, 1922-09-16
Mr.. Borah 10 Mr.. Kipling

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l. the choice of a spokesman to hurl back into
the teeth OF Rudyard Kipling the gratutious IN
suits he offered this nation, they could have made
no better selection than William T. Borah, Wha
has volunteered TO speak in reply 10 the sentiment
voiced by Kipling, but which is known prevalent III
England and only disguised and yeneered among
the official class. Recently, Mr.. kipling, said;
america came into the war two years, seven
months and, four days too late America forced the
allies into making peace az the frst opportunity
instead Of insisting upon finishing in Berlin
Americc unit The dav Of the armistice, without
waiting to see the thing through"
To this Senator Borah replies:
-Ungrateful, seh-worshipfgl, mercenary, vlndle,
tive. 1t is the raw English, with all the official
veneer and diplomatic ointment peeled OIL III
this is the view " the English-and Kipling has
been called the voice OF the English soul-what a
delightful associate Great Britain would make in
a league with five votes to our one! What a joy
full, generous, political ally for life!
1.-Two years and seven months too late Whose
war was this in the beginning? 1t was a war born
Of Europeon policies and of the European system.
The legitimate offspring Of secret diplomacy, inter
national duplicity, Unsuitable imperialism eompet-
tive ornaments and commercial jealousy. Not q
single one of the larger nations engaged was guilt
less of the war.
president Wilson once truly said I do not
quote his language but express accurately his
thought-that the war had its roots deep down in
things which We did not understand and with
which we were not concerned-not until our own
honor and our own rights we're challenged or as
sailed had We any legal or moral right to ask our
people to fight and die.
"But our rights were assailed, our honor was
challenged and we went in, and by going in we
saved England and France.
"This language of this noted Englishman is an
insult to every American grave in France, a taunt
to every mother whose boy sleeps in a foreign land
and a sheer for every American soldier who must
20 through life manned and broken. It is coarse,
cruel and shameless.
"'America quito without seeing the war through
Oh. no, she finished the job she started ir to finish
but she declined another job which was graciously
t.-IArA1 I~- - -LA11 1tffarA-f tAh LraRARa nnd
England are not suffering now from the war but
from the peace-the Pmic, destructive, vindictive,
peace which, over the advice OF the American presi-
dent, they insisted they must haye-a peace which
Clemenceau correctly declared was a continuation
of the war in another form, a peace which was
grounded in universal Imperialism, a division of
the earth to be dominated and exploited by five
great powers. The maintenance of this kind of
peace was the kind of job which we declined.
I'VE had agreed to help whip the enemy and we
did it. We did not agree TO the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of Germany, to the disintegration of Hungary and
the killing of Austria, or to the turning of Europe
into a military camp under the guise of universal
peace.
at is the peace treaty that is driving Europe
deeper down into misery and chaos-an impossible
peace treaty, an un-American treaty. To say that
because we declined to go into this new scheme,
characteristic of the European policy, VIZ quit the
job, is TO discredit the intelligence of his rea5ers.
They have our gold Ah, there is the rub This
is the Ithuriel spear which touches into life the dis
guised intruder. Gold-have we been so graspipg?
D1u we not pay Oreat Brltaln well Tor carving
our boys to save her from signal defeat? Did she
not insist upon collecting this money at a time
when she owed us billions on the principal and
millions in defauited interest? Did she not put into
the treaty full Preparations for the same thing for
which we filed disclaimer?
what nation has made more out of this war
than England. 1t has been declared more than once
in the house of commons that on the whole she was
the gamer by the war. She saw at the end of the
war her sole European commercial and maritime
rival destroyed. She gathered to herself as a re.
sult of the war 10000 900 square miles of territory.
inhabited by 40,000,000 people.
Il have never been able to experience any deep
commiseration over the material loss of England
in the war. In fact my limited acquaintance with
English history leads me to believe that that is. n
thing which does not happen in wars IN which Eng
land takes part, save when she had a little brush
with the American colonies.
"Rudyard Kipling charged that America went
INTO the war two years, seven months and four
days too late, forced a premature peace and quit
the day of the armistice without waiting to see the
thing through. They have got the gold of the world
but we hav saved our soulsi' he exclaimed. He also
said: America-the real America-died in 1860,
"Besides getting the gold, here are some of til,
things the United States did in the war and Mr.
kipling fails to mention:
"Raised armed forces t~otalling 100000 men.
"Sent 2.0S6,0O0 of them to France.
Lost 77,11S killed and 221 ,O59 wounded.
Held % per cent of the western front by Octo
Der 10, 1918.
Built or converted 2,70o,ooo tons of shipping t,
carry cargoes to France.
RAISED internal loans from the people aggrega
ing $22,22S,11S.400 and reloaned $9,651 $50. 2O4. 80 Il
her allies.
Subscribed s4oO,o 100000 to the Red Cross whicl
cared for 100000 French refugees; modified %,
600 nurses and had 100000 women at home mai
ing comforts for troops.
Organized the commission for the Relief of Rel
GUM, which distributed $700,000,000 worth of foot
and saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
"In the peace settlements, the United States al,
not ask Tor anV share in the vast rauaratiorz ~, 1;