El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-06

of the peace conference included Z
satirical account OF the journeys ant
methods Of Miss Columbia, one who
possessed a beautiful voice and &
wonderful command OF language,
adding that she surpassed by fal
the greatest OF her sex in her ability
to talk"
the rest Then. you viii ask. do we
at once take up arms and fight them
No We do something very much
more terrible than that We absO-
f. lutely boycott hem
Let any merchant put up to him
self, that IL he enters into a cove
nant and then breaks il and the peO-
/ pie all around absolutely desert his
Z establishment and viii have nothing
/ TO do with him, ask him after that
I If II would be necessary to send the
Z police. The most terrible thing that
can happen to any individual and the
most conclusive thing that can hap
pen TO a nation IS TO be read out Of
decent society APPLAUSE
Provides For DIsn rmament.
There was another thing that we
needed TO accomplish. that is ac-
eomplished in this document We
wanted disarmament and this docu-
ment provides in the only possible
way for disarmament by common
agreement. Observe, my fellow eiti-
zens. that just now every great fight
ing nation in the world IS a member
Of this partnership except Germany.
and inasmueh as Germany has ae-
cepted a Limitation OF her army to
100000 men. L don't think for the
time being shs may be regarded as
great fighting nation
And you know. my fellow eitizens'
that ornaments mean great standing
stoves 0f war ma
terial. Tney do not mean burdensome
TAXATION merely.
ssThev do not mean merely compul-
sorry military service. which sans inc
economic strength Of the nation bQt
thew mean the building up OF a mill
tary class.
Again and again. my fellow citi-
zens, in the conference at Paris. we
were face TO fare with this situation:
That in dealing with a particular civil
government we found that they would
not dare TO promise what their general
staff was not willing that they should
promise: and that they were domin-
ated by the military machine which
they had created. nominally Tor their
own defence. but Tealiy-whether they
wiilled it or not-for the provocatlon
OF war. And 50, as long as you nave
military class, II does not make any
difference what your form OF govern
ment is. If you are determined TO be
armed to the teeth, you must ohey
the orders and direction OF the only
men who can control the great ma
chinery Of war 1t IS not merely the
cost Of II (armament) although that
is overwhelming, but II is the spirit
OF II, and America has never had and
I hope in the providence Of God. never
will have that spirit. Great applause.)
Peoples Are Emancinated.
And there Is no other way to dis
pense with great ornaments except
by the common agreement OF the
fighting nations NJ the world And
here Is the agreement They promise
disarmament and promise to agree
upon a plan. But there was some
thing else we wanted. that is accom-
plished by this treaty. We wanted to
destroy autecratic authority every
where in the world. We wanted TO see
to e that there was no place IN the
world Wnere small group OF men
could use their fellow citizens as
pawns in a game; that there was no
place In the world where small group
OF men. without consulting their fell
low citizens, could send their fellow
citizens to the battle field. and to deal
in accomplishing something dynastic,
some political plan that had been
conceived In private. some object that
had been prepared for by universal,
world wide intrigue, That is what We
wanted to accomplish. The most start
opening Of our participation in this
war was not the military preparation
OF Germauy-we were familiar with
that, though We had been dreaming
that she would not use it-but her POI
lucal preparation; to find that every
community in the civilized world was
penetrated by her intrigue The Ger
penetrated by her intrigue that. but il
was known in WilhelmstFasse. where
the central offices Of the German gov
eminent were, and WilhelmstEass
was the master of the German people;
and this war, my fellow citizens. has
emaneipated the German people as
well as the rest Of the world.
eve don't want 20 see anything
Ike that done again. because we
know that democracy will only
have to destroy that form OF gov
ernmentf and II we don't destroy
IL now, the job a still 10 be done
and by combination of all the
great fighting peoples Of the
world TO see 20 II that the aEETes-
sive purposes of such government
cannot be realized. you make Il no
longer worth while for little
groups OF men TO eOnfrive the
downfall OF civilization In pri-
vate conference
Ny fellow citizens. II does not
make any difference what bind of
minority governs you, If It is a min
ority. And the thing We must see to-
Is that no minority anywhere 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 1
TO help-I mean the great realm of
Russia The men who are now meas I
urably in control OF the affairs Of
Russia represent nobody but them (
selves They have again and again I
been challenged to call a constitu- 4
tioual convention, They have again I
and again been challenged 10 prove 1
that they had some kind Of a mandate /
even from a single class Of their fell I
low citizens. And they dared not at 4
tempt it; they have no mandate from
anybody They are only 81 OF them, 1
am told. and there were more than %
men who used TO control the destinies .
OF Europe from Wilhelmstrasse.
@There is a closer monopoly OF