Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-15
TOLS70| HOPES
FOR NEW RUSSIA
TELLS NEW YORK CLUB THAT
GERMANS CANNOT HOLD WHAT
THEY HAVE TAKEN.
BELIEVES PEOPLE VII
AGAIN TAKE UP ARMS.
Hopes His People Again viii Ee
Fighting Against imperial. sm--Gl lad
Revolution Came-Says Gear Would
Have Joined With Teutons and
Brought About Worse Conditions.

New York, March Io.-Spsaking at
the annual smoker of The Comedian
Club at the Hotel Biltmora, Count nya
Tolstoi predicted that Germany would
never conquer Russia. that the more
territory the Germans appeared to
seize from Russia the greater would
ne the fighting spirit of the Russian
people when il was aroused ana tina;
the day would come when Russia
would win the sympathy of the allies
by taking up arms again against Ger
many.
The Russian revolution was OF bene-
ut 70 the world, Count Tolstoi said, be-
cause it prevented the consolidation
OF the car and his empire with the
their countries.
Had the Russian revolution not
come when ii did. he continued,
mere would now be an alliance of the
three emperors Of Europe, an alliance
that would have crushed The idea of
democracy for generations"
The other speakers were the Rev
Lauchlan MacLean Watt. cha plain of
the Gordon Highlanders and the Black
Watch. also known as the piping par
SON for his ability with the bagppes
Maj. Donald Guthrie and Sir George
Reid, ex-premIer of Australia
Chaplain Watt predicted recrudes-
'cence of religion after the war. religion
of more sincere faith
Il tell you we soldiers are tired of
your division at home" he said. I'VE
are tired OF your squabbles in the
name of Christ. After the war we arc
not going to return to our old shib-
boleths that divided us. The churches
VIII have to get rid of their church
IineSs and speak to the people Of the
things they know
There is no bigotry in martial re-
gion continued the preacher. Il
bunked with a Jesuit priest. We are
together, worked together and talked
together. His Jesuitry did not faint
my PresbyterianiSm. nor did nv Pres
byterianism faint his Jesuitry. We
buried Baptist. Methodist. Catholic.
presbyterian side by side and let God
sort them out
l near lot of politicians speak of
war aims after three and a half wears
OF war. If YOU ask the men at the
front what their war aims are they
VIII tell YOU they want peace, but they
want peace that can only come bv
victory over cruelty. wrong and AFRO
gance. There must be less talk. This
1hlng has got to go on until there is a
1nal finish. We are compelled to mt
down might with might but ours is
me might that has the righteousness
Iof q right cause behind it"
When any one asked him when the
war was to end Major Guthrie always
asked, he said, How are we going 10
lick the Germans"
The four and half million Of us
have something to say about this peace
settlement he continued. at is not
all matter of what the politicians at
home say. We have made I'D orr
minds. Notwithstanding the plans of
certain politicians, Notwithstanding the
talk of pacitists which is treason. not
Wlthstanding socialists and other pesti-
lantal persons, we have made ND our
minds that the war will not end until.
as the president says the world is
made safe for democracy.
1 am often asked whether the Ger
mans will break thru the western
front When you think Of the few guns
we had two and a half years ago viz
tuallv popguns, and the lack Of am
munition. and you realize that they
did not break thru then. you will
realize that they have as much OF a
chance to break thru as they have Of
pulling the sun from the heavens at
midday. Two and a half years ago the
British bulldog took the German wolf
by the paw. and in spite of heavy
Commandments he held on grizzly.
With every blow the bulldogs grip
went up the VOLTS leg until now it
is near the shoulder. and soon It will
be at the VOLTS throat and that will
be the end