The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-12-25
WORLD PEACE
BY AGREEMENT
Vice President Marshal Endors
es Plan for Permanent
League of Nations.
TREATIES BASED UPON
JUSTICE is THE REMEDY
Should Include Trade Agree
ments Reciprocal in Nature,
Just and Therefore Beneficial
to All Parties.

Carlisle, Pa, Dec. 2O.-Flce- -PreSI-
dent Marshall in an address here to-
night before the Carlisle Chamber Of
Commerce, gave his views on some
questions now under discussion in
connection with the peace conference
prefac;ng his remarks with the eX-
planation that he had no thought Of
endeavoring to affect President VIII
sons negotiations.
On the question Of a world league
or understanding to prevent war,
which he said, all right thinking men
agree is desirable Mr.. Marshall de-
c!ared that until al men are Of good
will wars will not cease unless ma
tons desire peace at any price. He
said. the allies and the United States
could so very far towards promoting
peace but predicted that unless trade
agreements are made between these
associated nations existing cordial re-
,ations can not last.
Ure extension of the American
merchant marine he voiced opposition
to government ownership but declar-
ed it prefera bic to a ship subsidy.
1T is farthest from my thought
upon this occasion to utter single
word which might in any manner be
construed as endeayoring to affect the
negotiations Of the president in Eu-
rope" said the vice president. TOO
many half baked opinions coming
from myself and others in public life
may cause mental and moral indlges-
ton I speak, therefore only in gen.
eral terms and go Only to the length
that all may agree.
That some league or understand
'ng among civilized peoples for the
| prevention of certain future wars Gas
I prefer to put it rather thar for the
enforcement Of pcace) is desirable, al
right thinking men agree. 1t has beer
I the dream Of all ages. Thus far, this
dream Of universal peace has each
succeeding time turned into night
mare.
This appears to me to be the rea
situation: IF mankind the world ovel
is the mankind of a hundred years
either England, France, Italy Or the
United States contains the CROWNS
germs Of n ilitary or commercial su-
Dremacy, then. though attempt may
be made to preserve the peace Of the
world, the attempt will be another
failure. If, however, the masses OF
mankind IN these four great nations
and in the lesser nations, for whom
Jointly the fight has been made, have
1;<rI, Or
the uselessness and folly Of wars, and
if more and more, education and en-
lightenment as the days go by and
the generations come and go, shall
add to the number of those who thus
think. then the experiment will sue
ceed.
Until all men are men Of good will
wars will not cease entirely, unless
nations want peace at any price. Pre-
vention, as far as possible desire,
at any price, do rot. However, if
mankind, as a whole, desire it at any
price, they can get it by the adoption
Of written constitutions specifying
first. that the size Of the army and
navy shall be fixed by a referendum
age. and second, that no war of often
Sc nor one Of defense beyond the
territorial limits Of the State shall
ever be waged until afirnatfvely o.
cided by a like referendum"
Stating that conn. rcial disputes
breed wars. Mr.. Marshall continued:
''I have Of course no means Of
knowing what the representatives of
the allied government may be willing
to take up with the American peo-
pie at the peace table, but I venture
the assertion that the good will which
now exists between the allied govern
ments and our own will not last five
years unless reciprocal trade relations,
fixed in justice. are arranged between
US. Peoples learn slowly and soon
forget.
The theory that men are going to
deal justly with each other regard
less of 2 law to punish injustice is a
m;llennial dream. The allies and
An rrica.. by reciprocal trade relations
and by the right of power and duty
II cut off commercial transactions
F., lth any people on earth that pro-
poses to disturb the peace Of the
world. can go very far toward pco-
noting that peace which we all just
now sincerely desire. I
Without knowledge, I express the
hope we will not let go by this op-
perfume time for removing what will
be source Of friction II
the future unless dealt with speedily
and justly.
IF no equitable adjustment of til"
business OF the world shall be made
then. as business men who are deep
lN Interested in the commerce CT
you realize as we'll as I do
that its weakness in the past has been
,he lack Of ships upon the sea.
Each of us knows that one Of tho
reasons for that lack has been the
way in which we have insisted that
our ships shall be manned. I think
he La Toilette law is wholly human
tartan in its character. hope that.
oy international agreement. it ma:
become the law Of the sea for all sea-
going overs. But if it does not then
we are confronted with three prop