Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-06-23
Asserts America
Only Salvation
j. Of Europe

1iiiS toiit L. diS iIS
declaration that this country and
this country alone can bring Europe
salvation" was made by Darwin P.
Kingsley, president Of the New York
Life Insurance Company, in a me-
mortal address at the University of
Vermont tonight. in honor Of the
men Of the University who fell in
the war. Mr.. Kingsley. who is a
graduate OF Vermont, paid tribute to
the boys who answered unhesitat-
ingly the supreme challenge of fate
and died smiling"
consciously or unconsciously." he
continued, they all died for a great
cause. That cause is greater than
dem ocracy. greater than country.
incompetent leadership, rrovin-
clallsm and selhshness promise to
delay the triumph of the cause for
which they died. The collapse of
Germany has put into the hands of
the allied powers an opportunity to
achieve in a generation what other
wise may be realized only after GEN.
turles Of fighting. At present the
indications are that the world will
continue to travel over the broken.
cruel. bloody road il has so long
followed. There is TO be no quick
emergence into a new order under
which law shall rule between ma
tipns. under which wars shall be
made improbable if not impossible.
Nevertheless. that new order is what
the people Of the world now de-
nand
I'VE did not want to go to Europe
but we had to go. We do not want
ID mix IN its troubles now, but we
dust. The hope that we may not
hive to send another army across
tie seas Is a false hope unless the
existing order is changed. Eespon-
sibility to the rest Of the world as
well as our own self-respect took
US there in 1917. That responsibility
is greater now than il has ever been
before. 1t will increase. We can
not avoid II If We are to maintain
our traditions and our place in the
world.
This country, and this country
alone, can bring about salvation for
Europe. That we must do. We
must not do Ii as a work Ct altru-
ism but to save ourselves"
We must help Europe TO help herself;
We must help her people to go to worn.
Her people are not working now ans
the alarming fact is that their civil
morale is SO sha Uttered that they arpa.-
entity do not want 10 work.
whether or not the Republican reac-
tionaries in the United states Senate
delay peace because they object to the
so-caIled league of Nations covenant.
contained In the treaty, We must At
once enter an economic and industrial
league OF nations or Europe perishes.
That league will be made 10y CONNER
cial necesslty-a power which does not
act by or with confidence and consent
Of the United States Senate.
But a political as we'll as CONNER
cial union Of peoples must come II the
relations of nations are TO be stabilize j
and civilized
We hesitated and dilly-dallied and
tried not TO see our duty prior 10 April
6, 1917. so some of our leaders now hes
iiate and shiily-shally over the League
of Nations proposed-and a poor thing
II is st nest-and SO they will hesitate
and shilly-shally over our part in the
economic and reconstruction problems
which face Europe.
Europe is hungry. II will probahly
become hunErie- Before they starve
men become savages. The danger now
is that European society may crumble.
He is a fool who thinks all that can
happen and leave us safe-safe in what
he is pleased 10 call splendid 'isola-
ton