South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-06

. 2leNLeEnlC ana the CaEtlereaghs
OF new congress Of Vienna turn 10
the
Good old fashioned plan
That he may get who has the
power
And he may keep who can?
Then all the allied nations. and
all the responsible leaders OF the
allied nations lied TO the people. ana
took the money from their pockets.
the bread from their tables, the
coats from their backs, and the boy
from their hearts on the strength
OF a mOnstroUs lie.
From the moment that Woodrow
Wilson addressed the world from.
that tribunal in the senate, there
was not a responsible statesman in
America, Enzland. France or Italy;
there was not a patriotic speaker
pleading fer food or funds anywhere
IN America between the battery and
the Golden Cate, between the de-
Claration Of war and the signing OF
the armistice who was not instructed
70 tell the people who pay the piper
that this AS to be a war on war,
TO make the world safe for democ-
/ racy and TO usher IN a new and bet
ter day for the plain people az the
earth.
/ But the moment the arnistice was
I signed the mercenary benehciaries
! OF war, and the politicians whose
appetite for secret treaties and the
+ balance of power has not been
I Stacked with the blood and bodies
/ of seven million dead, emerged from
/ their retreat, threw of the mask,
and trained their lips 10 curl into
a sneer at the mention of the sacred
things we claimed 10 stand for il
/ the most solemn moment that this
nation ever knew.
Wilson Goes co Keep Faith.
But thank Iiod Woodrow Wilson
interpreted the sneer. accepted the
challenge and went 10 Paris 10 plant
the banner OF American democracy
at the head of the table!
They tried to bully him out of the
discharge of his duty to his nation
and MS kind, but when this master
! full man ignored their clamor, they
sneered about and said mat they
were glad that he was going wherS
for the first time in the presence oil
his official peers he would sink into
an obscure corner OF the conference
room.
But the moment that Woodrow
Wilson touched the soil of France
the speers Of the republican critic:
was lost in the most marvellous ac
claim that ever greeted mortal mar
in the history of the world.
That seething mass that shouted
and danced for two days and nights
on the Paris boulevards; that GROVE
without parallel that shook West
minister with its shouts IL the cit!
CT London; that pulsating throng
greater than Caesar ever saw, who's
shouts of welcome beat back anC
forth between the Quirinal and St
Peters in the city of the Sever
Hills: that all but demented mob il
the city OF Milan that fairly Tough
for the privilege of merely lookini
into the face of him who personi
} fed America, paid tribute, not to al
american politician, but 10 a prin
ciple into which woodrow Wilson
had breathed the breath OF life an
made a vital force in the affairs o
men.
And that principle was democ
racy, stripped of its impedlments o
secret treaties and the balance o
power.
And standing on the continent 5
often drenched with the blood o
boys through the intrisues of scnem
ing diplomats playing fast 5nd lOos
with the hearths and hearts of mer
he said in substance this:
I'VE have come TO keep the faith
We have come to write into the lay
OF nations the pledge we made in tn
solemn hour Of battle We come I
keep the promise 10 the sorrowin
stricken mothers Of the world tina
= everything that craftsmanship ca
do shall now be done 10 put an en-
r TO wars of ambition and of greco
, No more shall the tribe Of Talley
rands and Metternichs meet benin
: closed doors, and. through secre
= treaties barter away the lives q