The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
Secretary Of State Warns Of
7 Anarchy Sweeping Defeated
T. Countries.
Big VICTORY WON BY ALLIES
Declares Food Must Be Sent to Ger
mans, and They Should Be Given
Opportunity to Market Goods
If Spread of BoIshevism
Is to Be Prevented.

a crisis in the affairs of the world,
said Secretary Of State Lansing at
banquet given by the Interallied Press
club in honor Of the American peace
commissioners.
Mr.. Lansing was emphatic IN MS
statement that the allies must Ieed
Germany and give the Germans oppor-
tunity to sell their products in the 1or-
eign markets if the danger OF boisheV-
Ism was to be avoided.
He painted vivid picture of cond1-
tons in the war zone of France, ana
pointed out that it was not through
pity for Germany, but to the alnes
own advantage, to see that anarchy
was prevented in the former German
empire.
Mr., Lansing said: ut is always a
privilege for an American who knows
the history of his country to be pres
emit on such an occasion as this, where
the mutual friendship of France ana
United States-a traditional friend
ship nearly century and half-nnas
expression In words and response in
our hearts.
Hunger Awaits Defeated Enemies.
"a mighty victory has been won.
The imperial armies of the central
powers have ceased to threaten. They
no longer exist. Scattered and broken,
they have returned to their homes'
! where hunger and privation await
them-hunger and privation which are
the consequences of their own blind
faith in evil men who led them into
this unrighteous war.
"Today starvation and want are the
portions of the German people. Vlo-
lence and murder stalk the streets OF
their great cities. Political institutions,
industrial enterprise and the very
structure of society are tottering. 1t
| is the price of their own evil doing,
the lust retribution of their crimes.
"And now that the great conflict Is
! ended and the mighty war engine OF
Prussia is crushed we have new prob
lens to solve, new dangers to over
come. East of the Rhine there are
famine and idleness, want and misery
Political chaos and outlawry have sup
: planted the highly organized govern
ment of imperial Germany. Social or
der is breaking down under the diff
cuIties of defeat and the hopelessness
of the future.
Flames of Anarchy Sweep Westward
Like the anarchy which for years
made an inferno of Russia, the fires
of terrorism are ablaze in the states
Of Germany. Over the ruins of this
once great empire the flames are
sweeping westward. 1t is no time to
allow sentiments of vengeance and
hatred to stand in the way of check
ing this confiagration which will soon
be at the German borders and threat
ening other lands.
eve must change the conditions or
which social unrest feeds, and strive
TO restore Germany to normal though
It be a weakened social order.
"Two words tell the story-food anc
peace. To make Germany capable OF
resisting anarchy and the hideous des
potism of the red terror, Germany
must be allowed to purchase food, and
to earn that food industrial conditions
must be restored by treaty of peace
ReparatIon impossible During Chaos
"You may demand reparation as
much as you please, but unless the
German people are furnished mate
rails for their industries and CONNER
DIAL opportunities to sell the products
of labor in the foreign markets, and
unless the laborers have food, Ger
MANY can never pay, even In part
for the evil she has done.
"Furthermore, If the present state OF
chaos continues and the political
mower continues to grow weaker there
will be no responsible German govern
ment with which to make peace; there
will be no government strong enough
to carry out the conditions Of the
treaty of peace.
81 say to you men Of France an6
men of America, and to you men Of
the allied powers, that there is no time
to be lost if we are to save the worlt
from the despotism of anarchy, ever
as we have saved 1t from the despotisn
of autocracy. We ought to make, W,
must make, peace without delay and
ships laden with food must enter thu
4 harbors of Germany.
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