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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 FREE OF CHARGE. 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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. 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