Catoctin clarion., 1919-08-28

this Europe will go back to chaos
If there Is such an institution, rep
resenting the public opinion of the
world. and able to exert its authority,
they will grow into stability, We can
not turn back now.
There is another point which also
needs emphasis. World treaties hitl'
erto have always been based on the
theory Of a balance of power Stron"
er races have been set up to dominate
the weaker, parti, with view To
maintaining stability and TO greater
degree with II view to maintaining oc-
cupations and positions for the re-
dictionaries OF the world.
"The balance of power Is born of
armies and navies, arstocracies,
autocracies, and reactionar!es general
ly, who can find employment and
domination in these institutions, ana
treaties founded on this basis have
established stability after each great
war for q shooter or longer time, bur
never more than Il generation.
"America came forward with new
idea, and we insisted upon It's injec-
ton into this peace conference. We
claimed that ii WAS possible to set
up such piece Of machinery with
such authority. that the balance OF
power could be abandoned as a relic
of the middle ages We compelled an
entire construction of this treaty and
every word and line in 1t to bend to
this idea.
"Outside Of the League OF Nations
the treaty itself has many deficiencies.
1t represents compromises between
many men and between many selfish
interests, and these very compromises
and deficiencies are multiplied by the
many new nations that have entered
upon its signature, and the very safety
Of the treaty itself lies in court OF
appeal for the remedy of wrongs in
the treaty.
Benefits Of the League.
"One thing Is certain. There Is no
treaty could be made that would not
develop injustice and prove to have
been wrong in some particulars. As
the covenant stands today there is
place at which redress can be found
and through which the goodwill OF
the world can be enforced. The very
machinery by which the treaty Is to
be executed, and scores of points yet
LAT. h.,. hoe pnf
to the League of Nations as q method
of securing more mature Judgment in
less heated atmosphere, tustifies the
creation of the League.
"To abandon the covenant now
means that the treaty itself will col
lapse.
ut would take the exposure. of but
few documents al my hand to prove
that | had been the most reluctant OF
Americans to become involved In this
situation in Europe. But having gone
in with our eyes open and with de-
termination to free ourselves and the
rest of the world from the dangers
that surrounded us, we cannot now
pull back from the job. 1t is no use
to hold great revival and then go
away leaving church for continued
services half done.
1--WE have succeeded in a most ex-
traordinary degree in imposing upon
Europe the complete conviction that
we are absolutely disinterested. The
consequence is that there is scarcely
a man, woman or child who can read
In Europe that does not look to the
United States as tie ultimate source
from which they must receive assur-
ances and guardianship in the liberties
which they. have now secured after
so many generations of struggle.
"This IL not a problem of protecting
the big nations, for the few that re-
main can well look after themselves.
What we have done Is to set up
score of little democracies. and II the
American people could visualize their
handiwork they would ins st with the
same determination that they did In
1917 that our government proceed"