Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19
MATERIAL AND ECONOMIC LESSONS OF
WORLD WAR VIEWED BY F.P. WALSH
Patriotism Co Operation All Classes of One
Valuable Fruits Growing Out of Great Conflict Recent
Address Delivered Before Catholic
Club of City,

armies may gain the day, will we not
as patriots look closer to see whence
goes the three million five hundred
thousand dollars PAID for the shoes
VIII II not be of deeper concern to all
of US to see that the artisan who Gre
ates the wealth represented by those
shoes shall get the full product of his
labor? II we learn the essential truth
and beauty of cooperation in war
times, may we not as a people be
relied upon to apply the same princi-
pie in times of peace?"
Paying tribute 10 German Ameri-
can citizenship and describing the
debt of America to its people of the
German race, Mr., Walsh expressed
deep regret that the exigencies of
modern advance towards world wide
liberty and democracy put US in armed
conflict with the fatherland of these
noble and beloved people"
Justice to Little Peoples
Concerning our allies in the world
conflict and recounting the acts of in
ternational justice which this great
republic must insist shall be performed
toward ''the little peoples" of the
world. the chief portion of Mr.. Walsh's
address was as follows:
in the heart OF practically every
attachment for the republic of France
and her people. This is especially
true of every American of Celtic
blood. In the early days of the revo-
luton they gave Us of their treasure
and blood of their noblest men. that
this republic might be created and
live. But France ave us more than
that She gave Us the basic idea of
the rights of man VI hich was breathed
into the American Declaration of In
dependence and became the basis of
the very genius Of our constitution
and laws. The CglJ feels depth of
devotion to France as he looks back
over the bloody history of his own
stricken land. for from time imme-
mortal the laws Of England might
make n man n criminal in Ireland. but
. when he could make his escape across
small and turbulent body of water
to beautiful France he was the patriot,
soldier or statesman that God and his
country made him
Breaking the Top Crust.
"Of our other allies the Russians
have always been of kinship with
America. am free to say that l do
not understand the underlying psy-
chology that brings the Russians and
Americans together. Perhaps it is
that way down ut the bottom the
Russians have stru ggled for the re
publican principles attained by us at
an early date, and that n subconscious
sympathy existed between us on that
account But few months ago, in n
conversation with Mr.. Charles r.
Crane, who perhaps has made closer
study of the Russian people and their
government than any other living
man, he informed me that for gener-
ations Russia consisted of three
crusts: On the top the car and grand
dukes. mere handful of men; next
to them comparatively small num-
Der representing the powerful finan-
cial and official interests of the king
dom; and behind them boiling mass
consisting of millions and millions of
democrats at heart, ready to sacri-
flee life and liberty to make the freest
government upon the face of the earth
not even excepting our own. And
perhaps this thought finds verification
in the almost bewildering drama en-
acted rs we enter upon the threshold
of this war-the tossing of the ancient
Romanoffs from their thrones and the
establishment of an essential democ-
racy.
'1n speaking of our other allies,