El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-03-13
Red Terror Spreading
to Other Lands, is
His Warning
GERMANY PAYING
HIDEOUS PRICE
Once Proud Empire Is
Burning Starving,
Facing Chaos
FOOD, AID AND
MARKETS NEEDED
Otherwise Victors Are
To Suffer, Declares
Secretary

10y Leased Wire to New MexIcan.)
Paris, Tuesday, March II,
eve have reached a crisis
in the affairs Of the world,
said Secretary of State Rob
ert Lansing at a banquet given
tonight by the inter allied press
club in honor Of the American
peace commissioners. Mr.,
Lansing was emphatic in his
statement that the allies must
feed Germany and give the
Germans opportunity TO sell
their products in the foreign
markets if the danger of boil
shevism was to be avoided. Mr..
Lansing said:
"In the infancy Of our re-
public across the seas the sym
pathy and aid of France gave
the support which was needed
to make individual liberty the
supreme ruler of the destinies
of the new born nation. From
that time forward, liberty has
been, and still is, the most
sacred and most compelling
impulse in political life in
America.
1T was when the people OF the
United States came to a full realiza-
ton that the liberty for which they
had fought was In danger that the
nation with unsurpassed unanimity
took up the sword with a firm deter
mination to do its part in freeing lib
erty and the world from autocracy.
"A mighty victory has been won.
The imperial armies Of the central
have returned to their homes,
where hunger and privation await
them-hunger and privation which are
The consequences of their own blind
laith in evil men who led them into
his unrighteous war.
Germany has suffered bitterly, is
suffering bitterly, and Germany is en-
tiled to suffer for what she has done.
Today starvation and want are the
portions Of the German people. Vic
and murder stalk through the
itreets of their great cities. Political
Institutions, industrial enterprise and
he very structure of society are tot
er1ng. 1t is the Just retribution or
heir crimes.
I'VE may be disposed to pity those
innocent among the Germans but our
'ity is almost dried up when we con-
ider what France and other nations
ave had to suffer from the invading
Of the Teutons.
France has endured unspeakable
'oes with a fortitude and determine
lon which excite the admiration and
'onder Of the world. | can not. pick
Tords to express the praise l would
i've the French armies and their
reat generals, to the French people
nd their great leaders who lived
those black days of horror,
hen stoutest hearts might we'll have
espaired. ;
New Problems.
"And, now that the great conflict is
nded and the mighty war engine of
russia is crushed we have new prob 3
to solve, new dangers to over ]
Jme. East of the Rhine there are {
mine and idleness, want and misery. |
olitical chaos and outlawry have sup
anted the highly organized govern s
emit Of imperial Germany. Social or /
IT is breaking down under the diff t
lilies OF defeat and the hopelessness t
the future. Like the anarchy which c
S made an inferno Of Russia, the a
es Of terrorism are ablaze in the Il
ates OF Germany. Over the ruins
this once great empire, the flames
Q sweeping westward. 1t Is no time G
allow sentiments of vengeance and h
tired to stand in the way OF check q
this conflagration which will soon Il
at the German borders and threat q
ing other lands. We must change ii
) conditions on which social unrest Fl
IDS, and strive to- restore Germany ID,
a normal, though It be a weakened b
rial order. Two words tell the story W
'ood and peace. To make Germany d.