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Evening star., 1919-03-05
Knows Heart Of America.

From being what I will venture
TO call the most famous and the
most powerful nation in the world.
we would of a sudden have become
the most contemplate. So. I did
not need to be told. as | have been
told, that the people of the United
states would support this cove
nant. | am an American and I
knew they would.
what a sweet revenge il is upon
the world. They laughed at US
once, they thought we did not
mean our professions of principles.
They thought SO until April of
1917. IT was hardly ereditable to
them that we would do more than
send few men over and go
through the forms of helping, and
when they saw multitudes hasten
ing across the sea. and saw what
these nlultitudes were eager TO do
when they got to the other side,
they stood amazed and said, The
thing is real, this nation is the
friend of mankind as it said it
was. The enthusiasm, the hope,
the trust, the confidence in the fr-
ture bred by that change of view
is irdescribab able
Evening star., 1919-03-05
Named for Vocational Board

c. f Mcintosh of Spencer, Ind. has
been nominated by President wilson
to be a member of the federal board
for vocational education.
Evening star., 1919-03-05
Shall Not pisapnoint

Il Is incohcejvahIe that VIC should
disappoint them, AID We shall not.
The day win come when mea in
America VIII look back with swell
ing hearts and rising pride that
they should have been privue egrd
70 make the sacrifice. which Vas
necessary 10 make irf order 20 com
hIn@ their might and tileir moral
power with the cause OF justice Fo~
mon Of every kind everygv here.
God -iyc US The strength and
vision 10 dp;It wisely God give us
the privilege Of knowing that w..
did tt without counting tho Cost.
ana because W were trve Ayuarf-
cans. lovers of liberty ami OF do
ing right.
Evening star., 1919-03-05
eff Nations Fail Now?"

It is tragedy because it is a hope
which cannot, be realized in its
perfeetioi1, and yet ] have felt,
besides it's tragedy, its compulsion
its conipmsion upon every living
man 10 exercise every influence
tina. he has to the utmost to see
that as little as possible of that
hope is disa ppointed, because IL
men cannot now. after this agony
of bloody sweat. come to their
self possession and see how to
regulate the affairs of the world,
we viii sink back into period
of struggle in which there will be
no hope and. therefore, no mercy.
There can he no mercy where
there is no hope, for why should
you spare another il you your
}elf expect to perish? why should
you be pitiful If you can get no
eity? Why should you be just if.
upon every hand, you are put
unon?
There Is another thing which ]
think the critics Of this covenant
have not observed. They not only
have not observed the temper of
the world. but they have not even
observed the temper of those splen-
did boys in Khaki that they sent
across the seas. ! have had the
proud consciousness of.the reflected
glory of those boys, because the
Constitution made me their COM
rlander- in chief and they have
taught me some lesson. When we
went into the war we went
into it on the basis of decla-
rations. which it was my privilege
TO utter, because / believed them
to be an Interpretation of the pur-
pose and Thought of the people of
the United States.
Evening star., 1919-03-05
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Evening star., 1919-03-05

No one knows better than the ever r-watchful
mother-the natural doctor of the family in
all the small iIls-that when the baby is out
of sorts it is usually due TO indigestion or
constipation.
It is always well, in any of its illnesses, TO
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Evening star., 1919-03-05

