Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-05
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king and queens and castles and bishops,
and the rest of the gang of the chess
game of politics, but the little pawns
They made the openings for the heavier
pieces; their maneuvers determined the
arrangement Of the board and those who
controlled the pawns controlled the out
come of the whole effort to. checkmate
and to-. match and to eopture and to
take advantage.
The shrewdest politicians in the diff
ferent nations were put in CONSTANT
nople to rule the game, which consisted
in maneauvering the weak for the ad-
vantage of the strong and every inter-
national conference that preceded the
process, has been intended to complete
and c0nsummate the arrangements for
that qame. For the first time in the
history of mankind, the recent confer
ence at Paris was convened to destroy
that system AID substitute another. 4
take it, my fellow citizens, when you
look at that volume, for it is thick
volume that contains the treaty of
peace with Germany, in the light Of
what | have been saying to you, you
will read with greater interest than you
have hitherto attached to it. 1t is the
charter and constitution of new sys-
EN- for the world. And that new sys-
tenn is based on absolute reversal of the
principles of the old system. The cen
trail object of that treaty is to estab
lish the independence and protect the
integrity of the weak peoples of the
world. hear some gentlemen, who are
themselves incapable of altruistic pur.
poses, say, All, but that is altrulstic.
1t ism t our business to take care of the
weak nations of the world.
emo, but it is our business to prevent
war and if we don't take care of the
weak nations Of the world, there will be
war. These gentlemen assume the role
of being very practical men and they
say we don It want to get into war to
protect every little nation in the world.
Very well, let them show me how they
will keep out Of war by not protecting
them (applause). Let them show me
how they will prove that having gone
into an enterprise, they are not abso-
lutte contemplate quitters if they don It
see the game through. They joined with
the rest of us in the profession of fine
purposes when we went into the war.
And what was the fine purpose that
they professed? 1t was not merely yu
defeat Germany. 1t is not handsome
enterprise for any great nation to go
into a war merely to reduce another ma
tion to obedience. They went in and
they professed to go in to see to 1t than
nobody after Germany's defeat should !
repeat the experiment which Germany
had tried.
"There will come sometime in the |
providence of God another
struggle in which not few hundred |
fine men from Americ,s will |
have to die, but as many millions as are
necessary to accomplish the final free
dom of the peoples Of the world.''
And how did they propose to DO
that? Ts leave the material that Ger
many was going to make her dominating
empire out of, helpless and at her mer-
.yl What was the late formula of Pan
Iermanism2 From Bremen to Bagdad
vasn 7 iti Well, look at the map and
what lies between Bremen and Bagdad
After vou get past the German territory
here is Poland, there is Hungary, which
we have divided from Austria and does
lot share Austria Is strength in it. Jugo-
slavia, broken Turkey and Persia and
Bagdad The route is open; the route
$ wide open and we have undertaken
o see that this route is closed.
"These gentlemen are dreaming; they
ire living in past age, which has gone,
md is all but forgotten when they say
we can mind our own business What
$ our own business7 Is there any mer-
liant present here or any manufacturer