The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-07
DEMAND, GERMANY
PAY WARS PRICE
Lafayette-Marne Day Speakers
All Warn Against Mis-
taken Mercy.
NJ. JUssERAND SPEAKS
Col. Roosevelt's Memory Also
Honored by Orators at
Exercises.

battle OF the Marine and the birthday of
Lafayette, observed each year as a
single festival I'm this country since
1915, but always with the spectre of
the Teuton war god lowering at the
ceremonies, was celebrated with fervor
and rejoicing yesterday from one end
OF the American land to the other.
Appropriate exercises marked the
day from coast to coast and from the
Canadian border to the Rio Grande.
Governors of thirty States called upon
their commemorative for adequate OBJ
servance of 1t, and ceremonies of espe-
cial note were held in this city, Boston
and Philadelphia, in each of which cities
Lafayette was received and honored
when he was in. this country as a SOL
der.
Celebration of the day in New York
was principally at City Hall, where
Ambassador Jusserand made the prin-
cipal address at the Lafayette statue
in Union Square, and at the monument
of Joan of Arc in Riverside Park.
There was a parade also in Harlem,
with veterans of the last three Ameri-
can wars marching, monday recep-
tions in the Plaza Hotel and the Bank
ers and Cosmopolitan clubs, and a din
ner at night, held by the Fifth Avenue
Association.
Herrick and Finley Speak.
The Lafayette Day Citizens Commit
tee of this city, with Justice Victor ].
Downing of the Supreme Court presid-
ing, was in charge of the exercises at
City Hall, and the speakers beside Am
bassador Jusserand were Myron T.
Herrick, who was American Ambassa-
dor to France when the first battle of
the Marine was fought in 1914, and DR..
I@l-w Vs.1A % Nan N9.Nlr
University.
And with them the voice of one other
patriot and orator was heard almost as
effectively as If he were present per-
sonally: that of Col Theodore Roose-
welt, who was the principal speaker at
the Marne-Lafayette exercises of last
year, and to whose speech upon that
day each of the speakers alluded at
length yesterday.
1t was the burden of each of the
addresses of yesterday that no mistaken
conception of the plight of van
pushed Germany born of the gener-
osity natural to vietors must be per-
mitted to mitigate the price which Ger
many must pay for all the heartbreak
and damage she perpetrated between
the first battle of the Marine and the
last one. Ambassador Jusserand drove
the point home with an account of what
and in the ruined regions. Mr.. Herrick
closed his address with statement that
to relax the just terms of Just peace
was tantamount to treason.
1.-THE war;" declared NJ. Jusserand
has now ended the way 1t should end
Peace has been signed-the peace that
was to be. Not a peace of vengeance,
but peace of reparation and safety
the strictly necessary amount OF repa-
81.
something less. This reparation. Mr..
Roosevelt said in his speech before you
last year. must take the form of action
that will render it impossible for Ger
many to repeat her colossal wrong
doing. President Wilson has spoken
and has acted to the same effect.
IF any who have not seen what we
have seen and suffered-the wilful devas-
tations, the shooting or carrying away
of civilians, the running of mines and
machinery, the methodical blowing up
of city like Chauny. house by house
II any such may be tempted to consider
this a harsh and cruel peace and that
II would be in our interest to become
the friend of our enemy and to say to
the bloodstained German let bygones be
bygones, we would simply reply to them,
Remember
"A weak peace and weak resolves
would only cause scorn and tempt to
new aggresslons, which is not a way of
speaking but the stating of actual in
controvertible facts. Just remember /:
was the peace OF 1t71 harsh and
cruel peace for the Germans? 1t was
written at their own dictation they took
our billions and provinces yet they
never for one moment ceased to be on
the lookout for an occasion to begin
again and achieve the destruction of
France. They very nearly started a
new war in 1875. and desisted not out
of a sense OF Justice, but out of fear
the fear of the British and the Rus
SLAMS.
Peace Could Not BE Had,
France herself, was, in the meantime.
30 bent on peace that she yielded and
yielded, going even SO far as to present
to Germany part of a colony, the French
Congo, which we had settled and civil
lized without, by the way, any blood
shed. But peace could not be had could
not be bought, and sure as fate. the day
was to come when Herr Won Schoen
would notify us that we had bomba rted
Nuremberg, which was news to us, and
10 the inhabitants of Nuremberg too, and
that therefore German Schrechlichkeit'
was ready for us, as indeed IL was
IF ever the enemy changes, and I'M
derstands. confesses not from Inns but
from the heart then We too shall change.
not before. Has he understood, has he
changed? Only yesterday, as reported,
the man they worship, both in the flesh
and as a wooden idol, Hindenburg, was
saying that all of us, the defenders of
right, who had been so bold as to dare
fight for our hearths and our ideals we
whose women have been carried into
captivity, whose villagers have been shot.
are what? We are in his words: 'Helots
and pariahs.' Since we are not Germans.
we are pariahs. Do you believe that
men who think thus would hesitate to
try again the destruction of helots and
pariahs, II they could? They must be
prevented, that is all.
"rhere was such revelry OF destruc-
ton and crimes wherever Germans set
foot during the war, that with all those
supposedly harsh conditions, even full
filled to the letter. the fate OF the van
quished aggressor, In his comfortable,
well closed homes, with heat and cleo
tricity, everything in order, the streets
and monuments. the factories, schools
and churches intact, will be a most en-
viable one as compared with that, next
winter of millions of the victors, living
in their dreary novels, burrowing under
the wreckage, In the cold and the mud.
For whom will the harshness beY'
Abiding at the beginning Of his ad-
- dress 10 Theodore Roosevelt and his
services to the cause for which France
and her allies were fighting last year,
Ambassador Jusserand said:
1--WE mourn the absence of one man