The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-09-09

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anything that even resembled pity.
There is no indemnity in this treaty,
but there is reparation and even in
the terms of reparation method is
devised by which the reparation shall
be adjusted to Germany's ability to
pay it.
I am astonished at some of the
statements / see made about this
treaty and the truth is that they are
made by persons who have not read
the treaty or who, if they have read
it, have not comprehended it's mean
ing.
There is a method of adjustment
in the treaty by which the reparation
shall not be pressed to the utmost
point that she can pay, which is just,
which is righteous. It would be in
tolerable if there had been anything
else, for my fellow citizens. This
treaty is not meant merely to end
this singular war, it is meant as a
notice to every government who, in
the future, will attempt this thing,
that mankind will unite to inflict the
same punishment.
Treaty to Prevent Similar War.
There is no national triumph
sought to be recorded in this treaty.
There is no glory sought for any par
ticular nation. The thought of the
statements collected around that ia
BILE was Of their people, of the suffer
ings that they had gone through, Of
the losses they had incurred, that
great throbbing heart which was so
so forlorn, so sad in every
memory that it had had of the five
tragical years, my fellow country
men. Let us never forget the pur-
pose, the high purpose, the disinter-
ested purpose, with which America
lent it's strength, not for it's own
glory, but the advance Of mankind. .
And, as I said, this treaty was not
to end this war; it was in
tended to prevent any similar war.
l wonder if some of the opponents
of the league of nations have forgot
ten the promises we made our peo-.
pie before we went to that peace ta-
BILE? We had taken by processes Of
law the flower of our youth from
every countryside, from every house:
hold, and we told those mothers and
f athers and sisters and wives and
sweethearts that we were taking
those men to fight war which would
end business of that sort, and if we
do not end it, if we do not do the
best that human concert of action
can do to end it, we are, of all men,
the most unfaithful to the loving
hearts who suffered in this war; the
most unfaithful to those households
bowed in grief, yet lifted with the
feeling that the lad laid down his
life for a great thing, among other
things in order that other lads might
not have to do the same thing.
That is what the league of nations
is for, to end this war justly, and it
is not merely to serve notice on gov
ernments which would contemplate
the same things which Germany con-
templated, that they will do it at
their peril, but also concerting the
combination of power of which will
prove to them that they will do it at
their peril. It is idle to say the world
will combine against you because it
may not, but it is persuasive to say
the world is combined against you
and will remain combined against
any who attempt the same things
that you attempted.
The league of nations is the only
thing that can prevent the recurrence
of this dreadful catastrophe and re-
deem our promises. And the charac-
ter of the league is based upon the
experience of this very war.
81 did not meet single public
man who did not admit these things,
that Germany would not have gone
into this war if she had thought
Great Britain was going into it and
that she most certainly would never
have gone into this war if she had
dreamed America was going into it,
and they have all admitted that a
notice beforehand that the greatest
powers of the world would combine
to prevent this sort of things it
would have prevented it absolutely.
Passions of World Are Not Dead.
When gentlemen tell you, there
fore, that the league Of nations is