Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-05

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have long cowared before the Ger
man. that have long suffered the in
describabie agOntes OF being governed
by the Turk. have called out to the
world, generation after generation.
for justice. for liberation. for succor;
and no cabinet in the world has heard
them.
Private organizations, plying
hearts, philanthropic me and women
have poured out their treasure In Or
der to relieve these sufferings; but no
nation has said to the nations re-
sponsible, You must stop: this thing
is intolerable, and we will not permit
it. And the vision has been with
the people.
fleet upon this. proposition. The
vision as to what is necessary for
great reforms has seldom come from
the top in the nations Of the world.
1t has come from the need and the
aspiration and the seif-assertion Of
great bodies of men who meant to be
free. And I can explain some Of the
criticisms which have been leveled
against this great enterprise only by
the supposition that the men who
utter the criticisms have never felt
| the great pulse OF the heart Of the
! world. st
Amazed at Opposition.
And I am amazed-not alarmed,
but amazed-that there should be in
some quarters such a comprehensive
Ignorance of the state Of the world.
These gentlemen do not know what
the mind Of men is, just now. Every
they ave been closeted; I do not
know by what influences they have
been blinded; but 1 do know they
have been separation from the gen.
eral currents of though of mankind.
"And I want to utter this solemn
warning, not in the a of a threat;
the forces of the world do not
tides Of the world do not give notice
that they are going to rise and run;
they rise in their majesty and over
whelming might, and those who stand
in h way are overwhelmed. Now
the heart of the world is awake, and
the heart Of the world must be salts
fled.
do not let yourselves suppose for
a moment that the ~uneasiness in the
population Of Europe is due entirely
to economic causes or economic mo-
tives; something very much deeper
underlies it all than that.
"They see that their governments
have never been able to defend them
against intrigue or aggression, and
that there is no force of foresight or
of prudence in any modern cabinet to
There must be some fundamental
cause for this and the fundamental
cause they are beginning to perceive
to be that nations have stood singly
or in little jealous groups against each
other, fostering prejudice, increasing
the danger Of war. rather than con:
cocting measures to prevent it,; and
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there is justice in the world, there Is
no reason why nations should be di.
vided in the support of justice.
\ "They are therefore saying if you
really believe that there is a right, II
you really believe that wars ought tc
be stopped, stop thinking about the
rival interests of nations. and think
about men n women and children
throughout the world.
Nations Made for People
Nations are not made to afford
success in the manuevers of politics
nations are meant, if they are mean
for anything, to make the men anC
women and children in them secure
and happy and prosperous and ne
nation has the right to set up specia
interests against the interests AMI
benefits of mankind, least of all thi.
great nation which we love. -,
ut was set UP for the benefit o.
mankind; it was set up to illustrate
the highest ideals and to achieve thu
highest aspiration of men who want
ed to be free, and the world-the
world of today believes that ant
counts on JUS. and would be thrown
back into the blackness Of despair il
we deserted it.
"I have tried. once and again, m,
fellow citizens, to say to little circle.
of friends or to larger bodies. wha