Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-07-10

all, not to be ephemereal. The concert
Of nations was to continue, under def
mite covenant, which had been agreed
upon and which all were convinced WIS
workable. They could 90 forward with
confidence to make arrangements IN.
tended to be permanent. The most
practical of the eonferees were at last
the most ready to refer to the league
of nations the superintendent of all in.
terests which would not admit of i'm.
mediate determination, of all admins
trative problems which were to require
a continuing oversight. What had
seemed a counsel of perfection had
come to seem plain council of neces.
sity. The league of nations was the
practical ststesman's hope of success in
many of the most difficult things he
was attempting
World Demands Covenant.
And it had validated itself in the
thought of every member of the confer.
enee as something much bigger, much
greater every way, than a mere instru-
ment for carrying out the provisions of
particular treaty. 1t was universally
recognized that all the peoples or the
world demanded of the conference that
ii should create such a continuing con.
cert Of free nations as would make wars
of aggression and spoliation such ~
this that has just ended forever inn
possible. A cry had gone out from
every home in every stricken land from
which sons and brothers and fathers
had gone forth to the great sacrifice,
that such sacrifice should never again
be exacted. 1t was manifest why it
had been exGcted. It had been exaeted
because one nation desired domination
and other nations had known no means
of defense except ornaments and alli-
anees. War had lain at the heart Of
every arrangement of Europe; Of every
arrangements of the world that preeed.
ed the war. Restive peoples had been
told that fleets and armies, which toll.
cd to sustain, meant peace; and they
now knew that they had been lied to;
that fleets and armies had been main
tanned to promote national ambitions
and meant war. They knew that no old
policy meant anything else but force,
fofee-always force. Auef they knew
that il was intolersble. Every true
heart in the world; every enlightened
judgment demanded that, at whatever
cost of independent action, every gov
erHment that took thought for its peo.
pie or for justice or for order. freedom
should lend itself to a new purpose and
utterly destroy the old order OF inter.
national politics.
People Demand League.
Statesmen might see difficulties, .ut
the people could see none and could
brook no denial A wsr in which they
had been bled white to beat the terror
that lay concealed in every balance of
power must not end in a mere victory
Of arm and new balance. The monster
hat had resorted to arms must be put
~ SHaAH7 tttht tVuiN hat VC btoAtHs Aht
united power Of free nations must put
stop to aggression and the world must
be given peace. If there was not the
will or the intelligence TO accomplish
hat now there must be another and
final war ard the world must be swept
lean Of every power that could renew
he terror. The league Of nations was
lot merely an instrument to adjust and
remedy old wrongs under a new treaty of
peace; It was the only hope for man
Kind. Again and again had tae demon
# war been cast out Of the house Of
he peoples and the house swept clean
~ a treaty Of peace; only to prepare
| time when he would enter in again
xith spirits verse than himself. The
house nov must be given a tenant who
,ould hold II against all such. Conven-
eat. indeed indispensable, statesmen
'eand the newly planned league Of na.