The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-08
ARMISTICE DAY, 191s.1sss
The Promises:

tory had terminated in victory that "to make the
world safe for democracy" forever end war;" and
wipe out the scourge of mtarism." Mud-caked
in the trenches ogrimed workers in shop and factory
and fearful mothers nurturng the next wars cannon
fodder cried aloud for joy At last peace and good will
should reign among and the people of the
world who for untold centuries have paid the of all
wars in blood and taxes should find freedom and happ
ness in the of universal peace.
The Betrayal:
Then the Paris Peace Conference when the very
diplomats whose plots and counterpots had plunged
fellow men into the awful carnage that claimed eleven
million lives endeavored to play the old game with
the deck of marked cards The only factor
President Wilson, who stirred the hearts of the people
everywhere by his plea peace Justice emodyng
the famous Fourteen Points.
Never was moment ripper for establishing perma
nent international peace The people of the
sick unto death of and its works In half the
orious countries the diplomats by revolution
if they openly dared to sappoint the hopes the
ering people So they accepted the Fourteen Points
public and then proceeded to emasculate them
President Wilson yielded the first point, "open
nants openly arrived at" old backstars diplo
macy nulied the other thirteen ideals Since
had the opportunity for human progress prom
ising its betrayal culpable.
The DisusIonment:
For five weary years the world has been staggering
under the colossal weight wretchedness imposed by the
war to end war" The people at last disusoned
There under in Europe today than
ever before in human history There is hate
bitterness, misery European civilization the
verge of complete collapse That conservative British
statesman, Lord Grey, canddly states Recent
show with horrible clearnes Europe sliding surely
toward the abyss Outside of the British Isles
dnavia anarchy reactonary dictatorship the grim
alternatives
The common people of the world now know the brutal
truth They know that they lied to, deceived and
herded into the shambes of the late by the false
of cynical politicians who cared far about
coal and iron and oil and 100 per profits than they
did such trviates democracy justice, righteous
Mr. I,Snu lorlor fhotf1
is so, and certainly he ought to know
IT, in their dsillusonmen and despair the miserable
hordes of hungry humanity in Europe overthrow their
and drive out the rulers who betrayed them
-if, in the process civil flares up civilization
totters from revolution chaos whose then shall the
censure be?
The Fateful Future:
What of tomorrow? Shall we put trust in heavier
armamens urge those generals who already talk
ing gbly about "he next war;? Shall Armstice Day.
1929 find still trying to solve the worlds by bay
onets and brute force? Unless be- stark mad God
Forbid
Nor let us deceive ourselves, as we did 1914 with
the delusive idea that transatlantic isolation would
from a general European conflict Another such
would inevitably become another world war, whether
liked it not We too closely knit to fellow
tions by the myriad ties of trade and sympathy and
thought shield ourselves from the consequences of
international confagraton
Despite the intrigues of diplomats and their power
full masters, the workers of the world want peace And
they have if they but organize and demand it.
There will be if workers and the of
workers refuse fill the front line trenches for the
makers fight their battles. Peace meetings
and peace resolutions may have but shall not get
horld until labors voice is heard in the
ments of the great nations.
i Let American labor this Armistce Day consecrate
itself without stint limit to the securing of world
peace We have the power have the intelligent lead
ershp, have the moral influence if but it, to
unite the workers of the world for the realization of per-
manent peace And step to that end, secure
immediate action by the Congress about assemble
that will compel the mtarstc nations of Europe
to disarm pay debts to Immediately. Even the dip
lomats know the meaning of bankruptcy.
i If do less than this boys who lie in Flanders
field shall have died in vain-1he Locomotive Engineers
Journal, November, 1923.
FIVE BIG MEN MAKE COMMENTS ON COOPERATION
II In plain words the object of the American Wheat
Growers Associated is obtain control of the majority
of the wheat produced in the nation that the
put price tag his product-W j. Brown, Pres
ident
Cooperative marketing associations will bring sal
vaton to the wheat growers of the United StatesE-
Meyer Jr Director of the War Finance corporation
u Farmers could be guaranteed 50. bushe wheat,
it without anyones suffering and without effect
on the consumers pocketbook.-Dr. C. j. Smith, Port
land, Oregon.
II Never before in the history of American agriculture
have the farmers been imbued with the idea Of