Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-03-23

French army Of occupation on German soil contested
largely Of colored troops whose members treat the local
German population, especially the women, shamefuIly
and brutally.: On this account thsre have been circulated
this country numerous petitions and protests calling for
the withdrawal Of these brutal soldiers. One such re-
monstrance w1S presented in the North Dakota senate
at Its recent session, its sponsor being Senator IAeder-
bach, league leader In that body. That resolution was
oessd on the false assumption that the accusations
Against the French government are true, and it demand
naitted.
AZ . part OF the propaganda q public meeting was
held In New York . short time aso. and again. last, sun
utmost capacity, and Thousands were turned away, the
purpose Of this meeting being to protest against the IN
ddtous efforts that had been made to falsdty the facts
and create q back-dre Of sentiment in this country
against the people who were our associates in the war.
The meeting VA. held under the auspices Of the Anneri-
can Legion and amliated bodies. and Thousands Of ex-
soldiers IN uniform were present to expresA their indig-
nation # the methods that had been pursuedA
Eminent speakers were there, General Pershins
among them. and there was but one note struck during
the entire evening. The most forceful presentation Of
the case was made BY Martin ". Lttleton, who said.
among other things:
'The real difficulty is the war never came to an end.
1t was truly an armiaice. Nobody was ever punished.
nobody ever made to suffer, except those youths of all
countries who died In their countrys name. The great
criminals back OF the war, the great conspirators who
plotted it and the great devils who executed it, have Been
allowed to retire in quiet and security, to write books
teeminE with falsehoods concerning its causes and con-
duct :
What We ought to have done was to have march "a
into Berlin. written the treaty at Potsdam instead OF Yer
sanles, hanged the criminals who caused the war or ex-
lied them In the closest exile, and held up to the sight of
unenains generations yet to be born the fact that civil
tsation was resourcefui enough to rid itself OF the GRIM
mails which would have destroyed 1t.
Moved by this neutrality-suspicious. Of events, her
apologsts and representatives are endeavorins to bring
together in our own country, under a polyslot propa-
sanda, the pulling pacihst-who is to a nation just what
nausea is to a well man: the beniehted Bolshevik-who
is ousily engaged in chasing his own tail: the ira,e Irish
m~an--whose natural sympathy for his own country has
obscured his vision of the world; and still another class,
purely American in origin, who have taken the war so
lightly and who felt its consequences so lightly that they
are ready to strike hands with the blood stained villains,
masaueradins in the name OF democracy in Grnany. =
Then, too, these brilliant German Propagandists
claim the new Administration. They have not hesitatedI
to appropriate to themselves the vast credit for the cleo
ton Of President Harding and the defeat of the Covenant
Of the League Of Nations. This same German propa-
sandA has reached the clumsy conclusion that because
We didn't vote for . League Of Nations We had forgotten
Germanys rapne and murder. We may not want a
covenant for reasons donstic and Constitutional, but that
does not mean that any Administration can live an hour
in the public faith and confidence Of this country II it
were generally believed that 1t proposed to desert the
old allies Of the World War.
After Germany had ruthlealy ravaged France in
1870, without a single injury to her own soil, and after
she had marched up the Champs Elysee and canped in
the Bots de Bolousre and demanded the one billion dol
lars-not as reparation, but as plumber for a war into
which she had tricked France the French statesmen
arose the very next day and proposed that the rich and
the poor. the high and the low. should devote one
thtrtieth Of their income to the immediate payment of
this one billion of dollars; and Germany was paid and
practically carried away with her to the strong boxes At
home this stolen and plundered gain.
"Now. after she has broken the heart Of the world,
sent 4 shock Of grief and sorrow into every home and
under every roof; after she has surpassed the achieve
ments in criminal audacity Of any race, savage or CIV
ilised; after she has fairly torn the heart out Of the
bleeding side Of France and left the gaping and unbound
wounds there and after she has strewns the dead Of
twenty-three countries down the river sides and over the
sunny fields of France and Belgium; after she has sent
her school OF sharks into the high seas, stealthily sinking
unarned ships: after she has plotted and intrigued,
murdered and aAsassinated. burned and sunk, pilakcd
and poisoned-she stands solemn. stupid and unrepent-
ent. After all of this the Allies demand, not indemnity,
not loot, not plumber, but simply PREPARATION. a reparation
If paid by Germany in yearly installments wodfd mean
a tax upon the German peoie of only one-third of what
the English are paying each year now and one fifth OF
what the French are paying each year now; and yet we
have apoloststs, misguided or otherwise, who would
stand in defense Of their refusal to pay.
1.-The bodies of our boys who died on the fields Of
France are coming daily home, up past the Statue Of
Liberty. For what did they die, for what cause. and in
the name of what principle?
"f 1t be said that We will pull down upon ourselves
the Bolshevisn Of Russia il We dare to press Germany
or II We do not capitulate In cowardly fashion to the
whining pretenses Of her statesmen. then. 80 nr as I am
concerned. I say 80 be It If to live in this world in
decency, in peace, In order and In liberty means
always to war, then let us always to war, and let
us minEle the bloodthirsty Bolshevtsm Of Russia with the
thinly disguised mtlttArixn Of Germany and let the old
AAles JOIN nAnds again II necessary to the end that we
viii not live in danger of the invasion Of these hordes of
savaSes disguised AZ civilized nations.
England. France and the United States must stand
together in peace, if, peace Is possible, in war II war Isl
inevitable. In the light of the past, We ought to be able
to say that If war comes again it should not come against
a dismembered and disunited group Of enlightened ma
tons who believe in the same thing, but it should come
against the combined power, intelligence and resources
Of these nations. 70 that France and her colonies, and
Great Britain and hsr empire, and America united In the
common cause OF civilization could make sure that
neither hA HnN 9th h}~ -sIk~-;~ A. - 80 80
with his Bolshevtm could endanser the liberty Of the
world"
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Although thare have been reductions in tia mica OF
many building materials, high wage rates and working
rules which make economical ernnloxnenf. az 1ahor i'm.