The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-06

Paris. we wereface to face with this
situation: That In dealing with a par
ticular 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
dominated by the military machine
which they had created, nomlnally for
their own defense, but really-whether
they wiled 1t or MOTOR the proVoca-
ton OF war. And 80 long as you haze
q military class, 1t does not make n
difference what your form Of govern
ment is, II you are determined to be
armed to the teeth YOU must obey the
orders and directions Of the only men
who can control the great machinery Of
war. 1t is not merely the cost Of it
(armaments) although that is over
whelming. but II Is the spirit Of Il, and
America has never had, and l hope In
the providence of God never will have
that spirit. (Great ~applause.)
To Destroy Autocracy.
And there Is no other way TO dis
pense with great armamenIS except by
common agreement Of the fighting ma
lions OF the world. And here Is the
agreement. They promise disarmament,
n yromise to agree upon a plan. But
there was something else we wanted,
that Is accomplished by this treaty.
We wanted to destroy Autocratic au-
thority everywhere In the world.
We wanted TO see to It that there
was no place in the world where a
small group OF men could use their fell
low citizens as pawns In a game; that
there was no place in the world where
a small group OF men. without consult
ing their fellow citizens, could send
their fellow citizens to the battlefield
and to deal in accomplishing something
dynastic, some political plan that had
hAoR annAatvFa1 L.. v-twanAa 49,
mat had been prepared for by universal
worldwide intrigue. That "a what we
wanted to accomplish. The most start
ling thing tina developed 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 prep
a%ration; to find that every community
in the civilized world was penetrated by
her intrigue. The German people did
not know that, but 1t was known In
Wilhelmstrasse, where the central Of
fices Of the German government were,
and Wllhelmstrasse was the master OF
the German people; n this war, 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 hat
democracy will only have to destroy
that form Of government; and IL we
don't destroy 1t now, the job is still to
be done and by a combination Of all
the great fighting peoples OF the world
to see to 1t that the aggressive pur-
poses Of such government canno be
realized you make 1t no longer worth
while for little groups of men to con
trive the downfall Of civilization in pri-
vate conference.
My fellow citizens, It does not make
any difference what kind OF a minority
governs YOU, II 1t Is a minority. And
the thing we must see to Is thai
no minority anywhere masters the ma
jority, That Is at heart, my fellow citi-
zens, of the ~tragical things that are
happening in that great country which