The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-03
kNOx'S INDICTMENT.

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the senate said:
| THE wise. the obviously wise
| course required not months OF in.
venting and piling up penalties. but
a few hours devoted to a plan thai
should rid Germany of the Hohenzol-
| lerns should provide for her demo
cratization, that should impose @
lesson bearing indemnity. and that
should then bind with rivets of steel
because rivets of friendship, the Ger
man people Of western Europe tC
France. who cannot hope to keep
Germany under her feet"
He says Napoleon's failure to con
auer a people ought to be lesson to
France. '"The only possible wise
course for France. her only perma-
nent safety is closest friendship with
| Germany. Just out of war which
has recorded so many acts of cruelty
and aroused so much bitterness the
| senator will be criticised for this
frank statement, but 1t is worthy OF
| consideration. He thinks that the
terms should have included: "The
restoration of Alsace- Lorraine. the
| payment of suitable indemnity and
then forgetfulness of the past, hard
as that might prove-this should
have suff1ced" and knowing that he
will be censured for his words, he
adds: at may seem that I am un-
sympathetic. unmlndful and forget
full OF wrongs and injuries. unmoved
by suffering and grief. I am none OF
these. I am trying to point out how
France herself might escape further
and more Overwhelming wrong, suf-
fering and grief. For as certain as
the sun rises, If we follow the road
in which this treaty sets our feet,
France and ourselves shall meet
those on the way"
From Blenheim to Waterloo. dur
ing all the period through MARI
borough to Wellington, English hts
tory and literature breathe a spirit OF
as vindictive hatred to France as
the Germans. France and Germany
have never been allies. but Great
Britain laid great stock to it's al
lance with Frederick the Great and
the map of America might have been
different but for the exploits of the
Pomeranlan guards.
History's pages are full of changes
in racial sympathies.
The senator's prediction is not op-
timistic. He says;
Think you ermany--smarting
and staggering under the terms of
this. the hardest treaty OF modern
times-will. even II we were to set
up the league and she should join IT,
supinely rest content with the dole of
grace and sufferance we are Vouch-
safing her, the crumbs from her VIC
tors table? II is beside the point to
say that such is but her just des-
scrts and the full measure thereof.
Lacking the wisdom to go forward
and inflict n military punishment
that would have uprooted their phi
losophy of force and taught them the
lesson of live and let live, we have
left them, beaten, but proud and ar
rogant with their mighty spirit bent
for the time but unbroken, with their
damning philosophy unchanged and
with a will, fired by hate, to mete
out revenge.
THAT people win no more cease TO
plot and plan TO recover their for
mer high estate than did Satan
plunged into the ahysmal depths Of
hell Whether they are in the league
IT, formed or out of it, Germany's
agents, secretly or openly. will be at
work with her former allies and with
injured Russia and with Japan,
whose conceptions, ideals, aspirations
and ambitions are of imperial Ger
many, not democratic America, Brit
ain and France. As Russia goes, so
viii go the whole Slavic and afiili-
ated peoples.
And if Germany succeed in this
and be able TO unite these powers to
herself. to turn the teeming millions
Of Russia to swell her own ranks and
to augment this by the great yellow
races OF the Pacific who through Rus
STA would have unimpeded access TO
the battle front, western Europe, at
least must perish"
There are many reasons TO believe
that the president went to Europe
with ideas much like those of Senator
Knox. He was forced TO yield these
TO certain degree, at least, and
surrender to the European diplo-
mats who were thinking in terms of
the old order. He did this so as 10,
secure as much IS he did, and the
league Of nations does give strong
hope of a future revision of the