Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-09

with being i pessimist. I have never
been pessimist but | think that some
times n pessimist is good that is.
pessimism is good if it helps you to
foresee things
"Well. ! bring you ONE occasions Of
foreseeing, and will let you Judge about
them and what YOU think Of them. at
your convenience.
What Was Wars Lesson?
1--WE went to war and we crushed
all the military power of Germany.
We did not make an abuse of it. /
think not. There is not one German
speaking man under the rule of France.
France might have discussed the ques-
ton of extending her frontiers, but
has she done so? We did not claim
any part of German territory. Is that
militnristic? Not at all. What wu>
! the greatest lesson of the war:
/ Europe has been made bloody with
murders. assassinations and with wars.
and it is the first time in the world.
the first time in the history of man.
that set of people could get around
n table and try to make known II SO,
Of nations no more by imperiallstic
power. but by the sense of right. and
to decide on freedom for all.
And SO all the countries that for
centuries have been crushed by Rus-
sia, Germany and Austria came to the
table. and we saw around that table
the representatives of twenty seven ma
tiOns, even China. some from India
any one nation having n right to speak
and everybody had the right to ask
and everybody pleading for his cause,
and all were heard. / am free to say
that their work was nothing like i'm
perialistic
This gathering was the advancing
: by a set of nations representing the
best nations in the world, their right
for freedom and for justice. Of course,
: our work has been imperfect in Il great
many PAGES and nobody knows it bet
; ter than l do.
} II know that men working with diff
fcrcnt interests would not reach com :
mon end. but when actuat"d by such
rights. they will reach the same end.
/ But that work Of liberuting Europe,
that is in a great part American work.
| You cannot doubt it even if YOU do not
t like it.
Quotes French War Losses
"America not only brought her sol.
{ dicrs but her soldiers came very late.
Her gold was spent lavishly, but France
had more than $500 900 men who could
, he mobilized at the beginning of the
|, war, but at the end Of that war $500, :
, 600 were mutilated, wounded and
I killed. We gave all we could with q
, corresponding lavishncss of money.
| II was frightened upon coming here.
$ II was fifty seven years ago when !
first cnme to America. | was fright =
cncd, say, when | came to America s
shores again, not. frightened by the
| wplpomp,l
= everywhere grandly. What frightened
me was the intense activity. Such
@ activity that do not really know whnt
t is coming. | should say new people
n is going to be born. ! should say n
g new people is really born.
n of course, know very we'll it is
!. the same people that Washington lee
SO victoriously. ! know the feeling is
the same. l know the hearts have moi
u changed and your nation still Show'
u every evidence Of still being one ot TIT
g greatest nations in the world.
a "You have right, but you have
X duty and right without duty, withou
Is the performance. on1y works to di
II min!sh. Therefore | come TO wonde
y IL you are in the right state of mind ant
fully understand or are in the state o
IS mind to understand fully what l hav
n to say of your couDtrr.
N II don't come to you to invite yo
t. to spend your activities outside in an
10 way. As / have said, come to yo
% for peace. | want to show you hoy
NJ peace can be obtained and gained an
- prescdved. This, of course, does no
IL allow me 10 interfere in your affairs an
u | don't want to. | am not going I
" tell you that you must. That is you
business, not mine.
10 What America Did
n MY mission is to bring information
n information from my own country an
ld here ! come TO the point. You entcre
80 the war, you sent your soldiers an
Of you followed the war to the end. Wcr
it you disintercsted? ! will ask you VIII
ID you came into the war. Can YOU te
rs me that? Can you answer me? io
n came late but you took predominant
!" part in the war and you took pre-
N dominant part in the construction O
the treaty of peace. 1t was an Amer
or lean that brought the fourteen point
h, TO us.
it "tor the first time in the histor
he Of the world, in the history Of war
that have been fought, every man, eve
te Germans, knew what they were fight
&, ing for. 1t was said by the Presider
" Of your Republic in one of his mes
is sagcs that if these conditions are nc
@ answered we will 60 on. That wOr
ry | was said on the floor OF Congress