The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-21
DISTURBING THE PEACE.

ID court The time for him to object to the peace prin tples Wilson the time when they pre- end the time when they became part of the record While there fighting and Americans being slaughtered Sen ator Lodge either did not desre did not dare, to raise voice of opposition.
 The fourteen principles and some others appeared in the of diplomatic negotiations; the Allies accepted them, with or two reservations the Central Powers adopted hem peace about to be made under conditions long predetermined in large degree Of this peace the four cen principles the most important part.
 Is exceedingly difficult for nations, headed they by conflicting and of contrasting economic ideals agree upon any mutually helpful of action The pres agreement under stress of war; when the way out of deep and awful pain brings the nations han they have been something resembling brother hood and permanent understanding
 Now that the fighting and the danger less apparent men of the Lodge class little imagination and what vision hey entirely employed the past partly from vanity partly from the desire to obtain partisan advantage try to down the understandings that difficult to contrve and Iaggard in realization.
 Lodges labored sulen and quite stupid invecons against the League of Nations rcpeton hundrH years later of the classic objections made to the organization of thirteen colonies into the United States of America.
 There idea that states continue to hate each other to such extent that every few there must be a blood ettng
 All the lessons of civilization are unroled before eyes but he of them. In the very senate where he @ of this process of federation has gone forward and sort years tried to make it criminal
 quarrel between competitive business units, i far the will disagree concerned bitter than the feel ng that produces nations Business organizations
 
 hey restrained by the national laws and held to the social compact
 These bitter quares of competition in business have been often of the so-caIed trusts leagues of business which operate in comparative peace and with the minimum of waste and enmity.
 Switzerland one of the and stable the world is made up of people who scarcely talk to each other They speak three languages represent three widely d vded racial stocks yet dwell in amity have strong govern ment and enjoy prosperity They have agreed upon the cond ons which make the union possible This agreement is the thing It is the compact that counts The compact which gives legality the effort and puts all social forces behind the thing agreed upon.
 If the nations of the world will agree to league themselves for certain purpose and each funds something of its sovereign Ky into the fund that will be done which oeen done beore but upon somewhat larger scale Never the less the project will not be correspondngy difficult
 The difficult thing is the original thing It is hard to do something and better the first tme league of nations whipped and beaten henaons ought to be- and is ntrinscay much less difficult affair." than it originally to form the United States the most stable nation the globe
 Sad it is and passing sad that the President the United States badgered in the face of mankind by calling them- selves Americans who in seeking to make him little, America le and do their unseeing and ignorant best to plunge the world into anarchy unahomabe Lodge may statesman There may have been something the past that he understood and dealt inteligently with.
 He does not understand today None of his sort under stands today Order stability, all existing nsutions all isng governments balanced speak, knife edge All things social economic industrial state of unstable equilibrium With sound and careful leadership everything may yet be we'll
 leadership impaired it's influence weakened it's pur- pose destroyed by meddng by ignorant blind hateful eaouses and self seekng the future has terrible store.
 There is way to be American and only one Stand by American leadership Stand by the American President
 Stand by the world.
 Stand by mankind.