war which can touch America
with no danger to either her lands or
I'.i i institutions; set England at the
center of the stage and talk of her
ambition to assert economic dominion
throughout the world; appeal to our
ancient tradition of isolation in the
politics of the nations; and seek to
undermine the government with false
professions of loyalty to its principles.
Will Make No Headway.
But they will make no headway. The
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fal-e betray themselves always in ev
ery accent. It is only friends and par
tisans of the German government
v honi we have already identified who
utter these thinly disguised disloyal
ties. The facts are patent to all the
wcild, and nowhere are they more
plainly seen than in the United Stares,
where we are accustomed to deal with
facts and not with sophistries; and
the great fact that stands cur above
all the rest is that this is a peoples’
' war, a war for freedom and justice and
! self-government amongst all the na
' tions of the world, a war to make the
I world safe for the peoples who live
uj>on it and have made it their own,
the German people themselves in
cluded; and that with us rests the
choice to break through all these hypo
cricdes and patent cheats and masks
of brute force and help set the world
free, or else stand aside and let it be
dominated a long age through by sheer
weight of arms and the arbitrary
choices of self-constituted masters, by
tiie nation which can maintain the big
gest armies and the most irresistible
armaments—a power to which the
' world has afforded no parallel and in
j the face of which political freedom
I must wither and perish.
For me there is but one choice. We
| have made it. Woe be to the man or
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