The Washington times., 1919-01-19


accepts neither control nor check. and
the idea of justice. which depends in
the sword only to prevent or repress
| the abuse of~strength.
Couldn't Remain AIoof.
Faithfully supported by her do
miniQns and colonies. Great Britain
| decided that she could not remain
aloof from a struggle in which the
| fate of every country was involved.
| She has made, and her dominions and
colonies have made with her, prodigi-
Gus efforts to prevent the war from
I ending in the triumph of the spirit
4 of conquest and the destruction Of
| right.
| Japan. in her turn. only decided
| to take up arms out of loyalty %
| Great Britain, her great ally, and
| from the consciousness Of the danger
| have stood from the hegemony of
| which the Germanic empires dreamed.
Italy. who from the first had re-
| fused to lend helping hand TO Ger
| man ambition, rose against an age
| long foe only to answer the call Of
i oppressed populations and to destroy
at the cost Of her blood the artificial
political combination which took no
account of human liberty.
| "Roumania resolved TO fight only to
realize that national unity which was
bitrary force. Abandoned. betrayed.
and strangled, she had to submit TO
an abominable treaty, the revision of
| which you will exact. .-..
| Greece. whom the enemy for many
months tried to turn from her tradi-
tons and destinies, raised an army
| TO escape attempts at domination Of
which she felt the growing threat.
Portugal, China, and Siam aban-
| doned neutrality only to escape the
strangling pressure of the central
powers. Thus it was the extent of
| German ambitions that brought so
many people, great and small, TO align
! against the same adversary.
Solemn Resolutions.
And what shall l say of the SOL
emn resolutions taken by the United
States in the spring of 1917, under
auspices of the illustrious President,
| Mr.. Wilson, whom | am happy to
greet here in the name of grateful
France, and if you will allow me to
| say so, gentlemen. in the name OF all
the nations represented in this room?
what shall say of the many 9TH
er American powers which either de-
clared themselves against Germany
Brazil. Cuba, Panama, Guatemala
Nicaragua, Haiti. Honduras-or at
| least broke off diplomatic relations
Bolivia, Peru. Ecuador, Uruguay?
| From north TO south, the new world
| rose with indignation when il saw the
| empires Of central Europe, after hav
| ing let loose the war without provoca-
! tion and without excuse, carry it on
with fire, pillagc, and massacre of in
offensive beings.
! THE Intervention OF the United
States was something more. some
thing greater than a great political
and military event. 1t was a supreme
! Judgment passed at the bar of MIS-
tory by the lofty conscience of a
| free people and their chief magis-
trate on the frightful conduct which
was lascerating humanity. 1t was not
! only to protect themselves from the
audaciouS aims of German megalo-
mania that the United States equipped
fleets and created immense armies.
but also and above all to defend an
| ideal liberty, over which they saw
the huge shadow of the imperial eagle
encroaching further every day.
America, the daughter of Europe.
crossed the ocean tn wreSt her mother
| from the humiliation of thraldom and
to save civilization.
End to Nnst Scandal.
The American people wished to put
! an end to the greatest scandal that
has ever sullied the annals OF man
Kind. Autocratic governments, having
| prepared in the secrecy of the chan
ceIlories and the general staff mad
program OF universal dominion. at the
time fixed by their genius for intrigue,
| let loose their packs and sounded the
! at the very time when it was begin
| ming to abolish distances, to bring
men closer and make life Sweeter, to
leave the bright sky toward which it
was soaring and to place itself sub
! missively at the service OF violence
! lowering the religious ideas to the tX-
tent of making God the complacent
auxiliary of their passions and the az
complice of their crimes. In short.
counting as nought the traditions and
wills of peoples. the lives of citizens,
! the honor Of women. and all those
| principles of public and private NOR
! aIity which We. for Our part, have en-
! dcavored 20 keep unaltered through
the war, and which neither nations no.
/ peoples can repudiate or disregard
with impunity.
while the conflict was gradually
extending over the entire surface OF