New-York tribune., 1919-09-16

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been little children, bright-eyed lit
tie boys, excited little girls, children
all, and thought Ms I looked, upon
them that after all it was they to
whom | had come to report l had
come to report with regard to the
safety and honor Of subsequent gem
erations Of America, and felt that
if could not fulfil the task to which
I had set my hand | would have to
say to mothers with boy babies at
their breasts, you have occasion to
weep, you've occasion to fear the past
as only prediction Of the future,
and all the terrible things that your
brothers and husbands and sweet
hearts have been through may have
to be gone through with again.
III found quoted in one of your
papers the other day a passage so
appropriate that ! do not know that
| can do better than read it as the
particular thing that it is found
necessary to do--nations must unite
as men unite, in order to preserve
peace and order. The great nations
must be SO united as to be able to
say to any single country, you must
not go to war;" and they can say that
effectively when the country desir-
ing war knows that the force which
the united nations apply behind peace
is irresistible. In differences between
individuals the decision of court
ls final, because in the last resort
the entire force of the community
is behind the court decision; in diff
ferences between nations which 90
beyond the limited range Of arbitral
questions, peace can only be main
tanned by putting behind it the force
OF united nations determined to up
hold 1t and prevent war
Hopes for Cooperation
That is quotation from an ad-
dress said to have been delivered
at Union College in June, 1915,
year after the war began, by Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. I
conclusion, and l hope | shall have
his cooperation in bringing about the
desired result
In other words, the only way We
can prevent the unspeakable thing
from happening again is, that the
nations Of the world should unite
and put an irresistible force behind
peace and order.
There is only one conceivable way
to do that, and that is by means of a
league of nations.
Il don't find any man anywhere,
rash or bold enough to say that he
does not desire a league of nations.
| only find men here and there saving
that they do not desire this league Of
nations. And | want to ask YOU to
reflect upon what that means. When
this covenant was drawn up in its
first form, l had the occasion, for me
very happy occasion, to return for
a fe" weeks to this country, in March
last. | brought the covenant in its
first shape; l submitted it in an init
mate conference to the Foreign Rela-
tlons Committee of the Senate of the
United States; or, rather, to the two
committees of the two houses, the
Foreign Relations Committee of the
Senate and the Committee on FOREIGN
Affairs of the House We discussed
all parts of the document. Many sug-
gcstons were made. | took all of
these suggestions back to Paris and
the conference of the league of ma
tlons adopted every one of the sug-
gcstions made.
United States Counsel Listened to
NO counsels were listened to more
carefully or yielded to more willingly
IN that conference than the counsels
VI VIZ OIllCu IolhICS.
"Somc things were put into the
covenant which personally | did not
thing necessary, but which they had
no objection to putting in explic-
itly.
"For example, take the Monroe
Doctrine. What is the Monroe Doc
trine? The Monroe Doctrine is that
no national shall come to the West
crn Hemisphere and try to establish
its power or interfere with the self
government of people in this hemis-
phcre. Very well, that is the doe
trinc Of the covenant. No nation
shall anywhere extend it's power or
seek to interfere with the politica
Independence of the peoples of the
world. And inasmuch as .he Monroe
Doctrine had been made the univer-
sal doctrine, I did not think that it
was necessary to mention it partcu
larly, but when | suggested that it
was the desire of the United States
that it should be explicitly recog-
nized, it was explicitly recognized.
The Monroe Doctrine is left intact
and the United States is left free
to enforce it.
81 wan to emphasize in every dis
cussion of this matter the absolutely
non-partisan character of the cove
nant and the treaty.
II am not in favor of the ratifica-
ton of this treaty, including the
covenant of the League of Nations,
because l am Il Democrat, but be-
cause am an American and lover
of humanity"
The tcnt of President Wilson's
luncheon address IN part foUo1cs:
81 think we are all now convinced
that we have not reached the right
and final organization of our IN
dustrial society, that there arc
many features of our social life that
ought to undergo correction. There