The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-16
Washington Would BE With
Wilson If IN the Flesh
Today, He Says.
RIGHT TO MAKE TREATIES
League Extends Monroe Doc
trine TO Whole World,
1t Is Claimed.
NATIONS ALL MUST GIVE
Concessions Are Made in All
Contracts, by Both
Sides, Averred.
RIGHT TO MAKE TREATIES
NATIONS ALL MUST GIVE

Attorney Preston G. NcSi ~
Tulsa, In his address ~ the court
house On Thurbduy night w Hhid 10
have given one ~ the AblrVi ana
most comprehensive discussions that
hns been delivered IN defense of the
pronosed league ~ naIluna, CON
grosaman Howard, who was present
when this address was made, said
that he hhd listened To all ot tho
great apeeyhcs on this question In
the United states senate and he
thought MIR Vests Argument the,
Rblest expressed within his hearing
MIR. West has furnished The world
with "a copy ot this address and IT IN
published below In fun.
Th. momentoua question that IN
now before tho public, that N To say,
whether or not we are preparing 10
accept u league OF nations. ana par
uilcularly the proposed constitution
for such league, submitted ~ the
result Of the deliberations OF the
high commissioners at Paris, iS To
be determined by the American
, people. You, good citizens OF TIM"
state and county. are representative
American citizens This problem,
whils a political question, iA not
partisan one. or at least, In my con
ccption Of It's true rotation to the
public veal, II Is too big, too pro-
f6und. too hll-embraclnR 10 he APP
propriated by any single political
party or any single set or men or
OF interests anywhere
Not Partisan Issue.
Among those who knoS me ! am
regarded as something ~ "A partisan
l.Hn "a
.olitical activities OF the state. com
munity and nation. but do not do
sire, and do not intend. W approach
the present question In any such
spirit, or with any such attitude
am convinced that you have come
here not for tho purpose OF hcihs
meroly entertained. or OF hearing an
advocate urge the acceptance OF u
document uIy4ess you are moved by
copHidsration4 which appeal To your
fatriotirm, your intelligence ana
YOUR reason And I am impressed
with Nho thought that you consider
the present Issue AZ u vital one, az
fectlng every citizen OF the republic,
and ! trust that any shortcomings
which may he evident on my par'
viii be .compensated by mo SIN
cerity and the carnestness WIN
which shall endesyor 10 deal WIN
the problem
An Outstanding Thought.
The outstanding and astounding
thouRbt which strikes one In APP
proachinR the matter after even the
most cursory review Of the recorded
hlstory OF tho world, stretching
through "A period of something nke
600 years, is that only within the
past 100 years have mon apparently
turned their attention to the propleln
@, the suppression OF war throughout
Tho world hy n deliberate ana pre-
concerted arrangement among inc
respective nations and governments
OF the earth. a.,.
Appcars ns savage.
Man appeared upon the theater u
naked and unlamcd savage, and II
WAS but natural that his earliest hc-
tiyItles should have embraced "A large
measure OF fighting, both for the
mere ioy OF battle itself as well hs
for his preservation against the dah-
gers which constantly Surrounurd
him. and for the sake OF acquiring
the actual essentials and necessities
OF life The strange part OF II al IN
that when no had become measure
ably secure and had made conAld-
erahle progress In the arts and sci
enees and even In Ieligion ami moral
Ity he should have contnued,
,hroueh greed. or anmosity, or am
bItlon. or unrestralned impulse TO
violence, 10 keep during MI the con
turies very large part OF tho known
world embrOlled In warfare. THIS
indeed has been So much the case
that among the older law writers
upon the subject ot international reln-
tions peace IL thought OF merely as
the interval between wars. Even the
great ilollandcr, Hugo Grutits, In his
cefc brated work upun the subject EN-
tltlcd II Concerning the Rights OF
War and Peace" thus giving first
place to the state of helligcrency and
only secondary consideration TO tho
periods when mankind was ot rest
from s,TuChtrrinR one another.
First Step Taken.
Among historians. law writer's and
publicisiA the umphyCtlonlC council
IL usually rcgardcd as the first hu-
man effort toward tho establishment
OF international laws This was
however. merely q league between
IL Hellenic tribes. and was primnr-
ny religious having ITS origin In the
deelrc TO protect the worship at the
Templg ~ Delphi although II did
rmbody certain wholesale rcEula
llbDE ithlIlk 10 Ulllik kHilhN 'l INV
evils OF wa. among the league mem
hers: ns for instance. It's, provision
that no amply NCUouic town should hc
rszeh. or be cut or from water. even
during the progress Of war. Rut the
growth OF this hcnetictent germ was
indeed slow, tortuous and palutul
during more than 20 centuries there
after
Morality Among Nations,
am profoundly thankful that
within the last 100 years a wider
conception has been born and dc
veloped we have arrived al IN"
idea OF morality pmone nations !
am stii further Proud to know that
America has had 50 important u
part In the activities which have
looked I'm this direction, and tho ut
terances that have tended TO crystal
lize In public sentimcnt the idea that
peace should We the normal state OF
The world That wherever vicious
and destructive agency east. civilized
men ought 10 have the VIII, and find
the means, to abolish H. The Illus