AMERICA'S JUDGMENT.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 2

AMERICA'S JUDGMENT.

Mr. Lansing, United States Secretary of State, at Union College, Schenectady: "The American people by a gradual process of reasoning nave reached the

firm conviction that a German victory in the European struggle would result in the greatest peril to this country and to those principles which have been ours since we became an independent nation. Whatever may have been our past judgment, we now realise the sinister character of Pruseianism, which has been manifested in this war. To any man who thinks, true Prussianienv and the idea of an enduring and just peace among the nations can never be brought into harmony. They are the very antipodes of human thought. They can no more mingle than oil and water. The wastes of Western Europe, the ships, tire corpses in the. ocean aadin tlfe depths of the toresta, the ».csses marking the graves oi slaughtered men, the legions of torn and crippled humanity, the .wretched throngs of unhappy women and children, are sad witnesses of the horrors of war. Un these spectacles of brutality, misery, and desolation, all civilised people gaze in anguish and bitterness. As there comes the increasing realisation of the needlessness of it all, indignation and anger burn in the hearts of men; but, m spite ofvtho bitterness aroused by these tragical scenes, men hope for peace, pray for peace, look forward to the day when rest will come to this tormented world, which has endured so much Yet, as we hope and pray and search the future with yearning eyes, the armies and navies of democracy fight on with a grim determination which seems to contradict the hope and'purpose of humanity. Justice must, and will, become the superior force in human affairs. No other result will ensure civilisation against .the evil passions which to-day convulse the earth "