The Alaska daily empire., 1919-09-29

the whole question, as the PreSlden, of the United States views it.
 AS OF A GENERAL PROPO-
 SETON
 Frequently the President called at tention to the circumstances that the United States was the first nation to submit her grievances to the judgment of the world. She did that in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, wherein it is declared ::
 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and 10 assume among the equal station 10 which the laws O Nature and Natures God entitlec them. a deee1t respect for the opp ions of mankind require that they should declare the causes which i'm pei them to the separation" This plain acknowledgment of the neces sity of having the approval of the world is followed by a recitation Of some :"self-evident" truths" of gov ernment, and the fact that the King of Great Britain had disregarded them for the purpose of "the estab lishment of an absolute tyranny over the States, and then comes tho further appeal to the opinions O mankind: "To prove this let fact be submitted to a candid world"
 He declared that the League of Ma tions provides the means througl which all peoples, influential am non-infuential," may appeal to th' judgment of mankind. He declared "The leaders of the American Revo lution now. state the causes whjcl have led them to separate them selves from Great Britain. Americ was the first to set the example, tho first to admit that right and justice and even the basis of revolution ar matter upon which mankind arr entitled to form a judgment
 We cannot desert humanity" h. said. We are the trustees of hu manity I cannot conceive a motiv' adequate to hold men off from thei great enterprise"
 America is under an overwheln ing moral compulsion to accept tn peace treaty" President Wilson dc clared, because 1t was drawn up 0, American specifications and marke' the worlds acceptance of Amer ca's principles. Even Germany ha been forced to accept these prime ples," said the President, land nov some men are proposing that thf United States herself repudiatt them"
 And so the moral compulsioI among us, among us who at tho critical stage of the war saved th' world and who threw in our fortune with all the forward looking peopl of the world-the moral compulsio upon us to stand by and see i through is overwhelming.
 We cannot now turn back. w made the choice in April, 1917. We cannot with honor revert it now
 There is only one conceivabl way to do that, and that is by mean of league of nations. The yer description is a definition of leagu of nations, and the only thing tha we can debate now is whether tn nations of the world having met i, a universal congress and formulate covenant as the basis for leagu of nations. we are going to accer that or insist upon another. l don find any man anywhere, rash bold enough to say that he does no desire league of nations. I oni' they do not desire his league of na tions. And I want to ask you to re fleet upon what that means. WheE this covenant was drawn up in its first form. had the occasion, for me a very happy occasion, to return for a few weeks to this country. II March last brought the covenan' in it's first shape; l submitted it in al intimate conference to the fOreigr relations committee of the Senate o! the United States, or rather to th' two committees of the two houses the Foreign Relations of the com mittee and the committees on For eign Affairs of the House. We dis cussed all parts of the documen! Many suggestions were made. toos all of those suggestions with me back to Paris, and the conference of the League of Nations adopted every one of the suggestions made. NJ counsels were. listened to more care fully or yielded to more willingly, ii' that conference, then the counsels of the United States.
 Some things were put into the covenant. which I personally did not think necessary, which seemed to me 10 go without saying. but which they had no objection to putting ill explicitly.
 For example. take the Monroe Doe Urine. As matter of fact, the GOV