The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-07
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| should promise; and that they were
dominated by the military machine
which they had created, nominaly fol
their own defense, but whether
they willed it or not-for the provoca
5 ton of war So as long as you have
, a military class, it does not make any
difference what your form of govern
3 ment is. If you are determined to be
armed to the teeth, you must obey the
orders and directions of the only men
who can control the great machinery
Of war II is not merely the cost of it
Carmaments), although that is over.
whelming, but it is the spirit of it, and
America has never had, and I hope in
the providence Of God never viii have
that spirit. Great applauseJ
And there is no other way to dis
pense with great armamcnts except by
the common agreement of the fighting
nations Of the world. And here is the
agreement They promise disarmament,
and promise 20 agree upon q plan. But
there was something else we wanted,
that is accomplished by this treaty. We
wanted to destroy autocrutic authority
everywhere in the world
Wanted TO Destroy AutOcracy
We wanted to see to it that there
was no place in the world where "A small
group of men could use their fellow
: citizens as pawns in a game; that there
was no place in the world where a small
group Of men. without consulting their
/ fellow citizens, could send their fellow
! citizens to the battlefield and to death
/ in accomplishing something dynastic,
some political plan that had been CON
Ceived in private, some object that had
/ been prepared Tor by universal world
wide intrigue. That is what we wanted
TO accomplish.
"lhe most startling thing that deve-
opcd itself at the opening OF our par
/ ticipaiion in this war was not the mil
itary preparation of GermanN-wr were
familiar with that, though we had been
dreaming that she would not use it-but
her political preparations to find that
every community in the civilized world
was penetrated by her intrigue. The
German people did not know that. but
il was known in Wilhemstrasse where
the central offices of the German gov.
ernmCnt were, and Wilhemstrasse was
the master OF the Geramu people: and
this war. my fellow.citizens, has pman.
cipated the German people as well rs
the rest OF the world
I'VE don't want to see anything like
that done again. because We know
that democracy will only have to de.
-troy that form of government. and if
we don't destroy it now. the job is
still to bc done and by a combination
Of all the great fighting people of the
world to see 10 it that the aggressive
purposes of such government cannot
bee realized. YOU make it no longer |
worth while for little groups of men
to contriyc the downfall Of civilization I
in private conference.
No Minority Mastery
"My fellow citizens, il does not make
any difference what kind of a minority |
governs you, if il is minority. And .
the thing we must see 10 is that no |
minority anywhere masters the major. .
ity That is at the heart, my fellow.
citizens, Of the tragicai things that are
happening in that great country which .
we long to help and can find no way .
that is effective TO help mean the .
great realm OF Russia. The men who .
are now mcasurably in control of the
affairs OF Russia. represent nobody but |
themselves. They have again and
again been challenged to call a con
stituuouaI convention. They have
again and again been challenged to
prove that they had some kind Of 1t
mandate even from single class Of
their fellowciJizcns And they dared