part of the frontier at one time 1t
was said they found a man who
told the truth: he was not found
telling it, but he could tell 1t when
he heard it. And 1 think | am in
that situation with regard to some
of the criticisms 1 have heard.
They do not make any impression
ON me, because / know there is no
medium that viii transmit them.
that the sentiment of the country
Is proof against such narrowucss
and such selfishness as that
commend these gentlemen 70 com
munion with their fellow citizens.
W hat are wc to say, then. as to
the future? I think. my fellow
citizens that we can look forward
to II with confidence. J have heard
cheering news since l came to this
side of the water bout the prog
reAs that is being rFade in PARIS
toward the discussion and Clar.G-
cation Of a great many difficult
matters; and ! believe that settle
Jnents viii begin to be made rather
rapidly from this time on AT chose
conferences
But what I believe-what / know
as we'll as heiieve-is this: That
the men engaged in those confer
eRceS are gathering heart as they
40, not losing it: that they are find
ing community Of purpose and COM
NGNitF OF iGeai to an extent tn1t
perhaps they did not expect, and
that amidst all the interplay Of in
tiuence - because it is infinitely
complicated--am ali the inter
play OF influence there is for
ward movement which is running
toward the right. Men have 1T last
perceived that the only permanent
thing in the world IS the right, and
that a wrong settlement is bound
TO be temporary settlement
bound to be 4 temporary settlement
for the very best reason Of all, that
II ought to be a temporary settle
ment, and the spirits of men viii
reUel against il. and the spirits of
men are now in the saddle
Wounded Plead for League.
When l was in Italy a little
limpin& group Of wounded italian
soldiers sought an interview with
me. I could not conjecture what it
was they were going to say to me.
and with the greatest simplicity.
with a touching simplicity, they
presented me with a petition in ia
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Evening star., 1919-03-05

so. he put the exactly right inter
probation upon what Washington
said, the Interpretation that is in
evitabie If you read what he said,
as most of these gentlemen do
not. and the thing that he longed
for was just what we are now
about to supply: an arrangement
which will disentangfe all the al
iiances in the world
Nothing entangfeS, nothing en-
meshes 4 man except a Selfish com
bination with somebody else Notn-
ing entang giles u nation. hampers 1t,
binds it, except to enter into a
com nhinatioTi with some other ma
tion against the other nations OF
the world And this great disen-
tanglefnent of all alliances is now
to be accomplished by this cove
nant. because one of the covenants
is that no nation shall enter INTO
any relationship with another ma.
tion inconsistent with the cove
nants of the league of nations
Evening star., 1919-03-05

NEW YORK, March 5.-Presiden
Wilson. in his Metropolitan Opers
House speech last night, said:
My fellow citizens, I accept the
intination of the air just played.
I will not come back Till It's
Over over There" And yet I pray
God. in the interests of peace and
of the world, that that may be
soon
The first thing that ] am going
to tell the people on the other SIDE
of the water is that an over
whelming majority of the Amerl-
can people is in favor OF the
league of nations, l know that
that is true: | have had unmls-
taxable intimation of it from all
parts of the country, and the voice
rings true in every case. count
myself fortunate to speak mere
under the unusual circumstances
of this evening. 1 am happy TO
associate myself with Mr.. Tart IN
this great cause. He has displayed
an elevation of view ana oe-
votion to public duty whlch -
beyond praise. ~
And am the more happy be-
cause this means that TINS Is no.
a party issue. No party mas thS
right to appropriate TINS issue anu anu
no party will, in the long rum
dare oppose it.
Conviction Back of Plan.
We have listened to so clear ana
admirable an exposition OF many
of the main features or the pro
posed covenant of the league OF
nations that it is perhaps not
necessary for me to discuss III
any particular way the contents
of the document. l viii seek,
rather, to give you its setting.
do not know when ] nave heeh
more impressed than by the CON
ferences of the commission set UP
by the conference of peace TO draM
up a covenant for the league OF
nations. The representatives OF
fonrteen nations sat around that
board-not young men, not men
inexperienced in the affairs Oh
their own countries, not men m
experienced in the politics or the
world; and the inspiring influence
of every meeting was the concur
renee of purpose on the part Oh
all those men to come to an agree
ment and an effective working
agreement with regard 10 this
league of the civilized world
There was conviction IN the
whole impulse; there was conElc-
ton of more than one sort; there
was the conviction that this thlhg
ought to be done, and there was
also the conviction that not man
there would venture 10 go nome
and say that he had not tried 10
do 1t.
Mr.. Taft has set the picture for
YOU of what a failure Of this great
purpose would mean. We have been
hearing for all these weary months
that this agony of war has lasted
because of the sinister purpose of
the central empires, and we have
made maps OF the course that they
meant their conquestS to take.
Where did the lines of that map
lie, of that central line that we
used tocail from Bremen to Bag
dad9
They lay through these very re-
gions to which Mr.. Taft has called
your attention, but they lay then
through united empire, the Austro-
Hungarian empire, whose integrity
Germany was bound to respect, as
her ally lay in the path of that line
of conquest; the Turkish empire,
whose interests she professed to
make her own, lay in the direct
path that she intended to tread
Evening star., 1919-03-05
End of Alliances

