The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-09-16
now the catastrophe has come. Blood !!

now the catastrophe has come. Blood
has been spilled in rivers and nations
have been destroyed and they made
up their minds that rather than have
this happen again if the governments
can not get together they will de-
stroy the governments.
''But in the meantime look at the
things that are happening. There is
not day goes by that my heart is
not heavy to think of the things the
people in Russia are doing. They
are without form, without order, and
the danger is to the world. We must
absolutely look to it that in this
country that form of government Of
Ia minority of men shall not be set
up here and elsewhere.
Ostriches or Eagles.
eve have either got to be provin-
cials or statesmen. We have either
got to be ostriches or eagles. The os-
trich is being overdone all around. 1
see gentlemen bury their heads in
something and think that nobody sees
that they have submerged their
thinking apparatus. That is what 1
mean by being an ostrich. Now what
I mean by being an eagle-l needn't
describe it mean leaving the mists
lying close to the ground, getting
upon strong wings into those spaces
where you can see all the affairs of
mankind, all the affairs of America,
seeing how the world appears.
''This is an effective covenant. 1t
is carried out by the attitude of the
Irishman who went into one of those
antique institutions, known as the
saloon, and saw two men fighting in
the corner. He went to the bartend
er and said, is this a private fight or
can anybody get in?'
'In the true Irish spirit we are
abolishing private fighting and max
ing law of mankind that it is every
body's business and everybody can
get in and consequently there will be
no attempts at private fighting"
Discussing secret treaties, The pres
ident said:
'"The treaty provides that every
secret treaty shall be invalid. One Of
the difficulties in framing this treaty
was the fact that after we got over
there private secret treaties were
springing up on all sides like noxi-
Gus growth. You had to guard your
breathing apparatus against the
miasma that arose from it.
Had to Respect Treaties.
"But they were treaties and the
war had been fought on the principle
of the sacredness of the treaties. We
could not propose that solemn obliga-
tions, however unwisely undertaken,
should be disregaeded, but we could
do the best that was possible in the
presence of those understandings and !!
then make no more secret under
standings.
"The representatives of every !
great nation in the world assented
without denlur, without the slightest
difficulty. 1 do not think you real
ize what change of mind has come
over the world. AS we used to say in :
the old days, some men that n, er
got it before have got religion
In referring to the possibilit-
revolution over the world, the pr.
dent made it clear he did not advo- |
cate that method of stabilizing con-
ditions.
81 am not speaking revolution" he
said, 81 believe that hte most disas-
trous thing that can happen to the
underman, to the man who is suffer-
ing, to the man who has not had his
rights is to destroy public order, for
that makes it certain he never can
get his rights. am far from init
mating that, but am intimating this,
that the people Of the world are tired
of every other kind of experiment
except the one we are going to try.
l have called it an experiment; /
frankly admit that it is, but it is a
very promising experiment, because
there is not statesman in the world
who does not know that his people