, 1870-09-21
6 Inorganic Matter.s7

10 The Editor Of Tie Chicago Tribune:
Congratulate you upon the skill with which
you have managed to hit all around the point
made in my communication, 't Forcible An
ncxations justified That point was the
treating Of people as " Inorganic matter"
havo always been Of opinion that buying OF
selling people scas s'kina orr treating them
Els IS inorganic matter" Has not The CHICAGO
TRIBUNE, generally sroaking, been Of tho
same opinion To annex by conquest is one
way Of +" treating people as inorganic matter
TO bug people i SOHO other way Of doing
the u9Y same Miny. Now, please do not
tell me that it makes difference whether
s'peoplo'' which Ii made the subjoot Of bar
tel, safo, or conquest, numbers $4,000 or
SOC, ,0o0 souls, for there is no such difference.
As well accept the apology OF tho woman
who was mother though no wife: "Ah,
well, it is true I housa baby, but then il il
such 4 toee title thing I reckon you have
slave States because It had only few slaves.
Again: Il il very tar from the truth that tho
| rcpplo Of New Mexico have ever expressed q
desire to DO bought Qika inorganic matter) by
the United States. No sucli desire has bae1,
expressed II them in the only shape which il
accepted BY American Republicans as the
| proper one, viz: By popular yote.
But in saying there is mr. analogy between
lopurclase ttha verder having fret been care
fully throtsIed and knocked down bv the United
States in order to pnt him in Barkis' franc uf
rnina-make hin ,ci,iinD Of New Mexico, and
tho rc-conqucst Of Alsa:e by Germany, you
arc certainly right in one seuse. There ia no
saalogy, because New Mexico had, at no tune
| Lcfore, be}onqed to tho United States aisu
because the people New Mexico wero OF an
entirely heterogeneous nationality from that
OF tho United States also because Atsace and
Lorraine. conei0elcd US territories. have, d.
| QxrNy a nH RI n n Al
much SO ~ your watch and guard-cl,ain mover
ceaee to be your property {de jure) while lie
taeso they are in possession OF bighwayman
or sneak thief.
raiue having been forced out of their sJmpa-
thies With Germany, that is point scarcely
to be considered, becausc these people are az
suEe to be made good Gest1aans again as the
inhabitants Of those German districts which
were retaken from France in 1916 have been.
The Inhabitants OF those ra-Germanized dis
:ricts were, in 1915, Us intensely French in
thei1 sentiments as the A1sacians are now
! vet to-day they are among the bes: patriots OF
Germany. You have failed to reply to my
question, whether OF not you would leave
SoaT, $50 son anang an@aong robbers By ~, whom be
TO force him out OF their company.
To return TO the "inorganie matter ques-
tion. You do not object 20 q country being
bought, but yon do to its being {. forcibly an
1excd by conquest" VerY we'll, sir, nothing
rreyeuts you from looking upon the transfer
Of 4alsace and Lorraine to Germany as q bar
gain. Suppose Germany should make out he,
l'ill of expenses for this war. footing up two
thousand millions, and then should cay: :" In
full pas ment OF one undivided half Of thie
sum I herewith take Alaace and Lorraine;
leaving only tfiae Of one thousand millions
to bo paid in cash." In that case. should
think, Germany would act in perfect CON
fo1mity with the a accepted method Of Ameri-
can Republicans" II not, why not:
But one point more io9 say, Tho French
Sapoleonic d nasty, and ought not to DO held
responsible for the acts Of the imperial gov:
tInment-" do not admit that the Kepn0
lie il the form Of gnyernnent accepted By the
French people. The last expression Of the
will Of tho French people was taken May 8
, continuance of the empire. Since then theil
Emperor happens tohave been made prison sr;
and an irresponsible mob at Paris has proclains
ed the republic; that is all. suppose, that th|
Urlted States we're at war with Eag'
land, tl,.t : British army should 50 u,
The Potomac and captura President Grant, thal
: thaleuFon the Five Points rabole Of New
, York hhould proclaim Wi11iam Tweed Em
: peror, under the name ,of William the First
E | would you say, in that case, that tho psopl
Of the United States had changed their forn
Of government ? Yet this fictitious case is il
, perfect analogy to the ono that his happened
, | in Paris.
But admitting, for Arguments sake, thai
France had, in proper way, become rcpub
lie, why then should ehe cling to the spoil
made BY criminal robber-kiugs? II .,
honest an should get up as successor to .
: tlief and would yet persist in keeping wha
, Ills knar1eh predecessor had stoen, would got
1 be likely to consider him ueTy honest man
: Or viii you. allow him to plead th
etatute OF limitation? There Is no sncl
! statute of limitation e1tant au1oug nations
True, 1t is two hundred ycars eince Alsac
8 was stolen, and over one hundred years sine
: Lorraine became part Of France but n
n matter. There is no power in time to tur
: ! robbery into honesty.
! The fact III, Mr. Editor. that for centule
!, all the world has become 50 firmly welded
G 1he belief that Germany should bo passit
. element IL 2ll European imbroglios, that
seems well nigh impossible even to cand1
!: minda out Of Germany TO DO entirely fair tt
e | ward tho claims md aspirations OF Qerma
: nationality: But you vii better qnderstan
!, / The intensity OF Indignation at tho '.neutral
n pp,tcstaiions acainst the conquest Of A1saoe IN
u Lorraine, when you will present to yous min