The sun., 1919-09-10

like a snake, the hyphen between
German and American, has reared its
head again. You hear the hiss OF Its
purpose, and what Is that purpose?
II is to keep America out of the con-
cert Of nations in order that America
and Germany being out Of that con-
cert may some time In their mis-
taken dream unite to dominate the
world, or at any rate the one to as
sist the other in holding the nations
OF the world off while its ambitions
are realized.
There is no conjecture about this,
my fellow citizens. We know the
former purposes Of German intrigue
IN this country and they are being
revived. Why7 We haven't reduced
very materially the number OF the
German people. Germany remains
the great power of cehtral Europe.
She has more than sixty million
people now. She had nearly seventy
million before Poland and other prov
inces were taken away.
You cannot change the temper and
expectations of q people by I'VE years
of war, particularly by five years OF
war in which they are not yet con-
scious Of the wrong they did, or the
wrong way in which they did 1t,
and they are expecting the time OF
the revival OF their power, and, along
with the revival Of their power, goes
their extraordinary capacity, their
unparalleled education, their great
capacity in commerce, finance and
manufacture.
The German bankers and the Ger
man merchants and the German
manufacturers did not want this war.
They were making conquest Of the
world without it. They knew that it
would spoil their plans. not advance
them
Says Opponents Seek War.
There can be only one Ineligible
reason for Americas staying out Of
this and that 10 that she does not
want peace that she wants war some
time and the advantage which war
will bring TO her, and want to say
now and here that the men who think
that by that thought they are inter-
preting America are making the sort
of mistake upon which It will be USE
full for them to reflect in ebscurity
for the rest of their lives.
1t isn't our intellectual capacity, my
fellow citizens, that has given us our
place III tnc WOfiut idIo
that as high as the intellectual
capacity of any other people that ever
lived, but II is the heart that lies
back Of the mind that makes
@ America. Applause have no
doubt this room is full of mothers
and fathers and wives and sweet
hearts who sent their loved young
men to France What did you send
them there fort What made you
proud that they were going7 What
made you willing that they should
go? Did you think they were seek
ing to aggrandize America some way?
Did you think they We're going to
take something for America that had
belonged to somebody else7 Did you
think that they were going into a
quarrel which they had provoked and
must maintain?
The question answers itself. You
were proud that they should go be-
cause they were going on an errand
of self-sacrifice in the interests OF
mankind. All, when these youngsters
grow old who have come back from
The fields of France, what a halo
there will be around their brows
They saved the world. They are OF
the same stuff as those old veterans
OF Inc CIVIL war. NOW. you.
was born and bred In the South, but
can pay that tribute with all my
heart TO the men who saved the
Union II ought to have been saved;
II was the greatest thing that men
had conceived UP to that time.
I saw many fine sights in Paris,
many gallant sights, many sights that
quickeped the pulse but my pulse
never beat so fast as when / saw
groups of our boys swinging along
the street They looked as II they
owned something. and they did. They
owned the finest thing in the world
the thing that we are going to bring
to the others. They owned the ideals
and conceptions that Will govern the
world.
1 hear opponents of the League Of
Nations say that this does not guar
antee peace. No, nothing guarantees
us against human passion and
error. But like to put this bust
ness proposition to you-if 1t in
creases the probability of peace by,
let us say 10 per cent. don't you
think 1t Is worth while? eyes
from the audience. Cheers.) And
in my judgment 1t increases it about
80 per cent.
nothing Chh De ciScuSScd lneT6 IN
the League of Nations) that con-
Germs our domestic affairs, the do
mestic affairs of any people. unless
something is occurring in some ma
ton which Is likely to disturb the
peace of the world. And any time
that any question arises which is
likely to disturb the peace of the
world, then the covenant makes 1t
II - atr -.
weak. big or little. of that universal
council of nations. to bring that mat
ter UP for Qualification and discus
sion. Can you imagine anything
more calculated to put war OF and
make 1t violently improbable?
suppose there is intellectual! cx-
element in debate, but l do not ex-
perienee any when great issues like
this are pending, and l would be very
sad indeed If did not have an abb
solutely unclouded confidence of the