face of our future and let us devote all our strength to the creation of a new life, based upon justice and mutual trust, life, free and bright, built upon the foundation of universal education and love.

"Trusting in the teachings of science and knowing that the common welfare of all people is best served solidly together we have organized ourselves into a committee of civic education. widespread education is necessary to make Russia an orderly democratic country. We plan to bring this education to the soldiers in the camps, to the working men in the town and to the peasants in the village.

"We greatly appreciate the willingness of our elder brother and democracy to aid us in building a true democracy that will guarantee our liberties and give to all in Russia equal opportunity. The Russians on our part are ready to be useful to our brethern on the other side of the ocean and defend together with their liberty and our common welfare from the assaults of whatever enemies may come. Long live our union and friendship."

A Voice and A Vote From Poland.

"With the progress of the war every true Pole has long ago come to the conclusion that a victory of the Central Powers would be synonymous with 'Finis Polonioe.' Recent events in Russia totally eliminate that country, at least for the present, from among the representatives who will determine the future state of Poland. Our hope as to the future of Poland rests wholly upon a victory of the Allies, in whose cause we believe with our utmost strength. Inasmuch as the deciding voice in determining the future of nations will be held, undoubtedly, by the United States and its great President, the hope grows, within us every day that in accordance with the words of Mr. Wilson, a Poland-united, free, and independent within its former boundaries-will be one of the main conditions of peace. The United States through its President will aid Poland as formerly Poland through her heroes aided the United States in securing its independence."

"Prince Lichnowsky, who was the Kaiser's Ambassador in London at the outbreak of the war, recently published an article on the Polish question, which, he says 'actually constitutes for us Prussians a vital question both in war and peace * * * With it stands or falls the position of Prussia and the Empire as a great Power,'

"This means that if Prussia retains her Polish provinces she will remain a great Power, at the expense of Poland; if Polish provinces should be taken from Prussia and returned to Poland, then Prussia and the German Empire will cease to be a great Power.

"President Wilson said on January 22, 1916, that 'statesmen everywhere agree that Poland should be united, made independent and autonomous.' The word 'united' means that the territory of which Poland was deprived through the partitions should be returned to Poland. This would include 'Russian' Poland, Galicia,

which is under Austria, and the Polish territory annexed by Prussia, whereby Prussia's power was almost doubled and Prussia became a great Power, to wit: Upper Silesia, Posen, West Prus-. sia, and East Prussia.

"Prussia will never restore this Polish territory to Poland, unless compelled to do so. Compulsion implies defeat in war. The Polish question can, therefore, be correctly and satisfactorily solved only by the defeat of the Central Powers. The Polish nation understands the problem quite well, and, always having had a friendly feeling for France, England, Italy, and the United States, now still more sympathizes with the Entente Powers. Poland unfortunately is not in position to support the Allies actively.

Restoration of Poland Will Curtail Prussia.

"Restoration of Poland to her former grandeur and power would curtail Prussia's might, restore the equilibrium in Central Europe, and secure a sure basis for a lasting peace."

"It is absurd to expect the salvation of Poland from a German victory. First, such a victory would make the appetite of PanGermans only more insatiable; and, secondly, such a victory is absolutely out of the question. Germany was able to beat Russia and did it; but she is not able to win with a higher type of political organisms, and she will not win from them. Imperial Germany will lose the war, much to the advantage of the German people, for a popular revolution will follow in Germany the defeat of the Kaiser, as it did in Russia the defeat of the Czar."

"While the indorsement of Polish national hopes in the President's message, and the speech of Premier Lloyd George on Saturday, January 5, have centered the attention of the Poles on these particular portions of the two addresses, it is not to be thought their interest or their indorsements are limited to the sections of those messages which referred particularly to Poland. The Polish agreement and support of the program laid down by the President are complete. They do not seek to abate one iota of the peace terms which he has declared are necessary."

America in the War, in Answer to Prayers and Tears. This declaration is being repeated in behalf of poor, persecuted, defenceless Armenians, by Dr. Joseph Morhodge, now traveling in America to solicit aid for his forsaken and suffering people. In Germany's ambition to become a world power, she needed the good will and the assistance of Turkey, for her extension, establishment and maintenance of domain and power in the East; therefore Christians and Christian nations have to be sacrificed to endear and to please the blood-thirsty Turk.

It is to be noted, that though so often assuring and cheering his people and soldiers of the favor of God, the Kaiser never refers to Jesus Christ, the Mediator and Savior. The Kaiser, it seems, esteems the koran just as much as the Bible, and for the development of the German KULTUR, one is just as good as the other.

Now, Dr. Morhodge has studied medicine in America, and being a careful student of world politics and economies, understands fully that had not America entered the war, the Entente Allies could not have coped with the central powers since the collapse of Russia.

UNCLE SAM'S entering the war is PROVIDENTIAL and in accordance with Divine plans for the succor of the oppressed and the rescue of the persecuted by the subduing and the vanquishing of the oppressor.

The Greek Premier Venizelos, visiting London, said: "The friendship of Greeks toward Americans is based not only on American sympathy and aid, but on our understanding of

"American IDEALS and ASPIRATIONS,

"SO WORTHILY REFLECTED IN PRESIDENT WILSON'S UTTERANCES in the course of HIS INSPIRING LEADERSHIP."

