The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-09-06

al convention. They have again an,
again been challenged to prove tha
they had some kind OF 4 mandat,
even from \ single class Of their fel
low citizens. And they dared not at
tempt Il they have no mandate from
anybody There are only thirty-iou
OF them | am told, and there wer,
more than thirty-four men who uset
to control the destinc, OF Europ,
from Wilhelmstrasse. There is 4
closer monopoly of power in Petro-
grad and Moscow than there ever was
in Berlin, and the thing. that is intol-
cradle is not that the Russiap people
are having their way but that another
group Of men more cruS than the
car himself is controlling the des
tines OF that great people. And
want y say here and now that am
against the control of any minority
anywhere
Our Own History.
Search your own economic his
tory and what have you to he uneasy
about' Now and again you have said
there were small groups OF capital
lists who were controlling Ahe industry
and therefore the development OF the
United States. Seriously my fellow
citizens, il that is so land sometime
| have feared that il was). we must
break up that monopoly.
Il ain not now saying that there is
any group OF our fellow citizens who
are concientiously doing anything OF
the kind, and am saying that these
allegations must be proved. But il i,
is proved, that any class, any group
anywhere is without the suffrage OF
their fellow citizens in control OF our
affairs than ! am with you TO de-
stroy the power of that group.
Must Speak for Mankind.
I'VE have got TO be frank with
ourselves, however. II we do not
want minority government in Ger
many, We must see to 1t that we
do not have il in the United States.
II sou do not want little groups OF
selfish men TO plot the future Of
Europe, we must not allow littlc
groups OF selfish men to plot the fu-
ture of America. Any man thai,
speaks for a class must prove that
he also speaks for all his fellow citi-
zens and for mankind; aud then we
viii listen to him.
Then there was another thing We
wanted to do, my fellow citizens, that
is done in this document. We wanted
to see that helpless people were no.
where in the world put at the mercy
Of unscrupulous enemies and masters.
There is one pitiiul example which
is in the hearts OF all of us. mean
the example of Armenia.
Debate While Nation 10 Destroyed.
There was a Christian people,
helpless at the mercy OF a Turkish
government which thought il the serv-
ice OF God TO destroy them. And al
this moment my fellow citizens, it
is arr open question whether the
Armenian people will not, while we
sit here and debate, be absolutely
destroyed. When | think OF words
piled on words, on debate following
debate, when these unspeaksble things
that cannot be handled until the de-
bate is over, are happening in these
pitiful parts of the world, | wonder
that men do not wake up to the moral
responsibility of what they are doing.
Great peoples are driven out upon
a desert where there u no food and
can be none and they are compelled
to die and then men. women and
children are thrown into 4 common
grave, 50 imperfectly covered up that
here and there is a pitiful arm
out to Heaven; and there
is no pity in the world. When shall
we wake to the moral responsibility
Of this great occasion'
World Forum Created.
"And so my fellow citizens, there
lre other aspec>s TO that matter. Not
all the populations that are having
something that is not square deal
lived in Armenia. There are others.
And one of the glories Of the great
document which brought back with
me is this: That everywhere with
in the area Of settlement covered BY
the political questions involved in that
treaty, people OF that sort have been
given their freedom and guaranteed
their freedom. But tho hing does
not end there because the treaty in
oludes the covenant of the league OF
natioA. And what does that say
That says that it is the privilege OF
any member state TO call attention 20
anything anywhere that is likely to
disturb the peace Of the world or
the good understanding between ma
tons upon which the peace OF the
world depends. and every people In
the world that have nH got what
they think they ought 70 have is
thereby given a world forum in which
to brNg the thing to the bar Of man
kind.
There never before has been pro
vided a world forum in which the
legitimate grievances Of peoples en-
titled to consideration can be brought
to the common judgment of mankind
And il were the advocate OF any sup
pressed or oppressed people. surely
could not ask any better forum than TO
stand up before the world and chal-
lenge the other party to make good its
excuses for not acting in that case.
First Charter Of Mankind.
"To reject that treaty. TO alter that