Nations promise not to have al
liancas. Nations promise not 10
make combinations against each
other Nations agree that there
shall be but one combination ana
that is the combination OF All
against the wrongdoef. And so
am going back to my task on the
other side with renewed vigor. /
had not forgotten what the spirit
of the American people is, but l
have been Immensely refreshed by
coming in contact with 1t again. |
die not know how good home felt
until I got there.
The only place a man can teeI at
home is where nothing has to be
explained to him. Nothing has to
be explained to me in America,
least of all the sentiment OF the
American people | mean about
great Fundamental things like this.
There are many differences Of
Judgment as to policy-and per
fectly legitimate. Sometimes pro-
found differences of judgment but
those are not differences of seDti-
ment: those are not differences of
purpose: those are not differences
of ideals. And the adVap tage OF
not having to have anything eX-
plained to you is that you recog-
nize wrong explanation when
you hear it.
Refers Critics to People.
In a certain rather abandoned
Evening star., 1919-03-05
Will Watch Intrigue.

And now what has happened?
The stro-Hungarian empire has
gone TO pieces and the Turkish en-
pire has disappeared. and the ma
tions that effected that great re-
suit-for it was a result of liberia
tion-are now responsible as the
trustees of the assets of those
great nations. You, not only would
have weak nations lying in this
path. but you would have nations
in which that old poisonous seed of
intrigue could be planted with the
certainty that the crop would be
abundant; and one of the things
that the league of nations is in
tended to watch is the course of
intrigue Intrigue cannot stand
publicity, and II the league of ma
tions were nothing but a great de-
batting society it would kill in
trigue.
II is one of the agreements of
this covenant that it is the friend
ly right of every nation a member
of the league TO call attention to
anything that it thinks will dis
turb the peace of the world, no
matter where that thing is occur
ring.
There is no subject that NAV
touch the peace of the world which
is exempt from inquiry and dis
cussion. and ! think everybody
here present will agree with me
that Germany would never have
gone to war if she had permitted
the world to discuss the aggres-
sion upon Serbia for single week.
Evening star., 1919-03-05
Uneasiness in Europe.

DO not let yourselves suppose Tor
a moment that the uneasiness IN
the populations of Europe is due
entirely 10 economic causes or eco
nomic motives; something very
much deeper underlies it all than
that
They see that their governments
have never been able to defend
them against intrigue or aggres-
sion and that there is no force of
foresight or of prudence in any
modern cabinet to stop war. And,
therefore, they say:
There must, he some fundamen-
tai. cause for this And the fun
damental cause they are beginning
to perceive to be that nations have
stood singly or in little jealous
groups against each other, foster
ing prejudice. increasing the dam
ger of war, rather than concerting
measures to prevent it; and that if
there is right in the world, if there
is justice in the world, there is no
reason why nations should be di-
vided in the support of justice.
They are therefore saying: II you
really believe that there is a right.
if you really believe that wars
ought TO be stopped. stop thinking
about the rival interests of nations
and think about men and women
and children throughout the world.
Object of Nations.
Nations are not made to afford
distinction to their rulers by way
of success in the maneuverS of
politics: nations are meant, il they
are meant for anything, to make
I the men and women and children
in them secure and happy and pros
porous, and no nation has the right
to set up its special interest
against the interests and benefits
of mankind. least of all this great
nation which we love.
1t was set up for the benefit of
mankind. it was set up to illus
trate the highest ideals and to
achieve the highest aspirations of
men who wanted to be free; and
the world-the world of today
believes that and counts on US.
and would be thrown back into
the blackness of despair if we de-
serted it.
] have tried once and again. my
fellow citizens, to say to little
circles of friends or TO large
bodies what seems to be the real
hope of the peoples of Europe.
and I tell you frankly I have not
been a Bile To do so becau use when
the thought tries to crowd itself
into speech the profound emotion
Of the thing is too nuch-speech
will not carry. / have. felt the
tragedy of the hope of those suf-
fering peoples.
Evening star., 1919-03-05
What Critics Lack.

