Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-04-03

Had Rights on seas.
Then they told IT, "tt wasn't their
fault, that 1t was the fault of those
who refused To heed their warn
inEs"
Illustrating this. the eN-rrcSlden'
supposed the case OF smith aud
Jones. who are enemies. Smith sends
Jones' word that he must not come
down a certain street, or highway,
on which he has as much right Ns
any other person, and that II he
does he'll KIN him Jones knowing
his rights. ana knowing blur.
Ignores the warning and goes down
the street Smith Kills him lir is
indicted IN the courts for murder.
.Nrtaigncd. he sets up the plea that
Jones committed suicide hy WaIk
ing down the street "Why, / sent
Jones word that nc must not come
down that street" smith tells the
court and Jury. but he wouldn't lls-
ten 10 py warning So he got KILLED.
Ito was guilty ~ contributory ncEi.
gcuCc''
Unable to- resist his lrreprossiblc
humor, the former president further
Illustrated with this story. told him
while he was secretary ~ war by
President Roosevelt The colonel had
received letter from a friend on
his out in Montana. one OF his rouH II
riders. n was written from the h'n'u
prison and began. We'll YOU SEE ! W
In trouble again. They've Eot me u,
this time for shooting At l"uS.
was not shooting at the lady' ""'
shooting at my wife .n.-... ...,,,
That is the plea OF germany s',"
President Taft she was not St'oo,
ing at us she claimed but was s''oY'
inc nt England and II Just happened
to hit us. Don't you h'o no"
rhiidigh and nuerile II is2' he asked.
Norway had lost 500 seamcn from
German submarine warfare, why
did not Norway go TO war Ne
.c,,,se she is a small nation and she
was afraid rs that the cowardly
attitude YOU want your country to
take" asked the ex president. lave
we so changed since we were
30. .OOO. 600 people when we showed
by our civil war that we would sac
riflce everything to maintain our
principles OF right and justice and
our honor? Have our convictions
become now only matter OF dol
lars and cents or course not
Impossible to Stay Out,
we didn't want to enter this
war" said the former president
When II began we were gratified
that II was 30 far from us that we
could stand aloof. We prayed that
we could avoid It. We went into It
with the greatest reluctance. The
marty of which am IA member
strongly criticized President Wilson
because OF his delay In going In. OF
course. that's all over. We are not
Democrats or Republicans now.
(Applause) We are Americans,
but pluperfect pacIfists and objee-
tors must realize that we went in
only when II became impossible for
us to stay out. We are fighting
with the democracies OF Europe
against auv8upa tic miltarism. some
might say, he said. that England and
Italy are not democracies because
they have kings. but the people rule
in these countries. he declared, just
as much as they rule In America.
The kings OF England and Italy
he said. have no more voice in de-
terminlng the policies OF their coun-
tries than an ex-president OF the
United States has In determining the
policies OF this country" Following
an outburst OF laughter at this dec
laration. the eX-president humorous
ly observed. II wanted 10 use an ex-
treme and forcible illustration"
I'VE are all fighting the military
madness Of German he continued,
led by william OF JhenEollern and
his dam Potsdam gang" and this
makes our victory necessary II we
are to remain free peoples.
German Public Changes.
The president said he could not
understand the psychological de-
velopment OF the German people
into what they are today Formerly
they were a home-loving, music low
ing peace loving race and said when
he travelled through Europe many
years ago, he always preferred TO
meet German to an Englishman
because OF the difference in their
characteristics. An Englishman, he
thought. was too exclusive. while a
German was always congenial.
We don't hate the Germans" he
said. There liz no Issue between
us What's the use OF hating peo-
pie? II does not hurt them and
only consumes us. what we hate is
the sin the German people are com
hitting"
Then he took up the history OF
Germany. when It was cut up into
twenty eight small states md
showed how Bismarck, the man OF
blood and iron" had welded them
into an empire and planted the seeds
OF mllltary expansion. Carl Schurz
ana other noted German Americans
ne enumerated as men who had fled
from Germany and come 10 Amer
lca IN order to escape Bismarck \
military rule. There may be some.
and ! think there are, who have
come to us who are not loyal hut
the great body of our German
Americans are true to Amerirn
Those who are not. he declared
must be stood against a wall and
shot This statement provoked
loud applause.
Heads Swellcd.
The president quoted from the
writings ~ bismarck to show how
he trlckCd Napoleon III into war nrd
I grabbed Aluce-L0rraine and i'm
| posed a billion dollar indemnity:
how AK Schleswig Holstein was stul-
en- from Denmark, or rather brazeuly
Iseized. how Austrian provinces vero
4 added TO the empire and snid.
Those were q series of wond rrtll
military successes aud it turned 'E"
/ beads of the GerW1n people They