The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-09
WANTS AMERICA TO
LEAD FOR MANKIND
World Lived in Foops Para
disc While Germans Plotted.

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GOVERNOR NoRBEcK AND MT FELL
Low CITIZENS: 1 must admit that
every time I face great audience
OF my fellow countryrnen on this
trip I am filled with feeling OF
peculiar solemnity, because, be-
lleve, my fellow countrymen. that
we have come to one Of the turning
points In the history OF the world.
And what as an American covet
for this great country Is that on
every great occasion when man
kinds fortunes are hung in the
balance America may have the dis
tinction OF leading the way.
I want to remind you, my fellow
countrymen, that that war was not
an accident. That war didn't Just
happen. There was not some sud-
den cause which brought on the con-
fiagration. On the contrary Germany
had been preparing for that war for
generations. Germany had been pre-
pairing every resource and perfecting
every skill, developing every inven-
ton which would enable her to mas
ter the European world and to domi-
nate the rest of the world. Every
body had been looking on. Every
body had known.
For example, Il was known in
every war office in Europe and In the
War Department in Washington that
the Germans not only had a vast
supply of great field guns but that
they had ammunition enough for
every one of these guns to wear out
the guns. And yet we were living In
FOOLS paradise. We thought Ger
many meant what she said, that she
was armed for defence and that she
never would use that great store Of
guns against her fellow-men. Why.
my friends, 1t was foreordained the
minute Germany conceived these pur-
poses that she should do the thing
which she did in 1914.
Now 1 have brought back from Eu-
rope with me, my fellow-citizens. a
treaty in which Germany is disarmed
and in which all the other nations OF
the world agree never to go TO war.
(Applause.) That is all
Pro-Germanism Rising Again.
If Germany had dreamed that
anything like the greater part OF
the world would combine against her
she never would have begun the war.
and she didn't dare to let the opin-
ions of mankind crystalline against
her by the discussion of the purposes
which she had in mind. SO what 1
want to point out to you Is that we
are making a fundamental choice.
You cannot have a new system unless
you supply substitute, an adequate
substitute for the old, and 1 want
N VII a Of mir fall
low citizens take the position that we
do not want to go into it alone. but
want to take care of ourselves 1 say
that IL the German position.
Germany through the mouth of her
Emperor through her writer's and
through every action said: Here
we stand ready to take care of our
selves, We will not enter into any
combination. We are armed for self
defence and we know that no nation
:. can compete with u.s." That appears
to be the American programme in
the eyes of some gentlemen, and /
want to tell you that In the last two
weeks the pro-Germanism element
has lifted its head again. 1t says;
II see a chance for Germany and
America to stay out and take care
of themselves"
There were passions let loose on
the fields of the world at war which
have not grown quiet, and which
will not for a long time. Every ele-
ment of disorder is hoping that there
will be no staying hand from the
council of nations to hold the order
OF the world steady until we can
make the final arrangements of
justice and peace.
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nights that anxious fathers, moth
ers and friends spent during the
weary years of the awful war, and
I hear the cry of mothers of the
children, millions on the other side
and thousands on this side, in Gods
name give us security and peace
and right
America can stay out, but l want
you to witness that the peace of the
world cannot be established with the
peace OF the individual nations.
America is necessary to the peace
of the world; The peace and good
will of the world are necessary to
America. lest you disappoint the
world, centre its suspicion upon you,
make 1t feel that you are filled with
jealousy and selfishness.
We are not thinking of money, we
are thinking of redeeming of the rep
utation OF America rather than to
have all of the money in the world.
/ am not ready to die for money,
and neither are you, but you and /
are ready to die for America.