My friends. l wish you would re-
feet upon this proposition. The
vision as to what is necessary for
great reforms has seldom come
from the top in the nations of the
world. 1t has come from the need
and the aspirations and the self
assertion. OF great bodies of men
who meant to be free. And i can
explain some Of the criticisms
Evening star., 1919-03-05
League Without q. S. Unthinkable

"A league of nations without the
United States is unthinkable. She has
entered the world history and cannot
leave it again, in my opinion. By TAX
ing part in this war America. actually
decided the future fate of the world. 1t
is not possible that Americans should
now say: We shall leave you alone.
We are only Americans The idealistic
way which American people acted show
that they have a keen feeling for the
great part their nation will have in the
future history of the world. When the
nation said through its President on en-
tering the war that it had nothing to
gain by the war but much to lose, il
entered it just the same because 1t con :
sidered lit to be its duty TO uphold its
ideals. That was the most inspiring
thing that ever happened.
'It would be very foolish to deny that
there are very serious difficulties. but,
as Mr.. Wilson said ON one occasion. dif-
ficulties exist in order to be over
come. I cannot see that the present
difficulties are too great They are
due to causes which can be overcome
by the unanimous win of civilized
people. What the world needs now is
faith"
Evening star., 1919-03-05
GOING TO RENEW
!. FIGHT FORLEAGUE'
President Tells New York
! Audience Majority of
a. Americans Favor 1t.
|, NECESSITY, SAYS Mr.. TAFT

= NEW YORK, March 5,-President
Wilson told the American people, in
an address at the Metropolitan Opera
House last night on the eve of his re-
sturn to Paris that he was going back
TO the peace conference to battle with
renewed vigor for creation Of league
of nations.
-The first thing 1 am going to tell
the people on the other side of the
Axater is that an overwhelming ma
jority of the American people is in
flavor of the league of nations" said
the President.
Speaking after former President
Taft had eXpounded the main features
of the proposed covenant of nations,
Mr.. Wilson told the vast audience
which filled the house his opinions of
opponents of the league plan in
America.
Evening star., 1919-03-05
"Those Who Suffer S e."

The liberated peoples OF the Aus
tro- Hungarian empire and of the
Turkish empire call out 70 us for
this thing. II has not arisen in the
council or statesmen. EYrope &; a
bit sick at heart at this very mo-
ment beca use it sees that states
men have had no vision and that
the only vision mas been the vision
of the people. Those who suffer
see. Those against whom wrong is
wrought know how desirable is the
right and the righteous
The nations that have long been
under the heel of the Austrian, that
have long covered befor the Ger
man. that have long suffered the in
describable agones of being gov
erned BY the Turks, have called
out to the world generation after
generation, for Justice, for liberia
ton, for suceor, and no cab binet in
the world has heard them.
Private organizations, plying
hearts. phlapthropic men and W om-
en- have poured out their treasure
in order to relieve these sufferings;
but no nation has said to the ma
tions responsible: You must stop;
this thing is intolerable. and we
will not permit it," And the vision
has been with the people
Evening star., 1919-03-05
Sees Peril in Bolshevism.

Though he relied upon Ame.fca s
training for hundreds of years in self
government to counteract the hard,
cruel. rnurderous specter of bolshe-
VIsm' in this country, Mr.. Taft as
serted that IF it spreads o-,er and de-
stroys the existing, governments in
France and England apd Italy, and
threatens them and includes the whole
OF Europe in its poisoGous ard con-
tagtous influence. we must not mini
miZe its dangers to 1ur own ciyiliza-
ton.
Looked at fro:a either a selfish or
world point oS view, no higher duty
ever was laid dpon the United States
than now a. this critical juncture in
the worlds affairs TO unite with the
nations with whom IL has won this
wa & arms and brought Germany 10
f=ss k ees 20 keep her in that suppliant
Sttitude and save her and Europe from
the chaos and despair of further war
and the inevitable triumph Of bot
sheyism.
The disinterestednes OF the United
States, its position as the greatest
power in the world in view of IT'S por-
ulation and their intelligence and
adaptabiiity, its enormous natural le-
sources and its potential military
power, demonstrated on the fields of
France and Belgium, make it's MEM
bership in the league indispensa bic"
Evening star., 1919-03-05
Indispensable, Says Mr.. Taft.

