The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-14
By yTenple

are tempted to win temporary support by making promises which they know imprudent and may well doubt their ability fuIIfl. We have got I to create not only the machinery of the league, put that moving and guiding power which dwelIs m the opinion of enlightened and Hberty-loving i tiie world over. It is this power that Is needed to give the machinery the life strength that will make it
 A like remark applies also 4o another branch of tne Ieagues action. of which have yet spoken halneiy' Us superintendence of the functions be
 os any particular State. to whom the lea que may give a mandate administration or a particular county district. It is i'm H aIt that II the scheme is to be of any service Tn protecting weak nations backward races the Ieague should feel that it's overseeing is
 7.I.S' anu that the mandatory State must not be permitted to abuse powers by permitting it's subjects to exploit the regions in charge which Il Has oeeli p+aced We know how real is the dan ger of such exploitation. No mandatory is likely ever to sink to the infanies perpetrated SOi6o 0t1"e twenty years ago, Tor to the cruelty which marked the administration he German AIrlcah colonies. But short of such those many eNis are possible. The action of the leaguc will need 10 be stimulated as well as watched by an enlightened and humane public opinion. sim- lar consioeratons apply also to the two articles which deal with the conditions of labor and with freedom of transit and with equitable treat heht or cOmmerce-1natters in which all members of the league ought be interested and in which the league ought to the exponent of the
 ighest type or sentiment to be found in every peo- pie Nor ought I to pass over the useful provision which requires every treaty that may be hereaf- registered with the secretariat of the League and by it duly published for information of the world
 Whatever form this Covenant may come to bear when it has been further considered and amended by the assembled powers which have now pro- visionally accepted it, it any rate the prom ise of marking enormous advance upon anything hitherto done by the joint action of free peoples for the common benefit of the world. We can fore many difficulties which will arise in it's work lng' put the longer 1t lives the more trust that the nations will it is a guar anty to them against the recurrence of such cal amities as those which have afflicted world during the last five years Even if the breadth of some of it's provisions may have be reduced m order to ~alay the approximations quar- still scheme complete than this Covenant may be gladly accepted If it holds out A real prospect of reducing armaments and practical ly averting the risks of Some such reciurocaI guaranty this instrument contains. even if less than perfect It may be in details will be a alarms which have hung like a dark cloud for so long the peoples of Europe. leave things where they were before the outbreak of the would be the most deplorable confession of human weakness, the most dismal surrender of hu- hopes, that has ever yet be seen. We must therefore, earnestly desire that American peo- pie, begun realize that they can not aloof from the dangers and trials of the Old World from ruin, will support President Will by giving their adhesion perhaps subject to certain amendments in details) a scheme which has framed in the interest of all mankind and which hardly succeed without co-operatfon their own great, free, and powerful republic.
 (The End.)