The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-05

opening ! said with deeper mean
ing than perhaps you have caught
] do mean not 20 come back unit
It's over over there and II must no
h" over unrl the nations of th'
world are assured of tho pernsn
cnoy ~ pence
Gentlemen on this side OF the va
tor would be very much pyoftoi by
getting into communicated viii
sonny gentlemen. on the other side
OflHhe water
W. somet,mes think. nay fellow
Miiizruz, that the experienced states
mon ~ the European nations ar" ar
unusually hard headed set of men
hy which We generally mean, ul.
though Wc do not admit H. that lheN
nre Bit cynical that they SAY
this Is "A very practical world by
which r"u always mean that 10 II not
an ld"u world that they do not be
lierc that things can be settled upon
an idCal basis We'll. never came
into intimate contact with them be-
tore, but n they used to he that way
they are not that way now They
hnvo been subdued II that was once
their temper hy the awful sign.fi.
nduCe ~ recent events and the aw.
I'M Importance Of what is to come
and there is not one uf them with
whom / have CUfnr In contact whr
does not feel that hc can not In con
science return 10 his people from
Paris unless he has done his utmost
20 do something moro than attach
his name 20 a treaty OF peace Every
man In that conference knows that
the treaty ~ peace I'm Itself will be
imperative. as Mr. Taft has said
without ih.E constant support and
energy uf a great organization such
nE is glppllod 10y the league of ma
lions Ana mon, who, when frs
went over there. were skcptiCal Of
tho possibility ~ forming "A league
or unll"nH, admitted that II We could
but FORM n. II would be an inyalu
able instrumcntalltv through which h
TO secure the operation uf the va
rIou, parts Of the treaty. and when
that treaty comes back, gentlemen
on this side will find tho covenant
not only In II. but so many threads
"f ih" treaty tied 10 tho covenant
that you can not dlssect the covenant
from IA" treaty without destroying
ihr whole vital structure, The struc-
'ufc or peace Will not be vital with
out the league OF nations, and no
man ~ going TO bring back "A cadayer
with him.
Puzzled ut Attitude.
! must say that I have been puZ-
lied 10y some Of tho criticisms not
10y the criticisms themselves. can
understand them perfectly, even
when there was no foundation for
'hcm, but the fact of The criticism
! can not imAgin" how these gentle
men can live and not live IN the at
Of the world
Il cannot imagine how they can
i've aud not be in contact with the
events OF the times aud | particu-
larry cannot imagine how they can
ho Americans and SGT up u doctrine
NJ careful sclfishucsS. throughout TO
the nst detail have heard no
counsel OF generosity in their crit
rism. have heard no constructive
suggestion. | have heard nothing eN-
cept will II not be dangerous TO Us
10 help the world" It. would he
fatal TO us no, 10 help a.
Prom being what will venture
70 call the most famous and the most
nation In the world. we
would OF a sudden have become the
most Contemplate. SO, did not
need 20 he told, as | have been told.
that the people OF the United States
would support this covenant. | am
an American and | knew they would.
Revenge on World.
what a sweet revenge II is upon
the world. They laughed at us once.
,hcy thought We did not mean our
professions OF principles. They
thought ~ until April, 1917. II was
hardly creduabic TO mem that We
would do more than send few men
over and go through the form Of
helping, and when they saw multi
'udcs Fastening across the sea. and
sw What those multitudcs were
eager To do when they got 10 the
other s.dc. they $1,000 amazed and
slid. tho thing IL real this is the
friend or mankind as T. said IL was
rho enthusiasm the hope. the trust,
The confidence In ;-1e future bred
BY that change OF view is indescrab-
,hlc.
Take an individual American and
you may often find him selfish. and
confined to his special interests, but
AXE the American IN the mass and
le is willing to die for an ideal The
,wcet revenge therefore IL this. that
We believed in righteousness and
now We are ready 10 make the su-
Drcmc sacrifice FOR H. The supreme
aCrifice of throwing IN our fortunes
Yth the fortunes or men everywhere,
hr 1Rft was speaking Of Washing
on's utteranCc about entanglinR al
iancc'i and II he viii permit me 10
sty So he put the exactly right In
upon waat Washington
aid, the Interpretation that IL lney-
table II you read wnat he said rs
most VI the gentlemen do not and
he thing that he lonEod for was Just
what We are now about to supply,
an arrangement which will olsen
.anElc all the alliances OF tho world
nothing entAnglcs. nothing en-
ncshcs man except a selfish COM
'ination with somebody else Moth