Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
BISHOP OF OXFORD
ARRIVES IN N. Y.
Comes Out Strongly For a
League of Nations
After War

men, the Right Rev. Charles Gore,
Bishop of Oxford, and frank ad-
vocate of a league of nations, and
the Rev. Arthur T. Cutlery, of Liv-
erpool, head of the Primitive Meth
odist Church of England. who is re-
garded as one of the foremost nom
conformist clergymen in England
have arrived in New York. They
come in behalf of the National
Committee on Churches and Moral
Aims of the War, and are to make
a two months speaking tour in lead
ing cities of this country,
The clergymen went to the Yale
Club, where Bishop Gore said that
they came to America to cement tho
moral friendship of the two nations
and TO prove that England aopreci-
stes the utterances and aims of
President Wilson, while DIR. Cutlery
said that they were here to assure
the American people that tho
Christian churches of England and
Wales were determined to see tho
war through until Germanism, n
great moral evil was condemned
and punished. 81 am to tell Amer
leans" he said. that the English
free churchmen look upon President
Wilson and Lloyd George as tho
two strongest men on the planet.
Bishop Gore said that he also was
hero to find out how American labor
felt in regard to the wars aims. He
referred to the telegram sent him
by Samuel Gompers Just before tho
Bishop left England. saying that Mr..
Gompers would like TO see him while
he was abroad. He regretted that
il was impossible, but added that he
believed Mr.. Gompers would be OF
great assistance to English labor IN
assisting in solving their problems.
The Bishop went on to say:
Many feel that we have to leave
the military operations to the army
and navy, but we civilians must all
do our best to keep our minds on
the right objects. l suppose the war
is so absorbing that one comes to
lose. a sense of the end in waging
it. What we need is to keep the
moral end uppermost, If we can.
one reason | appreciate so highly
coming here is that | consider no
man has done so much toward this
as your President Wilson.
II feel like Lord Grey and Presi-
dent Wilson that in many countries
we must view the future with some
thing like despair if we were TO so
on after the war building armaments
against one another, and there Is
hope that springs up out or despair
we do not believe that our civiliza-
tion is to go under. If it is not. we
must unite all forces which make
for liberty and justice to make war
impossible And it seems to me the
more dem mocratic the nations be-
come, the more chance there will be
for such a league: that is to say,
the more we must rely on public
sentiment and not on secret nego-
tiations.
II do not underestimate the diff
Culties of such league. of nations,
but they can be overcome If we get
a sufficient force of public opinion.
We must arrive at some basis 10
make war as difficult as possible.
nv far the most efficient instrument
is a league of nations which would
he specifically based on the princi-
ple of substitution of arbitra ton for
war. | hope there will be such
hatred and horror of war as will sup
plv motive power enough to make
n league of nations possible. l rec
ogniZe the need of the employment
of force as a last resort, in the case
where Il recalcitrant nation might
not agree to the settlement arrived
at but | am inclined to lay particu-
lar stress on the opportunity OF
bringing economical forces to pear.
Force. as a last resort, could he re-
sorted to as q final measure. by the
nations comprising the league all
working together.
"In England now there is an en-
tremely strong force of public opin-
ion rising which. | think. Will JUSTIFY
statesmen in doing much that would
have been impossible some years
ago"
AS to England and France not de-
string n league of nations, the Bish-
on said that. while he was not in
nosition to speak for the latter ma
tion there were doubtless forces in
England secretly opposed to such
league. but he felt sure the minds
of a majority of the people were de-
tern,ined that there should be an
end of war.
"It is the first time in my expert
once that the small village people
have come to think about it, and
they are responding to it to re-
markable extent. | believe that the
opponents of such an idea as the
league of nations will hardly dare to
EXPRESS themselves after this war Is
over At any rate the inertia is less
now throughout England, and up to
now that has perhaps been the
greatest obstacle of a league of ma