Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-03-12

IL IS one OF the agreements OF. TINS
covenant that it is the friendly right
of every nation a nember of the
league, TO call attention to anything
that it thinks will disturb the peace of
the world no matter Were that thing
is occurring. (Applausg) There is
nc subject that may touch the peace
of the world which is exempt from
inquiry and discussion and l 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 aggression upon
Serbia for a single week. (Aprlause.)
The British foreign office suggested, it
plead that there might be a day or two
delay so that the representatives of
the nations of Europe could get to-
gether and discuss the possibilities of
a settlement. Germany did not dare
permit a days discussion. You know
what happened.
Outlaw at Large.
SO soon as the world realized that
an outlaw was at large, the nations be-
gan one by one to draw together
against her. We know for certainty
that if Germany had thought for a
moment that Great Britain would go
in with France and with Russia she
never would have undertaken the en-
terprise, and the league of nations is
meant as a notice to all outlaw ma
tiOns that not only Great Britain but
the United States and the rest of the
that sort (Applause). And so the
league of nations is nothing more nor
less than the covenant that the world
will always maintain the standards
which it has now indicated by some
of the most precious blood ever split
(Applause). The liberated peoples of
the Hungarian empire and of
the Turkish empire call out to us for
this thing. 1t has not arisen in the
council of statesmen. Europe is a bit
sick at heart at this very moment, be-
cause it sees that statesmen have had
no vision and that the only vision has
been the vision of the people Cap
plause). 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 before the
German, that have long suffered the
indescribable agOnies of being gov
'erned by the Turk. have called out to
the world, generation after generation,
for justice, for liberation, for succor:
and no cabinet in the world has heard
them. Private organizations, plying
hearts, philanthrOpic men and women
have poured out their treasures in or
der to relieve these sufferings; but
no nation has said to the nations re-
sponsible You must stop; this thing
is intolerable, and we will not permit
it, (Applause.) And the vision has
been with the people.
MY friends, / wish you would re-
fleet upon this proposition: The vi
sion of what is necessary for great re-
forms has seldom come from the top
in the nations of the world. 1t has
come from the need and the aspiration
and the self-assertion of great bodies
of men who meant to be free. Cap
plause) And l can explain some of
the criticisms which have been lev
eled against this enterprise only by
the supposition that the men who ut
ter the criticisms have never felt the
great pulse of the heart of the world.
applause and cheers.)
Scorches Certain Senators.
"And 1 am amazed, not alarmed, but
amazed (applause) that there should
be in some quarters such a compre
hensive ignorance of the state of the
world. (Applause.) These gentlemen
do not know what the mind of men is
now Everybody else does. (Laugh-
ter.) l do not know where they have
been closeted; l do not know by what
influences they have been blinded, but
l do know that they have been sepa-
rated from the general currents of
thoughts of mankind. (Applause)
And | want to utter this solemn warn
ing, not in the way of threat; the
forces of the world do not threaten,
they operate -(applause). The great
tides of the world do not give notice
that they are going to rise and run;
they rise in their majesty and over
whelming might and those who stand
in the way are overwhelmed. Now the
heart of the world is awake and the
boar+ of tho world must he satisfied
Do not let yourselves suppose for a
moment that the uneasineSs in the
populations of Europe is due entirely
to economic causes or economic mo-
tives; something very much deeper I'M
derlies it all than that. They see that
their governments have never been
able to defend them against intrigue
or aggression and that there is no
force of foresight or of prudence in