Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-01
D0M FIRST,
BALgOUR CRIES
IN WAR SPEECH
Wrongs of Subordinated Peo'
Must Be Righted and Ger
many Isolated

London, Monday, Sept. S0.-Tht
wrongs OF subordinated peoples must
be righted and territories occupied
by Germany since the beginning oi
the war must have complete free
dom before "a league of nations car
be possible and peace secured to the
world said Arthur J. Balfour. Brit
ish foreign secretary at the Guild
hall to-day. He gave his support to
the ideas outlined in President Will
sons recent speech in New York.
The full magnitude of all the
issues before mankind is thoroughly
realized" said Mr.. Balfour. If we
failed in this crisis not merely 10
win the war, but 10 see that such
wars do not recur, our task would
be half accomplished.
President Wilson's main theme
was this:
That Il the world make sure
that IL Is going to have peace, IL
must come to some arrangement by
which malefaCtors or would-bc male
factors are 10 be kept in order by a
league nations. The second propo-
Sition was that il you are to carry
To do il effcCtually is the moment
when peace itself is being forged by
the labors OF the victorious powers.
Personally l am very much OF
the Presidents mind
III you are going TO render per-
manent German domination over
Russia, especially western Russia.
and the small peoples along the Bal
tic If you refuse TO redress the wrongs
of Poland; if the subordinated peoples
N the Austrian empire are TO be
left under the heel OF the German
and Magyar minorities; If the Bal
kans again are 10 be the scene OF
bloody wars and the occasion Of hos
tilities among their neighbors: il
the Turk is TO be allowed TO resume
his bloody sway over the territories
torn from him: if Italy is not to have
restored 10 her and added TO her
those populations which really make
her indeed an Italy redeemed: if
Greece is 10 be threatened. as in the
past, by the domination OF the Gen.
trail Powers; If Serbia is no, to be
restored after her appalling sacri-
fees and glorious gallantry;. if
France is not TO resume her full
place in western Europe and If Bel
gium is nos TO be restored in full
measure, If ali those evils are not
potentially to recur. then you must
do something more than merely es-
tablish a league OF nations.
Must Have Clean Slate
You must put these wrongs right
before a league Of nations can set 10
work. You must give il a clean
slate TO work upon. Then and there
only will your league nations work.
Therefore, in order 10 make a
league of nations possible complete
victory is absolutely necessary. Ger
many can only be a member OF
league OF nations when the inter-
national system has been reformed
by a great-wise and ALIEN bracing
peace and that can never take place
until Germany. not merely has been
obliged 10 change her profession OF
faith. but until Germany finds her
self in a position where all her
dI cams OF world domination are torn
to pieces before her eyes aid she is
left powerful. indeed as she doubt
less will be left powerful prosperous.
and wealthy, but no longer a tyrant
who Car -;se the nations which she
is in position 10 influence 10 serve
her own dreams of world empire.
Therefore I ask you 70 remember
how fa- the financial efforts We now
are calling upon you TO make extend
beyond any merely financial opera
ton