Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-11

euioies of final decision with regard to many matters dealt with in the treaty ltsel1; the long-continued supervision or the task of reparation which Ger many was to undertake to complete Wltnln the next generation might en- | tlrely break down; the reconsidera- tlon and revision of administrative arrangements and restrictions which the treaty prescribed but which it was recognized might not prove of lasting adcantage or entirely fair if too long enforced would be impracticable. The promises governments were maintain l ..ng to one and another about the way Ill Wnlch labour was to be dealt with, oy law not only but in fact as well as a mere human thesis if there was to De no common tribunal of opinion | ana judgement to which liberal state men could resort to the influences alone which alone might secure their redemption A league of free nations had become a practical necessity. Ex- amlne the treaty of peace and you will flnd that everywhere throughout it's manifold provisions it's framers have felt obliged to turn to the league of nations as an indispensable instru- mentality for the maintainence of the new order 1t has been their purpose to set mp in the world, the world of civilized men.
 League Idea First Accepted. That there should be League of Nations to steady the counsels and mamtain the peaceful undertakings of the world, to make not treaties alone but the accepted principles of inter- national law was we'll the actual rule of conduct among the governments of the world, had been one of the agree ments, accepted from the first as the basis of peace with the central pov- CTS. The statesmen of all the belli- gerent countris were agreed that such league must be created to sustain the settlements that were to be effec- ted, but at first I think there was a feeling among some of them that. While 1t must be attempted, the for mation of such league was perhaps a counsel of perfection which practical men, long experienced in the world of affalrs, must agree to very cautiously and with misgivings. It was only as the difficult work of arranging an all but universal adjustment of the worlds affairs advanced from day to day from one sage of conference to another that it became evident to them that what they were seeking would be little more than something written upon paper, to be interpreted and ap- piled by such methods as the chances of politics might make available if they did not provide means of com- mon counsel which all were obliged to accept, common authority whose decisions would be recognized as deci- sions which all must respect.
 Skeptics Corrected.
 "And so the most practical, the most skeptical among them turned more and more to the league as the authority through which international action was to be secured, the author ity without which as they had come to the see it, it would be difficult to give an assurel effect either to this treaty or to any other international understanding upon which they were to depend for the maintainence of peace. The fact that the covenant of the league was the first substantive part of the treaty to be worked to a new pure and utterly destroy the old order of international policies.
 Could Brook No Denial
 "Statesmen might see difficulties, but the people could sec none and could brook no denial A war ir which the yhad been bled white to beat and terror that lay concealed in every balance of power must not end in a mere victory of arms and new bal Iance. The monster that had restored to arms must be put in chains that could not be broken. The United power of free nations must put a stop to aggression, and tAe world must be given peace. If there was not the will or the intelligence to accomplish that now, there must be another and a final war and the world must be swept clean of every power that could renew the terror. The league of nal tions was not merely an instrument to adjust and remedy old wrongs un+ der new treaty of peace; it was the only hope for mankind. Again and again had the demon of war been cast out of the house of the peoples and the house swept clean by treaty of peace; only to prepare time when he would enter in again with spirit worse than himself. The house must now be given a tenant who could hold it against all such. Convenient, indeed indispensable, as statesmen found the newly planned league of nations to be for the execution of present plans of peace and reparation, they saw it in a new aspect before their work was finished. They saw it as the main ob- ject of the peace. as the only thing that could complete it or make it worth while. They saw it as the hope of the world. and that hope they did not dare to disappoint. Shall we or any other free people hesitate to accept this great duty? Dare we re- ject it and break the heart of the world?
 Huns Status Settled.
 "And so the result of the confer ence of peace, so far as Germany is concerned, stands complete The diff