The Tomahawk., 1919-07-17

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would make wars Of aggression and
spoliation such as this that has Just
ended forever impossible. .s st ..:s s,. !:
Rule OF Force Rejected. I. {
A cry has gone out from every
home in every stricken land from
which SONS and brothers and fathers
had gone forth to the great sacrifice
that such sacrifice should never again
be enacted. 1t was manifest why it
had been exacted. It had been exacted
because one nation desired dominion
and other nations had known no means
of defense except ornaments and alli-
ances. War had lain at the heart Of
every arrangement OF Europe every
arrangement Of the world that preced-
ed the war. Restive peoples had been
told that fleets and armies which they
toiled to sustain, meant peace. and now
that they had been lied to: that hects
and armies had been maintained to
promote national ambitions and meant
war. They, knew that no old policy
meant anything else but force, force,
force always force. And they knew
that It was intolerable. Sf.ssF &.
New Purpose ProcIaImed.
Every true heart in the world and
every enlightened Judgment demanded
that, at whatever cost of independent
action, every government that took
thought for it's people or for Justice or
for ordered freedom should lend itself
to new purpose and utterly destroy
the old order of international politics.
Statesmen might see difficulties, but
the people could see none and could
brook no denial. A war in which they
had been bled white to beat the ter
ror that lay concealed IN every balance
of power must not end In mere vic.
tory Of arms and q new balance. The
monster that had resorted to arms
must be put In chains that could not
be broken. The united power Of free
nations must put stop to aggression,
and the world must be given peace. II
there was not the will or the fntelli-
gence to accomplish that now, there
must be another and q final war and
the world must be swept clean Of every
power that could renew the terror.
The League Of Nations was not
merely an instrument to adjust and
remedy old world wrongs under = new
treaty Of peace. It was the only hope
for mankind. Again and again had the
demon Of war been cast out Of the
house Of the peoples and the house
swept clean by treaty Of peace, only
to prepare q time when he would en-.
ter in again with spirits worse than
himself. The house must now be Civ
en- tenant who could hold It against
all such.
Convenient, indeed Indispensable, 80
statesmen found the newly planned
League Of Nations. they saw It in =
new aspect before their work was I'm,
ished. They saw it as the main object
Of the peace, as the only thing that
could complete it or make 1t wnrth
while. They sew It as the hope q
the world, and that hope they did not
dare to Glisappoint. Shall we or any
other free people hesitate to accept
this great duty? Dare we reject It
and break the heart Of the world?
And SO the result Of the conference
Of peace, so far as Germany is con.
cerned, stands complete. The difiicul.
tiles encountered were very many.
Sometimes they seemed insuperable.
It was impossible to accommodate the
interests Of so great body Of nations
interests which directly or Indirect
" affected almost every nation In the
world without many minor comprom-
ises. The treaty, % result, 10 not
exactly what We would have written.
It is probably not what any one Of the
national delegates would have written.
But results were worked out which on
the whole bear test. ! think that It
Will be found that the compromises
which werS accepted % Inevitable no
where cut to the heart Of any princi.
pie. The work Of the conferences
squares, - whole, with the princi.
pies agreed upon AZ the basis Of the
peace a. we'll as with the practical
possibilities Of the international situa-
tions which had TO be faced and dealt
with 40 facts.
America Disintsrsstsd.
We were welcomed .as disinterested
friends. We were resorted to 40 arbi-
ters in many difficult matter. Il was
recognized that our material aid would
be indispensable IN the days to come.
when Industry and credit would hive
to be brought back to their normal
operation again and communities beat-
en- to the ground assisted to their feet
once more, and Il was taken for grant.
ed, am proud to say, that we would
play the helpful friend In these things
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