The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-03

the stars; the fragments strike the earth and send it rocking and reel ing out of it's course:
 Says Earth a1iveTs
 There were empires in Europe that were like the planets in the heavens that have been rolled down into utter endless darkness. There fixed stars in the Armament, they have crashed into atoms. The earth quivers in Europe and no one can tell how far it has been shocked out
 of it's course. Don't be hard on Europe.
 But they say to us in Britain. and they say to you here, Keep clear of the wreckage.' Yes, but there are millions underneath. Europe has played great part. There would there been no Europe to find it. You
 have got a great virile population. It came from Europe. What is the real problem in Eu-
 rope today? l will tell you. In spite
 of the war, because Europe has been
 left so much to herself she still be- lieves in force. Why?
 France says: Justice never gave
 Alsace-Lorraine back. We had to lose 100000 of our young men. You
 in the British empire had to lose S00,000 of your young men. Force
 
 Poland says: Force came at the end of 150 years and unlocked the door of our nationality The Russian peasant says today; We never saw the light of liberty
 until the revolutionist came with his down..
 But what does Germany say? Ger many says: We trusted to justice.
 We trusted to treaty. We are broken;
 we are shattered. Why? We are disarmed. We have no force' That is why Europe believes in
 force. That is why Europe believes in violence. What is the remedy? Give Europe the conviction that right IS supreme over force. Who is to
 do it? There are only two countries
 on earth who can establish that con States of America and the British empire. Unless it is done I don't know what is going to happen France,
 at the present moment, is committed to hold the wolf by the ear. She
 cannot let go, but ultimately it may tear and rend her.
 II heard yesterday from a man
 who had just returned from Ger many, who met one of the officers who had been appointed at the treaty or Versailles to break up the cannon SAio AhdShluS SuHS anu the LOr- pedoes or Germany. He said up to the last year the German wCrkmen, wherever he went to the work shops and arsenals, used to help him to
 destroy these guns and say: For Gods sake, destroy them; these are
 the things that brought ruin to our country Now he says there is change. There is a change. | 'They say we cannot trust justice; we cannot trust treaties; we cannot trust the word of great nations;
 fierce Is the only thing that rules in the world
 Unless you stamp out that con- viction, civilization is doomed on 1 this earth.
 Why do say that these great na- | tionalities are the only states that
 can provide the remedy. These two | countries entered the war for no selfish purpose. We both came into redress great wrCng. There have been times in the his- l tory of the world where you have had two-Qr three nations that for the time being have been the trustees of civilization. One after another | they have failed. They have not dis charged their functions, and in spite of the efforts and the power they en- joyed In the days of their might, one after another they went and new nations sprang up to take their places. The commission of trustee ship for civilization does not come
 from kings; it does not come from rulers or princes: it does not come from Senates and Parliaments nor councils It comes from on high. When it comes it does not come from the choice of the people. It comes from the will of God.
 o O o "Commission Is Yours." That commi ssion-that commits sion. is yours and ours today. The scene is divine occasion. You re- sponded to the invisible message in 1917 and we already had done so, but work is only half done. If it is not discharged fully-fully--civil is doomed within this generation to catastrophe such as never the world has seen. But if you here this mighty people, of our people throughout the British empire reso- lutely, firmly, courageously, without flinching, carry out the message. then I have no fear but that hu- manity will climb to higher attitudes of nobility, of security, of happiness, than any it has ever yet known"
 Faces Last Audience.
 David Lloyd George tonight faced his last audience in America. Returning to New York after a months tour of the United States and Canada, the wartime premi9r of Great Britain prepared with care his final word to the new world before sailing for home tomorrow on the Majestic.
 Every one of the 3,7oo seats in the Metropolitan opera house was taken. and for each seat there were 100 ap- plicants. The house blazed with color. The famous diamond horse ,ioh a ital IS" spends it's winter evenings, flamed with red, white and blue of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes
 shortly after 7:so o'clock the doors were opened and the crowd streamed the most part it was an audience such as might be seen any fashionable night at the opera.
 Heavy Guard Thown Out. Never, perhaps, since the time of the war, when former President Will son was scheduled to deliver an ad- dress. was the opera house as heavily guarded as tonight.
 In addition to the scores of blue coats massed outside, police in uni form and plain clothes thronged the interior. They mingled with the crowds pouring into the lobby and lined the rear of the house.
 Moreover, plain clothes men were
 scattered here and there throughout
 the seating space.
 The house was virtually filled at S:3O o'clock. There was a buzz of
 conversation from roof to pit as the audience waited for the British statesman. Seated in first tieg box was Secretary of Labor Davis. On
 the platform were men high in the
 financial and civil life of the country.
 MT. Lloyd George entered the house fS a stage door at S:45 o'clock.
 Ushered into the house. to the