Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-15
AMERICA and THE War
Senator BOfdh RebukeS Rudyard
Klpling,
The FACTS AS TO WHOLE EPISODE
United States Saved England and
France from Destruction and kipling
Complains Because We Quit When
W,, Eipiehad

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Senator William E. Borah in the New
York World.
washington, Sept 10.-Mr. Kipling
says: America came into the war two
years seven months and four days too
late. America forced the Allies into
making peace at the first opportunity
instead of insisting upon finishing In
Berlin. America quit the day OF the
armistice, without waiting to see the
thing through"
Ungrateful, self-worshipful, mer-
cenary, vindictive. 1t is the raw Eng
lish, with all the official veneer and
diplomatic ointment peeled off. IL
this is the view Of the English-and
Kipling has been called the voice OF
the English soul-what delightful
associate Great Britain would make
in a league with five votes to our one!
What joyful, generous, political ally
for life!
1.-TWO years and seven months too
late" Whose war was this in the be-
ginning? 1t was a war born OF Eu-
ropean policies and of the European
system. The legitimate offspring of
secret diplomacy, international dupli-
city, Unsuitable imperialism, compe-
titive armaments and commercial
jealousy. Not a single one Of the
larger nations engaged was guiltless
of the war.
President Wilson once truly said
l do not quote his language but cx-
press accurately his thought-that the
war had it's 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 were challenged or assailed
had we any legal or moral right to
ask our people to fight and die.
But our rights. were assailed, our
honbr was challenged and we went in,
and by going in we saved England and
France just as effectively as the brave
lad saved his two fellow swimmers a
few days ago from the waters Of tho
Potomac, into which their ambitious
folly had taken them too far. If the
,. mother of these two boys had been a
Kiplirgite, she no doubt would have
taunted the gallant young fellow with
the statement that he came an hour
too late.
This language of this noted Eng
llshman is an insult to every Ameri-
can grave in France, a taunt to every
mother whose boy sleeps in a for
eign land and sneer for every Amer
lean soldier who must so through life
manned and broken. 1t Is coarse,
cruel and shameless.
America quit without seeing the
war through" Oh, no, she finished
the job she started in to finish, but
she declined another job which was
graciously rendered her-a wholly diff
ferent job. Europe and England are
not suffering now from the war but
from the peace-the Punic, destruc-
tive, vindictiyeI peace which over the
advice of the American president,
they insisted they must have-a peace
which Clemenceau correctly declared
was q continuation of the war in an
other form, a peace which was
grounded in universal Imperialism, q
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.
We had agreed to help whip the
enemy and we did it. We did not
agree to the dismemberment of Ger
many, to the disintegration of Hun
gary and the killing of Austria, or to
the turning of Europe into military
camp under the guise of universal
peace.
1t is the peace treaty that Is driv-
ing Europe deeper down into misery
and chaos-an impossible peace treaty.
an un-American treaty. To say that
because we declined to so into this new
scheme, characteristic Of the European,
policy, we quit the job, is to discrcdit
the intelligence Of his readers.
"They have our gold" "Ah, there
is the rub" This is the Ithuriel spear
which touches into life the disguised
intruder. Gold-have we been so
srasping? Did we not pay Great
Britain well for carrying our boys to
save her from signal defeat? Did she
not insist upon collecting this money
at time when she owed us billions
on the principal and millions in de-
faulted interest? Did she not put into
the treaty full reparations for the
same thing for which we filed dis
claimer
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
ut the end of the war her sole Euro
pcan commercial and maritime rival
destroyed. She gathered to herself
as a result of the war 100000 square
miles of territory, inhabited by 4O,-
100000 people.
| have never been able to experience
any deep commiseration over the ma