The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-27
SORRY TANGLE THE WORLD IS IN, DR.. REEFS
SAYS; FORCE AND FRAUD ARE RULING

Peace by victory is failure" said
DR.. Arthur Rees in his lecture at the
Chautauqua Friday mo longer there
are the great. slogans of democracy
and humanity, but these have been re
placed since the war by oil, freights,
control, power. There is passion for
power among all the nations.
German militarism is gone. but
what else has been accomplished?
There is friction between all the ma
tons. An economic and commercial
struggle must be modified. The dc.
feat Of Germany has released thou
sand passions.
IF America had jumped into the
treaty and the league Immediately
would all this have happened? was
asked. 1T probably would have been
pretty much the same" was Dr. Rees'
answer.
When we withdrew our physical
forces we did not replace them with
moral forces as we should have done.
We ought to bring great moral pres,
sure upon Europe. The department OF
state was right in demanding of Po-
land that she should lay her hands
off Russia, however the action came
six months too late. The Polish and
| Russian question should be in the
hands of the league.
Propaganda Of War.
/ All during the war we were pro
| paganded into wrong ideas. We were
not told the truth. War lies were told
| 20 let the boys die little easier. We
should demand the truth in the news
papers aud in all other sources of in
formation. AS long AS foreign cores
pondents write preiudiced reports, we
will be falsely informed. and it de-
ponds upon the public TO get the truth.
France and Germany should be-
come one nation" continued DR.. Recs.
They will have to get together. and
This is not at all impossible. They
will have to establish an economic
equality. Just now, as the Germans
rau The French out of Alsace-Lorraine,
50 are the French using the same
method to force out the Germans. The
fine cotton factories OF the Germans
are being replaced by mediocre French
factories. The two countries must es-
tabush a fraternity"
Franco Run by Militarists.
| "History is repeating itself in Eu-
| rope. Now as the Russians once tried
to stop the French revolution so now
the French are attempting to stop the
revolution in Russia. France Is now
| in the hands Of the militarist party.
Just as Mr.. Wilson predicted she would
he. Instead of the fine slogans OF the
French revolution, money, force and
| alliance are her slogans. She is con-
scripting the black Africans in abso-
lutte defiance of the league of nations
of which she is member.
THE alliance system Of France Is
barking back to old regimes. Clemen'
ceau is trying to restore the balance
} Of power. She is linked up with Bel
GUM, Switzerland, Poland, politically
and financially, with Greece and Tur,
key. She is going into Armenia by
force. She wants the Ukraine. France
with her possessions, now is consid-
erably larger than the United States.
Keeps Germany in Slavery.
"She' is keeping Germany in a sort
Of economic slavery, and when we
overdo reparation we bring punish
ment upon ourselves and that is what
France is doing. The economic life OF
Europe has been devastated, and al
most destroyed, and the economic sol
idarity Of Europe must be built up by
free trade, freedom of the seas, fra
ternity, brotherhood, etc. Alliances
without one iota Of friendship, kinshil
or fraternity or good 1ellnS Will never
settle the problem Of Germany and
France, unless they become one coun
try.
, France is misusing her victory. The
military party is il control, violating
the spirit for which the war was
fought. France and England are fight
ing over Russia. | maintain It is right
and just for anyone to go into Russia
to try to restore peace, but when a
nation goes into Russia it must &C
with clean hands. There is no doubt
that there was a conspiracy between
, France, England and Japan to divide
Russia. and to restore one of the
dukes to the throne.
England is on the verge of recog
nizing Soviet Russia because it threat
ems India, and it has always heen a
, !, British policy to keep the road into