Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-02-21

anything it is worth these slight sac
r,fices. OF course it would be impos-
Sble for II nations to get together
and draw up a paper that would set
tie everything right in the first draft.
But this constitution has teeth and
is a vas advance over the Hague
tribunal which was advisory only.
With all its faults it is today the
greatest safeguard that has ever
been devised to secure the future
peace OF the world. Massachusetts is
proud of the part It took in the form
alton OF the American Union and will
also be proud of its part in this new
league of nations. When the work
is completed the Senate will TO doubt
ratify q treaty which includes such
a valuable piece of constructive leg
islation. cloud and continued ap-
plause)
Ta.oott Williams
Toicott Williams. director of the
Pulitse- School Of Journalism at
Columbia college. vas introduced
and after expressing his pleasure at
the honor If being permitted to ad-
dress the Maine Legislature made
reference TO his last visit to Angus
20. "a years ago. when he was here
as the guest Of Hon. James q
Blaine. HIS reference called forth
an outburst of applause. He fol-
lowed this with other recollections
Ct Blaine as he had known him in
We Shirgton, when the speaker vas
there as newspaper correspondent.
Particularly did he call attention to
a sentiment expressed by Blaine
during the Pan American conven-
ton. when that statesman said that
tie only way q working combina-
ton If nations could re secured vas
by dclegating great powers to the
larger nations This he said was
the foundation Of the present
League Of Nations
To-day, said he, the league Of ma
tions is d fact. not a theory. It won
the war that civilization should *
list and humanity be preserved.
Maine, with its three sides border
ing upon Il foreign country. was
deeply interested. 1t was the only
Stale which was occupied By force
during the war
Discussing the criticisms of the
league, he said that it was not to
be held together by a constitution,
but by covenant. which was much
different. This created no super
government, nor destroyed no
freedom of action by any nation.
I, was absurd to talk Of going
back to the isolation of before the
past. The United States has never
at the close of a War.-been able to
go back to the conditions which en-
listed before it. World problems
were all about and IL would be i'm
possible to dodge them. NO long
err said he, can you so back to
those days when you heard that
there was war in Europe, but 50
long as 1t did not come here you did
not worry. When Japan vas in
vaded We in company with Japan
sent troops there. Had Japan gone
alone she would never have come
back; had We gone alone we would
have had war with japan. When
the history Of American diplomacy
IS made public you will know how
near we came to war. If such a
loosely thrown together league of
nations could save China what
could not great league of nations
such rs is proposed. accomplish"
The theory behind this league Of
,satiGtls colonization program, he
insisted, was that which governed
the United States. that of prepar-
ing all for self government
Taking up the necessity OF some
world wide control of the armament
the speaker said that when the war
began Germany had 1850, 900 rifles.
soldiers kits and uniforms on hand
She was able to produce annually
three times as many rifles as the
United States. France and Great
Britain combined and at the great
Krupp works could produce one
half the worlds total output Of
ammunition. She had Il contract
to take the entire output Of one lead
mine in Australia and so per cent of
the nitrate produced in Chill. while
her great dye works had been so
constructed that in three days
they could be converted into plants
for the production Of poison gas.
He then told of the toast which
was nightly drank by the German
officers in the first days Of the war.
which was. Paris in three weeks.
London in six weeks and New York
in three months"
He urged that this country could
not afford to break from the nations
with which it had been fighting to
preserve the worlds liberty. because
to do SO would give Germany a
chance to re-gather its strength