Evening journal., 1918-12-16
DIR. ROBERT WATT FAVORS
PUNISHMENT FOR KAISER

Irest content in the assurance that a way
will be found
And that leads me 10 ask who shall
sit at that Peace Tableg
III IL had been left TO popular opin-
ion 70 decide there are some who would
be there who represent agencies with
out which the war would have gone
against the Allies and the Hun tonight
would have the world under his heel.
For example, we would have grant
ed TO the one organization whose de-
votlon and sacrifices made war less
hideous and softened its suferings, the
American Red Cross, an honorable and
an honored place at that table You
remind me that the President Of the
United States is a member of that or
ganization. True, but he is not its ao-
credited head and hence cannot spe-
officially represent it. How fitting that
the man who sacrificed Of his time and
strength and fortune to perfect and sus-
tain an organization that, according
to the great French Premier, saved the
French army. which was, with its
morale broken, about ready 10 give up
the bitter and seemingly unayailing
struggle, be granted a place at that
Peace Table. What thrill would such
an act have sent through the thousands
Of Red Cross nurses and women at home
who have given unstintedly Of time and
money. had the Red Cross been thus
recognized.
Il am not offering this as a criticism,
but cannot resist the conviction that
the present effort 10 make the member
ship OF the Red Gross 400 per cent by
way Of response 90 the present effort
would have gone forward by leaps and
bounds.
at Is ours, however, 10 do just that
anyhow. To lend our best efforts 10
put our city over the top in cause
so near the heart Of Jesus Christ, the
minister Of all.
"And had some Of us been consulted
we would have had labor represented
at that table What an inspiration II
would have been could a great captain
OF industry and a representative OF
labor, not organized labor merely, but
the great body. Of working men who
constitute the yeomanry Of labor the
world over, have sat side by side as
the plans for a universal and permanent
peace were being considered.
"But what nations shall sit at that
iable2 What a goodly array we see.
"There Is France, glorious, sclf-sacri-
flclng, suffering. invinciblo France. Her
fields have been SCARED and torn into
fragments, and impoverished for years
to come The flower Of her manhood
under the sod. and host Of others
MANNED for life. Yet she stood in the
breach and the Marne red with the
blood Of her slain she whispered. They
shall not pass The land OF Lafayette
must have a place there, and her voice
must be heard, her plea granted.
"And the land Of smiling field and
terraced vineyards, the land Of Carl
baldl and Victor Emmanuel, sunny
hearted, brave Italy, must be there. One
shudders 20 think what might have
been had Italy consulted self-interest
alone and remained I'm The shameful
triple alliance. Who then would have
worried, harrassed and wlihstood Aus
tria, whose ruthless, base-sOuled ser
want 60 her ToutOnio master, precip-
itated the war and led TO the crushing
Of poor lille Serbia, and other smaller
Slates2 A new bond binds us TO the
land Of Garibaldi as we sit beside her
when peace shall become legal
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country, Great Britain, VIII through her
representatives sit at that table And
the place she occupies win be a large
and honorable one, for The magnitude
she played in the contributions she
made I'm this war are simply astound-
ing. There was for a time a secret and
subtle propaganda carried on I'm Amer
lea to create the impression that Great
Britain, as one journal crudely put it,
was loaflng on her job What are the
facts2
think for a moment Of her contribu-
tons in men. In tho first years Of the
war she was wholly unready as 20 man
power. But she gave what she had.
She sent 10000 men into France and
almost Immediately 70 per cent Of that
initial force were killed. But how rap
idly she began 10 meet The emergency
will be seen when we remember that
the doors Of her great universities were
lung open and her halls literally de-
nuded Of the best and noblest among