New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

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with your unassisted eye. You have
got to watch them by secret agen-
cies planted everywhere And let
me testify to this, my fellow citizens,
l not only did not know it until we
got into this war, but did not be-
lieve it when l was told that it was
true Germany was not the only
country that maintained a secret
service. Ever country in Europe
maintained it because they had to
be ready for Germany's spring upon
them, and the only difference between
the German secret service and the
other secret services was that the
German secret service found out
more than the others did
Financial Aeadesship
Ours Under League Plan
"Under the league plan the tnan-
cial leadership will be ours, the in
dustrial supremacy will be ours, the
commercial advantage will be ours,
and the other countries Of the world
will look to US, and, shall | say,
are looking to us, for leadership and
direction.
Every we'll, then, if am to COM
pete with the critics Of this league,
and of this treaty, as selfish
American, | say I want to get in and
get in as quick as I can. | want to
be inside and know how the thing
is run, and help to run it, so that
you have the alternative, armed iso-
latlon, or peaceful partnership.
"Can any sane man hesitate as to
the choice, and can any sane man
ask the question, which is the way
of peace?
a have heard some men say with
an amazing ignorance that the cove
nant of the league of nations was
an arrangement for war. Very we'll.
The other arrangement, what would
it be? An arrangement for peace,
for kindness, for cooperation
Would everybody beckon US to their
markets?
II cannot bring my credulity up to
that point. | have reached years Of
discretion, and l have met some very
young men who know a great deal
more than some very old men. There
isn't a phrase of doubtful meaning
in the whole document
"And what is the meaning? 1t is
that the covenant of the league of
nations is a covenant of arbitration
and discussion.
Had anybody ever told you that
before? | dare say that everybody 70
have heard about this document dis
cusses Article X.
"Well, there are went-hve other
articles in it and all OF them are
about something else.
Monroe Doctrine
Entirely Unaffected
"They discuss how soon and how
quick we can get out of it. Well
am not a gutter for one. We can
| get out just as soon as we want to
but we don't want to get out just as
soon as we get in.
"And then they talk about the
Monroe Doctrine, when it expressly
says that nothing in that instru-
ment shall be construed as affecting
in any way the validity of the Mon
words. And all the other things they
talk about draw your attention from
the essentials.
"The essential matter, my fellow
citizens, is this: All members OF
that league promise that they will
never go to war without first sub.
mitting the questions at issue to ar.
btration and absolutely abiding BY
the decision Of the arbitrators. Or
if they are not willing to submit i,
to arbitration, submit it to discus.
sion by the capital council of the
league; that they will give the
council of the league six months il
which to consider it, and that if they
do not like the opinion of the coun
Gil they will wait three months aftel
the opinion is rendered before goinf
to war.
"This afternoon, book I had for
gotten all about, one of the cam
paign books of the last politica
campaign. was put in my hands, an(
Of the two parties, and in both those
platforms they advocated just sucl
an arrangement as the league of ma
tions. When l was on the other sid,
of the water l did not know tha
I was taking, obeying orders, from
both parties. But I was.
"Now, I want you to understand, m.
fellow citizens, that didn't leav,
Washington and come out on thi
trip because l doubted what wa.
going to happen. didn't, for on
thing, | wanted to have the pleasure
of leaving Washington and for an
other thing l wanted to have the YER,
much greater pleasure of feeling tn
inspiration that would get from you
Things get very lonely in Washing
ton sometimes. The real voice of tn
great people of America sometime
sounds faint and distant. In tina
strange city you hear politics unit
you wish that both parties wer
smothered in their own gas.
"This nation went into this war t.
see it through to the end, and tn
end has not come yet, This is tn