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take ND arms and fight them? No, we
do something very much more terri
BILE than that We absolutely boy
colt them (applause). 1t is provided
in that instrument that there snail
be no communication even between
them and the rest of the world. They
shall receive no goods; they shall ship
no goods; they shall receive no tele,,
graphic messages; they shall send
none; they shall receive no mail; no
mail shall be received from them.
The nationals, the citizens OF the
member states will never enter their
territory until the matter is ad1usteu
and their citizens cannot leave their
TERRITORY. The most complete poy'
colt ever conceived in public oocu'
ment. And want to say to you WIN
confident prediction, there VIII De ho
more fighting after that. (Appiause!.
.Gentlemen talk TO you as tne
most probable outcome OF tnls sreae
combination of all the fighting people
OF the world, was going to be ngntlns'
whereas. as matter OF fact, the es
sence of the document Is TO the CT
feet that the processes shall be peace
full. and peaceful processes are Hore
deadly than the processes OF :.
Let any merchant put up to hllnsei,
that, If he enters into covenant anu
then breaks it and the people an
around absolutely desert his estao'
lishment and will have nothing 10 40
with him, ask him after that II IL VIII
be necessary to send the police. Inc
most terrible thing that can happen
to an individual and the most CON
elusive thing that can happen 10
nation is to be read out of decent So
ciety. (applause). There was an
other thing we needed to acSoun-
plish that is accomplished in TINS
document. We wanted disarmament
and this document provides the only
nossible way for disarmament by
common agreement. Observe, my 1el.
low citizens, that just now every
great fighting nation in the world Is
. member of this partnership except
Germany and inasmuch as Germany
has accepted limitation of her army
to 100000 men, | don't think TOT the
time being she may be regarded as
great fighting nation. Here IN tne
center Of Europe, a great natloh VI
r,ore than 100, 900 men, and al arounu
agreed not to MAINTAIN an army "a
more than 100000 men, and all arouuu
her the rest of the world IN cohcerl
10 see that no other nation assumes
what she attempted and agreelns
among themselves that they VIII no.
impose this limitation OF armainen.
upon Germany merely, but that they
viii impose it upon themselves. Anu
Won know, my fellow citizens. that
ornaments mean great stahuins
armies, and great stores OF wal me
terial They do not mean burdensome
taxation merely, they DO not nnean
merely compulsory military seIsioe :,
which saps the economic strength VI
the nation, but they mean the ouiio'
ing up of a military class.
again and again, my fellow CHI
we're face to face with tbs sltna-
zens. in the conference at Parls VIC
tion. That in dealing with a parl!eu'
lar civil government we found tAst
they would not dare to promise tnat
their general staff was not wiling
that they should promise; ana Una.
they were dominated by the mllllar!
machine which they had crea-7o
nominally for their own defense uot
nominally for their own derense, put
for the provocation of war.
and SO, as long as you nave a
military class, it does not mare any
difference what your form OF govern
ment is. If you are determined 10
he armed to the teeth, you must OBEY
the orders and directions OF the
only men who can control the great
machinery of war Elections are OF
minor importance because they de.
termine the political policy, ana
hack of that policy is the standing
pressure of the men trained TO arms,
enormous bodies of disciplined men
behind them, unlimited supplies OF
military stores, and wondering II
they are never going TO, be allowed
TO use their education and their skill
and ryaage some great people with
the force of arms. That is the mean
ing of ornaments. It is not merely
the cost of it, although that is over
whelning, but it is the spirit OF 1t,
and America has never had, and
hope in the providence OF God never
will have that spirit. (Great ap-
plause.)
And there is no other way to dis
pense with great armaments except
by the common agreement OF the
tlRhflng nations VI Tic Wol1ds <ALAS4
here is the agreement They promise
disarmament, and promise TO agree
upon a plan. But there was some
thing else we wanted, that is accom-
plished by this treaty. We wanted
to destroy autocratic authority
everywhere in the world. 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 small
group of men, without consulting
their fellow citizens, could send their
fellow citizens to the battlefield, and
to deal in accomplishing something
dynastic, some political plan that had
been conceived in private, some OBJ
iect that had been prepared for by
universal worldwide intrigue. That
is what we wanted to accomplish.
The most startling thing that de-
yeloped itself at the opening OF our
participation In this war was not the
military preparation of Germany-we