Arizona republican., 1919-02-15

covenant, which to my mind is one of the greatest and most satisfactory ad- vances that has been made. We are done with anneXations of helpless peo- ples, meant in some instances by some powers to be used merely for exploita- tion. We realize in the most solemn manner that the helpless and unde- veloped people of the world being in that condition, put an obligation upon us to look after their interests pri- marily before we use them for our in teersts. and that in all cases of this sort thereafter it shall be the duty of the league to see that the nations who are assigned as the tutors and ad visors and directors of these peoples shall look to their interests and their development before they look to the | interest and desires of the mandatory nation itself.
 There has been no greater advance ! than this, gentlemen. If you look back upon the history of the world you will see how helpless peoples have too often | been d prey to powers that had no conscience in the matter. It has been one of the many distressing relations of recent years that the great power which has just been happily defeated 1 put intOlerable burdens and injustices on the helpless peoples of some colonies which it annexed to itself that its in terest was rather their extermination than their development. that the desire was to possess their land for European purposes and not to enjoy their confi- dence in order that mankind might be lifted in these places to the next higher level
 The Worlds Conscience
 ( !, rf. science in law, says there is an end oi that, that our consciences shall be set tied to this thing States will be picked out which have already showr that they can exercise a conscience ir this matter and under their tutelagt the helpless peoples of the world vii come into a new light and into a new hope.
 50 I think I can say of this docu. ment that it is at one and the sam, time a practical document and a hu man document. There is pulse O
 sympathy in it. There is a ompulsioi of conscience throughout it. It is prac tical and vet it is intended to purify, t rectify. to elevate. And l want to sa, i that so far as my observation instruct me this is in one sense a belated docu ment l believe that the conscience o
 the world has long been prepared l.
 express itself in some such way. w are now just now discovering our sym e pathy for these people and our interes l. in them. We are simply expressing i p for it has long been felt and in the ad { ministration of the affairs of more tha' |. one of the great states represente { here-sO far as l know. all of the grea f states that are represented here, tha e human pulse has already expressed it Q self in their dealings with their colo - nles. whose peoples were yet at a lo' - stage of developments.
 We had many instances of colonie Q lifted into the sphere of complete se s government. This is not the discover V of principle. It is the universs s application of a principle It is th V agreement Of the great nations whic Q have tried to live by these stadards i 7. their separate administrations to unit t In seeing that their common force an Q their common thought and intelligenC d are lent to this great ahd human CT Q terprise.
 l think it is an admission therefor s for the most profound satisfaction ths
 this humane decision should have bee
 reached in a matter for which II
 world has long been waiting and unt
 a very recent period. thought that
 was still too early to hope.
 | Our Covenant of Friendship Many terrible things have come ol
 Of the war, gentlemen, but some vel
 beautiful things have come our of | Wrong has been defeated but the re
 of the world has been more consciol
 than 1t ever was before that a majorit
 or right. People that were suspicion II Of one another can now live as frien,
 and comrades in a single family ar
 desire to do so. The miasma of di | trust, of intrigue is cleared away. M,
 are looking eye 10 eye and sayin, We are brothers and have a comms
 purpose. We did not realize it befor
 but now we do realize it and this
 our covenant of friendship'"