Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-12-12
of how it is obtained.
Would Not Pay Price.

Would Not Pay Price.
Sir, we are told that this treaty
means peace. Even so, 1 would not pay
the price. Would you purchase peace
at the cost of any part of our indie
pendenee? We could have had peace
in 1776-the price was high, but we
could have had it. James Otis, Sam
Adams, Hancock and Warren were
surrounded by those who urged peace
and British rule. All through that
long and trying struggle, particularly,
when the clouds of adversely lowered
upon the cause there was a cry of
neace-1et us have peace. We could
have had peace in 1860 Lincoln was
counselled by men of great influence
and accredited wisdom to let our
brothers-and. thank heaven, they are
brothers-depart in peace. But the
tender, loving Lincoln, bending under
he fearful We gh Of impending civil
war, an apostle of peace, refused to
pay the price and reunited country
II praise his name forever more
SIS It becaus h refused peace at
The ice Of national honor and nation
INTEGRITY 7slce upon any other
ba-is than national independence,
purchased at he cost Of any
7~. # orr national integrity is fit
v for slaves. and even when pur-
chased ut such q Price It is q delusion
for It cannot last
n ~orr treaty does not mean
oac far. very Or, from it. If we
are to Judge the future by the past it
N ans war Is there any guaranty OF
oace o-her han the guaranty which
comes to the control of the war max
'ng rover by the people? Yet what
great rule Of democracy does the
treaty leave unass aned? The people
in whose keering alone you can safe .
" lodge the power Of reace or war
at no time and in no place
have any voice in this scheme for
world peace. Autocracy which has
bathed the world in blood for centu- /
riss reigns supreme Democracy is
excluded. This. you say,
means peace.
Can you hope for peace when love
If country is disregarded in your
scheme. when the spirit &C nationality
S rejected, even scoffed at? Yet
what law Of that moving and mystic
ious force does your treaty not deny?
With a ruthlessness unparalleled your
reaty in a dozen instances runs coun-
er to the divine law of nationality.
Peoples who speak the same language,
neel at the same ancestral tOmbs.
moved by the same traditions, animal
d by a common hope, are torn asun-
er, broken in pieces, divided and par
elled out to antagonistic nations. And
his you call justice This. you cry. I
leans peace Peoples who have 1
reamed of independence, struggled a
nd been patient, sacrificed and been 3
opeful. peoples who were told that
this peace conference. they a
lould realize the aspirations of cen Z
iries. have again had their hopes c
ashed 70 earth. 0
One OF the most striking and COM Il
anding figures in this war soldier p
ID statesman, turned away from the d
,ace table at Versailles declaring 20 &c
e world: 1.-The promise of the new u
e, the victory of the great humane 81
calls for which the peoples have shea m
cir blood and their treasure without al
int. the fulfillment Of their aspira- OF
ms toward a new international or al
r and a fairer and better world are III
t written into the treaty. No; your ei
aaty means injustice. 1t means slav- %
y. It means war. And to all this
u ask this republic to become
rty. You ask it to abandon the &C
sed under which it has grown to til