Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-05


nationality and their independence
and had as often been pushed not
by the inmeriate power they were
lighting but by the combined power
OF Europe. The old alliance, the old
balances of power were meant to see
to it that no little nation asserted it's
rights to the disturbances of the
peace of Europe and every thine an
assertion OF rights was attempted
they were suppressed by combined
influence and force.
Discard Strength.
"This treaty tears away all that
held these people from the right to
live their own lives under their gov
ernments which they themselves
choose to set up. That is the Amer
lean principle and was glad to fight
for it and when strategic considera-
tions were urged, said-not alone
but it was a matter OF common
| council that strategic considerations
were not in our though that we are
not now arranging for future wars
but were giving people what belong
ed to them.
"My fellow citizens, l do not think
there is any man alive who has a
more tender sympathy for the great
people of Italy than have and
very stern duty was presented to US
when we had to consider some Of the
claims Of Italy on the Adriatic be-
cause strategically from the point of
view OF future wars Italy needed a
military foothold on the other side
of the Adriatic but here people did
not live there except in little spots.
1t was a Slavic people and I had to
say to my Italian friends that every
where else in this treaty we have
given territory to the people who
lived on it and l do not think that
it is for the advantages Of Italy and
am sure it is not for the advantage
of the world to give Italy territory
where other people live. l 1elt the
force of the argument for which they
wanted, and it was the old argument
that had always prevailed, namely,
that they needed it from a military
point, of view and / have no doubt
that if there is no League of Nations
they will need it from a military
point of view, but if there is a Lea
que of Nations they will not need it
from a military point Of view. If
there is no League Of Nations, the
military point of view will prevail in
every instance and peace will be
! is a League of Nations Italy need
not fear the fact that the shores on
! the other side of the Adriatic tower
above her candy shores on her sides
of the sea because there will be no
threatening guns there and the ma
lions of the world will have consid-
cred not merely to see that the Sla-
! vic peoples have their rights but that
the Italian people have their rights
as we'll. | would rather have every
body on my side than be armed to
the teeth and every settlement that
is right, every settlement that lis
based upon the principles l have al
/ luded to is safe settlement because
the sympathy of mankind will be be-
hind it.
Rectifies Gid Wrong
"But l haven't the slightest fear
that arms will be necessary if the
purpose is there. If | know that
my adversary is armed and / am not,
do not press the controversy and
if any nation entertains selfish pur-
porse set against the principles es-
tablished in this treaty, and is told by
the rest of the world that it must
withdraw it's claims it will not press
them.
"The heart of this treaty then,
my fellow citizens, is not even that
it Furnishes Germany-that is tenn
porary thing-it is that it rectifies
the age-long wrong which character
lied the history OF Europe.
There were some of US who wish
ed that the scope of the treaty would
reach some other age-long wrong. 1t
was a big job and 1 don't say that
we wished that it were bigger, but
there were other wrongs elsewhere
than in Europe, and of the same kind,
which no doubt ought to be righted,
and some day will be righted, but
which we could not draw into the
treaty, because we could deal only
with the countries whom the war had
engulfed and affected. But so far,
as the scope of our treaty went, we
rectified the wrongs which have been
the fertile source of war in Europe.
"Have you ever reflected, my fell
low countrymen, on the real source
or revolutions! Men don't start rev.
olutions in sudden passion. Do you
remember what Thomas Carlyle said
about the French Revolution? He
was speaking of the so-called Hun
dred Days Terror which reigned, not
only in Paris, but throughout France,
in the days of the French Revolution;
and he reminded his readers that
back of that hundred days of terror,
lay several hundred years of agony
and of wrongs.
"And the treaty makes known
that if these wrongs were not re-
moved, there could be no peace in
the world, because, after all my fell
low citizens, war comes from the seed
of wrong and not from the seed of
right. This treaty is an attempt to
right the history of Europe, and in
my humble judgment it is a meas
urable success.
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