South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-27
WAR NOTES VIGHANTEs

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The New York Evening Post in
a recent issue in a brief editorial on
the firm position taken by the dele
gates of American labor abroad
against all inducements by English
and FRENCH pacidst factions to in
dUce them TO enter into a parley
with German socialists, in the guise
Of an international conference. SAYS:
The American labor delegates
abroad, we learn by cable. have re
buked the French labor leaders for
asking them TO enter a conference
with German labor men. Never will
they do so. they declare, until
military victory is achieved. Not
unnaturally the French resent this
IL is perhaps a little bit hard for
them 10 be lectured 10 by repre-
sentatives of a country which has
only just begun 10 enter the war i'm
the face of the stupendous sacrifices
French labor has made for the
cause. Surely, no one can accuse
the French of being unduly ready
10 palter with the enemy when
their bodies have again helped 10
bar his way to the coast"
Now, what is the truth about the
position the American labor dele
cation has taken? A cable from
Paris under the date of May Il re-
ports that Paul Hyacinthe Loyson,
son of "Pere Hyacinthe, and edit
or Of The Rights of Man" has
written the following for the Asso-
ciated Press concerning the delega-
ton with which he visited the
French front.
I'm sending over this delegation
as much has been done for the sal
walton of France as by Sec'y Baker
in dispatching a whole army To our
front.
Never have our men been in such
high spirit since 1914. but allow
ance must be made for "A certain
nervous strain at the rear as "A con
sequence of 40 months Of war.
Moreover. this natural phenomenon
las been deliberately exploited by
small number Of perverted persons.
who advocate patched-up peace.
For a whole week these poll
ticians have made desperate pres
sure on the American delegates TO
bring them around TO the idea of
"a conference with the Germans Blu;
YOU cannot compress American
steel. Much the reverse. The Amer
leans have strengthened the backs
of the war-weary and have caused
the defeatists 10 hide their faces
And what Of the sentiment of the
american delegates themselves? Be
fore leaving for London the mem
Lers of the American labor mission
signed a letter to Foreign Minister
PichOn thanking him warmly for
the welcome received and express
ing high appreciation of the pro
gram arranged for them. In this
letter they said:
France. at Nerdun gave the
world that wonderful motto. They
srau not pass Its defenders have
eiven us another. We shall save
them. We shall adopt the latter
as our own. for it expresses the
unshakable determination of our
country never 10 swerve until the
task has been accomplished and &C
compIished thoroughly
When YOU get at the truth IN re-
gard 10 our labor mission in
France il doesn't look at all as If
cur French allies had been "lectured
bx representatives OF country
which has only just begun To enter
the war" Il remained for the su-
perior inteHectuslism OF the Post
10 invent that slur on loyal Ameri-
can Ia bor And again" Surely, no
one can accuse the French of being
unduly ready 10 palter with the
enemy"-what subtle and poison
Gus insult couched in fair words.
what a tine instance OF pacihst
venom.