Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-05

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through, of the losses they had incur
red, that great throbbing heart which
was so depressed, SO forlorn, so sad
in every memory that it had had of
the five tragical years, my fellow
countrymen. Let US never forget the
purpose, the high purpose, the dis
interested purpose with which Ameri-
ca lent it's strength, not for it's own
glory, but for the advance Of good.
"And, l said, this treaty was not
intended merely to end this war; it
| was intended to prevent any similar
wars.
| III wonder if some Of the opponents
of the League OF Nations nave for
| gotten the promises we made our
people before we went to that peace
table? We had taken by process OF
every countryside, from every house.
law the flowed OF our youth from
| hold, and we told these mothers and
fathers and sisters and wives and
sweethearts that we were taking
these men to fight a war which would
end business OF that sort and it we
do not end it, it we do not DO the
best that human concert OF action can
do to end it, we are of all men the
most untaithful-the most unfaith-
ful to the loving hearts who suffered
IN this war; the most unfaithful to
those whose heads bowed in grief,
yet lifted with the feeling that the
lad laid down his life for a great
things, among other things in order
i that other lads might not have to do
the same thing.
"That is what the League Of Ma
tions is far, to end this war justly,
and it is not merely to serve notice
! on governments which would con-
template the same things which Ger
many contemplated, that they will
do it at their peril, but also concert
ing the combination of power which
will prove to them that they will do
it at their peril. It is also idle to
say the world will combine against
you because it may not, but is is
persuasive to say the world is COM
bined against you and will remain
combined against any who attempt
the same things that you attempted.
1.-THE League of Nations is the only
thing that can prevent the recur-
renee of this dreadful catastrophe
and redeem our promises. and the
character Of the League is basedn
upon the experience Of this very war.
Redeem the Weak.
81 did not meet single public man
who did not admit these things, that
Germany would not have gone into
this if she had thought Great Bri-
tain was going into it and that she
would most certainly never have gone
into this war if she had dreamed
America was going into it, and they
have all admitted that notice be-
fore hand that the greatest powers
of the world would combine to pre-
vent this sort of thing, it would
have prevented it absolutely.
"When gentlemen tell you, there
| fore, that the League of Nations is
intended for some other purpose than
this, merely reply this to them, If
we do not do this thing, we have
neglected the central covenant that
we made to our people, and there
will be no statement of any country
) who can therefore promise his peo-
= pie any alienation from the perils
of war.
<"The passions of this world are
not dead; the rivalries of this worlc
have not cooled; they have been rem
dered hotter than ever. The harm.
ness that is to unite nations is more
necessary now than it ever was be-
fore and unless there is this sureness
of combined action before wrong is at
tempted, wrong will be attempted
just as soon as the most ambitious
nations can recover from the finan
cial stress of this war.
"Now, look, what else is in the
treaty is unique in the history OF
mankind because the center of it is
the redemption of weak nations
There never was congress of ma.
tions before that considered the
rights of those who could not en-.
force their rights. There never was
congress of nations before that die
not seek to effect some balance OF
power brought about by means OF
serving the strength and interest OF
the strongest powers concerned
whereas this treaty builds up nations
that never could have won their free.
dom in any other way.
Future Control of Power.
i at builds them up by gift, by lar
CESS, not by obligation; builds them
up because of the conviction of the
men who wrote the treaty, that the
rights of people transcend the rights
of governments, because of the con-
viction Of the men who wrote that
treaty that the fertile source of war
is wrong; that the Austo- Hungarian
empire, for example, was held to-
gether by military force and consis-
ed of people who did not want to live
together; who did not have the spirit
of nationality as toward each other;
who were constantly chatting at the
bands that held them. Hungary
though willing partner of Austria
was willing to be her partner be-
cause she could share Austria's
strength for accomplishing her own
ambitions, and her own ambitions
were to hold under the Jugo- Slavic
peoples that lie to the south of her.