Arizona republican., 1919-09-05
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 COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 4-"Some gentlemen have feared with regard to the league of nations. that we will be obliged to do things we don't want to do If the treaty were wrong that might be so: but if the treaty is right we will wish to preserve right. l think I know the heart of this great people whom I, for the time being have the high honor to represent, better than some other men that 1 hear talking
 T have been bred and am proud to have been bred in the old revolutionary stock which set this government up. when America was set up as a friend of mankind, and know if they do not that America has never lost that vision or that purpose
 Arms Will Be Unnecessary
 But haven't the slightest fear that arms will be necessary if the purpose is there. If I know that my adversary is armed and I am rot, do not press the controversy and if any nation en- tertains selfish purposes set against the principles established in this treaty and is told by the rest of the world that 1t must withdraw it's claims, it will not press them.
 iiC lCcl pA lt1Ac i1Cdl9 luCils lily fellow citizens, is not even that it pun ishes Germany : F that is a tempo rary thing it is that 1t rectifies the age-long wrong which character ized the history of Europe
 There were some of us who wished that the scope of the treaty would reach some other age-long wrong. It was a big job and I don't say that we wished that it were bigger, but there were other wrongs elsewhere than in Europe and of the same kind which no doubt ought to be righted, and some day will be righted, but which we could not draw into the treaty, because we could deal only with the countries whom the war had en- gulfed and affected But so far as the scope of our treaty went We rectified the wrongs which have been the fertile source of war in Europe.
 Have you ever reflected. my coun- trymen, on the real source of revolu- ton? Men don't start revolutions in a sudden passion. Do you remember what Thomas Garlic said about the French revolution? He was speaking of the so-called hundred day terror which reigned. not only in Paris. but throughout France, in the days of the French revolution and he reminded his readers that back of that hundred days O. terror, lay several hundred years of agony and of wrong. The French people have been deeply and consistently wronged by their government; robbed. their human rights disregards1 and tie slow agony of those hundreds of years aud after while gathered into a hot agony that could not be suppressed. Revolutions don't spring up over night; revolutions gather through the ages; revolutions come from the long sup pression of the human spirit: revolu- tions come because men know that they have rights and that they are disre- garded And when we think of the future of the world in connection with this treaty, we must remember that one of the chief efforts of those who made this treaty was to remove that anger from the heart of great peoples, great peoples who had always been suppressed and always been used, who had always been the tools in the hands of governments generally of alien governments not their own. And the makers of the treaty knew that if these wrongs were not removed, there could be no peace in the world, because, after all my fellow citizens. war comes from the seed of wrong, and not from the seed of right. This treaty is an attempt to right the history of Europe, and in my humble judgment it is a m a o ci1ra hla cllpaeSc