Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-06

some object that had been prepared
for by universal. worldwide in
trigue.
World Penetrated by Intrigue.
THE most startling thing at our
entrance into the war was Ger
many's political preparation; TO
find that every community in the
civilized world was penetrated by
her intrigue. The German people
did not know that, but it was
known in Wilhemstrasse where the
central offices of the German gov
eminent were and Wilhelmstrasse
was the master of the German peo-
pie, and this war, my fellow citi-
zens, has emancipated the German
people as well as the rest Of the
world.
I'VE don't want to see anything
like that done again, because we
know that democracy will only
have to destroy that form of gov
eminent; and if we don't destroy
it now. the job is still TO be done
and by a combination of all the
great democratic peoples of the
world to see to it that the agrees
sive purposes of such government
can not be realized, you make it no
longer worth while for little groups
of men to contrive the downfall of
civilization in private conference.
Must Not Let Minority Rule.
The thing We must see to is
that no minority anywhere masters
the majority. That is at the heart,
81 1Sf Of
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 Russia. The men who
are now measurably in control of
the affairs of Russia represent no
body but themselves. They have
again and again been challenged
to call d constitutional convention.
TLey have again and again been
challenged to prove that they had
some kind of a mandate even from
a single class of their fellow citi-
Zens. There is a 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 haV-
ing their way but that another
group of men more cruel than the
car himself is controlling the des-
TIMES of that great people.
Must Watch it in L. s.
"If we do not want minority gov
eminent in Germany, we must see
to it that we do not have it in the
United States. If 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 man
kind; and then we will listen to
him.
When Will Men Wake Up?
There was another thing we
wanted to do, that is done i'll this
document We wanted to see that
helpless people were no where in
the world put at the mercy of I'M
scrupulous enemies and masters.
There is one pitiful example which
is in the hearts of all of US.
mean the example of Armenia.
There was a christian people, help
less, at the mercy of a Turkish
government which thought it the
service of God to destroy them.
And at this moment it is an open
question whether the Armenian
people will not while we sit here
and debate, be absolutely Destroy
ed. When 1 think of words piled
on words. of debate following de-
bate, when these unspeakable
things that can not be handled until
the debate is over, are happening
in these pitiful parts of the world,
I 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
covered up that here
and there is a pitiful arm stretched
out to heaven, and there is no
pity in the world. When sail we
wake TO the moral responsibility of
this great occasion?
zone of the glories of the great
document which I brought back
with me is this: that everywhere
within the area of settlement COW
cred by the political questions in
volved in that treaty, people of
that sort have been given their
freedom and guaranteed their free
dom.
Look With Jaundiced Eyes.
ITO reject that treaty, to alter
that treaty, is to impair one of the
first charters of mankind. And yet, |
there are men who approach these |
questions with passion, private pas
sion, and party passion, who think !
1nly of some immediate advantage
10 themselves OF to a group of their !