A league of nations covenant is in
dispensable to the treaty OF peace if
"the war is to accomplish the declared
purpose of this nation and the world"
said Mr.. Taft.
Adherence to the Washington policy
of avoiding foreign alliances could not
be applied to the present international
status. Mr.. Taft declared, because the
interests of the United States are in
eyitably involved in the preservation
States to withdraw from the project.
he asserted, would make the league of
nations merely "a return to the sys-
tenn Of alliances anG the balance of
power with speedy recurrence of
war. in which this country would GER
present struggle"
Referring to criticism of the league
plan in the Senate, the former Presi-
dent stated his belief that it was the
duty of the President, as the prime
mover in the nations treaty making
power. to report the eventual draft of
the treaty with the former central
powers with the league covenant as a
part of the treaty itself il. in his
judgment and that of the peace con-
ference, an agreement formally termi- =
mating the war would be incom plete
without 1t.
II the President made such a rec
ommendation, Mr. Taft said. he ven
tared TO doubt If there would be a
majority of the members wiling to as
sune the responsibility of decreeing
that the treaty be amended by strik-
ing out the constitution of the league
and committing the question TO fur
ther discussion at Paris. Mr.. Taft
stated his opinion that the problem
would have "a somewhat different as.
pect' for senator's upon whom woul +
be laid the blame for "postponfne
peace"
Evening star., 1919-03-05
Nations Drew ogcther.

The British foreign Office sug-
gested, it pleaded that there might
be day or two delay so that the
representatives of the nations of
Europe could get together and dis
cuss the possibilities of settle
ment. Germany did not dare per
NIT a days discussion, You know
what happened. So soon as the
world realized that an outlaw was
at large. the nations began one by
one TO draw together against her.
We know for a certainty that
if Germany had thought for a mo-
ment that Great Britain would 20
IN with France and with Russia
she never would have undertaken
the enterprise. and the league Of
nations is meant as a notice to ali
outlaw nations that not only Great
Britain. but the United States and
the rest of the world, will go in to
stop enterprises Of that sort And
so the league of nations is nothing
mora nor less than the covenant
that the world viii always main
tain the standards which it has
now vindicated by some of the
most precious blood ever spilled.
Evening star., 1919-03-05
LEAGUE OR CHAOS,
NANSEN DECLARES
International Anarchy if Old
Conditions Prevail, Nor
Wegian Believes.
BY TLLA ANKTR.
Special Wireless to The Evening star
and the Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1913.

LONDON, England. March 1-Prof.
Fridtjof Nansen, president of the
Norwegian union for league OF ma
tions, is now in London on his way
to Paris, where he will meet repre-
sentatives of the allied unions for
a league of nations TO present the
Norweg view as it affects small
nations and neutrals.
THE world now he said in an in
terview, has choice between a
solution which would make civiliza-
ton and freedom possible on earth or
international anarchy. If competi-
ton in armament between nations is
to continue it means conditions which
no one can grasp at the present mo-
rnent. 1t would mean not only COM
petition in armies and navies. put
competition of industries and of the
best brain power of the nations for
constructing the most powerful m
struments of destruction.
Evening star., 1919-03-05
Indication of Chaos.

'I believe that these four years OF
war have given US an indication OF
what would happen SO long as there
was no control or regulation of arIna-
ments by league of nations. There
would be such anxiety over what the
enemy is preparing or inventing that
there would be little thought of work
left for human progress. The great
powers would spend their lives pay
ing for the last and preparing for
the next war.
'"The increase in armaments went up
to nearly so per cent of their budgets in
several states during the world war.
This would be a mere trif1e in future
wars OF course. there are pessimIsts
who say that solution is Impossible,
but in my opinion there is now choice
If we do not find it today we shall be
bound to do so later, and then it may be
too late to save the civilization of the
white race.