That the expressed sentiment of our President by the Allies, should be flattering is so natural, that we will forego any reference to them. And it will be shown in a subsequent chapter how the statements and declarations have respect and a power to straighten out diplomatic tangles and to bring to light secret compacts. It now remains, in closing this chapter, to record the sentiments and opinions of our own leading journals. The Literary Digest, whose business it is to watch and to publish public opinion, contains an interesting article in its issue, February 9th, as follows:

Opinion of the President at Home.

"Visions alone, we are told, "will not win the war." That is, say certain critics of the Administration, Mr. Wilson can interpret the national spirit, formulate our war-aims, write ringing messages, and assume the intellectual leadership of the Allied cause, but he lacks the practical ability to choose and properly supervise the men who must do the rough, every-day work of war-making.

But the Administration's supporters retort by saying that "where there is no vision the people perish," that the President's "visions" may prove the decisive weapon in winning the war, and that these visions are supplemented by remarkable success in the practical job of carrying on a war. The Nashville Tennessean (Dem.) is confident that "President Wilson is all-sufficient in this crisis, and he will guide the nation and her allies on to victory." The Government machinery may need tightening up, but, says the editor of the Peoria Journal (Dem.), when the altering is being done "it is the safest policy to put the adjusting wrenches into the hands of the President and Commander-in-Chief." The Atlanta Journal (Dem.) declares that "if ever a President demonstrated executive ability and a mastery of affairs, Mr. Wilson has done so"; and it asks: "If we can not trust his tested leadership, to whom shall we turn in this critical hour?" The Des Moines Capital, edited by a former Republican Senator, reminds us that "this

war must be fought through under President Wilson and Secretaries Baker and Daniels; if we want to help the war along, we must help Wilson, Baker and Daniels." Another Republican paper in Des Moines, The Register, agrees that "the war will be won or lost under President Wilson, "and it therefore insists that "the President must be sustained in every possible way." After reminding us that the war involves something besides soldiers' overcoats and even machine guns, the Springfield Republican declares emphatically "there isn't the slightest doubt that, thanks mainly to President Wilson, the Germans have been defeated in this contest." The Republican explains by pointing out that the President has so stated our war-aims that "criticism was virtually silenced, and the pacifists themselves, in many cases, have been rallied by him to the cause for which the Allies and America are fighting."

Special attention is called to the effect of the President's words on "Great Britain's national unity in the darkest hour of the war," and The Republican quotes as follows from the Associated Press report of the recent convention of the British Labor party:

"For the American public, one of the main points of interest is the British Labor Party's Unequivocal acceptance of President Wilson as ITS OWN PROPHET.

"Not a single Resolution or Declaration made during the conference, on the subject of WAR or PEACE omitted an endorsement of Wilson's war-aims and attitude.

"No other Allied statesman received a similar tribute. "Premier Lloyd George had many carping critics and President Poincare was not mentioned. But not even speakers representing the disaffected fringes of the party spoke a disparaging word on the attitude of the American people.

"President Wilson figures as one of the party's prophets. In the session to-day his name was mentioned no fewer than six times, in each case in connection with his recent war-aim speech, which was described as essentially the same as the British Labor Party's.

"The delegate of the French Socialists gained hearty applause when he said:

"President Wilson has declared on behalf of the common people of the WHOLE WORLD the terms which the common people want."

Instilled With Fighting Spirit.

The Springfield Republican further observes: Mr. Wilson inspired the Socialistic Radicals of Great Britain with the fighting spirit which they had lacked, and perhaps saved the war-weary country from a Bolshevist agitation and political overturn." The Republican would remind those who castigate Mr. Wilson's conduct of the war "that a man who can so effectively help to raise large armies in other countries than his own is a unique force as

a war-President. He may do his best work if allowed to utilize his talents in his own singular way." We read further:

"That President Wilson was regarded by the German Government as its most formidable antagonist was proved by the fact that von Hertling devoted the main portion of his speech to consideration of Mr. Wilson's '14 points,' with the result that he completely satisfied nobody and left a large portion of the German people in a state of sullen discontent and protest concerning the continuation of the war for the sake of plunder.

"Mr. Wilson's critics would concentrate our attention on the exact percentage of shoddy in army overcoats; they would move the country to tears by harrowing accounts of the pitiful and distressing death of a sick and neglected soldier in a training-camp. But what one of them could have saved the British Government and people, as Mr. Wilson did, from the consequences of an impaired national morale, and thus have insured the vigorous prosecution of the war? What one of them could have solidified the democracies of the western world as he has, in a period of deep suffering and acute distress, in support of a war that has already continued so long that nine-tenths of the human race look upon it with horror?

Free From Imperialistic Aggression.

"Mr. Wilson has been able to do this work because his own public career has been notably free from associations with that imperialistic aggression which is now so repulsive to every democratic mind in Europe. When he speaks of 'self-determination,' Mexico is the proof that he has practised, so far as was humanly possible, what he preached. When he refers to racial autonomy, the advanced self-government he gave to the Filipinos bears witress to his sincerity. When he pleads for reduction of armaments after the war, his very persistence in unpreparedness before the war-deemed so criminal by many-convinces Europe that he means what he says. When he insists that the world must be made safe for democracy, he does not stultify himself by trying to block the sure progress of the emancipation of women."

Thus President Wilson's power is felt and recognized and acknowledged the world over.