El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-06

power In PetroErnd and Moscow
than there ever was IN Berlin,
and the thing that is Intolerabie
l. not that the Russian people are
having their way, but that an
other erouu Of men more cruel
than the car himself Is control
ing the destinies Of that great
people
And 7 want 70 say here and now
that / am against the control Of any
minority anywhere Search your own
economic history and what have you
been uneasy aboutg Now and again
you have said there were small
groups Of capitalists who were con-
trolling the Industry and, therefore,
the development Of the United States.
Seriously, my fellow citizens. II. that
Is so land I sometimes have feared
that IL was), we must break up mo-
Hopoly. ! am not saying that there
is any group Of our fellow citizens
who are couspiciOusiy doing any
thing Of the kind, and 1 am saying
that these allegations must be proved.
But II Il is proved, that any class. any
group anywhere, Is without 1.-THE suf-
frage Of their fellow citizens in con-
troll OF our affairs, then I am with you
20 destroy the power OF that group.
We have got 10 be frank with our
selves, however. II we do not want
minority government in Germany, we
must see TO il We do not have il IN
the United States IL you do not want
little groups Of selfish men TO plot the
future OF Europe, we must not allow
little groups Of selfish men 10 plot
the future OF America. ANY man that
speaks Of a class must prove that he
also speaks for all his fellow citizens
and for mankindi and then We will
listen 10 Jim.
Armenia Faces Destruction.
'Then there was another thing we
wanted 20 do, my fellow citizens. that
IS done in this document. We wanted
to see that helpless people were mo-
where in the world put at the mercy
OF INSCRIPTIONS enemies and masters.
There is one pitiful example which
is in the hearts OF all OF US. I mean
the example Of Armenia There was
Christian people. helpless. at the
mercy Of Turkish government which
thought II the service Of God 10 de-
stroy them And at this moment, my
fellow citizens, IL is an open question
whether the Armenian people will
not while we sit here and debate. be
absolutely destroyed. When I think
Of words piled on words. OF debate
following debate, when there un
speakable things that cannot be
handled until the debate is over, are
happening in these pitifu. parts OF
the world, / wonder that men DO not
wake up to the moral responsibility
Of what they are doing Great peo-
pies are driven out upon a desert
where there is no food and can be
none, and they are compelled 10 die
and then men, women and children
thrown into a common grave, so i'm
perfectly covered up that here ana
there is a pitiful arm stretched out to
heaven: and there is not pity in the
world. When shall we wake to the
moral responsibility Of this great &C.
casion3
Would Give All Square Deal.
And so, my fellow citizens, there
are other aspects TO that matter. Not
all the populations that are having
something that Is not a square deal
live in Armenia. There are others.
And one Of them glories Of the great
document which I brought back with
me Is this;
That everywhere within the area
Of settlement covered Dy the political
questions involved in that treaty. peO-
pie Of that sort have been given their
freedom and guaranteed their free
dom. But the thing does not end there