Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05

| territories which are taken away
from Germany, like her colonies, are
not given to anybody. There is not
single act of annexation in this
treaty. But territories inhabited by
people not yet able to govern them
selves, either because of economic or
other circumstances, or the stage
of their development, are put under
the care of powers who are to &C
cept as trustees, trustees respon-
sible in the forum of the world, at
the bar of the league of nations, and
the terms upon which they are to
exercise their trusteeship are out
lined. They are not to use those
people by way of profit and to fight
their wars for them; they are not
to permit any form of slavery
among them or OF enforced labor.
They are to see to it that there are
humane conditions of labor with re-
gard not only to the women and
children, but the men, too. They
are to establish no Notifications;
they are to regulate the liquor and
the opium traffic; they are to see
to it, in other words, that the lives
of the people whose care they as
sume-not sovereignty over whom
they assume, but whose care they
assume-are kept clean and safe and
holy.
There again the principle of the
treaty comes out, that the object of
the arrangement is the welfare of
the people who live there, and not
the advantages of the government.
at goes beyond that and it seeks
to gather under the common super
vision of the league of nations, the
various instrumentalities by which
the world has been trying to check
the evils that were in some places
debasing men, like the opium traf-
fic-for it was trafflc-in men,
women and children; like the traf-
fic in other dangerous drugs; like
the traffic in arms among uncivi-
lized people, who could use arms
only for their detriment; for santa
ton; for the work Of the Red Cross.
Why, those clauses, my fellow citl-
zens, draw the hearts of the world
into league; draw the noble i'm
pulses of the world together and
make a poem of them.
Il used to be told that this was
an age in which mind was monarch;
and my comment was that if that
were true, the mind was one of
these modern monarchs that relgns
and does not govern; but as mat
ter of fact we were governed by a
great representative assembly, made
up of the human passions, and that
the best we could manage was that
the high and fine passions should
be in a majority, so that they could
control the face of passion, so that
they could check the things that
were wrong, and this treaty seeks
something like that.
Passion Of Justice.
"In drawing the humane endeav-
ors together it makes mirror of the
fine passions of the world of its
philanthropic passions and of its pas
sion of pity of this passion of human
sympathy of this passion of human
friendliness for there is such a pas
sion. 1t is the passion that has
lifted US along the slow road of civil
ization; it is the passion that has
made ordered government possible;
it is the passion that has made JUS
tice and esta blished the thing in
some happy part of the world
THAT is the treaty. Did you ever
hear of it before? Did you ever
know before what was in this
treaty? Did anybody before ever
tell you that the treaty was intended
to do?
81 beg my fellow citizens that you
and the rest of those Americans
with whom we are happy to be as
sociated all over this broad land
will read the treaty themselves-or
if they won't take time to do that
for it is technical document that is
hard to read-that they will accept
the Interpretation of those who
made it and know what the inten-
tons, were in the making of it.
81 hear a great deal, my fellow
citizens, about the selfshness and
the selfish ambitions of other gov
ernments, but I would not be doing
justice to the gifted men with whom
l was associated on the other side
of the water if I did not testify that
the purposes that I have outlined
were their purposes.
"We differed as to the method
ycrv often We differed ne m tho