Arizona republican., 1919-05-31

of this common concord of counsel
 would betray the human race.
 So it is our duty to make and main
 tain the safeguards which will see to
 it that the mothers of America and
 England and Italy and Belgium and
 all other suffering nations should never
 be called upon for this sacrifice again. This can be done. It must be done. And it will be done. The things that
 these men left us, though they did not l in their counsels conceive it, is the
 great instrument which we have just erected nthe league of nations. The | league of nations is the covenant of l government that these men shall not i have died in vain. 1 like to think that l thed ust of those sons of America who were privileged to be buried in their mother country will mingle with the dust Of the men who fought for the | preservation of the Union and that as those men gave their lives in order
 that America might be united, these
 men have given their lives in order
 that the world might be united. Those
 men gave their lives in order to secure
 the freedom of a nation. These men have given theirs in order to secure
 the freedom of mankind, and I look forward to an age when it will be just 1 as impossible to regret the results of
 their labor as it is now impossible to
 regret the labor of those men who fought for the union of the states. l
 look for the time when every man who
 now puts his counsel against the unit ed service of mankind under the league
 of nations will be just as much
 ashamed of it as if he now regretted
 the union of the states.
 You are aware, as 1 am, that the airs
 of an older day are beginning to stir again, that the standards of an old
 order are trying to assert themselves again. There is here and there an at tempt to insert into the counsel of statesmen the old reckoning of selfish ness and bargaining and national ad . : vantage which were the roots of this , war, and any man who counsels these things advocates renewal of the sacri- ] flee which these men have made; TOT 7 if this is not the final battle for right there will be another that will be final , Let these gentlemen who suppose that
 it is possible for them to accomplish 7 this return to an order of which we are
 ashamed and that we are ready tC forget, realize they cannot accomplish : it. The peoples of the world are awake g and the peoples of the world are in the . saddle. Private counsels of statesmen I cannot now and cannot hereafter de- l termine the destinies of nations. If we Q are not the servants of the opinion o1
 mankind, we are of all men the littlest n the most contemptible, the least gifted t with vision. If we do not know courage D we cannot accomplish our purpose anC l. this age is an age which looks forward e not backward; which rejects the stand e ard of national selfishness that onct l. governed the counsels of nations anC - demands that they shall give way to e new order of things in which only tn, d questions will be lis it right? is i e just? is it in the interest of mankind 9 e This is @ challenge no generation t, ever dared to give ear to. So man! # things have happened and they hay h happened so fast, in the last four years e that I do not think many of us knov It what has happened. Think how impos l. sible it would have been to get a bod,
 of responsible here to entertain the ide . of the organization of a league of na 1t tions four years ago and think of tn If change that has taken place I wa told before I came to France that ther . would be confusion of counsels abou
 this thing, and I found unity of coun l sel. l was told that there would be op n position and l found union of action. ', found the statesmen with whom I wa is about to deal united in the idea tha n we must have league of nations ,v that we could not merely make a peac f. settlement and then leave it to mak
 itself effectual, but that we must con "a ceive some common organization b ~ which we should have given our com ~ ~ mon faith that this peace would b v maintained and the conclusions a y which we had arrived should be mad m - known to those who fought agains ,yt Germany. We have nstened to tn - challenge and that is the proof tha 2. there shall never be Q war like thi .u again.
 es Ladies and gentlemen. we all be Us lieve, I hope, that the spirits of thes men are not buried with their bone 'u Their spirits live. I hope-I believe eh that their spirits are present with | to at this hour. I hope that I feel tf ga compulsion of taeir presence. I hoI e. that I realize the significance of the ne presence. Think, soldiers, of thos CT comrades of yours who are gone. he they were here, what would they say ch They would not remember what yC ey are talking about today They wou re remember America which they le n. with their high hope and purpose ho They would remember the terrib D. field of battle. They would rememb to what they constantly recalled in tint in. of danger. what they had come for ar ut how worthwhile it was to give the