Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-01
HON, c, NJ. HAY MAKES
TALK ON LEAGUE

Honorable C. NJ. Hay of st. Louis
made an excellent and urgent appeal
in behalf of a League of Nations at
the Methodist Church Sunday morn
ing. In his opening remarks Mr.. Hay
said his subject should have been:
"The Place of the Church in the Lea
que of Nations" instead of "The
Place of the Church in the New WorlI
Order"
what is to be the new world order?
What should be, must be the new
world order?" the speaker asked.
"The new world order must be organ
lied for the peace of the world. Or
ganized in the spirit Of good will to
ward nations and upon the principles
of justice.
Speaking of acutalities, this cruel
and horrible wal over; the bodies arc
lying in Flanders field where peoples
grow as a sacrifice for what they be-
lieved right. The COUNTLESS millions of
wealth buried in ashes; millions upon
millions of homeless children ard
starving mothers reckoning TO US a
cross the seas for help; leads US to
ask. Is this the fruit mankind must
ever eat? Can we promise u chill
dren and our children's children moth
ing better? Or can we promise them
a better and brighter day? L.
"Why are we here? Why did we
have such war? Why? The an
swer is that the fruit we are eating to-
day is the natural, eventual harvest of
the sowing the world did decades ago.
Agencies for peaceful settlement had
seen it. There existed for the nation
themselves individually, q sort of lea
que. Each nation organized to pro-
tect it's own life as best it could.
Prior to 1S14 there were formed sew
eral nations in a group to wage war
or to protect themselves against war
by other groups. But there existed
no great league, no agreement or
common understanding between all
nations of the world for the purpose of
peace and to stop wars. Each Nation
was jealous of the other. It prepared
to defend itself against the others.
This state of affairs existed until fin
ally nation became so strong that
she decided to, and did, make often
/ v war on other countries. They |
prepared to kill each other. One ma
ton prepared on land and another on
sea. Do you wonder this war result
ed? This war was inevitable.
There did not exist a common
agency, not an international eye to
restrain Germany's ugly plan. What
are we to do, now that this war is |
over? What have we to promise our
children and III children's children3
If there be no other way than that
resulting in the late war, / would
rather take my three little children
and lay them to sleep beneath the
green sod. Life 50 mitigated is a
failure. Life of hate is a life of
He'll. What must be the new order?
Unless we accept some sort of inter
national "lan, a league of nations, if
you may please to call it, nothing can
be done.
Mr.. Hay said there were three plans !
which had been suggested: The first
one was that m nation rule a DOM
mate the world.
You would not agree to this, nor
|. God help US from such a solution.
Did not u boys give their lives, their
are there not today millions
young men, the flower of the land,
lying cold beneath the sod in Flan-|
der's field, because they sought to
save US from this curse? What would
they say should we choose to follow
plan? Then all they have given
would have been in vain.
another plan, the second one,
would be to let each nation do as it
pleases. This would create anarchy.
With the present inventions and 9TH
ers that are rapidly being perfected,
another war would result such as we
have never known, such as we can not
realize. A war, to which in compar-
ison, the n just passed would be only
a skirmish.
1.-THE third plan which has been Of
fered is the Balance Of Power