The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-26

! to some sort OF an organization IL
possible that should give some guar
antee that in the future there would
! be no recurrence Of this terrible ca
tastrophe because they knew that
| by the processes of war by its sclen-
tific and mechanical development war
had now reached the point where any
future conflict might we'll mean hui
man annihilation.
The Germans hoped that the asso-
ciated powers would differ. 1t was
! the dream. OF the Germans that they
could not agree. IN principle they
have agreed. In principle. as Clemen-
ceau who is the Tiger Of the place,
! told me: We are at one in all this
/ business
Now l do not know whether Il
! league Of nations will work or not. I
doubt if anybody knows Plato. who
was the first apostle of a principle
of the sort says in his book on THE
Republic" that the republic can only
exist when men are superior to
themselves. You know it is a book
Of question and answer and he is
asked the question What do you
mean by superior to thcmselves?' and
he said, IN every mans make up
there is a superior side and an in
ferior side and unless he can rise
above the inferior level it is useless
% try anything of the sort
Zone hundred years ago almost to
a, month, 100 years ago il June, five
Of t0
ate a league of nations. It was called
the Holy Alliance. They met and
adopted treaty in the city of Vien-
na and after three years of struggle
ever the problem it failed. It failed
for the reason that Plato and Sully
and all the men who had striven to
this end even al the way down from
Dante had had in their minds.
There is one thing that in this
hour gives little hope what their
failure may be succeeded by some
thing success and that is intercom-
munication That was a day when the
limit Of mans vision WIS ten or l.
miles ard certainly was limited TO his
own country Today b. the processes
Vi lI!lti tiOllsiA NSi!iIii >iiiN.ietOiA W.
sort or another the world is neces- |
sarily brought together. and my dear
fricndS. the very introduction of the
Associated Press service into South
America the Very alliance that is
there gives the very best assurance
il my judgment OF the amity Of the
whole western hemisphere.
Il ana vcr'y proud OF the Associat-
cd Press and one thing that seems to
me Of enormous value is this: In 1893
there were FIVE or six so-called AS
sociated Press organizations in the
United States. There was the New
Associated Press. the South
ern Associated Press and the Western
Associated Press all working within
their own fields and arm stretch with
each other. We went at it. the first
principle that we adopted was that
there should be no alliance With local
-iopal cooperative association in which
here should be members individual
Y representing newspapers
Now the consequence Of that was
his. that men like Clark Howell I
from Atlanta. like my dear friend.
,talllman from Nashville. who had {
been rebels of the most rebeilious
sind and men like Charley Clark Of
Iartford who had been en- abolition .
ST got together and saw that neither
If them wore horns and they became {
ricnds ard We by that act united this c
country AS it had never been united $
W any other process. The North and
South became one and We went Into {
he Spanish war. -, years after the {
lose Of the sectional struggle as 4 Y
ompact nation having ono heart and /
me soul. And believe that til" &C /
iviticS Of this organization IN large t
'e.su brought to this ncnntry The {
p.it OF isi- ~'ilioi nlade i possible :