The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-03

Of is the truth. the only thing you dare not
face Is the truth. The only thing that will
get you sooner later, matter how you
sneak dodge. Is the truth. The only thing
that will conquer nations is the truth. ZAP
plause.J No nation Is going TO look the calm
judgment OF mankind in the face for nine
months and then go to war. (Applausel fou
illustrate the great by the little. I dare
say you have taken time to cool off
times / know / have-very useful for
person, particularly with Soteh disposition
like my own, to withdraw from human
ciety when he Is mad all through, and Just
think about the situation and reflect upon the
consequences of making a conspicuous of
himself. (Applause.D 1t Ia for that reason
/ have always said that il you have an ac-
quaintance who you suspect of being fool,
encourage him to hire q hall There is moth
ing that tests mans good sense like exposure
to the air. And so we are applying this
great healing sanitary influence to the affairs
of nations and Of man and we apply
them only by the processes of peace which are
offered to after conference which
testify taken part in. in the knowi-
edge. and in the spirit that never obtained
before in any such controversy, that we were
not at liberty to work out the policy and am
billions of any government and that our single
duty and our single opportunity was to put
the peoples of the world in possession Of their
own affairs.
Asks Assistance.
And so as much of the case, my fellow
citizens, as / can lay before you single
occasion, much of this very diversified theme
is laid before us and / ask your assistance
to redeem the reputation of the United States,
ask you to make felt everywhere that it Is
useful to make it felt, not by way of threat,
not by way Of menace of any kind, but by
way of compelling judgment. The thing for
US to do is to redeem the promises of America
made in the solemn presence of mankind when
we entered this war. (Applausel For see
happy vision before the world, my fellow
countrymen. Every previous international con-
ference was based upon the authority Of gov
ernments. This for the first time was based
upon the authority of peoples. 1t is therefore
the triumphant establishment of the principle
of political democracy What the world now
insist upon is the establishment of industrial
democracy, is the establishment of such rela-
tionships between those who direct labor and
those who perform labor as shall make real
community of interest, as shall make real COM
munity of purpose and shall lift the whole level
of industrial achievement above bargain and
sale into a great method of cooperation by
which men purposing the same thing, Justly
organizing the same thing, may bring about
a state of happiness and of prosperity such
as the world has never known before. We
want to be friends of each other well
as friends of mankind. We want America to
be united in spirit as well as the world. We
want America to be a body of brethren and
| if America is a body of brethren, then You
may be sure that its leadership will bring
the same sort of comradeship and intimacy
of spirit and purity of purpose to the coun-
sci and achievements of mankind.