Arizona republican., 1919-09-06

amazing ignorance that the covenant of the league of nations was an ar rangement for war. Very well. The other arrangement, what would it be? i An arrangement for peace, for kind Illness, for cooperation? Would every body beckon US to their markets?
 T can not bring my credulity up to l that point I have reached years of discretion. And have met some very young men who understand a great deal more than some very old men.
 And what is the meaning? It is hat the covenant of the league of na- that the covenant of the league of na- discussion.
 Has anybody ever told you that be- l fore? 1 dare say that everybody you 1 have heard about this discusses article l ten.
 well, there are 25 other articles in it and all of them are about something else.
 Must Stick to End
 "They discuss how soon and how quick we can get out of it. Well, am not a, quitter for one. We can get out just as soon as we want to but We don't want to get out just as soon as we get in.
 And then they talk about the Mon roe doctrine when it expressly says 1 that nothing in that instrument shall be construed as affecting in any way the validity of the Monroe doctrine. It says so in so many words. And all the other things they talk about draw your attention for the essential matter.
 "The essential matter is this; All members of that league and it nf the world except Germany. promise that they will never go to war without first submitting the questions at issue to arbitration and absolutely abiding by the decision of the arbitrators. Or,
 if they are not willing to submit it to l arbitration, submit it to discussion by the capital council of the league, that 1 they will give the council of the league 1 six months in which to consider it, and | that if they do not like the opinion of the council, theywill wait three months after the opinion is rendered before going to war.
 "This afternoon book had forgot ten all about, one of the campaign books of the last political campaign, was put in my hands and 1 found in 1 that book the platforms of the two par l ties, and in both those platforms they
 advocated just such an engagement as
 the league of nations.
 "When I was on the other side of the water l did not know that l was taking obeying orders from both
 parties But was.
 Now I want you to understand my
 fellow citizens, that I didn't leave Washington and come out on this trip
 because I doubted what was going to happen. I didn't. For one thing wanted to have the pleasure of leaving ; Washington and for another thing . wanted to have the very much greater pleasure of feeling the inspiration that 3 would get from you. Things get very , lonely in Washington some times. The r real voice of the great people of Amer ica sometimes sounds faint and dis
 tant. In that strange city you hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas. "This nation went into the war tc
 see it through to the end and the end
 has not come yet. This is the begin ming not of the war but of the processes which are going to render war like this impossible There are no other process
 es than these that are proposed in this
 great treaty. It is a great treaty. Il
 is a treaty of justice.
 "We are in the presence, therefore of the most solemn choice that this people was ever called upon to make
 That choice is nothing less than this Shall America redeem her pledges tC ; the world? America is made up of the
 peoples of the world, and she has sait : to mankind at her birth: We have
 come to redeem the world by giving il liberty and justice Now, we are called , upon before the tribunal of mankind tC s redeem that immortal pledge"