The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-27
FOR END OF WAR AND
 HEAVY TAXES Asks People of Connecticut to Urge Their Senators to Work for World Unity. WORKMEN OF EUROPE
 WANT THE LEAGUE Lodge, Borah and Knox De nounced As Wilful Ob-
 structionists of Program.

Appealing to the people to exert their influence all over the country in urging that the United States join the League of Nations, Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale University, addressing a large audience at the Peoples church last night, stated his reasons why it is of supreme necessity that a League of Nations be formed at the present peace conference. He noted the three senators, Lodge, Borah and Knox, who have been very active in their opposition to such a league, urging it's postponement, which Prof. Fisher believes would tend to shelve it for all time.
 The workingmen in Europe, he as- serted, are all for a League of Ma tfons, while here it is just the oppo- site, because here they have not yet grasped the meaning of it. If they would only understand that the mill lions of trained men, millions of am- munitions, and airships are only the beginning of fitting this country for competition with other nations in greatness, which means more and more crushing taxes for them; if they would comprehend that every new invention in militarism means pre- paration for a greater war and more taxes again, perhaps they would listen to reason and do their utmost to see that the United States join the League of Nations, which is heartily advocat- ed by President Wilson
 Either we must compete with the rest or combine with the rest" said Prof. Fisher. There is no value in competation, but there is in combina- tion."
 He said that there are reasons for more quaTrels because war begets war and that this world quarrel will surely leave sores which will not be healed Tor generations, deeper sores than those left, for instance, by the Franco Prussian war. In order to have a . stable peace, machinery to handle the growing volume of questions and con- troversies as routine matter, must be provided. just as the courts, to han dIe the numerous personal quarrels in any civilized community.
 With a true peace league each mem ber-nation would have double re- straint from attacking any other member. It would be restrained by It's own promise to submit its griev- arces to arbitration, and, what is more essential, it would be restrained by the fact that to fight any other member would mean to fight all other members, he declared. Instead of racing to get as large an army as the rest, the race would be to keep the quota as small as the rest.
 If France and Germany were both members of such Q league, ! would France any longer keep a large standing army? Not for defense against Germany, since England, | Russia, Italy, the United States, and ] other nations would have agreed 1 through the league to assume that | defense for her." said Prof. Fisher. | "If this war, the civil war of Europe, | should lead to cementing the concert l of the powers into a world federation, | it may yet be worth all it costs"
 Concluding, he said with a League l of Nations, we shall not only save i the risk of war, but we will also get | rid of those enormous taxes. I ap- | peal to the people of Connecticut to | write to their two senators and urge them to advocate and appreciate the supreme necessity of a League of Nations"