The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-15

10f Treat Britain and the United
States to enter into definite alliance
that will protect her from her own
past sins.
A few days ago Col. Harvey blunt
ly told British audience that such
an alliance could not be; that the
Father of our country had solemnly
warned us against all entangling al
liances which had been reiterated by
every president (tho he should have
added, except the man who went to
Paris with his IA points in his poe
ket and a "self-determination" to
bring back to America the peace trea-
ty and the League of Nations so in
tricately interviewer that they could
not be pried apart.)
Our government has just been
bringing back to the mother soil
thousands of our brave heros, the very
pride Of American manhood, who had
no personal interest in the fate of
either France or Germany, but who
did not believe in the divine right of
kings, but did believe in free democ-
racies and they gave their all for
those beliefs.
Various writer's who have visited
the countries along the Danube to
study the conditions there tell us that
that peace treaty raised more hell
with those counties than all the years
Of war, that the jealousies and race
hatreds are something fierce. Now
can Uncle Sam stoop so low as to be-
come a partner to these petty spites
and hatreds by sending his boys over
there to take part in their chickering's?
AS loyal subject Of the United
States I absolutely refuse to allow
France or any other spiteful ma
ton to use my paw to pull her chest
nuts out of the fire.
Stoddard says that one July night
in 1870 when it had become known
that Louis Napoleon had declared war
against Prussia that the streets Of
Paris rang with the cries of ITO Ber-
lin! To Berlin!" That was famil-
lar cry here in Kennewick, too, in
1918 from the boys who were going
to camp and from the troop trains
passing through. But as matter of
fact during both wars no hostile en-
envy ever entered Berlin except as
prisoner of war.
Strange to say the Kaiser and his
sons did not profit from the defeat
Of Napoleon, but thought they were
emulating his military genius in go
ing after world power on a grand
scale by building up the most perfect
war machine that the world has ever
known. I would like to reproduce a
description Of that army or armies
by an eye witness Orchard Harding
Davis) just as they were coming into
East Belgium, marching in solid pha-
lanx westward day and night, with
their peculiar uniforms blending in
the near landscape.
Germany says that she invaded Bel
gium because Russia was mobilizing
vast armies on the Russian western
frontier? Then why did not Ger
many turn her armies eastward in
stead of westward? Because Paris
with all her riches was within easy
grasp and many Americans believed
%hof Dor;c uos dnonod
History does not furnish any brav-
er deeds than was performed by that
so-called contemplate little English
Iarmy (300, 000) that kept the German
guns from ever commanding the Eng
] lish Channel and those awful CAM
paigns of the Somme and Ypres when
it seemed as tho flesh and blood could
not withstand those awful gun as
saults. But they stood like the Rock
of Gibralter.
But the Kaiser found his Waterloo
near the place where Napoleon did.
tho century interviewed. Early in
1898 the anger of all America was at
white heat at the destruction of the
Maine. supposed to have been thru
FSpanish agencies. But when the last
Spanish shin had been destroyed at
San Diago the wrath was turned to
pity and sympathy and never We're
prisoners of war treated with more
consideration than was Admiral Ger
,,o,.. ord his aides. Uncle Sam made
Spain a present of twenty millions
something unheard of in European
diplomacy. But France instead of an
plying notifying ointments on the
deep wounds inflicted by war, is pour
ling in raw caustics which are burn
ling their way into the very marrow
of her enemies and is surely sowing
| the seed for future war that will
anihilate her as free nation-and
she is aware of it too. j. N. ELY.
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