South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-05


vision has been the vision OF the peo-
pie. Those who suffer see. Those
| against whom wrong is wrought
/ know how desirable is the right and
/ the righteous.
Cried for Liberation.
"The nations that have long been
under the heel Of the Austrian that
I that have long suffered the hides
] cribable agonies Of being governed
by the Turk. have called out TO the
world, generation after generation
for justice, for liberation. for sue
cor, and no cabinet in the world
has heard them.
Private organizations, plying
hearts. philanthropic men and wom-
en- have poured out their treasure in
order to relieve these sufferings; bur
no nation has said TO the nations re-
sponsible You must stop; this thing
is intolerable and we will not per-
nit it And the vision has been
with the people.
My friends / wish you would re-
fleet upon this proposition. The vi
sion as TO what is necessary for grea:
reforms has seldom come from the
top in the nations OF the world. II
has come from the need and the as
piratiOn and the self-assertion of
great bodies Of men who meant 10
be free And I can explain some OF
the criticisms which have been level
led against this great enterprise only
by the supposition that the men who
utter the criticisms have never felt
the great pulse Of the heart Of the
world.
Amazcd-NOt Alarmed.
And I am amazed-not alarmed
but amazed that there should be in
some quarters such a comprehensive
ignorance of the state Of the world
Those gentlemen don't know what
the mind of men is just now. Every
body else does. do not know where
they have been closeted. l do not
know by what influences they have
been blinded; but l do know that
they have been separated from the
general currents of the thought OF
mankind.
And 1 want to utter this solemn
warning, not in the way of a threat
the forces of the world do no
threaten, they operate The great
tides OF the world do not give no.
tice that they are going TO rise and
run; they rise in their majesty and
overwhelming might, and those who
stand in the way are overwhelmed
Now the heart of the world 1:
awake, and the heart of the world
must be satisfied.
do not let yourselves suppose
for a moment that the uneasines!
in the populations of Europe is due
lentirely 10 economic causes or eco
nomic motives; something yer!
much deeper underlies it all thar
that.
Found the Cause.
They see that their government!
have never been able to defenC
them against intrigue or aggression
and that there is no force or fore
sight or of prudence in any moderr
cabinet to stop war. And, therefore
they say there must be some funda
mental cause for this and the
fundamental cause they are begin,
ming to perceive to be that nations
have stood singly or in little jealous
groups against each other, fostering
prejudice, increasing the danger o
! war, rather than Of concertinl
measures to prevent It; and that i
there is right in. the world, IL there
is justice in the world. there is NJ
|. reason why nations should be di
vided in the support of justice.
They are therefore saying if yol
really believe that there is a right
, Iif you really believe that wars ough
|. TO be stopped, stop thinking abou
the rival interests of nations. anC
, think about men and women anC
. children throughout the world.
Nations are not made TO affor,
distinction to their rulers by wa.
of success in the maneuvers of poll
tics; nations are meant If they ar,
/, meant for anything. to make tn
men and women and children il
them secure and happy and pros
porous and no nation has the RICH
to set up its special interests agains
the interests and benefits OF man
! kind. least of all this great nation
which we love.
cit was set up for the benefit o
mankind. it was set up TO illus
trate the highest ideals and L
achieve the highest aspirations o
men who wanted TO be free; an,
81 the world-the world or today be
lieves that and counts on us an,
q would be thrown back into tn
r blaCkness OF despair If we desert
ed it.
J II have tried once and again. m.
fellow citizens, 10 say 10 little cir
= Clcs OF friends or TO larger bodfe
{ what seems to be the real hope o
2 the peoples OF Europe. and I teI
- YOU frankly 1 have not been able Z
5 do so because when the though
% tries TO crowd itself into speech tn
3 profound emotion OF the thing
- too much; speech will not carry.
have felt the tragedy OF the hop
- Of those suffering peoples.
Feels Its CompulsiOn.
IL is a tragedy because il is a hop
which cannot be realized in its per
Z lection, and yet I have felt beside
{ its tragedy, its compulsion, its com
] pulsion upon every living man {
r exercise every influence that he IA
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