The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-06
Charges Passion.

ISd'y 10 W impair one OF the first char
ters OF mankind. And yet there are men
who approach the question with pas
sion. with private passion and party
passion, who think only of some i'm
mediate advantage to themselves or to
a group OF their fellow countrymen, and
who look at the thing with the jaun-
diced eyes OF those who have some pri-
ate purpose Of their own.
When at last, in the annals Of man
KIND, they are gibbeted they will regret
that h gfbbet Is so high.
i would not have you thlnk that
am trying to characterize those who con-
cicntiously object to anything In this
great document, l take off my hat in
the presence of any mans genuine con-
science, and there are men who are
tcnscientiously opposed to it, though
they will pardon me IL l say ignorantly
opposed. | have no quarrel with them.
II has been a great pleasure to confer
with some of them-and TO tell them
as frankly as | would have told my most
intimate friend, the whole inside of my
mind and every other mind that l knew
anything about that had been concerned
with the conduct of affairs at Paris
In order that they might understand this
thing and go with the rest of us In the
confirmation of what is necessary for
the peace of the world.
Il have no intolerant spirit In the
hesNAN l. bhADp NR1ouAS VI NAoN "
the bottom Of feet to the top Of my
head | have got a fighting spirit about
II. And II anybody dares to defeat this
great experiment, then they must gath
er together the counselors of the world
and do something better.
IF there Is a better scheme, | for
me will subscribe to it, but ! want to
say now as | said the other night, 1t is
case Of put up or shut up. Negation
will not save the world. Opposition
constructs nothing. Opposition Is the
speciality ow those who are Bolshevistic-
ally inclined.
Again I assure you l am not COM
pairing any Of my respected colleagues
to Bolshevlsts; but | am merely pointing
out that the Bolshevistic spirit lacks
every element of constructive opposi-
ton. They have destroyed everything
and they have proposed nothing. ZAP
plause and cheers.)
horrence for political Bolshevism, ]
hope that there will not be such thing
grow up in our country as international
B~olshevism, the Bolshevism that de-
stroys the constructive work of men
who have con%seientiously striven to &C.
the good feeling Of the great peo-
pies of the world.
Vision Big One.
ut is not a great vision. my fellow
citizens, this of the thoughtful world
great peoples of the world associated
to see that justice Is done, that the
strong who intended wrong are re-
strained and that the weak who AN
not defend themselves are made Sc
cure? We have a problem ahead of
Us that ought to interest us in this
We have promised the
~ thu Dhiltnnfnn iallnda fhlf wa
will set them free. 1t has been one
of our ~perplexities how we should make
them safe after we set them free.
Under this arrangement they will be
safe from the outset. They will become
members of the league of nations and
every great nation in the world VIII be
obliged to respect and preserve against
external aggression from any quarter
the territorial integrity and political in
dependence of the Philippines. 1t sim
plifies one Of the most perplexing prob
lens that has faced the American re-
public.
'It does not simplify our problems
merely, gentlemen, 1t illustrates the
triumph OF the American spirit. / don't
want to attempt any flight of fancy but
| can fancy those men of the first gem
Grafton of Washington, Hamilton, PEI
ferson and the Adamses-I can fancy
their looking on with a sort OF en-
raptufeO amazeTnenl tHdl lHc ahcii
can spirit should have made conquest
Of the world.
IF anything that ! have said has left
the impression on your mind that |
have he least doubt OF the result, please
dismiss the impression. And II you
think / have come out on this errand to
fight anybody please dismiss that from
your mind, | have not come to fight
or antagonise n individual or body or
individual. l have, let me say, without
the slightest affection, the greatest re-
spect for the senate Of the United
States, but my fellow citizens have
come out to fight for a cause. That
cause is greater than the senate; 1t is
greater than the government. 1t Is as
great as the of mankind, and !
Intend, in office or out. to Ugh that
battle as long as l live. MY ancestors
were troublesome Scotchmen, ana
among them were some Of that famous
group that were known as the
nanters, Very well, there is the
nant of the league of nations, am a
~oovenanter,"