Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-26
WEDNESDAY, rEaRuARy u. 1919
Il yEW WORLD


or the determination % President
wilson's League of Nations program
alter reading his speech 81 Boston,
nor ran anyone doubt that the presi-
dent believes the American people. ex-
elusive Of tbst senatorial group and
their limited followers who are light
ing not the League Of Nations but
President Wilson, ID almost solidiy he
hind him til hts efforts. Mr.. Wilson
tells us that Europe looks toward us
now with the same hope and trust la
our disinlerestedHes that Il looked
toward ua when the invader wan at
the door.
iii very oLie editorial the Chris
tIan science Monitor says III part
when Mr. Wilson brought TO close
. his speech in Mechanics Hall, in Bose
ton, yesterday afternoon, IT Is safe To
say that, In spite of anything which
may have been said or which may still
be said ir Washington. he has secured
inc acceptance OF the League Of Ma
tions BY the American people From
first To last he did not make a solitary
attempt TO explain or TO defend the
provisions 0f the draft of the new
charter which, has been agreed 10 by
the representatives Of the world In
paris. What lie contended himself
with doing. inGeed all that Il was me-
eassary that he should do, was to-
point ont TO tho people of The United
states that there lay before them D
great opportunity. ana to indicate in
no uncertain tones that he was cons
fldcnt. not only that they would take
advantage Of that opportunity. but that
they had already taken advantage Of Il.
What, then. Mr., Wilson set before
tl,ospeople OF the United States vas
ilte responsibility which was accruing
10 them individually as q result of
their participation In Arlnageddon. He
said truly, and with an absence of ex-
aggeratlon which must DO understood
by any person who III familiar with
the conditions in Europe. that there
was absolutely no Jealousy and no dis
trust Of the United States m Europe.
On the contrary he pointed out, the
very absence of the United States from
the quarrels og the past IN Europe
has enabled them to approach the peo-
ple OF that continent without any
ahadow of suspicion And consequent
ii, lii his own words, hecause o. this
ii was possible for them Il take the
load iii building a new world con-
atrued on new basis Of justice and
right This. he insisted, WAS lecause
INC United States, In the era of Ar
Iaag0ddon, had MOI hesitated 70 stake
their policy Oh the ideal. III Is not
layoAets. ia the world Is \ eginning to
realize, but ideas which have won She
great war. And that war having teen
van by ideas. Il Is only right that the
harvest OF ideals should he gathered
Ill. and not lost to humanity II was
this view which Mr.. Wilson put 30
oioquently before the country in his
speech, Was the country going, he
said in effect. &c. take the broad way
of ease and selfishness owing TO a
vision limited hy its own borders, or
vas ii going to take the narrow way
Jof duty. and accept the burden which
: duty places On all those who recog-
nixe 1T? Mr.. Wilson did not. OF course,
admit for one second that there was
any question as III the answer. He de-
ciarca, dangerously enough, that il II
csino To ii he was human enough 10
enjoy i ilghs. Ont he declared that d
light over the attempt 10 limit the ideal
81 the country might safely be re-
garded BY him as positive indul-
gence
The United States, the president de-
clared, would never subject Europe
10 such rebuff as deserving the cause
of freedom after having interviewed to
establish che cause 81 freedom And,
indeed. II must be plain enough to
anybody whc understands the politi-
cal situation that the United States
could not withdraw without being un-
true, not only to her undertakings in
the present Instance, but 70 her own
history since the days of the earliest
colonists The truth il that an oppor-
tunitS is offered TO the world today to
do something towards rendering n
not impossible, 81 least thousand
times more diEacult the preparation
ot the great wrong ot var. Owing I'd
patient education by those Who.
throughout the centuries. have lived
II the world ot ideals, humanity IL
siowly beginning to realize that an
idea Is the atrongess thing n the