Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-12
Secretary of State Want
Huns Aided to Prevent
BOlshevism.
DO NOT DESERVE,
MUST HAVE HELP
Lansing in Address In Paris Bitterly
Dsnounees German Leaders and
German People For Prosecuting War
and For Ruthlessnsss and Grimes
Against Humsnity-huns Now Reap
ing Bitter, Fruits Of Cruelty.

Paris. March live have reached
a crisis. in the affairs OF the world"
said Secetary Of State Robert Lansing.
at a banquet given tonight by the In
terallied Press Club in honor Of the
American peace commissioners.
MIR. Lansing vas emphatic ia his
statement that the allies must feed
Germany and give the Germans oppor-
tunity to sell their products in the
foreign markets IL the danger OF boil
slevism is to be avoided. He pointed
cut that il was not thru ply for Ger
many, but to the allies oUn advantage
to see that anarchy was prevented in
the former German empire. Mr.. Ian
sing said.
1T is always a privilege for an Amer
lean who knows the history OF his
country to be present on such an occa-
sion as this, where the mutual friend
ship of France and the United States
"a traditional friendship nearly CEN
tury and IL half-finds expression in
words and a response in our hearts.
I'm the infancy of our republic
across the seas the sympathy and aid
of France gave the support which was
needed to make indivisible liberty the
supreme ruler of the destinies OF the
newborn nation. From that timeSfor-
ward liberty has been and still is the
most sacred and most compelling i'm
pulse in political life in America.
1t was when the people Of the
United States came to full realization
that the liberty tor which they had
fought and to which they owed their
power and prosperity was in danger;
when they realized that France and
the great democracies OF Europe were
imperiled from the attack Of an am
bitious autocracY. that the nation with
unsurpassed unanimity took UP the
sword with a firm determination to do
it's part in freeing liberty and the
world from autocrscy.
Reaping Fruits Of Evil. Deeds.
"A mighty victory has been won. The
imperial armies of the central powers
have ceased to threaten They no
loncer exist. Shattered and broken.
they have returned to their homes.
where hunger and pri1tion await
them hunger and privation. which are
the consequences of their own blind
faith In evil men who lea them into
this unrighteous war
"Germahy has suffered bitterly. is
suffering bitterly. and Germany is en-
TITLED to suffer for what she has done.
She paid fearful penalty for the
crime Of plunging the world into four
years of blood and fire. Today starva-
ton and want are the portions Df the
German people. Violence and murder
stalk thru the streets OF their great
cities. Political institutions industrial
and the very structure Of
society are tottering. It is the price OF
their own evil doing. the just retribu-
ton Of their crimes.
Hatred For Germans Justified.
1--WE may be disposed to pity those
innocent among the Germans. but our
pity is almost dried up when we con-
slider what France and other nations
have had to suffer from the invading
armies OF the Teutons. Ten days afte.
landed In France In December
made Il my business 70 visit the hat
telflelds of the Marnc. Aisne and the
Champagne. saw the ruins Of
Chateau Thierry and F'ismes: saw
the stately and historic cathedral OF
Rheims, a monument to the ferocity OF
the Germans. 7 saw the SCARED and
upturNed fields of Champagne and de-
serted places where once had been
thriving, happy villages; I saw ham
lets along the Marne whose crumb-
ling walls bore witness to the fright =
fulness OF war. No man could see
what saw In those days without
having a burning Indignation agains.
those responsible for such ruin ard
destruction; without an Intense and
undying hatred for them.
"My friends, France has endured
woes with fortitude and
determination which excite the admira-
tioh and wonder Of the world. can
not pick words TO express The praise
would give to the French armies and
their great generals, TO the French
people alld tiis..fr I'll s:-c:: leaders who !:-ed
thru those black days Of horror. when
stoutest hearts might well have de-
SPARED.
New Problems to Overcome.
What greater pride can man feel
than he who n able to say. 7 was in
the trenches at yerdun.' 4 fought at
the Sonme.' To these splendid troops
who struggled month after month and
year after, year. without fiinching and
with high courage, France and the
world owe a debt OF gratitude which
the eternal memory Of man only can
repay.
"And. now that the great conflict "a
ended and the mighty war engine OF
Prussia is crushed. We have new prob
lens to solve. new dangers to over
come. East OF the Rhine there arc
famine and idleness. want and mis- ,r".
Political chaos and outlawry have sup
planted the highly organized govern
ment of imperial Germany. Social
orders are breaking down under the
difficulties OF defeat and the hopeless
ness OF the future. Like the anarchy
which for years made an inferno Of