Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05

and finally. because with supreme insol- |
ence Germany had warned us from the
oceans of the world, mapped out high !
ways over which our commerce might |
proceed with her gracious permission
/ voted. say, to send these young men
to their death in order to vindicate our
national honor and to wipe out the in.
suit to our national flag. And they
went; they went like thoroughbreds;
they went into the jaws of hell with
cheers upon their lips, doing their duty
and not counting the cost to themselves.
And how can l therefore, pause to
count the cost to myself when / believe
my country's institutions are being un-
dermined and her very integrity as a
nation threatened? (Applause).
Need Plain Words
This is a time for plain talk, and let
us have it. He who will not reason is
a bigot, he who cannot is fool, and he
who dares not is a slave. Applause)
Before we reverse the policies of George
Washington it is well to pause. Let us
inquire whether we are about to surren-
der with the pen what Washington
gained with the sword. Before we tear
down a doctrine that originated with
Washington and Jefferson, that was rec.
ognized by Jackson, by Cleveland by
Lincoln, by Roosevelt, and by Wilson,
let us pause.
Was President Right?
A boy may light match and burn
down a city that it took hundreds of
years to build; a spendthrift youth can
dissipate a fortune. that was created by
the enterprise and brain Of q century of
people. How many Of you men have
ever read the League OF Nations? Hold
up your hands. Glands up). How many
of you have read the whole German
treaty clear through? Four hands
raised. How many Of you think you
understand that? CNo hands raised.
How many Of you have read the secret
treaties that formed the skeleton and
bone work Of the German treaty, SO far
as matters outside Of Germany are con-
cerned and world questions are involv-
ed? Gentlemen, do not ask these ques-
tons to assume a superior intelligence
or wisdom, but simply to, in this harsh
and almost impolite way, challenge
your thought and the fact that you are
taking somebody else's word for this
whole question; and yet it involves fun
damental changes in our whole govern
mental policy and structure. Are you
safe in following the president upon it
and doing, as a man said in my state,
somebody said, Are you going up to
hear Reeds speech?" "Well,' he said,
"have you read the League OF Nations?"
He says. mo. am letting the professor
do my thinking" UauShter). Is there
such a thing as an infallible human be-
ing, gentlemen Of the press? Was the
president right in the beginning Of this
war when he demanded a press censor
in order that freedom Of the press might
be stopped in this republic? l did not
agree with him on that, as my friend,
Senator Works, knows did not believe
that the press of this country was al
ways doing the right thing, but / would
rather have the worst press that ever
would be created by individual men, and
responsible to their constituencies for
the success Of their paper, than to have
a press controlled by a fellow like
George Creel. Applausel.
Did Not Agree
I did not agree with the president,
when, after we had two million five
hundred thousand troops in France,
when five hundred thousand of them
had been used and to stiffen the French
line and to stiffen the British line until
the Germans had been halted; when
those gallant boys had charged at Cha
teau Thierry, at st. Mihiel, had driven
the Germans out of Belleau Wood, they
and the English and French on their
flank were rolling the Germans thru
the Argonne forest and after Bulgaria
I, u ho,. hrOkoyN md
her cities were being surrendered, and
after the German crown prince had
cried out in his agony, What terms of
armistice can be granted?" l did not
agree with the president, after these
conditions had obtained, when he stood
in the senate and said we could not poss-
ibility win the war unless we adopted
the woman's suffrage resolution! Laugh
ter and cheers).
Then within q very few days after
that the armistice was signed, notwith.
standing the failure to pass the woman
suffrage resolution.
No Supermen
Others things Of this kind l mention
in order to make plain, if possible. the
fact that in this country no man has a
Of intelligence. There are no
supermen. There are men sitting in
this room who could make as good
president Of the United States as We
have had in the last 30 years. The
sum total Of the intelligence of this
is incomprehensible in its ma
jesty; the intelligence Of any particular
is simply that Of one man. So
I make these remarks. which ! had not
intended to make, because / ana sert Of
advised by one Of the introductions
laughter) that it is kiad Of sacrilege
o say anything here against the
League of Nations. Laughter and
.ries of No, no.
One thing l know, however, and that
$ 1 have learned TO appreciate Cali
ornia politeness. II ! had not learned +
t 1 would have to say when l read this
rticle in a Los Angeles newspaper,
aking up my poor self-and I simply
appen to be out here trying to get
title rest, and was invited to make a
peech, and as I formed the habit
idn't want to break it Qaughter), and
made a speech, the best that l could
make, over here. OF course, 1t wasn't s
airy good; it wasn't up to the Los An.