The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-06-20

that not less than seven million dead
lie buried in Europe, while more
than twenty million others carry
upon them the evidence of wounds
and suffering, because Germany saw
fit to crafty her lust for tyranny by
resort to war.
"The allied and associated powers
believe that they will be false to
those who have given their all to
save the freedom of the world, If
they consent to treat war on any 9TH
er basis than as crime against hu-
mainly and right.
"This attitude of the allied and
associated powers was made perfect
ly clear to Germany during the war
by their principal statesman. 1t was
defined by President Wilson in his
speech of April 6, 1918, and expllc-
lilly and categorically accepted by the
German people as principle cover
ing the peace-let everything that we
say, my fellow countrymen, every
thing that we henceforth plan and &C.
complish, ring true to this response,
till the majesty and might of our
concerted power shall fill the thought
and utterly defeat the force of those
who fout and misprize what we hon
or and hold dear. Germany has once
more said that force, and force alone,
shall decide whether justice and peace
shall reign in the affairs of men,
whether right, as America conceives
it, or dominion, as she conceives it,,
shall determine the destinies of man
kind There is, therefore without
stint or limit, the righteous and tri-
umphant force which shall make the
law of the world and cast every sell
fish dominion down in the dust"
Justice, therefore, is the only pos
sible basis for the settlements of the
accounts of this terrible war. JUS
tice is what the German delegation
asks for and says that Germany has
been promised. But it must be JUS
tice for all. There must be justice
for the dead and wounded and for
those who have been made orphans
and bereaved that Europe might be
free from Prussian despotism. There
must be justice for the peoples who
now stagger under war debts, which
exceed thirty billion, that liberty
might be saved. There must be JUS
tice for those millions whose homes
and lands, ships and property, Ger
man savagery has spoliated and de-
stroyed.
"That is why the allied and as
sociated powers have insisted as a
cardinal feature fthe treaty that
Germany must undertake to make re-
paration to the very uttermost of
her power, for reparation for wrongs
inflicted is of the essence of JUS
tice."
"That is why they insist that those
individuals who are most clearly re-
sponsible for German aggression and
for those acts of barbarism and in
humanity which have disgraced the
German conduct of the war must be
handed over to justice, which has not
been melted out to them at home.
"That is why they insist that those
submit for few years to certain
special disabilities and arrange
ments. Germany has ruined the in
dustries, the mines and the machin-
cry of neighboring countries, not
during battle, but with the deliber-
ate and calculated purpose of en-
abling her own industries to seize
their markets before their indus
tries could recover from the devas-
tation thus wantonly inflicted upon
them.
Germany has despoiled her neigh
bors of everything she could make
use of or carry away. Germany has
destroyed the shipping of all nations
on the high seas, where there was
no chance of rescue for their passen-
gers and crews.
at is only justice that restitution
should be made and that these
wronged people should be safeguard
ed for a time from the competition
of nation whose industries are in
tact and have even been fortified
by machinery stolen from occupied
territories. If these things are hard
ships for Germany they are hardshlps
which Germany has brought upon
herself. Somebody must suffer for
the consequences of the war. Is it
to be Germany or the peoples she has
wronged?
"Not to do justice to all concerned
would only leave the world open to
fresh calamities. If the German peo-
pie themselves, or any other nation.
are to be deferred from following
the footsteps of Prussia; if mankind
is to be lifted out of the belief that
war for selfish ends is legitimate TO
any state; if the old era is to be left
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