Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-11-22

by side in the normal conditions of |
peace. But after all. we nave no right
20 forget. We have no right to aban- |
con ourselves. We have no right to
weaken our position. And were il !
only because we must avoid giving |
rise in the bosom that would only be |
ready to take advantage of it, to give
rise to certain hopes that you'd he
encouraged by our weakness.
Does Not Want to be Unjust
| Gentlemen. | spoke of the neral
/ aspect OF disarmament, and | REFER ed
to Germany. ] do not want to be un-
Just; nothing is further from my mind
| But we know there is in Germany
| there is one part of Germany that is
| for peace. There are many people,
! especially among the working classes
| who want 10 work, who have had
enough of this war, who have NJ
enough OF war altogether and are
most anxious to settle down in peace.
and also to set to work. We shall do
| everything to help that Germany, and
| if she wants to restore her balance in
the bosom of a pacific republic and
democratic institution, then we can
| help her, and we shall all be able to
contemplate the future with feelings
of security.
But, gentlemen, there is another
Germany, a Germany which has not
| changed her mind and to which the
last war has taught no lesson. That
Germany keeps thoughts in the back
of her mind; she has the same re-
| signs she entertained before the war;
she has kept the same prescriptions
and she cherishes the same ambitions
| as the Hohenzollerns did. And how
can we close our eyes to this? How
| can we ignore this state of things?
This, gentlemen, is happening at our
-erv doors. We have only got to look
This is happening but few miles
rom us, and we follow the thoughts
of the Germans, or certain Germans,
and ~ avolution which is taking
place. And. more than that, we have
witnessed certain attempts to return
to the state of things. Nobody could
be mistaken about the real bearing of
what was called the kapp putsch. We
know very we'll that if it had succeed
ed, Germany would have returned to
4 her pre-war state. And, we do not
know what might have happened or
rather, we know too we'll what would
have been the consequences of such
a state OF things.
Gentlemen, a volume has been pub
ished by no less a man than Field
Marshal Ludendorff, who still enjoys
great authority in many German cir
cles, and who is followed by a great
part OF the elite in Germany, profess
sors, philosophers, writer's. etc We
do read in this book Gentlemen,
should not like to make too many
] quotations. should not likt to pro-
long this speech, and perhaps draw
too much of your attention, but this
| is part of my brief and if you are ike
| me, convinced that the moral element
| is of the utmost Importance, you will
! GLOW me to read just two or three
|! passages. This is the first quotation:
| 1t is necessary that we should
| learn to understand that we live in
warlike time that struggle will re-
| main forever for the single individual
| as for the state, a natural phenone-
non, and that the struggle is equally
on the divine order of the world
I'm The same book, Marshal Luden-
dorff produces these terrible words of
DeMolcke on the 18th of DeceAber,
1919:
Eternal peace is dream. It is
not even a beautiful dream and war
is one of the parts of the order of the
God. 1t is by war that are developed
the noblest virtues of man, courage,
disnterestedness, devotion to duty
| and spirit of sacrifice, up to the aban
donment of ones own life. Without
war, the world would sink in the NOR
ass of materialism.'
And lastly, Marshal Ludendorff
says:
The warlike qualities of the
Prussian and German army have
been put to the proof on the bloody
battlefields. The German people
need no other qualities for their NOR
al renovation. The spirit of the form
er army must be the germ which will
allow this renovation to take place.
Such, gentlemen, are the words
used by the highest German authori-
ties who have preserved and | can
quite understand it, the full part, the
great part at least, of the confidence
of the German people, and that is
what we are listening to now After
war that has caused the death of
millions of men, after the sore
wounds inflicted and that are still !
bleeding in the sides of the countries
of Europe, that is the sort of thing
being taught at the very door of !
France. How can you expect France +.
should close her eyes to such words? |
Il now come to the physical aspects !
of disarmament. | can quite under |
stand that somebody might say it is !
not sufficient to harbor evil designs;
to make war one must have appro- |
Pirate means, because when it is |
question of war. enormous effectives |
are necessary: you must have the Of |
ficerS and non-commissioner officers, |
YOU must have plentifus material
rifles, guns, machine guns, artillery, |
etc.-and Germany has no longer (
any of these Germany, from the 1
point of view of effectives, just emerg |
ing from the war, from a war where !
her men have been fighting for four
years-and l should be the last TO |
under-e estimate the ValOr of her sol |