Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-14

only the free peoples of the world
can Join the league OF nations. Ger
many is for the present excluded,
because she must prove that she is
elf-governing. She must prove that
she has changed the process OF her
constitution and the purpose or her
power. When she has proved these
things she can become one or the
partners. guaranteeing that clVil1za-
ton shall not suffer again these in
tolerable things.
The league is not only union OF
free peoples to guarantee civiliza-
ton; 1t is something much more than
that. 1t is a league of nations to
advance civilization by substituting
something that will make the i'm
provement of civilization possible.
Present Civilization Industrial.
81 call you to witness that our CIV
ilization is not satisfactory: it is an
industrial c. ilization, and at the heart
of it is an antagonism between those
who labor with their hands and those
who direct labor. You cannot COM
pose those differences in the midst of
war, and you cannot advance civiliza-
ton unless you have peace Of which
you make the fullest use for bringing
these elements of civilization together
into a common partnership in which
every man will have the same interest
in the work of his community that
those have who direct the work Of
the community.
I'VE have got to have leisure and
freedom of mind to settle these things.
This was a war against autocracy;
and if you have disordered. il you
have disrupted populations. IL you
have insurgent elements in your
populations you are going to have
autocracy, because the stronger is go
ing to seize the power. as it has seized
it in Russia. 1 want to declare 1 am
the enemy of the rulership of any
minority, however constituted. 1 be-
lieve. for my part, that the league of
nations covenant is SO per cent in
surance against war. l take it you
want some insurance against war
rather than none. and if it is not 50 per
cent I dare say you would rather like
10 per cent. There Is a provision
for the constant, regular, interna-
tional discussion of labor problems,
no matter where they arise in the
world. for the purpose of lifting the
whole level of labor conditions: for
the purpose Of safeguarding the
health Of women and of children; for
the sake of bringing about those in
ternational comities with regard to
labor upon which the happiness of
mankind so much depends.
What l want everybody to under.
stand is this: The first effective i'm
pulse toward this sort of thing came
from America. And I want to call
your attention to the fact that it came
from some of the very men who are
now opposing it's contamination.
1T is of particular Importance to
remember at this moment, when some
men have dared to introduce party
passion into this question, that some
OF the leading spirits, perhaps I might
say the leading spirits in the concep-
ton Of this great idea, were the lead.
ing ngures of the republican party,
Expressed Thought of People"
When / advanced the things in
this league of nations l had the fuii
ana proud consciousness l was only
expressing the best thought and the
pest conscience of my beloved fellow
countrymen.
THE only things that I have any
special connection with in the league
OF nations covenant are things that
l was careful to have put in there
because of the very considerations
which are now being urged.
one of the most distinguished
lawyers of the United States, MI.
Wickersham of New York, who was
. "a s,n attorney General in Mr.. Tafts
told, to oppose the things that he
understood the American peace mis-
sion was trying to accompIish-and
what happened to Mr.. Wickersbama
he was absolutely converted, above
All Things else, to the necessity of
having a league of nations not onlv
put this league of nations. need NOT
ten you of the conspicuously fine
work which his chief, Mr.. Taft has
been doing in the same cause am
very proud to forget party lines. be-
cause there is one thing that in an
much greater than being repuhii.
can or democrat, that those thin1a
ought never to be mentioned or con.
nected with, and that is being an
American" o"
President Wilson said the nation
takes counsel of the lonely farms
Where there used to be a boy to help
the OLD man. and he continues: Now
ne cannot even get hired man to
nelp MIN, but yet he is trying to feed
the world. He realizes that the world
rs hungry, the world is naked, thai
the world is suffering and that none
OF THESE things can be remedied until
the minds OF men are treasured.
II wanted to have q Joint dehate
with some man who wanted to mt o,,r
part IN this peace down on the Love-
possible level-how much money NE
were going to make out Of i'll oouI6
silence him by assuring him that the
world 10 not treasured. Wv
Deiieve In my heart there Is har
~ man In America, If You get reaIIv
back OF his superficial thoughts. who