The sun., 1919-08-30


OF the German people, of intimate rela-
lions OF mutual advantage between them
and u.s.
But we here in Congress we're not
quite so surefooted In our estimate of
our relations to the German people In
case we went to war. It became difficult
Tor us to work out Just how we could
connne our hostility to the Imperial Ger
man Government when the German PEG
PIE and not the German royalty were to
noot down our sons. and while we were
pending all our efforts to kill the Ger
man people. But we did SEQ this In the
sltuation-our own citizens of German
ancestry were among our best, most
stalwart and freedom loving. patriotic
ciuzens. whose ancestors In many cases
nao ned Germany to escape the despot-
ism against which we were about ~
wage war.
I'VE recalled that the Teutonio peo-
Pies were in origin and early tradition
a free people who knew no masters.
And we Judged that rid of those rulers
who had debauched their intellects for
generations, this mighty people would
reassert their racial characteristics as
had their sons who had come to us, and
that they would become in turn a great,
Tree people. as they had been a great
-.4S''1a ShiNoi udtiOt. ana InlS Is my
faith to-day, II we but give that great
people a fair chance, consistent with the
punishment they have earned and mus,
suffer.
I'VE did have, we had to have a QUAR-.
rel with the German people II was IN
eVitable that we should entertain to-
wards them hostile feelings. But we
had and have a sympathy for them as
misguided and misdlrected, and we did
hope that. winning the war, we should
liberate them from an intellectual des-
potism they seemed not to sense, sEd
that thereafter they would arise a free
great people.
The terms Of the armistice WISELY
and properly put II beyond the power
OF Germany thereafter effectively to con.
tinue this war
There we, who sought no territory
nor indemnity, nor aggrandized power
should have rested, signed our peace
when our associates made peace. ant
quit the war as we entered II, still free
and independent, masters OF our owr
destiny. able to work for the beneft Of
all mankind, unhampered by entanglinr
alliances or commitments.
I'VE should have left the political ad
tustments and the indemnities to tn,
powers Of Europe who alone were i'm
mediately concerned, we at most exer
cising restraining hand to see, first
that Justice was done to a fallen foe
and this In spite of the fact that h,
initiated and carried out the most cruel
relentless, inhuman war of inoderI
times-and in the next place to ensur,
that no more dragons teeth were sowr
in Europe than the Indispensable neces
stiles imperatively required. Such {
course would neither have endangered
nor sacrificed those threatened peoples
to whose assistance we came. for Ger
neny had been disarmed. and our TIVE
millions Of young men. now for the frs
| time fairly equipped, were still II
France at the behest of any militar.
exlgency which might arise.
But such was not the course fol
lowed, and odr representatives sat at tn
peace table as coequal Degotiators.
One Power Is Missing.
The load OF the world. the keepin,
Of the peace Of the world. under thi
| treaty rests on the five Powers
But there Is one Power we miss In a.
| this-the Power which met the brunt O
the German shock while the rest of tn
world got ready: the Power that mob
lized in the Allied cause some 100000
J rev thst lost TITLED IN act'c-. . goo 900
that lost in other casualties $500 0(
of whom 100000 are absolute invalid
| and badly mutilated; that lost in pris
oners 1000 600, of whom half died 1
prison: a Power whose armies at tn
beginning OF February, in 1917, numbere
| 10000 900 men under arms, who Tough
| during the war over n front of $50
miles, and who had there pitted agains
/ her one-third of the whole Germa
army, two-thirds OF the whole Austrian
army: all of the Hungarian army an
| two-thirds OF the whole Turkish army:
Power who took as prisoners of wa
| 100000 Germans, 100000 Hungarian
| 400, 900 Turks and 100000 Austrian'
1 speak of poor, ever despot ridden Rus
STA.
/ "I have but said China enjoyed
unique position. but I spoke In haste
| Russia, who raised three times as man
men as We planned to raise as max
mum; Russia, whose losses II impose
on us would have made every home
this land a house of mourning: Russii
whose men In battlefront, unarmed an
unequipped, stopped the German onrus
of cold steel with bare breasts an
clenched fists, so saving us and Euror
/ from slavery; Russia, whose people an
rulers stood forefront, our friends, eve
in the hours OF our sore and most threat
ening distress-this Russia, with thi
record, il mentioned In this treaty bl
only with ominous words that presae
her national destruction.
PRUSSIA, sir, is a problem but dis
memberment by others is not its soll
ton. And shall 1 tell you, Mr.. Pres
dent, what the intelligent Russian
those OF the great so-called MIDI
classes are saying? 1t Is this-we mu
flnst recover ourselves and wipe out II
dishonor of our collapse, the dishonc
of forsaking our Allies in the hour
their dire need. And then we must r.
adjust our dominions as we wish theI
for Russia can never be bound by u
Russia disposng portions OF treaty
which Russia is not a party. And l as
YOU, sir, would we?
and this thought brings me to spea
again of what / have said heretofof
that this treaty, stripped OF its meaning
less beatifc provisions, provides mere
and simply for an alliance between u
Ave great Powers in coalition again
the balance of the world. And again
ask, has history ever answered IN
save in one way-by destroying u
coalition and at times all OF soihe
its constituent membersT
.T'hink YOU Germany-smarting ar
staggering under the terms OF this, q
hardest treaty of modern times-wi
even Il we were to set up the league az
she should Join 1t, supinely rest contel
with the dole of grace and sufferance '
are youchsanng her. the crumbs from n
victorS table? 1t is beside the point
saw that such is but her just deserts al
ths full measure thereof. lacking u
wisdom to go forward and lnnict mi
e. nunIshment that would have u