River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-09-25

IHe PRESIDENT says. compuSOr1iy mOra<s
1t may be of one sort or the other.
nevertheless, when the United States
OF America signs its name to a docu-
ment by which it guarantees territorial
integrity of another nation, the Unit
ed States of America will carry out its
obligations no matter what the cost
fnay be. So, don't stop to talk to you
in differentiation of one kind of obliga-
ton or another.
Have Never Been Isolated.
"Our splendid isolation of the past
to which our friends on the other side
so feelingly refer is matter quite
apart from the discussion. They say
we have entered upon our world ca
reer; we can't turn back Not so, at
all We have never been isolated from
the rest of the world financially, So
cially, commercially, politically or any
other way. The only isolation which
has been ours is geographical God
gave US the two oceans and what God
has given US in these two oceans even
the League of Nations can't take away
from us.
"If any man had come to you three
years ago, before the war; if any man
should come to you three years hence
and say to you that he was entering
into partnership between this nation
and foreign nation by which the for.
eign nation should be given six votes
in that partnership and our country
should be given only one, you would
boot him from the rostrum-if he did
that three years ago or three years
hence you would boot him away. But
so strange and distorted is our psy-
chology today that that very PROPOSE
ton is made to ps. Now / have no
prejudice against our English brother.
| admire him immensely, admire the
ability with which Lloyd George rep
resented the British empire. would
that we could have hired somebody
to represent America who could have
served our interests so we'll.
Cairo to Cape Rule Realized.
What proud boast it was that he
made to his parliament the other day
when he said he had added to the
great British Empire 100000 square
miles of territory. What proud
thing when he said to them: we have
so arranged it now that whenever we
are called into any war the United
States enters automatically What
proud thing for him when he was able
to demonstrate that the great British
empire holds today practically one
earth and that its dream of rule from
Cairo to the Cape is now realized.
"But as / look about the nations of
the world who are profiteering from
the war, find one nation fought for
it's ideals. AS Lloyd George, with his
tremendous territorial gains and Glenn
enceau, with his, looked about to find
one great unprofting nation of the
world they saw before them America
and they wrote into that pact that this
nation should guarantee to England,
to Italy, to France, to Japan all their
acquisitions from the war and safe
guard forever all these nations that
profited so immensely in territories
and peoples. We alone received bur-
dens from the war, and while you may
not care for the acquisition by these
countries of the great, great territories
and peoples they have received; while
may not care at all and probably do
not care, one thing say to them: If
you want to take the territories for
which you have fought and which are
your boast today of your power and
greatness, and all the great things you
have done, we join with you in the
peans of praise, but, my fellow citi-
zens, my son and your son shall not
guarantee those territories and those
peoples to those nations for all time
in the future.
U. S. Made to Guarantee Spoil.
''This is the issue whether the non
profiting nation in the world, yours
and mine, shall guarantee the profit
and booty they have gained from the
other nations of the earth Why not
only do we guarantee to our European
neighbors their spoil, but we guarantee
to our neighbors beyond the sea, the
Japanese, their spoils, and you can't
question the infamy of the Shantung
decision in glittering generalities or
pleasing phrases. Do you know what
has been the generalities or pleasing
phrases? Do you know what has been
the proudest boast of American during
these last 140 years? It's proud boast
has always been that it has kept its
faith, and never broke its word. It
never rejected friend; it never en-
gagged in territorial acquisition against
a friend. And today for the first time
in history the signature of the United
States Of America has gone upon a
document that is fraud upon friend.
During the last two years, there
was favorite mode taken of prevent
ing any man from standing on his feet
with his head in the air., doing con-
scientiously and periodically the right
as he saw it, in opposition to en-
trenched power