Evening star., 1922-12-10
Urges "Tiger" to Promote
United States of Europe
Continued from First Page.)

fate to be judged as unfit to rise to
the presidency because your own peo-
pie considered you useful only as
steel instrument of war? The same
would have been the fate of Lincoln
had he lived, and. after victory. con-
tinued to treat the southern states as
deadly enemies. But the patriarch
YOU praised at Springfield was made
of different stuff In iron will power
humor and ready wit he was at least
your equal. Clemenceau, yet in every
fiber of his being he was a humane.
benevolent democrat. He kept alive
faith in victory through the darkest
hours. but from Sumter to Richmond
his aim always was for reconciliation
and lasting peace.
Will you now close your ears. as at
Versailles-where perhaps 1t was ex-
cusable-to the voice of a great peo-
pie who always will be your neigh
bors and who won't consent to hobble
lamely through centuriesc What
Germany must-and can-pay as an
indemnity is a dispassionate business
matter, such as is settled daily be-
tween private debtors and creditors.
with a thorough examination of books.
but without rafting the sword. And
once united the new world won't re-
fuse the necessary credits to this
strong concern, which could effect the
economic unity of Europe.
This, Citizen Clemenceau is the way
Lincoln's memory should point to you.
Your Paris home is in street named
for Franklin. and you know that no
BILE citizen never misused the scepter
which he received from a tyrant to
become tyrant himself. And you
also have honored Washington, whose
greatest of all deeds was that which
prepared the way for the union of the
states exhausted by war.
Those who admire the fire of your
proud spirit must hope that before
it f1ickers out you will kindle the
flames of gospel of a United States
of Europe. 1t was Superf1uous to
brave Atlantic storm just to prove
that Prussians. who believe only in
force and not in the gentle power of
friendly reasoning. exist also in Ven
dee, your home.
The last page of your biography
will determine your place and rank
in history. You want your enemy's
scalp. who. you say. can never become
your friend or business partner. You
will only consider the welfare of your
own race and scold angrily at those
nations which are not ready to make
.yarv Sacri6ca for France
Germany Punished.
personally share your disappoint-
ment over the failure to ratify the
American British Franco guarantee
pact which would have quieted France
and rendered the occupation of Ger
many needless. thereby bunting the
claws of our monarchists and bring
ing real peace. But wasn't it rejected
precisely because London and Wash
ington found that you OF France did
not recognize the duties and rights of
a new world order and wanted more
for Yourselves than clear-sighted rea-
son could allow?
The great sea bound empires have
more important business than a
Franco German quarrel. A wise VIC
tor would reconcile the defeated and
use him for economic cooperation.
l ,lo not deny that Germany made
great blunder regarding France.
but these have been terribly pun
ished and cannot be used as an ex-
cuse after Posen, West Prussia,
Memel. North Schleswig. Upper ST.
lesia, Alsace-Lorraine and the Saar
have been taken away, as an excuse
for cutting off the Rhineland. put
ting whites under the domination of
colored troops, occupying the Ruhr,
our Industrial heart, and demanding
paper billions from bankrupt towns
for every nationalist misdemeanor.
These misdemeanors never would
have become so prevalent had your
policy been different. With Germany.
the despised enslaved pariah of
humanity. can You wonder large
classes Of people become capable Of
you knew how terribly the German
people are suffering from the prof.
teers, how sick their souls, how i'm
poverished their intellectual life. how
rotten their state ediflce has become
you would not believe for moment
morrow and be more than quickly
suppressed as a revolt of blind fools.
In both our countries the majority
still is for reconciliation. Let us
bury the past and prepare for q
brighter future. Should Germany
sink into darkness France will go
with her. She can save herself only
through economic cooperation.
Let's get to work, Patriot Clemen-
ceau!
Copyright. 1927