The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-03
MUST PREPARE
 ID FIGHT IF
 LEAGUE FAILS Herbert Hoover Declares Treaty Should Be
 Ratified. TEARS EUROPEAN
 LEAGUE WILL RISE If We Attempt to Revise Pact He Predicts We Shall Tread 8 Road
 Through Chaos.

Pa,o Alto, Cal, Oct, 3-Herbert c, Hoover explained his views on the peace teraty to the students of stan ford University and his own towns people. He stated he had been urged 10 do so by ex-President Taft and others,
 MT. Hoover began by saying he Was not Impatient of honest debate and did not criticise the Senate for not accepting the treaty out of hand. lie touched on the difficult situation il Paris and saia none could have been more disappointed than the American delegation that great wrongs, the result of secret treaties, were not eradicated by the confer ence
 Coming spe3cfcally to the League Of Gls tons, he said in part:
 we hear the cry that the League ob5sEstes that our sons be sent to z4gh; in foreign lands Yet the very intent and structure Of the league is to prevent war, There is no obliga- ton for the United States to engage 3n military opera tjops or to allow any ntvvference with ou, internal affairs without the full consent of our rep reseatatfves in the LeagNe> If there is any danger that we should be charged with an obligation to go to war either direct or implied with out the full consent and approval of Con gress, I believe the President will be the first to agree to any interpreta- tiou that this cannot be
 q am confident that If we attempt nov to revise the treaty We shall tread a road through European chaos, Even If We managed to keep our sol diarS oa> of il, we will not esca pc fea ~f2lJ economic losses, If the League Is to break Idowp, We must al once prepare to fight
 Few people seem to realize the desperation to which Europe has been reduced During the coming winter some os them win look with longins eyes on this rich, fat nation. possess ing great s11rpluses of every human necessity, while they endure ;nevi1a- r,le hqanser and cold, Others of them will be plunged into war with their neigh hbors, and we have already ex- peraenced the in1possi bility of main e<a5n1ng neutrality with seIf-respect and safety
 we cannot fiddle while Rome burns The Allies may then1selve: raa7STy this treaty without us, and thus assemble in an endeavor to solve tht problems of Europe II would bf . council Of Europe and in the nllGS of these terrible times, considering the debts they oY-e Us, the nateria they must have from. us or sJarve> would ra ther that We be represented therein lest il become a League O Europe against the Western Herni sphere 4 peace without us mean mora army and navy for us. with tn old treadmlu of taxes and danger for us
 Neither the gospel of hate nor tht gospel of unpreparedness is the rOat 10 peace The true road lies in ever! effort to remove the causes of war not in tearing down such structure o peace as we have, nor in blindness | -1resent dangers Those who think W can isolate ourselves seem to ignor the fact that modern communicable, has shortened our distance from ou neIghbors from a month to an hour
 We are an overseas people and W are dependent upon Europe for mar ket for the surplus products of ou farmers and laborers- Without Orde in Europe we will at best have bus mess depression. unemployment, an aN their train of troubles With re Hewed Reorganization in Europe, SC Cial diseases and anarchy thrive, an We are infected by every social win mat blows from Europe
 ''Our expansion overseas has entaE gled us for good or i'll, and I stand f. an honest attempt to join with FL rope's better spirits to prevent thes entanglements from involving us war We are not dealing with perfet tion, we are dealing with the lesser evils These are reasons of interest