Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
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pressed than by the conferences Of the set up by the conference of peace to draw up covenant for tue league of nations. The representa- tivcs Ot the fourteen nations sat around that hoard-not young men: not mon inexperienced in the affairs Of their own countries. not men mex pcrieuced in tho politics Of the world; and the inspiring influence of every meeting was the concurrence of pur- pose on the part of all those men. to come to an agrec ment and an effective working agreement. with regard to this league of the civilized world.
 There was conviction in the whole . Impulse; there was conviction of more . than one sort. there was the convic- ton that this thing ought Co be done. and there was also the conviction that . not man there would venture to go | home and say that he had not tried | tO do it.
 MT. Taft has set the picture for you. of what. failure of this great | purpose would mean We have been ' hearing for all these weary months that this agony of war has lasted be- | cause or the sinister purposes of the central empires. and we have made maps 0f the course that they meant their cOnQuests tO take. Where dic the lines Of that map lie. of that cen tral line that we used to call from Bremen to Ba cdad
 They lay through these very TO- gions to which Mir Taft has called your attention. but they lay then through united empire. the AustrO- Hungarian empire. whose integrity Germany was bOun dto respect as her ally lay in the path of that line of conquest; the Turkish empire whose interests she professed to make her own. lay in the direct path thae she intended to tread.
 Strong Must Lead
 And now what has happened? The Austro- Hungarian empire has gone to pieces. and the Turkish empire ha, disappeared. and the nations that ef- tccted that great rcsult-tOr it was a result of lberatiOn-and now respOn- sble as the trustees of the assets of those great nations You would not have weak nations lying in this path. but would you have nations in which that old poisonous seed of intrigue could be planted with the certainty that the crop would be abundant? And one Of the things that tho league of rUions is intended to watch is the course of intricue. Intrigue cannot stand publicity and if the league Of nations were nothing but great de batting society. it would kill intrigue
 -lt is one of the agreements of this covenant that it is tae friendly right Of every nation. member of the league. to call attention 10 anything that it thinks will disturb the peace of the world. no matter where that thing is occurring
 There is no subject that may touch The peace of the world which is ex- empt from inquiry and discussion. and ! think everybody here present will agree with me that Germany would never have gone to war if she had per mitted the world to discuss the az gression upon Serbia for a Single week
 The British foreign office suggested it pleaded. that there might be a day OF two delay. so that tho representa- tivcs of the nations or Europe could got together and discuss tho posslbil iues of settlement. Germany did not dare permit a days discussion You know what happened So soon as tho world realized that an outlaw was al large, the nations began. one by ono
 
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 We know for certainty that i Germany had thought for a momen that Gsaat Britain would go in witt France and Russia sine never woul, have undertaken the enterprise. an, the league Of nations is meant as notice 10 all outlaw nations that no only Great Britain. but the Unite, States and the rest of the world. wil eo in to stop enterprises of that sort And SO the league of nations is noth ins more or less than the covenan that the world will always maintai the standards which it has now win dicated by some of the most preciou blood ever split.
 Tho liberated peoples of the Aus fro Hungarian empire and of tn Turkish empire call out to us for thi thing. lt has not arisen in the counc of statesmen. Europe is a bit sick a heart at this very moment. becaus it is seen that statesmen have had n vision. and that the only vision Ina been the vision Of the people Thos who suffer. see. Those against whor wrong is wrought know how desira bl is the right and the righteous
 
 under the heel of the Austrian: tha have long covered before the German that have long suffered the indescrit | able agonies of being governed by tt ! Turk have called out to the worl | generation after generation, for jus | tice, for liberation, for succor: an
 uo cabinet in the world has heal ! them
 | Private organizations pityir | hearts philantrophic men and womt \ have poured out their treasure in o | der to relieve these sufferings: but I | uatiot has said 10 the nations respol
 siblc. You must stop: this thing | iutolerable, and we will not permit i | And the vision has been with q | people.
 People Rule World | My friends. wish you would relic | rpon this proposition. The vision | to what is necessary for great reform | has seldom come from tho top, in | | nations of the world. It has cor | from the need and the aspiration al the self assertion of great bodies l. men who meant to he free. And can explain some Of the criticisr which have been levelled against tf
 great enterprise. only by the supp
 sition that the men who utter the cr
 icisms have never felt the great pul | Of the heart of the world.
 And ] am amazed-not ala
 but amazed that there should be. # some quarters, such comprehensi X Ignorance Of the state of the wor M These gentlemen do not know wf ,4 tho mind Of men is. just now. Ever E body else does. do not know wht Al they have been closeted do [ % know by what influence they Ina