Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-04

ed and the slow agony ofTthose hun
dreds Of years and after awhile gath
cred into q hot agony that could not
be suppressed.
Revolutions don't spring up over
night; revolutions gather through the
ages: revolutions come from the long
suppression OF: the human spirit; W
buttons come because men know that
they have rights and that they are dis
regarded. And when we think of the
future Of the world in, connection with
this treaty we must remember that
Uils or the, Chief efforts OF those who
made this treaty was to remove that
anger from the heart Of great peo-
pies, great peoples who had always
been suppressed and always.b been used
who had always been the tools in the
hands Of governmente-generally of
Alien governments, not their own.
And the makers Of the treaty knew
that If these wrongs were not re-
moved there could be no peace in the
world because, after all, my fellow
citizens, war comes from the seed of
wrong and not from the seed of right,
This treaty is an attempt to right the
history of Europe and in my humble
judgment it is a measurable subject.
e Cant Draw the Line.
81 say measurable, my fellow
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difficulty of this. Here are two
neighboring peoples. The one people
have not stopped at a sharp line and
the settlements of the other people,
or the migrations, begun at that
sharp line; they have intermingled.
There are regions where you can't
draw a national line and say there are
Slavs on this side and Italians on
that; there is this people there and
that people there. 1t can't be done.
You have to approximate the line.
You have to come to it, as near, to it
as you can and then trust to the
process of history to re-distribute.- it
may be-, the people who are on the
wrong side of. the line. And there are
many such lines drawn in this treaty
and to be drawn in the Austrian
treaty and where perhaps there are
more lines of that sort than in the
German treaty.
when we came to draw the line
man people, not the line between Ger
many and Poland-there wasn't any
Poland strictly speaking-the line be-
tween the German people and the
Polish people. There were districts
like the upper part Of Silesia,. or rath-
or h eastern part Of Silesia, which
Is called upper Silesia.. because 1T is
1AAOuLLAAIlOuS, 6n0 the OCnSr part IS
not. High Silesia is chiefly Polish and
when we came to draw a line to rep
resent Poland it was necessary to in
c(ude high Silesia, If we were really
going to play fair and make Poland
up Of the, Polish peoples wherever we
found them in sufficiently close neigh
borhood to m another.
- Point Is Not Clear.
but 1t wasn't perfectly clear thai
upper--that high Silesia wanted tt
be part OF Poland. At any rate there
were Germans in high stlesia who
said that 1t did not, and therefore we
did there what we did in many Other
Places. we said, Every well then, We
will let the people that live there de-
eide" We will have a referendum
within a certain length Of time aftel
the war under the supervision. of az
Observation-Disclosures Isdon which will
have a sufficient armed force behinl
it Oppressive order and see that no
body tnterferes with the elections. We
will have, an absolutely free vote anl
high Silesia shall 30 either to- Ger,
many or to Poland as the. people In
high Silesia prefer.