Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-05

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forgotten. The broad aspects of this
lsubject are seldom brought to your at
tention, 1t is the middle pie;.yunish
"details here and there. No, tina. brings
me, my fellow citizens, to the guarantee
of this whole thing; we said we were
going to fight this war for the purpose
of seeing to it that the mothers and sis
tiers and fathers of this land, the sweet
hearts and wives, would not have 70
send their lads over to the other side to
fight any more; so we toek part in asn
arrangement by which justice was TO be
secured throughout the world and the
rest Of the world partly at our sugges.
ton said yves and said it gladly, said
yes, we will 60 into the war to see
! that justice is maintained. And then
come home and hear some gentlemen
say sbut, will we--are we interested in
justice9' The treaty of peace, us have
just said to you, is based upon the pro-
lection of the weak against the strong
and there is only once force that can
protect the weak against the strong, and
that is the universal concert of the
strength Of mankind and that is the
league Of nations. But ! beg that You
will not conceive of the league of ma.
tions as a combination of the world for
war, for that is exactly what it is not
it is combination of the world for ar
bitration and discussion.
81 was taking the paias the other
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tents Of the covenants of the league of
nations, and found that prae tically the
while heart Of it---that twothirds of its
provisions-we devoted to setting ns
Il system Of arbitration and discussion
of the world.
Why, those are the facts, my fellow
citizens. The members of the league
agreed that no one Of them win ever
go to war about anything without first
doing one or the other Of two things,
without either submitting the question
to arbitration, in which case they agreed
to abide by the decision Of the arbitra-
tors absolutely, or submitting it to dis
cussion by the council of the league of
nation in which case they agrec that
no mater what the opinion expressed
b ythe council may be they will allow
six months for the discussion, and
whether tlley are satisfied with the con
clusion or not, will not go to war in less
than three months after the rendering
of the opinion. / think we can take 1t
for granted that-the preliminarics would
take two or three months in which case
you have a whole year of discussion
even when you don't get arbitration,
and wGat to call you ii witness that
in almost every international contro-
ycrsy which has been submitted to de
cisions of the opinion of the world it
has become impossible for the result to
be war.
:. War is Il process of heat. Exposure
is a process Of cooling, and what is pro.
posed in this, is that every hot thing
shall be spread out in the cooling air of
the opinion of the world and after it is
thoroughly cooled If, then let the ma
tions concerted determine whether they
are going to fight about it or not and
notice the section: Amy member Of the
league which breaks these promises with |
regard to arbitration or discussion is TO |
be deemed thereby to have committed
an act of war against the other mem.
bcrs Of the league Not merely to have
done any immoral thing, but by refusing
to obey those processes to have cmmit-
ted an act Of war and put itself out of |
court and you know thar what happens. |
Aw:@ tKigo 'JyCMo.,,. ETAO ETA o !
You say, yes we form an army and |
go and fight them Not at all. We
shut their doors and lock them. We boy.
cott them, They are absolutely boy
cottcd by the rest of mankind. don t
think that after that remedy it will be
necessary to do any fighting at all
:" Now that it is the league of nations
--an agreement to arbitratc or discuss
and an agreement If you don i arbitrate
or discuss, you shall be absolutely boy.
cotted and starved out.
e There is hardly European nation,
my fellow citizens, that is of fighting
inclination that has enough food to cat
without importing food, and il will be
q very persuasive argument that it has
MT anything to eat.
Now, when you add to this some
other very interesting particulars,
think the league becomes very inrer-
esting thing, indeed. You have heard of
article 10 and am going to speak about
that in q minute, but read article H.
Because, really, there are other articles
in the covenant Article Il says--I
am not quoting its language but its sub
stanee--that anythink that is likely to
affect the peace of the world or the
good understanding upon which the
peace of the world stands shall be ev-
crybody s business that any nation, the
Titles nation at the table, can stand up
and challenge the right of the strong.
est nation there to keep ON in a course
of action or policy which is likely to
disturb the peace Of the world, and that
il shall be its friendly right to do SO.
Those are the words. Not to be
regarded as hostile or unfriendly act,
II is its friendly right to do that And
il you wont give the secret away,
wrote those words myself.
Because with the usual inoihation
of a talkative man woulda't 7 thcre to
be anything in the world couldn I talk
about; and yet | would not want to give
offensc, and l wanted il to be our
right and evcrybody's friendly
right to discuss everything that was