The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-05

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Private organizations, plying
. hearts, philanthropic men and WON.
, en-. have poured out their treasure In
no nation has said to the nations re-
sponsibie. You must stop: this thing
! ts intolerabie, and we will not permit
IT. {Appiause)
/ 'And the vision has been with the
people. My friends, l wish you would
reflect upon this proposition: The
vision as TO what r. necessary for great
reforms has seldom come from the top
in the nations OF the world. II has
come from the need and the asptra-
lion and the seif-assertion of great
ftApplause Ana 4 car tex prafS 3sso,sis
ef the. csAtiaispss which. have been lev,
clied against this enterprise only by
the suprosition that the men who ut
ter the criticisms have never felt the
great pulse OF the heart of the world.
{Aprlause and cheers.l
And ] am amazed. not alarmed,
but amazed tapplauso) that there
should be in some quarters such
comprehensive ignorance OF the state
of the world. tApplause,l These
gentiensen do not know what the mind
OF men liz just now Everybody else
does. Lsughter.l ! do not know
not know by what inf aence they have
been blinded, but do know that they
have been separated from the general
currents OF the thought OF mankind.
! [Applause.)
/ And I want 10 utter this solemn
warning, not IN the way OF threat:
the forces IF the world do not threat
! en-, they operate (Appiause.1 The
great tides Of the world do not give
notice that they are going to rise and
run. they rise in their majesty and
overwhelming might and those who
stand in the way are erwhelmed.
| Now the heart Of the world In awake
and the heart of the world must be
Erat!fied O.
DO not let yourself suppose for
moment that the uneasiness in the
populations of Europe is due entire
lly 10 economic causes or economic
motives; something very much deep
| err uC9erlies il all than that. They
see that their governments never
have been abba 70 defend them against
intrigue or aggression and that there
is no force of foresight or of prudence
In any modern cabinet to stop war
And therefore they say: There must
be some fundamental cause for this
And tho fundamental cause they are
beginning TO perceive 10 he that ma
lions have stood sFngly or in little
Jealous groups against each other fos-
.tering prejudIccs increasing The dan
ger Of war. rather than concerning
measures to prevent It: and that If
there is right in the world. if there is
Justice in the world there Is no rea-
son why nations shoule bc DIVIDED In
Ithe support Of Justice. applause
For BENEFITS Of Mankind.
'"They are therefore saying II you
really believe that there is "a right. If
you really believe that wars ought 10
be stopped. stop thinking about rival
interests of nations ana think about
men and women and children
throughout the world great APP
plause), Nations are not made 70
afford distinction to their rulers by
way OF success in the maveuvers Of
politics; nations are meant, If they are
meant fer anything. to make the men
and women and children In them Sc
cure and happy and prosperous tan
piause), and no nation has the right
10 get up it's special interests against
the interests and benefits OF mankind
/, (appiause1, least of all this great ma
ton which we love fapplause)
TT was set up for the benefit of
mankind; II was set up to illustrate
! the highest ideals and to achieve the
highest aspirations OF men who want
ed to be free. and the world. the
world OF today, believes that and
counts on us. and would be thrown
hack into the biaelSness ~ despair II
I've deserted 1t. GApplause1
Il have tried once and again. my
fellow citizens. TO say TO little circles
, of friends or to largo bodies what
seems To be the real hope OF the peo-
pie OF Europe, and ! tell you frankly
have not been able to do so. be-
cause when the thought tries to crowd
itself into speech, the profound emo
ton OF the thing is too much speech
wifi not carry. ] have felt the trag-
edy of the hope Of these suffering peo-
pies 1t is tragedy because II is a
hope which cannot be realized in it's
perfect'au and yet ! have felt besi6es
its tragedy. it's coElpuision, Its com
pulsi0n upon every living man to ex-
ercise every influence that he has to
the utmost to see that as little az pos
sible of that hope is disappointed, be-
@bscaase II mon CANNOT uSaawy after ,Ihia
agony of bloody sweat, come to their
self possession and see how to resu-
late the affairs of the world, we will
sink back into a period Of struggle in
which there viii he no hope. and
therefore no mercv.
! There can he no mercy where
there is no hope, for why should you
spare another IL you yourself expect
VI pCflSi WY Siiouto you DS pun
ii you can get no pity Why should
you be Just If, upon every hand. you
arc put upony
Temper Of the World.
There is another thing which
think the critics Of this covenant have
not observed. They not only have not
observed the temper Of the world. hut
they have not even observed the tenn
per OF those splendid boys in khaki
that they sent across the seas.
! have had the proud consciousness Of
the reflected glory OF those boys. be-
cause the constitution made me- their
com Tander-i in chief tappiause), and
they have taught me some lessons.
! when we went into the war we
went into it on the basis OF declara-
lions which 1t was my privilege to
utter. because ! believed them to be
an Interpretation Of the purpose and
thought OF the people OF the United
States tapplause).
! And those boys went over there
with the feeling that they were sa-
crediy bound to tho realization OF
those ideals. that hey were rot only
going over there to beat Germany;
they were not going over there merely