The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-17

country building ito own railroad or
by all pooling their interests and each
having equal rights Great highways
for automobile trucking could be con-
structed-
Terminals TO Ne Free Ports.
Both terminals should be free ports.
Both have almost unlimited docking IA.
cilities SO that II would give these freed
countries the opportunity of sending out
their merchandise or importing their raw
material through a warm water or
through a cold water port
ut might be contended that ports on
the Danube would largely serve thie
same purpose, but unlimited transporta-
ton Is not practicable on any river In
the way that It would be upon a
tract of this sort
The expense to private owners could
be adjusted between tho peoples inter-
osted. The cost OF the railroad. rolling
stock, highways. TERMINAL facilities. &c,
would be a matter of simple adjustment
between the different peoples"
Senator Hitchcock said that America
would appear at the peace table to dis
cuss the terms Of settlement as the
champion and advocate OF great prin-
ciples long familiar to the American peo-
pie and many times proclaimed TO friend
and foe during the war IN matchiess
phrases and with convincing logic by
President Wilson"
Peace. he said, was to be established
ION an everlasting basis. accompanied
by gradual disarmament and the es-
tablishment OF a league OF nations" II
the high purposes for which the United
States stands sounded 20 the cynic
utopian. the Senator would remind him
that the Declaration Of Independence
sounded utopian in l77e.
Objects to the Meeting.
I'VE are here tonight" Senator Hitch
cock added. ito welcome into renewed
existence two great nationaiities, Poland
and Bohemia to do honor to the dis
tinguished scholar and statesman who
has just been elected President of the
! Czecho-Slovak people. We are here to
! give assurance that the American peo-
Pile are heart and soul with President
Wilson In his demand that generations
Of oppression and nisrule must end and
| that the Polish people. the CZechs, the
| Jugo-Slavs and all others capable OF
self-determination and self-government
shall have the opportunity"
Immediate Organization OF the League
OF Nations by the Allies and the United
States was advocated by DR.. Butler as
the first practical step toward the for
NAL organization OF the freed peoples.
DR.. Butler said:
This league should not stop to work
out and adopt any elaborate plan Of
! organization. All that can come later.
For the present Il should content itself
with the statement OF O few simple
definite purposes. which are. in effect.
those for which the Allies have been
lighting. When the league Il thus
formed. invitations should be extended
to the nations hitherto neutral to DO
'ome members. The next step should
be to take up In turn the case OF each
II the proposed new nations and to coop
| crate with their peoples in establishing
them upon a firm foundation.
Questions Of boundary and OF eco
nomic independence should be submitted
to and passed upon by the League OF
| Nations. whose representatives SHOULD
then offer TO police the territory OF the
! new nation while its citizens were taking
the necessary steps to elect constituent
assembly, to adopt a stable form OF
government. and to organize their pub
lie life under Il. When that has been
done, each nation In turn should be ad-
mitted to the League of Nations.
! IAN this should be done before the
question of the future status OF Ger
| -'any. Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and
Turkey Is taken UP for determination.
The new peoples who have suffered so
| ,ong and so much at the hands of Ger
many and her late associates should GER
| tainly share in the determination OF the
question as to what terms. political.
economical and financial. must be COM
nlied with by Germany, Austrta-Hun-
gary and Bulgaria befors they can he
admitted to the League of Nations.
There are no circumstances under which
Turkey could BIO go admitted, and Aus
tr!a-Hungary Is falling apart so rapidly
that It will not be possible 70 deal with
Z in the form in which It existed in
1914.
1T is unthinkaole that Germany and
her accomplices should be consulted as
to the terms upon which League OF Ma
tons Is TO be formed or that they should
have any part whatever In establishing
the new nationalities that are Just COM
ing out from the Teuton!c, the Magyar
and the Ottoman yoke.
DR.. Masaryk. who was greeted with
special enthusiasm. said It was now
evident that the aim OF both the war
and of coming peace was the recon
struction OF easter. Europe. meaning
Prussia. Austria Hungary RUSSIA ano
Turkey.
DR., Masaryk's Address.
In his view the world was witnessing
the dawn Of humanity as an. organ
q. lied unit" He concluded:
America proclaimed this principle o.
liberated mankind. as President Wilson
defined IT, America has TO territorial
claims IN Europe. Americas policy car
and must be a policy OF principle; tina
ia the unique position OF the Unitec
States, and II gives your President hi
international authority. There is say
;nr .Noblesse oblige.' say democrac,
ob!iges; It was the moral duty OF tn
United States to Join in the war; !
is the moral duty OF the United State
TO help the oppressed and the weak