Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-22
enough of war. altogether and are
most anxious to settle down in peace

and also to set to work.
I'VE shall do everything to help that
Germany and If she wants to restore
her balance In the bosom OF pacinc
then we can help her and we shall an
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. Ihat
Germany keeps thoughts in the back
OF her mind; she has the same designs
she entertained before the war; she
has kept the same preoccupations ana
she cherishes the same ambitions as
the Hoenzollerns did. And how can
we close our eyes to this? How can
We ignore this state of things? This,
gentlemen Is happening at our very
doors: we have only got to look. This
Ia happening but a few miles from us
and we follow the thoughts of the
Germans or certain Germans and the
evolution which is taking place. And
more than that we have witnessed GER
tain 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 well.
that If it had succeeded Germany
would have never returned to her pre-
war state. And we do not know what
might nave happened OF rather we
know too we'll what would have been
the consequences of such state of
things.
Gentlemen a volume has been pub
lished 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
have read in this book. Gentlemen l
H. L. <--
tations. i should not like to prolong
this speech and perhaps draw too
much OF your attention, but this is
part of my hrief, and II you are like
me, convinced that the moral element
is of the utmost Importance. You will
allow 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 a
warlike time, that struggle will remain
the state a natural phenomenon and
that the struggle is equally on the di-
vine order of the world
I'm this same book Marshal Luden-
dorff produces these terrible words Of
De Molcke on December II. 1919.
=" Eternal peace Is dream. 1t Is
not even a beautiful dream and war
is one of the parts of the order of the
world such as it has been created by
God 1t Is by war that are developed
tne nOpleSt virtues OF man, courage,
Observation-Disclosures, devotion to duty and
spiri of sacrifice. up to the abandon
ment Of ones own life. Without war
the world would sink In the morass OF
materialism.'
And further this Is Marshal Luden-
dorff himself speaking:
- ut is for the political education OF
the German people and it Is an indis-
psnsible notion with the knowledge OF
this fact that in the future war will
be the last and the only decisive means
OF policy, that thought completed by
the virile life of war the entente shall
not be able to forbid the German peo-
pie to entertain 1t altho they are try
ing to take 1t away from us. War is
the cornerstone of all sntelligent pol
Icy. 1t is the cornerstone of every
form Of future and chiefly OF the fu.
ture Of the German people,
And lastly Marshal Ludendorff
says:
The warlike qualities of the Prus-
sian and German army have been put
to the proof on the bloody battlefields.
The German people need no other
qualities for their moral renovation
The spirit OF the former army must
be the germ which will allow this re-
novation to take place.
such. gentlemen. are the words used
by the highest German authorities who
have preserved and I can quite under
stand 1t, the full part, tho great part
At least of the confidence OF the Ger
man people. and that is what we are
listening to now. After a war that has
caused the death OF millions of men.
after tho 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 to close her eyes to such words?
II now come to the physical aspects
Of disarmament. can quite under
stand that somebody might say 1t is
not sufficient to harpor evil designs;
to make war one must nave appro-
priate means, because when II is 4
question OF war most effectives are
necessary: you must have the officers
and noncommissioned officers, you
must have plentiful material rifles,
guns, machine-guns, artillery, etc,
and Germany no longer has any OF
these. Germany. from the point of View
of effectiveness. JUST emerging from
the war. from a war where her men
have been fighting for four years--and
1 should be the last to underestimate
the valor of her soldiers-our soldiers
have had to face and to fight the Ger
man soldiers and they know to what
point the German sofdier is able TO
carry his hcroism, Germany is just is
suing from the war and still has seven
million men over there in Germany
who have made the war. or course you
will say they are nor actually serving
under the Rag. they arc not living In
barracks. Certainly. Have these men
any officers and noncommissioned Of
ficers ready to be marshalled to the
field? Is IL possible to mobolize such an
army tomorrow.
ITO this question I answer-yes and
am going to explain 1t. Since the
war: since the moment peace was sign
ed Germany has constituted n force. a
so-called police force which was In
tended for the maintenance of public
order. That force is called the reich
wehr. 1t is to include 100000 men and
in fact does include 100000 men. But
what men? They are nearly all Off
GERS or noncommissioned officers. Il
mean gentlemen, regulars, all having
served in or having belonged to the