The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-15
Premier Advocates
 League of Nations
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 States. His was the great vision of league of nations, and our main concern now must be to the saving of Europe for the future of the world. Let us now organize the world against hunger. That will be the best prep aration for the new order of interna- tional good feeling and co-opera- ton.
 ''The position is tragic in the ex- treme. A whole world order is pass ing away. There is danger of things going too far and giving Europe a setback from which she will not re- cover for generations. The evils bred by hunger threaten not merely the old institutions, but civilization. We saved the soul of civilization; now let us care for it's sick body.
 Not only the liberated territories of our allies, not only our small neu- tral neighbors, but the enemy coun- tries themselves require our helping hand. Let us extend it in all gener- osity and magnamity. The idea Of organizing food supplies for those lands will help to purify an atmos- phere cursed with war, hate and un- | truth. It would all have been so much easier if Germany had fought q clean fight and not stained her hands with such crimes, but even so we 1 must be influenced by the larger | considerations. We must feel that il 1 the call to common humanity there are other purposes beside the preven- | tion of war, for which a league Of nations is a sheer, practical necessity. r One of the first steps must be to ere ate an organization against hunger and ration all the countries where dis aster threatens.
 ''The existing inter-allied machin- cry, which is the nucleus of league of nations, probably will undertake this task. In the period of reconstruction after the war, all countries, allied, neutral and enemy, will have to be i rationed for certain raw materials. Here again international machinery is necessary.
 We thus are making straight for a league of nations charged with the performance of these international functions. Then as regards the pri- mary object of the league, from Fin
  be covered with small nations divided lby profound antiquities and most of them with minorities condu- cive to internal weakness. We may, therefore, expect more dangers of wars in Europe than in the past Therefore, it is imperative that we create an international organization to keep peace.
 '"The age of miracles is never past The history of South Africa since the Boer war bears immortal testimony to the wisdom of policy of conciliation. If the victors of this greatest of all wars initiate the temper of Great Brit ain on that occasion, I have hope that the bitterness of this war may lead to a great reconciliation of peoples In the future, perhaps even to the dis appearance of war"
 The issue in the coming elections i: whether the country will endorse tho Lloyd d-George administration. The electoral reform bill adopted by par liament during the summer of 1917 virtually doubled the number oi voters. 1t gave the ballot to al women over 30, men over 21 and sol diers under 21.
 This added six million females anf two million males to the voting lists : MT. Lloyd-George has before hin the difficult task of trying to keep to gether that majority of the conserva tive party which supported his wa measures and enough liberals to givt him a balance of power. The decis i've factors will be how many Liber als will follow him and what the la
 bor party will do.
 So far as Ireland is concerned, tn :, election probably means the almos !, total disappearance of the old Ma . tionalist party of Redmond and Dil
 lon from Westminster. The Sei
 Feiners are expected to sweep south ern Ireland, but the members electe < by the sinR@-Fein always refuse t