Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1919 — “ALL MUST WORK,” WORD TO FRANCE BY CLEMENCEAU. [ARTICLE]

“ALL MUST WORK,” WORD TO FRANCE BY CLEMENCEAU.

I Paris, July 6.:—[Delayed.]—Premier Clemenceau today began a visit to the devastated regions, entering the zone of protracted warfare at st. Quentin. Everywhere he was given a splendid welcome. ! The premier encouraged the peo- ! pie to question him and bring fori ward any complaints which they had 'to make, and they were not slow in ■so doing. In addressing the popula'tion of St. Quentin, M. Clemenceau ! declared that now that peace is (concluded the work of construction 1 and reform would be the government’s foremost care. “The difficulties we meet at every step,” he said, “cannot be solved by old rules. New methods must be found for new requirements and we must, above all, learn to use that free individual initiative which the republic must strive to develop. It is not good practice for a democratic country to leave everything to. the government. “You will have to rebuild your homes and perhaps the habit thus acquired by the Frenchman of depending on himself to make the effort will contribute to still further democratize our country. You must not think that peace is a contract which ends all difficulties. “No country escapes the law of work. ‘We provide you with the conditions of existence, arid it is for you to make them bear fruit and to, extract from them all benefits. “One of the advantages of peace is that it is based on the unions of peoples who have saved the world. We each have need of the other. “Barbarism is definitely destroyed, 'but only on condition that we all see to it that the stipulations of the treaty are executed.”