The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-05


most noble chapters in the history of
the world-that this war was conclud.
ed in order to remedy the wrong which
had beaten SO deeply into the expert
ence Of the weaker peoples Of that
great continent. The object of the
war was to see to 1t that there was no
more Of that sort of wrong done.
Now, when you have that picture in
your minds that this treaty was
meant to protect those who could not
protect themselves-turn the picture
and look at it this way: Those very
weak nations are situated throughout
the very tract of country between Ger
many and Persia, which Germany had
intended to conquer and dominate,
and If the nations of the world do not
maintain their concert to sustain the
independence and freedom of these
peoples Germany will yet have her
will upon them, and we shall witness
the very interesting spectacle of hav-
ing spent millions upon millions of
American treasure and, what is much
more precious, hundreds of thousands
of American lives to do a futile thing,
to do thing which we will then leave
to be undone at the leisure Of those
who are masters of intrigue, at the
leisure of those who are masters in
combining wrong influences to over
come right influences; those who are
masters Of the very things we hate,
and mean always, to fight.
U. s. Would Fight Again
For, my fellow citizens, II Germany
should ever attempt that again, wheth.
or we are in the League Of Nations, or
not, We will Join to prevent It,. Gap
plause). We do not stand off and see
murder done; we do not profess to be
the champions of liberty, and then con-
sent to see liberty destroyed. We are
not the friends and advocates of free
government and yet willing to stand
by and see free government die be-
fore our eyes; for, if the power such
as Germany was-but, thank God, no
longer is--were to do this thing upon
the fields of Europe, then America
would have to look to it that she did
not do it also upon the fields of the
Western Hemisphere, and we should
at last, be face to face with a power
which, at the outset, we could have
crushed, and which now it is within
our choice to keep within the harness
of civilization, (Applause).
/ am arguing this thing with you,
NY ASAio" SAtAbCho, as IL Idu duy
doubt of what the verdict of the Ameri.
can people would be. | haven't the
slightest doubt. (Applause). 1 just
wanted to have the pleasure of point.
ing out to you how absolutely ignorant
of the treaty and of the covenant some
of the men are who have been oppos-
ing it. (Applause). If they do read
the English language they do not un-
derstand the English language as l I'M
derstand it. (Applause). If they have
really read this treaty and this cove
nant they only amaze me by their in
ability to understand what is plainly
expressed. So that my errand upon
this journey is not to argue these mat.
ers, but to recall you to the real issues
which are involved.
And one of the things that l have
most at heart in this report to my
fellow citizens is that they should for
get what party I belong to, and what
party they belong to. (Applause). l am
making this journey as a democrat,
but l am spelling it with a little ID
and don't want anybody to remember
solar as this errand is concerned, that
it is ever spelled with a big d.
Country Before Party
l am making this journey as an
| American, and as champion of the
rights which America believes in Gap.
plause) and l need not tell you that as
| compared with the importance Of Amer.
lea, the importance of the Democratic
| party and the Importance Of the Repub
| lican party and the importance of every
| other party is absolutely negligible
(Applause). Parties, my fellow citizens
are intended to embody in action diff.
ferent policies of government. They
are not, when properly used, intended
| to traverse the principles which under.
| lie government; and the principles
| which underlie the government of the
United States have been familiar to
us ever since we were children. You
have been bred, have no doubt, as
have been bred, in the Revolutionary
| school Of American thought which
takes its inspiration from the days Of
the American Revolution. There were
only 30,000,000 Of us, then, but we
were ready to stand out against the
world for liberty. There are more
than 100,000,o00 of us now and we are
ready to insist that everywhere men