New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

pursuit of happiness. These are
the very words. The world had not
known them yet. The world had
found them in the books, but they
had not seen them in action, and
that is where you are great, because
for the first time you practically
understood, you practically meant to
make your real, idealistc superior
feelings. of men facts, and you did
make them facts.
But, mind you, don't believe that
great people can be great one day
and small another. Nc. We are the
prisoners of the evil we have been
dolngj as we'll as the good. You ap-
peared in the world as the liberators.
And when few days after came the
French Revolution, then Europe be-
gan to feel that something had hap
pened which changed the face of the
world
"Marseillaise" Recalls
Wrongs of His Country
Yesterday 1 heard al the Metro
politan the "Marseillaise," and
thought, Against whom was that great
national song brought to the people?
Against Germany, against the Ger
Revolution down and to re-establish
autocracy. l. don't mean to abuse
them, They are what they are. They
nave been a great people, and | do
not see why they should not be
great people again. Only, they must
atone for the havoc that thew have
been doing. Think of it! The Ger
mans have made so much havoc
that they cannot pay the bill. There
is no reparation. There was too
much destruction. Can you imagine
twenty thousand manufactures de-
stroyed-faX, linen, cotton, steel,
sugar-everything? Twenty thou
SAND manufactures. Do you sup
pose, can you fancy, such devasta-
ton, where even the trees have been
cut down wilfully to prevent the poor
farmer when he comes back from
making a living? Do you know what
ut is to have seen men and women
carried under the stick of the Ger
mans like cattle? Women taken
away, girls being ravished? When |
Went INTO one town every house had
been blown up one by one, but one
every house, l say, destroyed, but
the one where I was, and you could
see the mine there that was intended
to blow it up, and dozen women
came to me, kneeling, crying and
saying, Give US back our girls that
they have taken away"
80 1T is hard to understand what
devastation means. If you go to
Solssons you can see the church or
cathedral there. On every pillar
anybody can see where there is a
hole for blowing up the church.
What for? The idea is if YOU ter
rNFlZa tho ha
shorter. 1t may be that our soldiers
hearts would bleed. Surely, but also
it made them stronger against the
enemy. Only, my friends, business
is business. The devastation has
!. been made by the Germans not as
useless havoc, but because it was
going to handicap us when peace
would come and we would try to
meet the markets of the world.
Twenty thousand manufactures
every piece had been taken away to
Germany. Our coal mines entirely
drowned. and nobody knows how
many, years it will take before they
begin to work again. | do not tell
you this tc excite your pity. | don't
want to complain. | don't want my
country to. be pitied. do not say
] don't want to be helped, but / want
her. to be helped with the heart
rather than with the pocket. At the
it would have been fair from
financial point of view--I speak to
business men--I cannot forget it
to help US in peace as we have helped
each other i'll war? AS soon as war
was over we were frankly told that
all economic relations of the war
time were ended and we were not to
expect any financial help from those
who had given us SO generously a
great deal of help. Well, say that
if one of you is interested in some
industry, whatever it is, and il at
any time you think you must stop
your relations with it, very good.
But unless you want to kill them
you are going TO take time to ar
range and prepare matters so that
nobody will suffer too much from it.
Well, we were deprived of that
chance, and that was great pity.
1t was the opening of the crisis we
are living in now.
81 Do Not Want to See My
Land Invaded Third Time"
Another point was very irksome
the question Of safety. Think of it!
/ am not very old man, you know,
but, after. all you would not look at
me as being a boy. Twice in my life
| have seen my country invaded by
the Germans. That is twice too
many. | don't want to see it third
time. / am sometimes called a mill
tarist. Not at home, because in my
own country if you say that belong
to the militarist group even my
worst friends would laugh at you.
But we are said to be militarists be-
cause we keep a comparatively small
army. That is not hard TO under
stand We want to be safe at home.
When the treaty came TO this point
in the long liberating document that
is in chancery | was told by Mr..
Lloyd George, ''If you will give up