Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-10
MUST CRUSH M|L|TAR|sM,
DECLARES JussERAND
PropagatinS Formula of might l!
Right" as Ideal of Life Under
Name OF Kultur.
MANY PROMINENT SPEAKERS
Senator Lodge and Colonel Roosc-
welt Pay Eloquent Tributes to
Franco at Dinncr of PENNSYLVANIA
Society i'm New York.

Franco at Dinncr OF Pennsylvania
Society in New York.
NEW YORK, December 9.-Thc last
ms friendship of Francs and the
United States and the necessity for
crushing German militarism wcrc en-
phasized by jules j. Jnsscrand. tho
French amba ssador; Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge and James NJ. Beck 1T
the annual dinner Of the Pennsylvania
Society last night. The banquet this
year was planned as a tribute to the
heroiam of France IN tho present in
tcrnational crisis, and Ambassador
Jns3crand was the guest of honor.
The ambassador said that the Ger
man nilitarists had adopted the life
formula of primcval men. Might is
right" and were propagatinG it as an
ideal OF life under the name OF
''kultur."
"Militarfsm." he said. docs not con-
sist In having many soldiers. We have
as many soldiers as We have inliabi-
tants able to bear arms and VIC arc
not militarist. Miltarism consists in
tho whole nation. young and Old
soldier and civilian, laymcn and
priests. blindly accepting TO be ruled
o'Ci III ih"hioii, an ppNyihS
whatever the orders: all believing the
word received from tho people above
them, whatever be that word. The
whole forces OF the nation arc thus
placed in the hands of single man.
rcsponBible to nobody, who may use
them at his pleasure. the whole ma
chincry thus possessing an c1traordi-
nary constructive force and all the
individuals composing il having to
act. speak and believe as they arc
told"
Abiding to the assistance given the
struggling American colonies by
Franco in l7Ts. Mr.. Jusserand said:
You are a nation that remembers.
SO arc VIC. The date, 1873, is still en-
grared in your hearts. can assure
you all, American friends. that so LONG
as there is a France all tho inhabitants
OF her soil Will keep engraved in their
hearts the date 1911. when America
day for liberty"
MARINE WAS FIRST STEP
TO DEFEAT GERMAN PLAN
Senator Lodge said that II tho Ger
man scheme of world conquest had not
ended at tho Marine. England would
have been the first victim Of the con-
Gucror and the United States tho next.
ITO defeat tho German plan OF world
conquest at the Marine Was the first
step" he paid. Tho second step is to
put the central powers in :: position
where it shall be impossible for them
ever 10 renew tho horrors which they
let loose upon the world in 1910. For
that end VIC Americans are lighting
to-day. We must press on with un-
ninchinS courage to the end wc seek.
There must be no truce aud no bar
gaining. Gcrmany'S word is worth
less: treaties are to hcr government
hut scraps Of paper; there is no hope
for final settlement except in phySl-
cal guarantees won OH the field u bat-
tic. Therefore we must fight on. as
France has fought. To complete vic
tory. 80 complete that for many gen
crations to come Germany will he UNI
able again to let loose her horrors and
her barbaritics upon AN unoficnd!mg
world"
Asserting that Austria, Bulgaria and
Turkey "ytand on par and that I'VE
cannot do our full duty in the war UNI
less We make war on ALL" Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, another speaker,
made an impassioned plea for loyalty
e. the allies of the United States and
.
regarded enemies of this country.
Colonel Roosevelt paid glowing tr-
butte TO France, declaring tina She has
saved the soul of the world"
Austria Hungary and Turkey are
not nations" Colonel Roosevelt said.
They arc racial tyrannics by certain
national castles which in each case
represent only a minority of the total
population. Neither democracy nor
civilization is safe while these two
states exist in their present form. and
when we are at war with them il is
on our part culpablc weakness as re-
CARDS ourselves and betrayal of the
rights of others not to fight for the
complete independence Of the oppressed
nationalitics in each.
TURKEY SHOULD BIZ
DRIVEN FROM EUROPE
Turkey should be driven from EIu-
rope. The Armenians and Syrian
Christians and Jews and Arabs should
all be freed. Austria Hungary repro
sents the tyranny of the Germans and
Magyars over their more numerous
follow subjects Of the Hapsburg crown.
l do not wish to see the Magyars or
Germans oppressed by anybody, nor do
wish to see them Cypress anybody.
Ivy TO make Hungary real democ-
racy. Let the Italians of Austria join
italy. and the Roumnnians Of Hungary
join Roumania. Let the Poles OF Aus
tris, Germany and Russia become a
great Polish commonwealth. Let the
Bohemians korayianS and Slovaks
become an independent greater Bohe-
mia. Let Serbia. Croatia, Bosnia, Her
zeEovina and the other southern Slay
lanes of Austria become Jugo-Siav
commonwealth. 1t is only by insisting
on such action that we can make de-
ulocraoy safe in these lands and make
civilization safe-make small liberty
loving nations safe from the nightmare
OF German conquest
Colonel Roosevelt asserted: "It IS
onnntN unWiSdum tn f,iun vnrhal o.,