The sun., 1919-09-20
QUOTES ROOSEVELT
AND LODGE ON PEACE
Wilson Cites Utterances Fa-
ooring a League of Nations.

SAN DIEGO, Cal. Sept. 19.-The text
of President Wilson's address in the
Stadium here tonight in part follows
II anybody discusses this question
(the League Of Nations) on the basis
of party advantage 1 repudiate him
as a fellow American and in order
to validate what have said I want
to make one or two quotations from
representatives of a party to which 1
do not belong. The first shall make
from a man who has for long time
been a member of the United States
Senate.
The President then quoted Senator
Lodge as saying at banquet in May,
1918:
NJ one. think, can feel more
deeply than do the difficulties which
confront us in the work which this
league (the League TO Enforce Peace)
undertakes But the difficulties can
not be overcome unless we try to
overcome them. I believe 1t can be
done. Probably 1t will be impossible
to stop all wars, but 1t certainly will
be possible to stop some wars and
thus diminish their number. The way
in which this problem is to be
worked out must be left to this
league and to those who are giving
this great question the study which 1t
deserves. I know the obstacles. I
know how squarely we will be met
with the statement: This Is a dam
gerous question which you are putting
into this agreement that no nation
can submit to the judgment of other
nations, and we must be careful at
the beginning not to attempt too
much" 1 know the difficulties which
arise when we speak of anything
which seems to involve an alliance,
but do not believe when Washington
warned us against entangling al
liances he meant for one moment
that we should not join with the other
civilized nations of the world II a
method could be found to diminish
war and encourage peace.
This league certainly has the
highest OF all ambitions for the
benefit of humanity. and because the
pathway Is gown with difficulties Is
no reason that we should turn from
it
The President quoted ex-President
Roosevelt as having written in an
article published in October. 1914, in
which this was said:
The only prominent move for OBJ
tanning peace which has yet been
suggested with any reasonable chance
of attaining its object is by an agree
ment among the great Powers. in
which each should pledge itself not
only to abide by the decision OF a
common tribunal but to back with
force the decision of that common
tribunal, the great civilized nations
Of the world which do not possess
force actually or Immediately. poten-
TALLY, should combine by solemn
agreement In a great world league
for peace and Righteousness.
The President then continued his own
address:
A very worthy utterance by Theo-
dore Roosevelt. I am glad to align
myself with such utterances as that
I subscribe TO every word of 1t, and
here in concrete form Is the fulfilment
OF the plan which they advocate. We
cannot in reason, we cannot as lovers
of liberty, we cannot as supporters of
right, turn away from 1t.
When I find a man who in n public
matter will not state his side of his
case know that his side of the case
is the losing side, that he dare not
state II. And at the heart of most
OF our industrial difficulties, my fell
low citizens-and most Of you are a
witness to this-lies~ the unwilling
ness of men to get together and
talk It over. Half OF the temper
which now exists between those who
perform labor and those who direct
labor Is due to the fact that those
who direct labor won't talk differ
ences over with the men whom they
employ. / am In every such instance
~. "a
over Not only that, but every time
the two sides do get together and talk
II over together they come out of
the conference In n different temper
from that with which they went In.
There is nothing that affects the
attitude of men like really frankly
laying their minds alongside a fair
and manly and open comparison.
You have here Gin the treaty.
what the world must have, what Am
erica went into the war to obtain
You have here an estoppel Of the
brutal, sudden impulse OF war. You
have here a restraint upon the pas
sions OF ambitious nations, you have
here safeguard of the liberty Of
weak nations and the world is at last
ready to stand up in council and dis
cuss the fortunes Of men and women
and children everywhere.
Autocratic powers may spring up
but there is only one soil IN which
they can spring up: that IL the
wrongs done to free peoples of the
world.
So long as wrongs like that exist
in the world you cannot bring per
manent peace to the world. go
further than that: So long as wrongs
of that sort exist you ought not to
bring permanent peace TO the world
For my part I will not take any
part in composing difficulties thai
ought not to be composed. and the
difficulty between an enslaved people
and its autocratic rulers ought not
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