The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-18

be rejected. The affair was strictly +
Auditors Applaud Speakers.
Outbursts of applause met Mr..
Harvey criticism of the Wilson pro-
Gramme, especially when the speaker
characterized the proposed covenant
as "the most un-American proposal
ever submitted to the American peo-
pie by an American President"
1t was apparent that many of those
in the audience were as sceptical of
the proposed plan for League Of
Nations as the speaker himself.
Gov. James u. Goodrich, who in
troduced Mr.. Harvey, gave recep-
tion for him in the afternoon. when
many leading Republicans met Mr..
Harvey.
Col. Harvey warned that under the
league the United States would be-
come in effect vassal State of Great
Britain. He asserted that the league
in its present form would enable
Great Britain, with the aid of her
Dominions, to seize and hold the
hegemony of the world.
He declared that the league as pro-
posed was purely a British creation,
created and framed for the express
purpose Of shifting many of the EN-
pire's burdens to the shoulders of
the United States He said that
President Wilson in championing it
in its present form was acting as a
catspaw for Britain, which originated
every one but one of the Presidents
fourteen points.
Two Great Voices in Protest,
Col. Harvey was introduced by Gov.
James p. Goodrich, who said:
"After the sinking of the Lusitanla
and the revelation to the world of the
dastardly purpose Of the Central En-
pires America stood at the parting
Of the ways. One path led to respect
and honor, the other TO obloquy and
shame, one to the preservation of our
free institutions, the other to
cowardly submission to the will Of an
arrogant autocracy.
when the national conscience was
deadened and its vision obscured by
the great profits we were making
out of the sufferings Of a war swept
continent. when our ears were dull
10 the cries of the millions who died
for freedoms cause, and our eyes
blind to the dangers that threatened
our own land, two voices rose, clear
us a bugle amidst the wilderness Of
doubt and uncertainty that marked
The country. calling the nation to its
high destiny and demanding that we
cease to stand idly and see the free
nations of the earth crushed beneath
the iron heel of the oppressor.
'The one has fought his last fight,
has finished his course and It was the
crowning glory of his life that the
nation heard the call and demon
strated to the world that 1t still pos
Sessed the courage and patriotism of
the great men who established II.
Great Peace Time Issues.
THE other Is our guest of the eve
ming, the same voice that called us
TO arms in time of war is calling us to
n duty in time of peace. The same
clear vision that saw the danger in
1914 and 1915 from the aggresslons
IF the Prussian autocracy now sees
the more subtle danger that turks
behind the inslduous propaganda of
those who would have us depart from
the principles that have guided us
for nearly $50 years, surrender our
national sovereignty and embark on
the uncertain sea of European poll
tics, sees the danger to our institu-
tions from the deadening influences
OF Government ownership of our
means of transportation and commu-
nlcation, sees the danger to our free
institutions from the propaganda of
the Socialist and the BOlshevist. and
seeing all this is giving to the ser
vice Of the nation all the great power
and influence he possesses.
Because Of the sincerity of his
purpose, the intensity of his patriot /!
ism, the courage of his conviction
and the integrity of his ways we are