The sun., 1918-12-30

admiration society with the Sermon on
tie Mount for a constitution and The
Apostolic Greed for q guide" and the
chief trouble OF his vision 'is hat Il
can only be realized in Heaven
Objects TO World Tribunal.
He dismissed the second plan. that in
which the litigants shall submit all dis
putes to a tribunal but be free to obey
or disobey according 20 ''their own
hearts sweet content" as i~nnocuous. The
third plan. by which the league is ito
no backed by an international army,
powerful enough to compel all nations
to obey the decree rendered." he con-
si1ered the only proposition with sub
stance to II. but made this comment
Leagues OF peace will I,O, Keep tho
peace when nations grow mad enough
to go to war. IN this connection, con-
slider the fact that America has had
but ono real war. II was between the
peoples OF these States. They were OF
common blood.
N''Inspfred by the sarne ideals. wor-
shipping the same God, governed by
he same fundamental code of law,
stirred by the same hopes, connected
by ties OF intermarriage, commerce,
business and interest, they were also
leagued together by the terms Of the
wisest constitution ever formed by man.
and yet for four years they waded
through the blood over so miserable a
question az the enslavement OF n few
blacks
Senator Reed maintained that the re-
straint OF p~ostponing warfare until the
matter has been thoroughly threshed
out in negotiations might sometimes be
equivalent to suicide. since there are
cases., he declared. when a nation must
strike instantly or 20 to It's death. A
historic illustration cited by him was
the attempt of a Japanese syndicate to
buy a large tract Of land at Magdalena
Bay. and Its Illustration by the possiA
bility OF armed intervention unless the
sale were stopped. He eaid:
Nov suppose that Japan had been in
deadly earnest n we had been bound
by some treaty or lea gue to wait twelve
months before taking action. BY that
time Magdalena Bay could have been
placed under the guns OF impregnable
fortresses and 1000 600 japanese sol
d'ers landed upon Mexican soil. II prob
ably would have cost us hundreds of
thousands OF lives to effect their dis
~lodGment'
Hopes Wars Are at End.
ttpl- tluui1Es, dlIeT reviewing I1e
various forms suggested for the league,
emphasized the paint that so far in his
tory consolidation OF divergent nations
has been effected only in two ways-by
conquest and by n dra wing together for
mutual protection OF kindred peoples
Consolidation by conquest" he said,
we profoundly hope will not again be
attempted. Unless the war from which
the world is now emerging has settled
that point. il has settled nothing. Tn
happily. however. nothing has yet hap
pened in history 10 dIsillu~ton the half
educated d-eamers. and I fear that they
are a multitude that no man can num-
Der who believe that peoples OF all races
and languages, irrespective of political
experience. can come together and dwell
IN ~brotherly love by merely willing 10
do SO and signing a written instrument
OF good intentions. Such an attempt
would end only IN cabal and con-
sp,racies, n az last a line up OF r.
reconciiable factions. like that which
prectpitated the civil var In the United
States.
1T is reasonably certain that the reo-
pie OF the United States and the Entente
Allies are fully aware that a working
league Of nations must have as its nu-
cleus n organizing power the group
OF civilized nations that understand one
another, that have common ideals and
sympathIes. and can therefore freely and
without too much exertion OF sheer will
power cooperate In common undertake
ings. In this group there is an inner
nucleus and It consists of the English
speaking peoples OF the world. u these
peoples an hold together and work to-
Gethe~ there will be an effective league
OF nations. II they cannot, the whole
ide. IL visionary and hopeless"
Mr. Strous said our entrance into THE