New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07

freedom ana justice. LhPPi""'''l
From that time there are no longer
peasants or artisans or shopkeepers;
all our citizens have had but one sell
same soul. Each turned TO his duty.
The peasant performed his completely.
I do not understand that he has maze
the smallest protest in any OF our cam
paigns.
"Ah, Monsieur Roux- Costadau, in this
country we see things clearly; we do not
allow ourselves TO be misled by prop
uganda Of any kind. The whole nation
turns It's radiant countenance toward
victory; il hopes for the end OF TINS
horrible war, whose conclusion it would
hasten; but it knows we'll that TO reach
the end men, guns and shell will not be
enough. There Is needed stout heart,
beating high; there is needed q ma
tional temper which will not quail at
any campaign" Loud and continued
applause on all the benches.
After some further effort by VI. Roux-
Costadau to show that he had not in
tended what clearly might be inferred
from his remarks VI. Brizon, another
T T.,
the war is "a matter Of business" and
should be treated as such, with an eye
to the future. Instead of paying in the
country's blood, he argued with VI.
BRAND that In order TO attain victory,
that is to say, national independence,
if il could be attained by negotiation
or through an intermediary, negotia-
tions can and should be begun. This
created some disturbance in the Cham
Der, and NJ. BRAND again addressed 1t:
Monsieur Brizon has exposed to US his
whole thought in saying: This war
which the President OF the Council IS
prolonging could be Brought to an end
at once and we should save both mill
lions Of money and quantities Of blood
Monsieur Brizon, look about your
country and you will agree that it is
not of its own choice that il entered
this horrible war. After more than
forty years Of peace, maintained under
the most difficult conditions, | might
even say the most disheartening, it was
one day suddenly attacked. In the
past our enemy made every effort TO
7 break the patience Of our country, TO
make quarrels grow in its path, to drag
/ il into war. This war into which they
vairlly tried to drive US has now been
forced upon us. Loud applause.
| "Your country, Monsieur Brizon, rep
I resents no small matter in humanity,
from the point Of view Of the diffusion
of those ideals which have most con-
tributed to the evolution Of the world
in the direction of progress. GOOD!
| Good,
"Your country has noble past
which makes US all love her. Ap-
plause.l Well, all at once this coun-
try. which is like the hearth from
which radiate the most generous and
the most admirable ideas which the
world cherishes, suddenly is the object
of the most brutal and unjust aggres-
sion; they leap at her throat, they try
to drag her to earth, and in order to
reach her they pass over the mutilated
and bleeding body of little country
whose neutrality they had guaranteed.
! Prolonged applause.
"For the last two years your country
]
pion of right; it has withstood the
invader; against him 1t has protected
the whole of humanity, and after IFS
| blood has flowed in streams on the
meadows of France, you come, you,
and you say: Let us treat for peace!
! What a gross insult to the memory of
so many heroes fallen for their coun-
try, Of so many glorious deaths! \
great number of Deputies rise loud
and repeated applause.
Tomorrow France will have shed
her blood for high ideals; already a
lustre shines upon her forehead, and 4
glory which in the strife of peace will
make her more eager for toll will give
her a handiwork more competent Do
not forget in your statistics this morNl
energy Of a people, multiplied hun
dred times by victory attained in a
noble cause. Consider whether we
shall not obtain from it great compen-
sations.
Monsieur Brizon, beg you in the
very interest of your own ideals, IL you
wish peace to reign over the world, il
you wish ideas Of justice and freedom
to prosper there, desire the victory OF
our country.
"Desire 1t fervently, and do not try
to make your fellow citizens believe
that peace can be born to-day. Such
a peace would be humiliating and dis
honorng. There is not a single
Frenchman who would desire it." THE
Deputies rise-loud and prolonged ap-
plause.l
New York, Oct. 26, 1915.