Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-30
AIMS. and IDEALS
OfiAllies in Address BY
Andre Tardieu

.AtAArts and Science Forum-ee.
stews Gross Of the Knight Of the
Legion Of Honor on connop
Guthrie, Representative in Amer
iea Of British Ministry Of Shipping
New York. April 2e.-Andre Tar
dieu. French high commissioner to
the United States. delivered a spirit
ed address at the Arts and Sciences
forum here tonight on the aims and
ideals OF the allies and the war pol
icies Of Germany from 1871 to- 1914.
On behalf Of the French govern
ment he bestowed the Cross Of the
Knight OF the Legion Of Honor on
Connop Guthrie. the representative
in America Of the British ministry
OF shipping. who has been instru-
mental in expediting the movement
of American troops to the front.
Taking up h1is main theme, NJ.
Tardieu said the fact is this Is a war
of materials, but expressed the view
that "as it happens in the case of all
intensified manifestations Of human
life, moral forces win in the long rue.
Continuing, he said: Gentlemen.
there was in Europe a people which
engaged to the highest degree all the
benefits Of peace, prosperity and
wealth.
Following the formula OF is
established its unity not on the dem
ocratic base of the will Of the nation,
but by means Of fire and iron.
in order to grow while getting
united, it has not hesitated to steal
violently away Schleswig from Den
mark, Alsace Lorraine from France.
NJ. Tardieu then recounted military
steps taken by Germany from 1871
to 1914. asserting that meanwhile
France, eager to keep peace. had put
up with the arbitrary arrest of her
citizens on her frontiers. warded off
the Morocco crisis and given up part
of her Congo colony.
But" he said. while French mill
tary appropriations grew only 20 per
cent from 1888 to 1918, Germany's
increased 229 per cent. and while
France in 1905 reduced by one year
the period of compulsory military
service, Germany from 1911 to 1913
increased hers so that France was
forced to re-establish a three-year
term.
IN 1914 Germany, believing that
the hour had come for trampling
again right with might army, rush
ed toward what was then called
bright and cheerful war" he con-
tinued lat this very moment. again
at the risk of endangering our own
safety, we did everything in order
to keep peace.
II have recalled these facts be-
cause. better than any words, you
find there expressed the two oppo-
site conceptions which are counter
acting each other In the present war.
On one side. right; on the other side,
crime"
France confronted by Germany
Goes not alone emphasize this OPP
position of good and evil. he said,
and pointed to Belgium. Serbia, Ar
mcnia. Syria and Italy. In America,
he said. there will ever be remem-
bcre.l the Lusitania crime.
Thus, once again our conscience
is conf onted by the everlasting ques-
ten Of duty and responsibility" he
sad.
IT. our soldiers who have been
fighting through three whole years
20 your soldiers who are now fight
ing side by side with ours, let us
go On telling steadily again and
again why they are fighting; let us
in this way keep up their moral
strength. which is not less necessary
tc cur democracies than materia,
.,trcr2th.
AS ready today as ever for a
peace of justice. let us declare in
the never to be forgotten words use !
Ly the President in his Baltimore
speech that as long as Germany
stands as she does unjust, greedy
for conquest and annexation. no
peace can be accepted. unless found
ed on the victorious force of our
arms.
"Resolute. ready for every sacri-
flee. and every effort let us with
out any interruption, develop this
holy force. which Mt our hands will
never be anything but the servant o.
right"