Arizona republican., 1919-09-06
Feet Of Address.

My fellow countrymen, we have met upon an occasion which is much too solemn to care how we look. We ought to care how we think, and I have come here tonight to ask per mission to discuss with you some of the very curious alterations of think ing that have taken place in this coun- try of late.
 T have sought think l have sought-wthout prejudice to under stand the point of view of the men NEo have been opposing the treaty ani the covenant of the league of nations. Many of them are men whose judg- ment of patriotic feeling I have been accustomed to admire and respect And yet I must adm1t to you. my fel- low countrymen, that it is very hard fer me to believe that they have al lowed their line of thinking to it's logi- cal and necessary conclusion, because when you reflect upon their position. it is either that we ought to reject this treaty altogether or that we ought to change it in such a way as will make it necessafyata reopen negotia- tions with Germany and reconsider the settlement of the peace in many essen tial particulars.
 Would Stand Alone
 eve cannot do the latter alone, and other nations will not join us in doing it The only alternative is to reject the peace, and to do what some Of our fellow country men have been advlsing us to do-stand alone in the world.
 q want to point out to you that onIy those who are ignorant of the world can believe that any nation. even sa great a nation as the United States can stand alone and play single part in the history of mankind.
 q suppose that most of you realize that if is going to be very difficult tof the other nations that were engaged Tn this war to get financially on then feet again. l dare say you read the other day the statement of MT. Herbert Hoover's opinion, an opinion which l always greatly respect-that 1t will De necessary for the United States lmme- l diately to advance four or five plliien dollars for the rehabilitation Of credit and industry on the other side of the water. and I must say to you that I learned nothing in Paris which would leave me to doubt that conclusion. And I think the statement of the sum is a reasonable and conservative state ment.
 If the world is going bankrupt if credit is going to be destroyed, if the industry of the races of the world is going to be interrupted, our market is confined to the United States and trade will be impossible except within our own borders. If we are to save OUT markets and rehabilitate our own in dustles. we must save the financial situation of the world and rehabilitate the markets of the world.
 Must Revive Industries Of the World
 Germany can't pay for this war un less her industries are revived and the treaty of peace sets up a great com mission known as the reparation com mission in which it was intended that there should be a member from the United States as well as from the other countries and the business of this com mission will be, in part, to see that the industries of Germany are revived in order that Germany may pay this great debt which she owes to civilization. That reparation commission can de- i termine the currents of trade, the con- ditions of credit of international credit, it can determine how much that Ger many is going to buy, where it is go- ing to buy and how it is> going to pay for it. and if we, to save ourselves. contribute to the financial rehabilita- ton of the world then without being members of this partnership we must put our money in the hands of those who want to get the markets that belong to us-
 That is what these gentlemen call playing a lone hand. It is indeed play ing a lone hand, it is playing hand that is frozen out We must contribz ute the money which other nations are to use in order to rehabilitate their in- dustry and credit, and we must make them our antagonists and rivals and not our partners. I put that proposi- ton to any business man, young or old, in the United States and ask him how he likes it, and whether he con siders that a useful way for the United States to stand alone. We have got to carry this burden of reconstruction. whether we will or not be ruined. and the question is shall we carry it and be ruined anyhow, for that is what these gentlemen propose that at every point we shall be embarrassed by the whole financial affairs of the world