The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-08-01


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States ali the stronger The league
would not be much Of a league with.
out the United States.
the safest. Hanest and most pru.
dent pan Il to ratify the league OF
not satisfied. Republican senators
cannot afford 20 stand In the way
OF peace. III the senate does not
\ ratify the league OF nations. the
American people viii elect senate
/ that WILL ratify IL.
Opposes Alliance
As | have said. I am for the
league OF nations more than the
f president. because I thought OF IL
and prayed for Il long before he
wrote OF II or spoke for a. when
ne invited me into his cabinet. l
laid a peace plan before him upon
which I had worked for seven years.
/ President Wilson approved OF that
plan and Endorsed II before meet.
[ ing of the cabinet 1 have lived 20
see that day when league OF ma,
tons is about 10 become the fact,
and | am glad
Il arm opposed TO an alliance with
I France because IL would discredlt the
league OF nations. The league rests.
not on the sword. but upon the
brotherhood o. man. France has not
caught the vision OF the New World.
but would impose upon the United
States an obligation 20 continue AN
alliance based on territories.
There can be no league within n
league. II we would have permanent
peace. France ID not In our class
In 1911 she was willing 20 go TO
war with Germany for the purpose
OF grabbing land Ia South Africa
Germany was not prepared for wa
In 1911. Had she been prepared
France. and not Austria. would have
lighted the match which plunged "a
world into blc0d and misery.
Would Defy France
II am opposed 10 the alliance with
| France. because clemenceau IL a
great reaetionary. France fought
President Wilson for more than
seven months and threatened to de-
lay ratification OF the League OF Ma.
tons covenant For my own part.
France can delay ratification OF the
! covenant forever before IN. United
States VIII step down from her high
position I'm the world.
Our nation has a military status
now. Some nations IN Europe
thought VIC couldn't fight. They
know better now. They know now
that nation without king can put
more men in the field In shorter
time than any country ruled by a
crown. The world respects US now
In military way. No nation is re
spected for it's ability TO wage war.
but IL IL respected for its respect for
the rights OF other nations. The
/ United states is tho first nation in
1 history TO wage war for the rights
/ OF other nations. and that IL why we
are looked up TO abroad. The old
world did not know the meaning OF
Z the word democracy before the
/ great war. but Il knows the meaning
now. When autocracy died. sicmoc-
racy was crowned as king-and long
live tho king
| told his auditors that four great re.
WILSON'S occurred in the United
states in the last Is ycars-the di.
/ rect primary. income tax. woman
suffrage and prohibition.
Prohibition is the greatest moral
victory this nation has won In a gen.
Grafton" Bryan told his hearers
amid applause.
our greatest domestic problem.
( Bryan continued. lis private monop.
1 oily. Government ownership II the
remedy, The telegraph lines. given
back to private ownership today. viii
again be placed In the hands OF the
1 federal government. IL In not fair
to judge the conduct of the wire
lines durisg tho war. because they
/ were placed in the hands OF men
who did not want 10 succeed.
| Government ownership OF rail
/ roads is coming. too" Bryan pre-
/ dicted, For my part I had rather
| trust government officials at wash
| ington with our railroads thHn trust
the maEnates in New York City. The
| outgrowth OF private ownership-thc
finished product. I may SAYS the
plu,ocrat. And the plutocrat. my
friends, carries the germ OF revolu.
ton in his bite just as the mosquito
carries tho germ of yellow fever in
! his bite.
81 am an American citizen before
| am democrat. My greatest wish
is TO leave to my three children and
my eight grandchildren clean gov.
eminent. an honest government, a
government under which every m4R
can have fair chance to succeed,
Bryan was presented 10 the audi.
ence by Capt. Thomas Davies. dem.
ocratlc war horse. At the guest OF
honor's table were seated William
Burton Harrison. governor general of
the Philippines. who made a brief
speech: Charles ID. F'ullen. county
democratic chairman. who also spoke
briefly: George Ryan and Richard
! Seclye Jones.