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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 8
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of course by this statement, for we know the kind of freedom the lion brings to the lamb,—a freedom, it is true, from respond bility, a freedom from independence, from self-determination, a freedom from freedom with all its toil and trouble and sacrifice but at the same time a freedom from all the joys and ecstacies of self-development and progress which! freedom permits. Never before in human history have so many nations lined up consciously for the great end of establishing the right of all to live, and also their bounden duty to let live, and for this end we have to thank the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. Let us stand by him until this end is achieved! There is another side from which our participation in this war may bring to us satisfaction and hope. The advantage of victory in this great war, friends, will not redound merely to the Pole, the Bohemian, the Slovak, the Serb, but also, and in no less degree, to the subjects of other governments, fighting not on the side of our side. Central Powers but on the side We Americans can not in good nent for the Pole and Serbian without forming a new and more potent resolution that the negro, the Porto Rican, the Filipino shall have no reasonable cause of complaint under our government. We can not insist that the German Government shall secure political rights to the common man without resolving anew that the ordinary civil rights shall be secured to all our citizens alike, no matter what their color or race or previous condition of servitude; without determining that mobs and lynching parties shall have an end throughout the broad territory subject to the jurisdiction of the Republic. I do not mean to say that all these things are going to happen immediately upon the conclusion of peace, but I do maintain that all .... . and sweeping victory Allies over the Central Powers. history, which understand what will be possible if we only keep stars On the fourth of July, 1776, a representative body of American colonists announced to the world a thesis for the defense of which tney pledged their lives and fortunes and sacred honor. This thesis » • 4
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