The Nevada County picayune., 1919-07-17


 provide means of common counse which all were obliged to accept, ; common authority whose decision would be recognized as decision which all must respect
 And so the practical, the mosr skeptical among them turned moro and more to the league as the author ity through which international ac tion was to be secured, the authority without which. as they had come 10 see it, Il would be difficult to give 4n assured effect either 10 this treaty or to any other international uncer- standings upon which they were 10 depend for the maintenance of peace The fact that the covenant 0f tho league was the first substantive part of the treaty 10 be worked out and agreed upon. while all else was II solution. helped to make the formula. tion of the rest easier The con ference was after all not to DO ephcmeral. The concert of nations Was to continue under definite cot enant which had been agreed upon and which all were convinced Was workable
 The monster that had fesotted 10 arms must be put in chains that could not be broken The united pow. CT of free nations must put stop 10 aggressi and the world must Do given peace If there was not tha will or the intelligence to accomplish that How. there must be another and a final war and the world must ba swept clean of every power that could renew the terror The league of nations was not merely an instru- ment 10 adjust and remedy old regu- Iations under a new treaty of peace. it was the only hope for mankind. Again and again had the demon e war been cast out of the house of the peoples and the house swept clean by a treaty of peace: only to prepare for a time when he would enter in again with spirits worse than him self The house must now be given :, tenant who could hold it against all such
 And SO the result of the confer ence Of peace, so far as Germany a concerned. stands complete The diff faculties encountered were very many. Sometimes they seemed insuperable It was impossible 10 accommodate the interests of so great q body of nations interests which directly or indi- rectly affected almost every nation n the world without any minor com promises The treaty as a result i9 not exaetly what We would have writ. ten II is probably not what any one of the national delegates would have written But results were worked out which on the whole bear test think that it will be found that the compro- mises which were accepted as inevi- table nowhere cut 10 the heart of any people The work Of The conference squares, as whole. with the prinet. pies agreed upon ae the basis ot the peace as well as with the practical possibilities of the international situ- ations which had 10 be faced and dealt with as facts.
 "I shall presently have occasion 10 lay before you special treaty with France. whose object is The tempo rary protection of France from unpro- voked aggression by The power with whom this treaty of peace has been negotiated Its terms link it with this treaty Itake the liberty, hOw eyer. of reserving it for special ex- plieation on another occasion
 "The role which America was te termined, as I have said before my colleagues and go To Paris deter mined by the universal expectations of the nations whose representatives, drawn from all quarters of the globe. we were to deal with IL Was uniyer= sally recognized that America had en- tered the war 10 promote no private or peculiar interest of her own, but only as the champion of rights Whch she was glad to share with free men and lovers of justice everywhere.
 .Cuha is weak but absolutely free. and il is her trust in us that makes her free Weak peoples everywhere stand ready 10 give Us any authority among them that will assure them q like friendly oversight and direction They know that there is no ground for fear in receiving Us as their men tors and guides Our isolation was ended 20 years ago, and now fear of us is ended also, our counsel and as soeiation sought after and desired There can be no question of our eea4. ing to be world power The onlV question is whether we can refuse the moral leadership that is offered u~, whether We shah accept or reject the confidence of the world.
 The stage is set. the destiny dis- closed. II has come about by no plan of our eonceiying but by the hand of God who led Us into ths way We cannot turn back, we can only go for