Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-05

over there were skeptical Of the pos
sibility of forming league of nations.
admitted that IL we could but form 1t, /
| it would be an Invaluable instrumen-.
tally through which to secure the
operation Of the various parts of the |
| treaty; and when that treaty comes
| back. gentlemen on this side will find |
the covenant not only in it, but SO |
many threads of the treaty tied to |
the covenant that you cannot dissect
the covenant from the treaty without |
destroying the whole vital structure. !
The structure of peace will not be vital |
without the league of nations, and no
man is going to bring back q cadaver
with him.
| Il must say that have been puz-
zled by some OF the criticisms; not by
the criticisms Themselves can un-
derstand them perfectly, even when
there was no foundation for them
but by the fact of the criticisms. I
cannot imagine how these gentlemen
can live and not live in the atmosphere
Of the world.
"cAREFUL sELFisHNEss."
II cannot imagine how they can live
and not be in contact with the events
of the times, and I particularly cannot
f1magine how they can be Americans
and set up doctrine of careful self
ishness, throughout to the last detail.
have heard no counsel of generosity
in their criticism. have heard no
constructive suggestion. I have heard
nothing except viii it not be danger
GUS to us to help the worlds? 1t would
be fatal to US not to help 1t.
From the beginning of what will
venture to call the most famous and
the most powerful nation in the world
we would Of sudden have become the
most contemplate. So did not need
to be told, as l have been told, that
the people of the United States would
|, support this covenant. l am an Amer
lean and 1 knew they would.
, What a sweet revenge it is upon
the world. They laughed at us once,
they thought we did not mean our pro-
fessions of principles. They thought
so until April of 1917. 1t was hardly
creditable to them that we would do
/ more than send a few men over and
, go through the forms of helping, and
! when they saw multitudes Fastening
across the sea, and saw what these
multitudes were eager to do when they
got to the other side, they stood
amazed land said, The thing is real;
| this nation Is the friend OF mankind as
t 1t said it was The enthusiasm, the
| hope, the trust, the confidence in the
/ future bred by that, change Of view is
indescribable.
I Take an Individual American and
! you may often find him selfish and
r confined to his special interests, but
t take the American in the mass and he
: is willing to die for an ideal. The
: sweet revenge therefore Is this that
we believed in righteousness and now
we are ready to make the suprem sac
:, rifle for 1t, the supreme sacrifice of
3 throwing In our fortunes with the for
4 tunes of men everywhere.
MI. Taft was speaking of Washing
tons utterances about entangling alli-
v ances, and IL he will permit me to say
r SO, he put the exactly right interpre-
7 tation upon what Washington said, the
: Interpretation that is inevitable il you
t read what he said. as most of these
q gentlemen do not, and the thing that
= he longed for was just what we are
e now about to supply; an arrangement
which will disentangle all the alliances
+ In the world.
!. ALLIANCES uNTANcLEp.
= Nothing entangles, nothing empha-
Is sizes q self combination with some
I body else. Nothing entangles nation
d hampers 1t. binds 1t, any to enter into
Is a combination with some other nation
Il |against the other nations of the world
i. And this great Acknowledgement Of al
v alliances is now to be accomplished
Is by this covenant, because one of ths
n covenants IL that no nation shall enter
n into any relationship with another ma
e ton inconsistent with the covenants Of
n the league Of nations.
% Nations promise not to have ALI.
1t ances. Nations promise not to make
70 combinations against each other. ma
y lions agree that there shall be but on
+, combination. and that is the combina
1t ton Of all against the wrongdoer. ANT
II 30 am going back to my task on tn
lie other side with renewed vigor. I hat
IN not forgotten what the spirit of tn
\ American people IL. but have bee'
Il immensely refreshed by coming In con
T. tact with It again. / did not know
T. how good home felt until / got there
!. Tho only place man can feel q
70 homo y where nothing has to be ex
III planned to him. Nothing has to By ex
d, planned to me In America, least Of al
l. the sentiment Of the American people.
Is II mean about great Fundamental
thinee like this. There are many diff
e ferences Of Judgment a. to policy