Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-07
TIE STANDS WITH HEAD
 ERECT IN THE ANCIENT
 PLACES OF OLD WORlD'
Where Other Kinds of Treaties tsed to be Made, and Represents Free people.

Puffalo, N. r.. Jan. 4.--SpGakine here Saturday before the Buffal7 Chamber of Commerce, Secretary of War Baker, declared 1t incanceive able that the peace conference would make the world war an insupport- able tragedy by failing to provide fo. league of nations or some other arrangements to prevent such dis asters in the future.
 We here n America, who have worked and paid" he said, the Fathers and Mothers who have given their sons, surely have a right to some high assurances of future peace conference at Versailles with out feeling that there hover over out feeling that there hover over it demanding that their sacrifices be not in vain, that the statesmen or the world now secure to mankind the blessings which they died to ob tain.'
 Mir. Baker said he had no inten- tion ol speaking for the president whose statements hal been explicit and in whosc hands the case Of America was now placed.
 "He stands with his head erect" said the secretary, 'in the ancient places of the old world, where otn- CT kinds of treaties used to be made. and represents a great and free people. He is the advocate not of form but of a principle.
 Ut may be that there are voices in this country which quiver with hesitation and here and there timor- GUS uncertainty. but back of him i'll that council are the voices of the democlacies of the world, of the men who labor, and the women who sac rifice: he is by force of events the spokesman of the democracy of the world and the compositions 'of this war will be new Magma charta a new bill of rights, to liberate the children of the future from the bur- dens of the past"
 As to the proposal fer league Of nations, Mr. Baker said it was not such scheme as the holy alliance ! suggested by some of it's critics.
 Tt is not proposed out of cabin cts of absolute ministers" he said, .tbut is rather the passionate, demand of men in the street, the simple and the unsophisticated who know little of tL,. intrigues and wlles of state cra't; but who know q very great deal about the suffering and sacri- flee which war entails;
 "For my own part. l refuse to be timid about America's caracIty to dc naw things which are needed in new world. l decline to distrust our purposes or to shrink from mov- inc forward because the road seems wider and higher than roads we have travelled hitherto. l 6io not know what form these arrangements can take. am not welded to any par ticulars method of preserving the peace of the world. I do not be- lieve that So great aN object can be accomplished by merely adharing to particular form of words or phrases"
 The peace conference. Mr. Baker said undoubtedly faced intricate an : difficult geographical and racial ques- tions. It would be conceivable possible he added "to make treaties ending this war in the old way quieting it's present discords and dealing with each National claim as though it were individual and of no community 
 interest"
 'But we had world organized ir the old way in 1914" he continued "In the last months U, nat year, the heady currents of international mis- understanding swirled together and I know of no more pathetic picture than that of the helplessness of the great and enlightened governments fthe world as their statesmen watch ed the stream and realized that no : provision had been maed to stem 1t Sir Edward Grey. in London. exhaust. ed the arts of traditional diplomac. to gain a moment for reflection; ev- erybody saw the horrible magnitude of the impending disaster, but there was no organized opinion of the , world, there was no agency through which the sane restraints of humanity and justice could operate.
 Ut is inconceivable that the peoples of the world willed such war. It is equally inconceivable that the peoples of the world would be willing now to face the possibility of another such trial without perfecting in advance modes of concerted action which will restrain the madness of the moment and the assurances of just cOnsidera- tion dispelling forever the illusion that either National greatness or National safety essentially depends upon the ability of a people to destroy life, wealth and property without stopping first to test out the possibilities of ac- commodation and concord.
 We have had centuries of leagues, among nations for the purpose of making war, offensive or defensive. It is too much to believe that in this enlightened age league to prevent war has become impossible%'
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