Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-03-12

with the Cardinal Newman award
for the most distinguished Amer
lean service performed in 1885.
Sen. Nye lashes Out at the war
hungry munitions trust which he
said was jeopardizing the peace
full future of America. Sen. Nye
in the first instalment Of the
speech pointed out the perils OF
today. How much like the world
Of 22 years ago is our world to-
day! The world is or the march
again." the senator said. The
speech continues:
Continued from last week.
"They saw also another proposal
hat would not insist upon our heavily
subsidized marine fleet laden with
munitions traversing the war zones, to
ge sunk by torpedoes from below or
sombs from the air. These proposals,
Ehese gentlemen considered seriously.
hey hurt. They might stop the main
economic and political entanglements
by which we were drawn into the
World War. But more direct, they
aurt. These gentlemen had been given
sdvance warning of how they would
pc hurt.
president Roosevelt had told the
)il companies which were shipping ten
md twenty times as much oil to Italy
IS they had ever done before, that it
would be nice of them if they no long
er shipped abnormal quantities to
either Italy or Ethiopia. That was an
open warning to all the gentlemen
whose pockets are not as full as they
night be, to be on guard against a
congress which might pass a definite
aw, warning in a sense, that the
Presidents proclamation would not
oind the industries to refrain from abb
normal of war.
There were also other men meet
ng together, men with no commercial
motives, who knew that none of the
anger aims for which we went to war
n 1917 were accomplished. They
know also that hone of the contro-
yersies we had with all the belliger-
snts from 1914 to 1917 were settled
N our favor then and have not been
settled in our favor since then. New
ertheless they said it was better not
70 block the roads to war. 1t is better
10 be proud and try again to seek the
rights we failed to secure between
1914 and 1917 than to prevent our &c
)nomic involvement in war.
These two groups approached the
subject from very different angles. But
10Th seem TO have arrived at the same
result-do nothng-except perhaps
Increase our preparations Tor another
war.
During the past few weeks the
pressure of the various groups who
want nothing done or who are willing
10 leave everything undone, has been,
for the moment, sufficient to threaten
khese proposals to keep the country
out of war; and whether the threat
comes from the mar who stabs from
behind-knowing that he will make
money if this legislation dies-oI
whether the stab comes in front from
men who, like Brutus, loved Caesar
but loved Rome more, the result is the
same. The legislation will die for lack
pf friends to strike down the blows.
MAY l amplify my insistance that
decisions are taken years before mer
20 to war, decisions which have a pro-
found bearing upon their going to thai
particular war, and that the man mos
Involved may never know OF these de-
~cisions to the day of their death?
"When the men who will die
in the next war-the men born IN
1917 and 1918 were only n and
two years old, it is recorded that
four men sat about a conference
table in Paris-men representing
great governments and millions OF
dead as a result of the war that
had just ended
"One of these men asked DO We
want peace?' The others replied, Yes
Of course Whereupon the question
er said. Peace can be had at a price
France and England and the Unitec
States will have to give up their col
|onies. England will have to give uI
her navy. France will have to give uI
her army. All nations will have to give
up their tariffs. Then we can have
peace When the others about the
table dissented, ~Clemenceau, the ques-
tioner, is said to have brought his ts'
down on the table and said, l though
so! You don't want peace, so you vii
get war. And since you get war
France must look out for her own Sc
curity first In that spirit was the
Treaty of Versailles written an6
~
signed.
Bankers Decide
"Thus were the words spoken ano
the decisions made by wise men WHOSE
names the twe-year old boys OF tina
day NAV have since read in books
But. those were not the first words
which led finally to the last. For, IL
1915, approximately two years before
these youths were born, someone IL
q great firm of international bankers
in New York said, in effect: Tomor-
row we no longer try to hold up th'
price of sterlingr This decision mean
q sudden decentralization of our none,
markets. 1t came at a time when tn
United States was being urged to al
ter its neutrality policy to the exten
of permitting loans to be made to tn
belligerents.
"The result Of the decision to sta,
out OF the sterling market was a re.
sounding one, and the result which
America can never forget. The Sec
rotary of the Treasury, and the Sec
retary Of State informed the Presiden
that the swollen war trade OF tn
United States with foreign bellgerent
would collapse unless we loaned tn
belFigerents the money with which Il
continue our war trade. With foreigi
exchange slumping, a panic for tn
country was in prospect. There wa
danger of America having to go bacl
IN the normal state that existed befor'