Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
Mass IS Not Selfish

revenge, therefore. is thiS-that we be- lieved in righteousness and now we are ready to make the supreme sacrifice for it. the supreme sacrifice of throwing in our fortunes with the fortunes with men everywhere. Mir. Taft was speak ing of Washington's utterances about entanGling alliances, and if he will per init mo to say so, he put exactly the right interpretation upon what Wash lngton said, the interpretation that it is inevitable if you read what he said. as most of those gentlemen do not and the thing that he lonsed for was, just what we are now about to supply, an arrangement which will disentangle all the alliances in the world.
 Nothing entangles. nothing en- meshes man except a selfish combi- nation with somebody else Nothing entangles 6 nation, hampers it. binds it. except to enter into combination With some other nation against the other rations Of the world And this great disentanglement of alliances is now to he om.ilished by this covenant. be- cause one Oi the covenants is. that no 1 nation shall enter into any relationship with another nation, inconsistent with . the covenants of the league Of nations. ]
 Nations promise not 10 have alli- r ances; nations promise not to make combinations against each other: na- tions agree that there shall be but one combination. and that is the combna ton of all against the wrongdoer And ! so l am going back to my task on the 1 other side with renewed Vigor. I had ! not forgotten what the spirit of the American people is. but 1 have been immensely freshened by coming into contact with it again. did not know
 how good home felt until I got there
 Good to Be At Home
 The only place a man can feel at
 home is where nothing has to be eN-
 plained to him. Nothing has to be cX-
 plained 10 me in America, least of all
 the sentiment Ot the American people. 1 l mean about great Fundamental things
 like this. There are many difficulties
 Of judgment IS to policy-and perfectly
 legitimate. Sometimes profound diff
 culties of judgment. but those are not
 differences of sentiment. those are not
 differences of purposes; those are not differences of idals And the advantage
 O not having to have anything ex-
 plained to you, is that you recognize a
 wrong explanation when you hear it.
 Tn a certain rather abandoned part
 Of the frontier at one time, il was said
 they found a man who told the truth:
 he was not found telling it. but he could
 tell it when he heard it. and | think ]
 am in that position with regard to some
 of the criticisms I have heard. They
 do not make any impression on me, but
 l know there is no medium that will
 transmit them; that the sentiment of
 the country is proof against much mar
 rowness and such selflshness as that. l
 commend these gentlemen to commun-
 ion with their fellow citizens
 What are. we to say then. as to the
 future? l think. my fellow citizens. that VIC can look forward to 1t with
 great confidence l have heard cheer ing news since l came to this side of
 the water. about the progress that IS
 being made in Paris. towards the dis cussion and clarification of d great
 many difficult matters. and | believe that settlements will begin to be made
 rather rapidly. from this time on at those conferences.
 Man Spirit In Saddle
 b But what I believe-what 1 know. as well as believe is this: That the men r engaged in those conferences are gath { ering heart as they go, not losing it. ? that they are finding community of n purposes and community of ideal to an | extent that perhaps they did not antic- Q ipate; and that amidst all the interplay y { of influence-because it is infinitely f complicated-amidst all the interplay - of influence, there is forward move
 ment which is running towards the
 right. Men have at last perceived that f. the only permanent thing in the world is the right. and that a wrong settle = ment is bound to be sa temporary set
 tlement-bOund to be a temporary set ., clement, for the very best reason of al
 that 1t ought to be d temporary set |, tlement,-and the spirits of men vii ., rebel against it. and the spirits Of mer {. are now in the saddle
 ,t When was in Italy a little limpins ', group of wounded Italian soldier. y sought an interview with me | could :. not conjecture what it was they wer, e going to say to me. and with the great est simplicity. with touching simplic l. ity. they presented me with a petition - in favor of the league of nations. Thei ,' wounded limbs. their impaired vitalit. ' were the only argument that the. ss' brought with them. It was a simpl i request, that I lend all the influenc .d d that I might happen to have. to reliev [ future generations of the sacrifices tha o, they had been obliged to make. o That appeal has remained in m ,o mind as I have ridden along the street ", Of European capitals and heard cries c  '' tions from lips of peoples. who. I ven ,o ture to say. had no particular notion C how it was 10 be done. who were nc f, ready to propose plan for a leagu ,d Of nations, but whose hearts said tha aS something. by way of combination ( a all men everywhere. must come out ( =. ,s this.
 s- Ignorant Plead or 1t IS. AS we drove along country road it, weak old women would come out an IL hold flowers to us Why should the he hold flowers up to strangers frol he across the Atlantic? Only because the es believed that we were the messenger nd friendship. and Of hope. and these flow so CTS were their humble offerings he gratitude. that friends from so great he distance should have brought them e. great hope.
 re. Tt is inconceivable that we shou tai disappoint them. and we shall not, TT no day will come when men in Amerit Ter will look back with swelling hearts ar
 rising pride. that thev should ha'
 been privileged to make the sacrifi ed which it was necessary to make. in o he der 10 combine their might and the IT. moral power with the cause Of iusti gre fo~ men Of every Kind. everywhere. by God gives us strength and vision not do it wisely, God give ne the rivile i've of knowine that we did it wltho he counting the cost. and because we we