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ONE WAY TO RESTORE PEACE The independence of no nation is safe the liberty of no individual is sure until the military despotism which holds the German people in the hollow of its hand has been made impotent and harmless forever Appals to justice to moral obligation to honor no longer avail with such a power There is but one way to restore peace to the world and that is by overcoming the physical might of German imperial ¬ ism by force of arms armsIf If enthusiasm and ardor can make success sure then we Americans have no cause for anxiety no reason to doubt the outcome of the conflict But enthusiasm and ardor are not all They must be founded on a profound conviction of the right ¬ eousness of our cause and on implicit faith that the God of Battles will strengthen the arm of him who fights for the right In the time of stress and Peril when a man stands face to face with deatli in its most terrible form God will not desert him who puts his trust in Him It is at such a time that the eternal verities will be disclosed It is then vvhen men realize that existence is more than this life and that over our destinies watches an all powerful and compassionate God they will stand amidst the storm of battle unflinching and un ¬ afraid afraidIn In the bond which thus today unites the democ ¬ racies of the new world with those of the old world resides the hope of mankind the only possible suretv to future generations that there will be preserved inviolate those principles of justice which have guided the nations into the paths of progress and of peace peaceIf If this bond of united purpose should be broken or if the democracies of the earth should fail In their struggle against the military power of Prus ¬ sia civilization would be again plunged into that state of darkness and oppression from which it took humanity centuries to emerge into the full light of liberty ut this bond of union tins bond of democracy will not be broken nor will the great liberty loving nations of this earth be defeated by the barbarous monster which today seeks to crush free ¬ dom and to impose upon mankind the evils of depotisni Secretary Lansing in Humanitarian
