Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-06

is pitiful arm stretched out to heaven;
and there is no pity in the world. When
shall we wake to the moral responsible
ity of this great occasion.
"And so. my fellow citizens, there are
tother aspects to that matter.
" Not all the populations that are hav-
ing something that is not square deal
lived in Armenia There are Others,
And one of the glories of the great
document, which l brought back with
me is this: that everywhere within tlft
area of settlement covered by the po-
litical questions involved in that treaty,
people of that sort have been given
their freedom, and guaranteed their free
dom. But the thing does not end there,
because the treaty includes the cove
nant of the league of nations. And
what does that say9 That says that it
lis the privilege of any member state to
call attention to anything anywhere
that is likely to disturb the peace of
the world or the good understanding
between nations upon which the peace
of the world depends, and every people
in the world that have not got what
they think they ought to have is there
by given a world forum in which to
bring the thing to the bar of mankind.
An Incompatible thing "a thing that
never was dreamed of before, a thing
THAT was never conceived was possible
before that it should not be regarded as
an unfriendly act on the part of the rep
resentatives of one nation to call atten-
uon to something being done within the
CONFINES of another empire, which was
disturbing the peace of the wosld and
the good understanding between ma
tions. There never before has been pro-
vided world forum in which the legi-
itimate grievances of peoples entitled to
consideration can be brought to the
common Judgment of mankind. And if
were the advocate of any suppressed
or oppressed people, l surely could not
ask any better forum than to stand up
before the world and challenge the other
party to make good its excuse for not
acting in that case. That eompulsion
is the most tremendous moral comp..
sion that could be devised by organized
mankind. l think / can take it for
granted, my fellow citizens, that you
never realized before what a scope this
Igreat treaty has. You have been asked
to look at SO many little spots in it
with magnifying glass that you do
not know how big it was, what great
lelterprise of the human spirit it is, and
what thoroughly American document
it is from cover to cover. 1t is tho first
great international agreement in .ll.
history of mankind where the Principe
adopted has been not the power Of the
strong but the right of the weak.
| TO reject that treaty, to alter that
treaty is to impair one of the first
charters Of mankind. And yet there
are men who approach the question with
passion, with private passion, and party
passion, who think only of some imme-
diate advantage to themselves or to a
group of their fellow countrymen, ana
VIII look at the thing with the .jaundiced
eyes of those who have some private
purpose of their own.
"When at last, in the annals Of man
kind they are gibbeted they win regret
that the gibbet is so high.
~ would not have you think that l
am trying to characterize those who con-
scientiously object to anything in this
great document ! take off my hat in
the presence of any man IS genuine con
science; and there are men who are CON
seientiously opposed to it, though they
will pardon me if l say ignorantly op-
posed have no quarrel with them.
1T has been pleasure to confer with
some of them and to tell them as frank
ly as would have told my most init
mate friend, the whole inside Of my
mird, and every other mind that 1 know
anything about that has been concerned
in order that they might understand this
thing and go with the rest of us in the
confirmation of what is necessary for
tn the conduct of affairs at Paris in
the peace of the world.
''I have no intolerant sp rit in the
matter; but also assure you that from
the bottem of my feet to the top of my
head, l have got fighting spirit about
it. And if anybody dares to defeat this
great experiment then they must gather
together the eounsellors of the world
and do something better. If there is a
better scheme, /, for one, will subscribe
to it, but want to say now, as l said
the other night, it is case OF put up
or shut up. Negation will not save the
world. Opposition constructs nothing.
Opposition is the speciality of those who
are Enthusiastically inclined.
Again | assure you I am not com
pairing any of my respected colleague.
to boleshvists; but l am merely pointing
out that the bolshevistic spirit lacks
Ievery element of constructive opposi-
tion. They have destroyed everything
and they have proposed nothing.
4 sAnd while there is common ab.
horrence for political bolshevim, hope
there will not be any such thing grow
up in our country as international boz.
shevism, the bolshevism that DESTROYS
the constructive work of men VINO have
conseientiously striven to cement the
good feeling of the great peoples of tat
world. And the majestic thing about
the league of nations is that it is to
include the great peoples of the world
all except Germany. Germany is one
of the great peoples of the world. I
would ha ashamed mt tn c,e th,4