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that there was no place In the world
where a small group Of men could use
their fellowcitjzens ms pawns In A
game; that there was no place in the
world where small group of men,
without consulting their fellow citi-
zens. could senG their fellow citizens
to the battlefield, and to deal in ac-
complishing something dynnstic. some
political plan that bad been conceived
In private. some object that had been
prepared for by universal, world wide
intrigue. That Is what we wanted to
accomplish.
German Intrigue Widespread
The most startling thing that de-
veloped itself at the opening of our
participation In this war was not the
military preparation Of Germany -
we were familiar with that. though
We had been dreaming that she would
not use it-but her political prepara-
tion to find that every community In
the civilized world was penetrated by
her intrigue. The German people did
not know that, but IL was known in
Wilhelmstrasse, where the central Of
fees of the German government were,
and WilhelmStrasse was the master
of the German people; and this wal.
my fellow citizens. has emancipated
the German people as well as the rest
Of the world.
We don't want to see anything like
that done again. because we know
that democracy will only have to de
Stroy that form of government: and
IL we don't destroy it now, the job
is still to be done, and by n combina-
tion of all the great fighting peoples
of the world to see to it that the
aggressive purposes Of such govern
mcnt cannot be realized, you make II
no longer worth while for little groups
Of men TO contrive the downfall Of
civilization In private conference.
Ny fellow citizens II does not make
any difference what kind Of q minor
ity governs you, II II il n minority.
And the thing we must see to Is that
no minority anyhere masters the
majority. That is at the heart, my
fellow citizens, of the tragical things
that are happening in that great
country which We long to help and
can find no way that Is effective to
help-I mean the great realm of Rus
sia.
The men who are now measurably
in control of the affairs Of Russia
represent nobody but themsel Ives.
They have again and again been
challenged to call a constitutional
convention. They have again and
again been challenged to prove that
they had some kind of n mandate
even from a single class of their fell
low citizens. And they dared not at
tempt it; they have no mandate from
anybody. There are only thirty
four of them. / am told, and there
were more than thirty four men who
used to control the dcstinies of Europe
from Wilhelmstrasse.
Reds Worse Than Gar
There is closer monopoly Of
power in Petrograd and Moscow than
there ever was in Berlin. and the
thing that is intolerable Is not that
the Russian people are having their
way. but that another group of men
more cruel than the car himself Is
controlling the destinies of that great
people. And | want to say here and
now that I am a gainst the control
of any minority anywhere.
Search your own economic history,
and what have you been uneasy
about? Now and again you have said
there were small groups of capitalists
who were controlling the industry,
and. therefore, the development of
the United States. Seriously, my fell
low citizens. If that is so land I
sometimes have feared that it was)
we must break up that monopoly. I
am not now saying that there is any
group of our fellow citizens who are
consciously doing anything of the
kind, and I am saying these ale
cations must be proved. But II It
l.. kIN AVA
anywhere, Is without the suffrage OF
their fellow citizens in control Of
our affairs, then I am with you to
have got to be frank with ourselves,
however.
II we do not want minority gov.
ernment In Germany we must see to
1t that we do not have II In the
United States. II you do not want
little groups Of selfish men to plot
the future of Europe we must not
allow little groups of selfish men to
plot the future Of America. ANY man
that speaks for a class must prove
that he also speaks for all his fellow
citizens and for mankind, and then
we will listen to him.
Then there was apother thing we
wanted to do. my fellow citizens. that
is done in this document. We.want-
ed to see that helpless people were
nowhere in the world put at the
mercy of INSCRIPTIONS enemies and
masters. There is one pitiful exam
pie which is in the hearts of all of
us. l mean the example of Armenia.
There was Christian people, help
less, at the mercy Of Turkish gov
ernment which thought 1t the serv-
ice of God TO destroy them.
May Annihilate Armenians
And at this moment, my fellow
citizens, it is an open question
whether the Armenian people will
not, while we sit here and debate, be
absolutely destroyed. When l think
of words piled on words, of debate
following debate, when these un-
speakable things that cannot be
handled until the debate 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 is no food and
can be none, and they are compelled
to die, and then men, women and
! children thrown into a common grave,
| so imperfectly covered up that here
and there is a pitiful arm stretched
out to Heaven, and there is no pity
in the world. When shall we wake
to the moral responsibility of this
great occasion?
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 den'
live in Armenia. There are others
And one of the glories of the great
document which l brought back with