Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-26


 tiOns have accepted as the basis of a | settlement
 If we return to the United States without having made every effort in our power to realize this program, We should return to meet the merited J seOrn of our fellow citizens For they , are a body that constitute a great [ demoCracy- They expect their leaders to speak; their representative to be | their servants
 | We have no choice but to obey | their mandates. But it is with the ! greatest enthusiasm and pleasure that we accept that mandate.
 And because this is the keynote Of ' the whole fabric. we have pledged our every purpose to 1t, as we have ! to every item of the fabric. We would not dare abate a single item ' of the program which constitutes our instructions; we would not dare to { compromise upon any matter as the champion of this thing-this peace of the world, this attitude of justice, this [ principle that we are the masters of no peoples. but are here to see that [ every people in the world shall choose its own masters and govern its own ! destinies, not as we wish. but as they wish
 We are here to see, in short, that the very foundations of this war are swept away. These foundations were the private choice of a small coterie Of civil rulers and military staffs Those foundations were the aggression of great powers upon the small [ Those foundations were the holding together of empires of unwilling sub jects by the duTess of arms Those foundations were the power of small bodies of men to wield their will and use mankind as pawns in a game
 And nothing less than the enamel patton of the world from these things will accomplish peace
 You can see that the representa- tives of the United States are, there fore, never put to the embarrassment of choosing a way of expediency. be cause they have laid down before them the unalterable lines of prin- ciples- And, thank God, these lines have been accepted as the lines of settlements by all the high minded men who have had to do with the be- ginning of this great business.
 T hope, MT. Chairman. when it is known. as I feel confident 1t will be known, that We have adopted the prin- ciple of the league of nations and mean to work out that principle in effective action, we shall by that single thing have lifted a great part of the load of anxiety from the hearts of men everywhere
 We stand in a peculiar cause As 1 go about the streets here l see everywhere the American uniform These men came into the war after we had uttered our purpose. They came as crusaders, not merely to win a cause. 1 am responsible to them, for it falls to me to formulate the purpose for which I asked them to fight and l, like them, must be a crusader for these things, whatever it costs and whatever it may be neces- sary to do in honor to accomplish the object for which they fought
 -I have been glad to find from day 10 day that there is no question of our standing alone in this matter. for there are champions of this cause upon every hand. l am merely avow- ing this in order that you may under
  are disengaged from the politics of this great continent and of the orient, to suggest that this was the keystone Of the arch, anI why it occurred to the generous mind of your president 10 call upon me to open this debate It is not because we alone represent this idea. but because it is our priv ilege to associate ourselves with you in representing it.
 --I have only tried in what I have said to give you the fountains of the enthusiasm which is within us for this thing. for those fountains spring. it seems to me, from all the ancient wrongs and sympathies of mankind, and the very pulse Of the world seems to beat at the fullest in this enter prise~
 At the conclusion of the reading Of a translation of President Wilson's speech, Premier Lloyd-George said:
 T should not have intervened at all. but it was necessary for me to state how emphatically the people of the British empire are behind this pro- pOsal, and ii the leaders of the Brit ish empire have not been able to de- vote as much time during the last five years as they would have liked to this question the reason is that they were entirely occupied with other questions that were more urgent for the mo- ment
 Had l the slightest doubt as to the wisdom of this league of nations it would have vanished before the spec tacle as I saw it last Sunday when visited a region, which but a few years ago, was one of the fairest in this very fair land
 We drove for hours through what was a wilderness of desolation- It did not look like a country where there were habitatiORs of men, but it was torn and shattered and rent be- yond all recognition We visited one city which had been very beautiful. ] but where we saw scenes which no indemnity can ever make good
 One Of the crUelest features was the EnovVIedee tbaf FrpTcbmen who