674  Address  of  Francis  P.  Garvan  |AmbJc0tU,ri^Larm' 
salesmen  by  which  every  fact  and  circumstance  of  the  four  bil- 
lion dollars  a  year  American  dependent  industries  was  reported  to 
Berlin,  carded  and  charted  there,  taken  into  the  great  industrial 
establishment  at  Grosser  Lichterfeld,  outside  of  Berlin,  and  there 
placed  at  the  disposal  of  competing  German  industry;  the  inventor 
of  the  idea  of  the  purchase  of  the  New  York  Evening  Mail  to  cor- 
rupt our  information;  the  inventor  of  the  idea  of  the  German  Pub- 
lication Society,  formed  to  publish  for  our  delectation  the  literature 
of  German  Kultur;  head  of  the  chemical  exchange,  by  which  all 
available  phenol  supply  in  America  was  turned  away  or  made  in- 
accessible to  the  Allies,"  Mr.  Garvan  concluded : 
"Gentlemen,  personal  responsibility  is  a  thing  that  cannot  be 
escaped.  We  may  go  to  our  graves,  but  there  will  come  forth  from 
the  unforseeable  transmutations  of  destiny  or  from  the  divine  will, 
some  reaction  of  our  unconsidered  acts  or  of  our  deliberate  evasion 
of  the  moral  law  that  may  cause  misery  to  a  multitude. 
"Two  years  ago  there  leaned  against  a  lamp-post  on  the  Bow- 
ery, a  strange  Jew,  with  only  his  landlady's  borrowed  quarter  in  his 
pocket,  only  hate  in  his  heart  and  wrong-thinking  in  his  head.  To- 
day this  man,  Trotzky,  controls  the  destinies  and  happiness  of  three 
hundred  millions  of  Russian  men,  women  and  children.  He,  the 
mouthpiece  of  false  ideas  seized  upon  the  ignorant  and  desperate 
mass  in  the  hour  of  their  agony,  and  has  proved  their  destruction. 
Contrast  his  unwholesome  and  blasphemous  career  with  that  of 
Joan  of  Arc,  who  has  always  seemed  so  human,  so  natural,  so  close 
to  all  of  us,  her  sweet,  simple,  girlish  figure,  sublime  in  her  faith, 
sustained  in  her  virtue  and  mighty  in  the  power  of  her  dominant 
will  and  the  justice  of  her  cause.  She  has  been  with  us  now  for 
hundreds  of  years  and  never  more  so  than  during  this  war  when 
she  staunched  the  heart  of  France  and  led  her  brave  as  of  old. 
As  it  is  with  these  two  individuals  of  humble  origin,  so  it  is  with  the 
highest.  Contrast  the  Emperor  of  Germany,  in  whom  self-love  and 
ambition  had  crushed  out  all  spirituality,  leading  his  people  and  forc- 
ing them  on  in  the  conquest  which  has  brought  such  unspeakable 
misery  and  suffering  to  untold  millions  of  men,  women  and  chil- 
dren— contrast  him,  I  say,  with  that  magnificent  figure,  Cardinal  Mer- 
cier,  that  soul  of  resistance  to  injustice  and  falsehood,  whose  memory 
constitutes  a  solace,  stored  up  for  the  distressed  people  of  all  future 
times. 
