The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-26
LEADERS
REALIZE THEY
ARE DEFEATED
u. S. Must Get That Knowl-
edge to German People, DR..
Willet Says in Address.

| Germany is not yet broken said
Dr. H. L. Willet, of Chicago Universe
ty Sunday afternoon. Il believe that
we can suffer those marvellous. mag
niflcent, sturdy boys of ours to give
an account of themselves. l am
| speaking of the future when we shall
still be in this conflict, perhaps one
year, two years or four or Ave. This
| is no summer holiday excursion. The
| reports that Germany wants to stop.
that she is starving, that her man
power is exhausted, are mere persi-
| flage and cauouflage.
THE ruling class of Germany knows
now that she is beaten. Our serious
business is to get past the ruling
class to the people and there is only
| one way and that is by war. 1t Is
inevitable. They will fight on by mere
perversity of their military machine.
| II Germany could stop now she would,
but in less than ten years we would
have to fight her again. She cannot
stop and We must not let her. We
must have no anticipation of peace
until we are fighting on German terri
tory beyond the Rhine. Then it will
fibre of Germany that she has an en-
envy to fear.
Our great allies are war weary
They were unprepared for this con-
flict and have now been taking their
part nobly for four years. They ex-
pect us to take up our part and we
must go into it to the last man and
to the last dollar. This conflict will
be settled between the United States
and Germany.
I'VE still are not quite sure that we
are in this war. We have bad a little
experience in giving to the Y. M. c.
A., little experience in giving to the
Red Cross and other organizations,
and little experience in the conser-
walton of food, but We are just begin
ming to settle the question that we are
in war when the men are going from
our country, our homes and our hearts.
These are our boys.
Germany Lost by Folly.
1--WE did not go into this war of the
Fast, the war of 1914. Some did, but
the nation as a whole did not. We are
not people to jump into things. We
are an educated people. We are in
terested in universities and schools.
We like to think thing through. We
are a people of peace. We also had
two great allies, the Atlantic and the
Pacific. We wanted to wait until we
knew that this was our conflict
The second reason for our not 60
ing into the war Of 1914 was President
Woodrow Wilson. He held us cody
and calmly until we knew whether or
not Prussia was amenable in anyway.
We were at last ready in mind and
heart even though we are not pre-
pared in a military way. There is a
kind of military preparation that is far
more powerful than a preparation
made by the science Of war. This is
an army of democracy and l would put
it against any army trained In the
arts of war.
Our forces and power are a terror
to that military oligarchy and great
autocracy. We shall stop this con-
flict by the marvellous outpouring of
patriotism of our people.
Our moment of peril will come
when Germany says: What is the use
OF wasting more men and money? II
am willing to stop, restore Belgium
and Alsace-Lorraine, If you will leave
me an open hand in Russia We will
be tired Of war and we want to accept |
this reasonable treaty of peace, but
with Germany's military temper 1t |
would be less than ten years before |
she would retake everything she had |
surrendered. The passion for con-
quest is in the German blood We will |
not live In world like that
Germany has lost greatly, if she |
only had the wit to know II
Before the war she had more mer-
camille business in the Orient than
any other country.
Germany has lost her intellectual |
supremacy. The whole world owes a .
deep debt to German scholarship.
German scholars are patient and stead
fast in eXhausting any field into which
they go. No single great fact has !
ever come from Germany Germany
furnished ideas with plodding and
use the results.
Nothing is more tragic than the
downfall of the German nation. They
have listened to a group of men en-
tirely apart from Leasing, Goethe, !,
Freiburg and Luther. They have list
ened instead to Hindenburg, Bismark,
Frederick the Great and William the
Hun. They do not worship William
The Great because he was a statesman,
nor citizen, but because he was a
soldier. The deep passion of the Ger
nan people is militarism. This peo-
pie worships the clank of spurs.
The military cast is supreme. You
know nation by the men it loves and
'everes If you were to ask an Ameri-
AN who were the foremost men in the
history of the country he would i'm
nediately say Washington and Lin
'oln. German would say Frederick
he Great and Bismarck.
we Americans must make the
world fit for self government and de-
nocracy. Our democracy is what Ger !
many hates us for. We are not going