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tention, but they lay then through a
united empire, the Austro- Hungarian
empire, whose integrity Germany was
bound to respect as her ally law in the
path of that line Of conquest; the Turk
1ish empire, whose interests she profess
ed to make her own, lay in the direct
path that she intended to tread.
| "And now what has happened? The
Austro Hungarian empire has gone to
pieces and the Turkish empire has dis
appeared, and the nations that effected
that great result--for 1t was result
OF liberation-are now responsible as
the trustees of the assets of those great
nations. You not only would have
weak nations lying in this path, but
you would have nations in which that
old, poisonous seed of intrigue could be
planted. with the certainty that the
crop would be abundant; and one of
the things that the league of nations is
intended to watch Is the course of in
trigue. Intrigue cannot stand public
ity, and IL the league Of nations were
nothing but great debating society, 1t
would kill intrigue.
ut is one of the agreements of this
covenant that 1t Is the friendly right
Of every nation member of the league
to call attention to anything that it
thinks will disturb the peace of the
world. no matter where that thing is
occurring.
There is no subject that may touch
the peace of the world which Is exempt
from inquiry and discussion, and ]
think everybody here present will agree
with me that Germany would never
have gone to war il she had permitted
the world to discuss the aggression
upon Serbia for a single week.
EUROPE HEART-sick.
"The British foreign office suggest
ed. it pleaded, that there might be q
day or two delay, so that the repre-
sentatives of the nations OF Europe
could get together and discuss the
possibilities of settlement. Germany
did not dare permit days discussion
You know what happened. So soon a.
the world realized that an outlaw wa.
at large, the nations began one by one
to draw together against her.
I'VE know for a certainty that Il
Germany had thought for q moment
that Great Britain would go in with
France and with Russia, she never
would have undertaken the enterprise
and the league of nations is meant a.
a notice to, all outlaw nations that no
, only Great Britain, but the United
, States and the rest of the world, will
, go in to stop enterprises of that sort
, And SO the league of nations is moth
, ing more nor less than the covenan
, that the world will always maintain
the standards which 1t has now vindi
: Gated by some of the most precious
. blood ever split.
J 1.-THE liberated peoples of the Aus
tro- Hungarian empire and of tn
: Turkish empire call out to us for thi
thing. It has not arisen in the council
of statesmen. Europe is bit sick a
heart at this very moment because
e is seen that statesmen have had n
r vision, and that the only vision ha
r been the vision Of the people. Thos
e who suffer see. Those against WHOM
9 wrong Is wrought know how desirabl
S is the right and the righteous.
l. THE nations that have long bee
: under the heel of the Austrian, tina
have long covered before the German
e that have long suffered the indescrib
s able agonies of being governed by tn
i Turk, have called out to the worlt
y generation after generation. for jus
tice. for liberation, for succor; and n
cabinet in the world has heard then
TREASURE POURED OUT.
Private organizations, pityin
hearts. philanthropic men and wome
have poured out their treasure in or
der to relieve these sufferings; but n
nation has said to the nations respon
n sible, you must stop; this thing is in
n tolerable, and we will not permit II
! And the vision has been with the pee
pie.
.My friend. wish you would re
d fleet upon this proposition. The visio
i as to what Is necessary for great re-
l. forms has seldom come from the to
d in the nations of the world. It ha
v come from the need and the aspiratio
" and the self assertion of great bodi,
l. of men who meant to be free. And
can explain some of the criticism
i which have been leveled against tn
!. great enterprise only by the suppos
1t ton that the men who utter the crit
"a cisms have never felt the great pull!
i of the heart Of the world.
,s And l am amazed-not alarms
rs but amazed that there should be
t, some quarters such comprchensi'
D. ignorance of the state of the worl
liz These gentlemen do not know VIII
IN the mind OF men is. just now. Ever.
Id body else does. do not know whe
ut they have been closeted,I do not kno
err by what influences they have BET
Blinded; but do know that they ha'
been separated from the general Gu
T. rents of the thought of mankind.
WI And / want to utter this solen
We warning. not in the way OF threa
w the forces OF the world do n
nd threaten, they operate. The gre
DO tides of the world do not give mott
en- that they are going to rise and ru
they rise In thar ma ieatY and owe