The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-12

already been manifested IN Il yer!
practical way. Their representatives
in their supreme war council at Yer
sailles had BY unanimous resolution
assured the peoples OF the central
empires that everything that is pos
siblc IN the circumstances will be
done to supply them with food and
relieve the distressing want that in
so many places is threatening their
very lives and steps are to be taken
Immediately in the same systematic
manner in which they were organ
lied in the case OF Belgium. The
use Of the idle tonnage of the ecu
trail empires ought presently to be
possible to lift the fear OF utter mis-
cry from their oppressed populations
and set their minds and energies
free for the great and hazardous
tasks of political reconstruction that
now face them on every hand. Hun
ger does not breed reform; it breeds
madness and all the ugly distem-
pers that make an ordered life i'm
possible.
For with the fall OF the ancient
government which rested like an IN
cubus upon the peoples OF the cen
tral empires has come political
change, not merely, but revolution.
and revolution which seems as yet
TO assume no final and ordered form,
but to run from one fluid change to
another, until thoughtful men are
forced to ask themselves, with what
government and OF what sort are
we about 10 deal in the making OF
the covenants OF peace WIN What
authority will they meet MS and with
what assurance that their authority
will abide, and sustain the interna-
tional arrangements into which we
are about to enter There is here
matter for no small anxiety and
misgiying. When peace is made, up
on whose promises and engagements
besides our own is 1t to rest,
Let us be perfectly frank with our
selves and admit that these questions
cannot be satisfactorily answered !
now or at once. But the moral is
not that there is little hope OF an
early answer that will suffice 1t IS
only that we must be patient and
helpful and mindful above all OF the
great hope and confidence that lie
at the heart Of what is taking place.
Excesses accomplish nothing. I'm
happy Russia has furnished abund-
ant recent proof OF that, Disorder
Immediately defeats itself, Ii eX-
cesses should occur, il disorder
should for a time raise its head, a
sober second thought will follow and
a day OF constructive action ii we
help and do not hinder.
The present and all that it holds
belongs to the nations and the peo-
pies who preserve their sell control
and the orderly processes OF their
The future to those
who prove themselves the true
friends of mankind. TO conquer with
arms is to make only temporary
conquest; to conquer the world by
its esteem is TO make per
ranen1 coronests am confident
.bat the nations that have learned
he disc;nl;ne of freedom and that
have settled with self-possession to
fs ordered nractice are now about
- make conquest Of the world by
he sheer examnle and friendly help
.uIness
The neonles who have but lust
,ome ont from nnder the woke of
.rb;trary Government and who are
,o,y comino at last into their free
Iom will never find the treasures OF t
ibertv thry are in search Of if they
ook for them bv the light Of the {
orch They will find that every path
heir own brothers leads to the will t
prUeSS not to the seat OF their nope.