The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-13
MUST HELP GERMANS
TO DEFEAT ANARCHY
Secretary Lansing Argues Food Nnst
Iic Given and Opportunity AZ
fordcd Ia Ilrbuilh Industry.
WORLD FACES BIG CRISIS
With hut"cr1cy oNcrihrown Oth'r
Danger of IIolshrNlsm Must Iic
ANCIrcI, Irap Envoy AVsrth.

Paris. Tucsday March tive
hhyc reached a crisis In The Affairs
OF tho world" said secretary of state
Robert lAuFiuE, al a banquet gwen
tonight hy The lntoralliod prcHt ,luh
Ia honor uf the American peace com
miaglonsur Mr.. Lansing was cm
phallr lu his statement that tho nl
lies mubt foUd Germany and EiNo tho
Germans opportunity 10 sell 'h"ir
products IA foreign markets ~ the
danger ut hnlahcvism wnH 10 Doe
avoided He painted a Niyid picture
of conditions ia the war Eun, OF
France and pointed uu' ina, 10 was
not through ply FOR Germany bat
10 the allies own ndyauunI 90 Hcr
that anarchy was prevented IN tho
former German empire.
Lansing said ion part
"A mighty victory has been won.
Tho imperial armies ~ the central
powers have ceased to threaten. They
u0 longer exist Scattered and
broken. they have returned to their
homes. whore hunger ana privhtlou
await them hunger and privhliou
which Hrc tho consequences OF thoir
oen blind fam ~ cvil men who led
them INTO this uurlgh'cuus war
II Entitled Ia Suffer.
Germany has Suffered bitterly. ls
suffering bitterly. ana Germany is
entitled to suffer for what she has
done Shc has paid fearful penalty
for the crime Of plunginR the world
Into four years Of blood ana fire.
Today starvation and want arc the
portions uf the German people.
Violence ana murder stalk through
the streets or their great cities l'o-
llticnl institutions. industrial enter
prise and the very structure Of 80
Ciety are tottoring 1t IN the price OF
their own evil doing. tho just Tetrl-
button OF their crimes
we may be disposed TO pity those
innocent among The Germans but
our pity II almost dried up when We
consider what France and other ma
tons have had TO suffer from tho
invading armies Of the Teutons Ten
days after | landed I'm France. In
December, made II my business TO
visit the batllefields Of the Marne.
Alsnc ana OF the Champagne saw
the ruins OF Chateau Thierry and
fismes. I saw the stately and his
toric cathedral of Rheims y munh.
ment 20 the fer6oity Of The Germans,
saw the SCARED ana upturncd fields
OF Champagne and deserted places
where once had been thriving. happy
villages, ! saw hnmlets along the
Marne whose crumbllnK walls bore
witness TO the frlRhtfulness OF war
No man could see what I saw In
those days without bearing Il burn
Ing Indignation against those respou-
slble for such ruins and destruction.
without an Intense and undying
hatred for ihcm.
MY friends, France has endured
unspenkahle woes with "a fortitude
and determination which excite the
admiration and wonder OF tho world
And now that the great conflict
Ia ended and the mighty war engine
OF Prussia In crushed, we have new
problems 10 solve. new dangers Ia
overcome Political chaos aud out.
lhwry have supplnntcd the highly
organized government OF lmperisl
Germany over tho ruins OF this
once great empire the flames OF ter
rorlsm are sweeping westward II
Is no time 10" allow sentiments OF
vengeance cand hatrcd To stand In
tho way OF checking this conflagra-
ton which will soon be at the Ger
man borders ana threatening other
lands We must change the condl-
tlona on which social unrest feeds,
and strive to restore Germany To q
normal, though II be a weakened 80
rial order Two words toll the story
90 food and peace. TO mako Ger
many capable of resisting anarchy
and the hldeous despotism OF the
red terror. Germany must he allowed
20 purchase food and To earn that