Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

ahe air just played; I will not come back "tu it's over, over there" And yet pray God in the in terests of peace and of the world that that may
 The first thing that I am going to tell the peo- pie the other of water that whelmng majority of the American people is in fla of the League of Nations. know that that is true; I have had unmistakable intimattons of it from all parts of the country, and the voice rings speak here under the unusual circumstances of this evening. l am happy to associate myself with MT. Taft in this great cause. He has displayed an ele- vation of view and devotion to public duty which is beyond praise.
 And I the happy because this means that this is not party issue. No party has the right to appropriate this issue, and no party will
 We have listened clear and admirable an exposition of many of main features of the posed covenant of the League of Nations that II IS perhaps not necessary for to discuss in any par ucular way inc contents of the document. will seek rather to give you It's setting. oo not NL.o" when ] have been more impressed than by the con terences of the commission set up by the Confer ence of Peace to draw up covenant for the League of Nations. The representatives of fourteen nations experienced in the affairs of their own countries, inexperienced in the politics of the world; and the inspiring influence of every meeting was the concurrence of purpose on the part of all those men to come to an agreement ana an elLeClys working agreement with regard to this League of
 There was a conviction in the whole impulse; there conviction of more than one sort; there the conviction that this thing ought to be done, and there was also the conviction that not Q man there would venture 10 go home and say that he had tried Q it.
 We'd to Watch Intrigue
 Mir Taft has set the picture for of what failure of this great purpose would mean We this agony has lasted of the sinister pur- pose ot the Central Empires and we have made quests to take. Where did the lines of that map lie Of that central line that we used ' cal rom regicnz tu which MT Taft has your attention, they la. then through a united empire. the Austro-Ii u1-sarlan Empire whose l1le5rlty ger many was bound to respect as her ally lay In the whose interests she professed to make her own, lay in the direct path that she intended to tread A17grrF Inn srlap hpig mas 9 gone to ana b nations that eff fected that great result-for it result of lib eration--are responsible the trustees of the assets of those great nations You not only would have weak nations lyins in this path, but you would have nations in which that old poisonous intrigue could be planted with the certainty that the crop would be abundant: and one of the things that the League of Nations is intended to stand publicity, and if League of Nations nothing but a great debating society it would kill
 1t ts one of the agreements of this covenant that inc friendly right of every nation mem Der of the League to call attention to anything that thinks will disturb the peace of the world. no subject that may touch the peace of the world which is exempt from inquiry and discussion, and she had pern:t+e6 the world to 6;ze9ss the aggres sion upon Serbia for a, single week. The British Foreign Office suggested, it pleaded. tha@ there tatfves nations Europe could get together and discuss the possibilities of settlement. Ger know what happened. So soon the world realz- ed that an outlaw was at large, the nations began one by one to draw together against her. We know fer a certainty that if Germany had thought for moment that Great Britain would go in with and with Russe she never would have undertaken the enterprise. and tho League of Nations is meant Britain, but the United States and the rest of the world will go fin to stop enterprises of that sort. 1uaintain the standards which if has now njicarsd by some of the most precious blood spilled. Empire ana of ha ris 3 Epfr sg ea d@ o a of statesmen. Europe is Lit sick at heart this very moment because it sees that statesmen have had nc vision, the only vision has been the vision of the people. Those who suffer Those against whom wrong is wrought know how desirable is the been under the heel of the Austrian that have long covered before the German that have long suffered the indescribable agonies of being governed by Turk have called out 10 the world, generation after generation Tor Justice for liberation. for succor; and no Cabinet in the world has heard them. Pri- vate organizations. plying hearts, philar Hroptc men and women have poured out their treasure in order to relieve these sufferirEs but nation And the vision has been with the people. My friend wish you would refiece upon this propost- farr,, to. roI4o,- .lr-, f-. +l, 4 t " ,I, 1 l. of the world. Ii has from the men who raarr to he f a5 % Ie@C oGr'eS % ol of the criticisms which have been leveled against this great enterprise only by the supposition the men who utter the criticisms have never felt the great pulse of the heart of world.
 Amazed Ignorance Opponents
 And am amazed-not alarmed, but amazed prehens1ve ignorance state the world These gentlemen do not know what the mind of is just Everybody else does I do not know where they have been cIoseted. do by what influences they have been blinded I know that they have been separated from the gen. eral currents of the thought of mankind.
 And I want to utter this solemn warning not in the way of a threat the forces of the world lot threaten they The great tides world do give notice that they going and run, they rise their majesty and overwhelming might, and those who stand in the way wheIned. Now the heart of the world is awake of the world let yourselves suppose uneasiness in the populations of Europe is tire1y to economic economic motives some thing very deeper underlies all than