The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-15

thing that you wanted to stop, aft
er you found out it wasn't going the
way you wanted it to go? From
the last part of December In 1916,
the Germans began TO make peace
offers. But the offers were not very
much like real peace offers. They
usually agreed to quit fighting If the
allies would arrange Europe the
way they wanted it to be. The only
answer Of the allies was "Repara-
ton, Restoration, Security"
Goodness gracious, what an an
swer!" you probably say. LAS II
that meant anything!"
Well, it does mean something,
but it was said by someone who
thought that big words sounded
much better than small ones.
Preparation" means "mending"
which is to make something that is
worn look as much like 1t did be-
fore as possible. That's what the
Allies wanted in northern France.
in Belgium, in Poland, in Armenia,
in Roumania, and in London and
Paris where the air raids were.
Restoration" means giving back
something to some one that owned
that same something" before. Part
of France was gone, and almost all
of Belgium and great deal of other
land that Germany had won by
force. The Allies wanted this re-
stord to the ones who had had 1t
before. !.
Security" just means safe"
The French and the English and
the Italians wanted to feel free
from fear and danger. They have
.the right to that. Otherwise they
are not free. They do not have
freedom.
In the first part of February,
1917, a note fell into the hands Of
the United States. It is called the
Zimmerman note" and was dated
January 10, 1917. In this note the
German Secretary of Foreign AT
fairs writes to the German Minister
of Mexico, and tells him that Ger
many does not mean to stand by
her promise to the United States in
which she told the United States,
that she would treat neutral ships
in accordance with principles laid
down at the Hague Conference. The
German Secretary also told the
Minister in Mexico that he was to
offer the Mexican government, New
Mexico, Texas and Arizona (of
course, Germany assumed that 1t
was hers to Offer, If Mexico would
join with Japan in attacking the
United States.
Did you ever imagine you had a
big turkey? And did you pretend
that you and your best friend were
having the best time, eating all
the white meat of that turkey, and
vet you really didn't have any tur.
key at all? Well that was what
Germany was playing when she
wrote that Zimmerman note.
United States. It was the disloy.
That wasn't the part of the note
that aroused the people all over the
atty of Germany, nation which
had promised friendship and which
was even then protesting that II
was loyal to the United States, and
which, in this note was shown to be
clearly unfaithful to its promise
plotting, little" hearted, and abso
lutely unworthy of trust.
The people of the United States
you and !, were waking up tc
find that a nation in which we had
trusted implicitly was faithless. It's
an old story; it's happened many
many times before, that person
whom someone trusts, either
through weakness or evil intention
turns out to be unworthy Of that
trust. That's the kind of people
that retard the progress of the
world. 1t is only the people that
have faith in others, and who
arc worthy of faith, themselves that
roll this splendid world of ours, a
notch or two farther on its journey
Anyway we were realizing lots
of things. We were realizing that
autocracy makes trouble, that Ger
many with its highly developed
Prussianizcd autocracy was endan
gering the Joy and freedom and
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