| Show a JUI Lorraine Alsace a l Moral Question T THE HE qu question tion of Lorraine Alsace Lorrain is is n a much larger one is imagined by most Dost Americans Should Germany Ocr Ocr- many be permitted to retain this stolen territory no lo thoughtful person anywhere outside of Germany could mako himself that justice had prevailed pre at the peace conference The feelings feelings' of the French were set forth the other dB day by Foreign n 11 Minister Pichon speaking speak speak- in ing in the tho chamber of deputies Ho said The The The- question of Lorraine Alsace ne does not affect I Franco France alone o e. e It is a world question It is not a n terni- terni t ri- ri problem but a moral problem On its 11 solution i n whether or not the world shall have a l durable pence I Th The foreign ministers minister's final sentence should not be he misunderstood He was not making a specific threat that Franco France would fi fight hl for Al Lorraine Alsace later if she did not rca regain regain n it in in this war He lie meant that flint there will never er be Le a n. durable peace anywhere in this world as ns leng as 15 other governments go accept Germanys Germany's theory that str strong g nations have ha the right to take the territory of weaker nations ons n against the thc wish wishes of or the people in inthe inthe in inthe the ct CO coveted territory As s lon long a us as maps are drawn without without without with with- out respect to to racial boundaries subject races will be ri dissatisfied and will plan and anti welcome wars for their liberation Weaker nations that have been wrong wronged d will watch for fol the opportunity to take back b by force what has been taken from them by b force Partisans of the kaiser in this country advance the proposition that more than once in the p past st the United States F has done dunc what it now no says Sl German Germun and other countries must not do They point to our annexations of Louisiana Texas the thc Philippines Porto Rico etc and aud ask if we wc ourselves have n e clean clenn hands The answer is simply that the United States Stales has hs never nc taken any In territory whose inhabitants wished to remain subjects subjects subjects-of of the country from which the territory was taken The Tho Louisiana purchase c found no objectors in the vast empire Capin west vest of the Mississippi which way waB n ceded to this country by hy Napoleon 1 The lC nm bC god bo-god e for annexation for years before they were ere finally taken into the union The Filipinos and 1111 Porto Ricans nilai verc gl glad 1 to escape from their Spanish h oppressors sors No 1 O voice Cl was raised in Alaska against annexation to the United States But Bitt the people of Lorraine Alsace strenuously objected objected objected ob ob- to annexation to Germany That bat th they y should have la been heen forced to he become DUlc subjects of the Gorman German government gay gov eminent was a moron and that the world should have haYe permitted this in ill 1871 is e evidence that the lie world orld then had hud far different notions of or justice than it if to have h today I Because th there rc has really been heen moral pro ress progress since irce 1871 Lorraine Alsace will ill be returned to o France Prance And when the neap ci lers Ierg nt at a the table have finished their work t the e o cs will ill bo he no lice free l' l e. e the subject races within the confines of or the Anstr TIun o atlan g boundaries will be he t no longer io 11 Cl and the tho principle will it have hl been forever established that no nation nation nation na na- tion has the right to m another other ration nation ju jn t ju-t t because because be be- cause Cluse it has lins the rower power i t l q n Orders have ha been is issued prohibiting girls to wear my any part of a sailors sailor's uniform censorship rules are arc also considered all an a sailor crin can leave his sweetheart sweethearts i s k memory t Everything E roes goes oe to help heIJ win Hip r war nr Educators urge irge students to l keep cep with their studies studios to help win will the he and Chicago closes her schools war for the same saute purpose e. e fe it t i ri I Back u us uP up is s 's ad advice ice to the nation When hen Germany roads rends it the tho middle word no doubt will wille be e deleted Ms R m ME Wo e 9 must must a pl more common mou sense to our diet declares declares de el- clares a professor profesor of home bome economics That's about all III food 1001 control and anti hi lugli IT Jt no prices paces ft a R have hate left us |
