The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-10-24

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of two or three. 1t is for the suffer
ing people, and what | am glad to
know Is that in England, where this
movement for peace and for these
treaties has had wider scope and
has attracted the greatest support, II
has fouud its support mostly among
the British common people. and the
reason is that they realize that it Is
the plain common people who have
TO fight out the war; they are the
food for powder. They cannCl
strut around in feathers and GOLD
lace after the battle. II is they who
have to pay the fiddler, and 1t is they
who ought to object to war. | am
not a blind optimist nor wild en-.
thusiast. ! do not think II we close
these treaties that we are going to
end war at once. Reform are not
accomplished that way. 1t is step
by step that we make the world bet
ter. We don't dream that the world
is improved by some particular rem
edy and find 1t improved the next
morning for breakfast, II is hard
task to walk along the path Of prog.
ress. If we see step that we ma
take in the right direction. then VIC
must take It. What we may reason.
ably look to as an ideal is general
srbtral court supported by the joint
agreement of all the nations, in which
any nation may summon any other
nation that has injured 1t and make
that nation answer at the bar of jus.
tice. The public opinion of all nations
will then enforce the decree and we
will have something that may be a
real substitute for war.
Now Europe is an armed camp.
Every nation is armed to the teeth
in order to protect it's integrity, lest
through some trouble that may arise
war will be declared and then they
will lose their individuality and their
integrity as a nation, and they are
not willing to disarm. We cannot
bring about a movement to disarm
until we have some real substitute
for war in the way of settling these
international controversies. | say, IL
we do have such an arbitral court,
sustained by all the nations, then we
will offer such substitute for war
that they may safely disarm; and
these two treaties that we are now
making are steps toward general
agreement for such a settlement by
arbitration. Now, my friends, you
are the sovereigns. you are my SOW
ereigns. you are my the sovereigns of
your senators and your congress
men. All I can do II to invoke from
you is your sympathy in this contest
fer the ratification of these treaties.
| know your Senator Smoot. He is
in sympathy with me. and / am anx
ious that we should have as many
senator's as possible, because 1t takes
two-thirds of the senate to concur
with the executive before we can
ratify treaty. But so great is the
love of this country for peace that
! do not despair.
Power Of United States.
We have great powerful nation:
we have 90,000,000 of people, we have
resources that exceed those of any
other nation, and everybody knows
that we are not afraid of war, IL war
be necessary, but we occupy such a
position of independence that we
may well say we will let go of these
little excitements to war, we will
overcome the false pride, and we will
stand as moral element In the com.
munity of nations and show that 1t
Is possible for nation to stand as
a great man will stand in the com
munity for morality, for peace and as
an example to all the world.
God did not give us all these ad.
yantages without expecting us to use
them for the benefit of the world at
large. We cannot sit by ourselves
and say we are the biggest, best ma
ton on earth and we will just con
tent ourselves and sit down and
enjoy that contemplation and that
fact. We have to be active; we find
ourselves charged with helping other
nations and we ought to do it. Are W,
going to say to them the senate has
not the power, or that we ought not
to make these treaties for some rea'
son of policy, we will retire from the
van of those who are leading toward
permanent peace? The poor people
of France and of England and OF
Germany are looking to us as na
ton to hel shrdlu shrdlu shrdlu dln
ton without entanglng alliances "a