El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-17
VICTORY
NOW MENACED


On the French and on the Poles viii
now devolve the main burden Of re-
gaining the ground lost by British
and American mistakes in recent
months.
Responsibility for the present
affair must be equally shared by
the Americans and by the British.
who have refused TO recognize
the truth as il existed. sought
selfish ends Of their own. closed
their eyes 10 umpaiufabie facts.
contributed 10 damage the pres
fige Of the whole alliance. and
made difficult the position OF
France. face to face with the
German menace and Justly and
correctly alarmed at the course
Of her allies.
On the military side the German
revolution may have no real dangers,
# Britain ana the United States are
ready TO share in what must be a
new demonstration on sea and along
the Rhine.
The junkers. viii watch for the
first sign Of allied purpose: so viii
the Ebert element, now driven out
Of power. ii the same hesitatiOns
are revealed which have cursed the
allied policy with respect of Russia,
the same disasters viii follow
The junkers. ike the bOlshe-
HAHAss VIII mike EuH-a AmelE EuA-
troll in their owl country ana an
alliance between the two 10 over
turn Europe viii follow ut no
great distance
we, the English and the Amer
leans. have given the Germans the
chance TO win back the war Despite
their strength IN numbers, the Ger
mans lack the necessary mechanical
equipment, the guns and munitions
the tanks and the aircraft, 10 make
~
struction Of their fleet and their
shore defences places them at the
mercy Of the British fleet while a
renewal OF the blockade promises
immediate economic paralysis and
proximate famine
Bur having the weapons in our
hands. il remains necessary that we
should display the courage TO employ
these weapons
Sacrifices Nay BE in Vain
II the poison which has been gen
orally poured forth L. recent months.
the effort 10 justify Germany and TO
disCrediC the alliance has been as
successful as the German junkers
believe, then, allied policy VIII be
incapable Of action, allied weapons
VIII he useless, and we shall be back
in the days OF 1914. with the terrible
sacrifices and magnificent victories
OF the war gone. for nothing. But
Iirmuess viii strike al the Sl- gle real
asset of the 1unkers- Il the German
people have turned to them now Il
is not with any desire to fight q new
war. but because they have been con-
WINGED that allied impotence VIII pro-
duce allied surrender. once Germany
speaks in the I'D tones and through
the old leadership.
To demonstrate the fallacy OF this
assumption must be the first pur-
pose OF the allied nations, not alone
their own -afety, but the possibility
Of a Democratic and peaceful Ger
mnay depend on what is done IN the
A century ago the allies, at the
critical hour when Napoleon re-
turned from Elba, announced that
they would not deal with the en-
peror, not only did they announce
this. but reordering their divided
ranks. they set their armies in mo-
tion and the end was. waterloo.
which vas the graveyard Of ali the
eSapoleonic hopes and the end Of all
the faith OF the French nation in
Napoleon himself.
Only Way 10 Peace.
When the German people discover
that the return Of the junkers means
not a reduction Of the peace terms
and the restoration OF Germany to
her old position. TO her old place in
the sun, they VIII be as little ready
10 rise en- masse as were the French
after Waterloo. If the consequence
OF the present revolution is further
their kind. II tie German people rec
ognize once for all that such leader
ship means only new invasion, new
sacrifices. new privations. then. and
then alone, the peace OF the world
VIII be assured by the fact that the