Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-27
The League Of Nations Hope.

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The League Of Nations Hope.
Plans for an emergency campaign
precip;tated by the surrender of Ger
many and the approach of the peace
conference were approved by the
| Executive Committee of the League
at it's meeting in New York last Sat =
urday. The basis Of this campaign
will be state and county conventions
to crystalline public opinion in favor
of League of Nations. At the same
time the regular work of the organi-
cation will be quickened in every de-
partment.
One of the most important de-
decisions reached by the Executive
| Committee had to do with the
Leagues platform. The official plat
form was resubmitted to a standing
committee, Of which President Taft is
Chairman, with instructions to revise
as soon as possible. The work of
this platform committee will be in
two divisions. Its first effort will be
! to strengthen and extend the declara-
ton of principles which have stood
without change since the League was
organized in Philadelphia three and
one half years ago. At the same
time the Committee will prepare a
draft convention" which will dis
cuss the details of organization Of a
League Of Nations and attempt to set
| up . complete plan.
Our victory will be hollow one If
militarism is not buried in the same
coffin with Prussianism.
Whatever is done to send militar-
ism to the scrap heap must be ac-
complished at the peace conference.
No other opportunity is likely to offer
while those now living are terrestrial.
Our sacrifices are in vain if we fail
to bring about the highest purpose
reflected in the human heart when
war was at it's worst-the ending Of
all war.
Greed is not dead and cannot be
killed by human agency, and we must
reckon with it now. It's influence is
already felt for continuation Of the
old order, even before the echoes of
war have died away.
The brain of all nations has recog-
nized that permanent peace is i'm
possible without league of free ma
tions pledged to it. All disturbers of
peace must be within the grasp of
world authority. The brutal might of
mobs excited by red flags and radi-
calism is as dangerous as the divine
right Of kings"
Tho insanity of one member of the
family of nations must lie within
duty and care of all the other mem
bers. Common interest compels
adoption Of fundamental agreement
for protection and progress. Abso.
lutism in any land must end that
progress and peace may continue and
prevail. The ill must be cared for
and the criminal restrained, as well
in international affairs as in ma
tional, state, county, municipal or
home. The aggregate must guard
and control the few or the individual.
Groupism must be watched. When
selfish little union of any type,
whether political, industrial, capital or
religious forgets it's duty to THE
Union-to the whole brotherhood-it
should he called to account. So in
international affairs--we must pro-
vide against depredations by the
dangerous while lifting them up to
the level of the best.
The League to Enforce Peace has
made 4 tentative draft of principles
or proposals which it is desirable to
present to a League of Nations:
FIRST: The submission Of all
justiciable questions, not settled by
negotiation, to judicial tribunal for
hearing and judgment.
SECOND: The submission of all
other questions to a Council Of Con-
Citation for hearing and recon-
mendation.
THIRD: The signatory powers
shall use their economic forces
against any one of their number that
refuses to submit any question to an
international tribunal or Council Of
Cancellation before issuing an ulti-
matum or threatening war. They shall
follow this by the joint use Of their
military forces against that nation, If