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% after more than a hundred year.
~ dominant rule; Egypt. trapped and
~ashAd of her birthright; Ireland, witt
-oo years of sacrifice for independ.
..oa-this Is the task, this Is the at
S,osnhere. and this is the creed in
md unde which we are to keep alive
Oour belief in the purposes and self
Governing capacity of the people, a
nelief without which the republic
must d~isintegrate and die. The max
I'm Of liberty will soon give way to the
r,,le of blood and iron. We have beer
nleading here for u constitution
conform this league, it has been said,
10 the technical terms Of our charter
and all will be well.
But / declare to you that We must
90 further and conform to those SEN
t,ments and passions for justice and
freedom which are essential to the ex-
,istence of democracy. You must re-
snect not territorial boundaries, not
territorial integrity, but you must re-
spect and preserve the sentiments and
PASSIONS for justice and for freedom
which God in His infinite wisdom has
nlanted so deep in the human heart
that no form Of tyranny however bru-
tai, no persecution however prolonged,
can wholly uproot and kill. Respect
nationality. respect justice, respect
freedom and you may have some hope
of peace, but not so If you make your
standard the standard Of tyrants and
,despots, the protection of real estate
regardless of how it is obtained.
Would Not Pay Price.
Sir, we are told hat this treaty
means peace. Even so, l would not
pay the price. Would you purchase
peace at the cost of any part of our
independence? We could have had
peace in 1776-the price was high, but
we could have had it. James Otis,
Sam Adams, Hancock and Warren
were surrounded by those who urged
peace and British rule. All through
that long and trying struggle, partic-
,ularly when the clouds of adversely
lowered upon the cause there was a
cry of peace-let us have peace. We
could have had peace in 1850. Lincoln
was counselled by men Of great in
fluence and accredited wisdom to let
our brothers-and, thank heaven, they
are brothers-depart in peace. But
the tender, loving Lincoln, bending
under the fearful weight of impend-
ing civil war, an apostle of peace, re-
fused to pay the price, and a reunited
country will praise his name forever
,more-bless it because he refused
peace at the price of national honor
and national integrity. Peace upon
any other basis than national indie
pendence, peace purchased at the cost
,of any part of our national integrity
is fit only for slaves, and even when
purchased at such a price it is a delu-
sion for it a not last.
But your treaty does not mean
ipeace-far, very far, from it. II we
are to Judge the future by the past 1T
means war. lis there any guaranty
Of peace other than the guaranty
which comes to the control Of the wal
making w by the people? Yet
what great rule CT democracy does
the treaty leave ~unassailed? The peo-
pie in whose keeping alone you can
safely lodge the power of peace or
war nowhere at M time and in no
place have any voice in this scheme
for world peace. Autocracy when
has fbathed the world in blood for CEN
turtles reigns supreme. Democracy is
everywhere excluded. This, you say,
means peace.
Can you hope for peace when love
of country is disregarded in your
scheme, when the spirit of nationality
is rejected, even scoffed at? Yet hat
law of that moving and mysterious
force does your treaty not deny? With
a ruthlessness unparalleled your
treaty in a dozen instances runs coun-
ter to the divine law of nationality.
Peoples who speak the same IAN
,guage, kneel at the same ancestral
tombs, moved iby the same traditions
animated lby a common hope, are torn
asunder, broken in pieces, divided n
parcelled out to a~ntagonistic nations.
And this you call justice. This, you
cry, means peace. Peoples who nave
dreamed of independence, struggled
and been patient, sacrificed and been
hopeful, peoples who were told h a
through this peace conference they
should realize the aspirations OF Gen.
turtles, have again had their hopes
dashed to earth.
One of the most striking and COM
handing figures in this war, soldier
and statesman, turned away from the
peace table at Versailles declaring to
the world: 'FThe promise Of the new
life, the victory of the great humane
ideals for which the peoples have shed
their blood and their treasure without
stint, the fulfllment of their aspira-
itions toward a new international or
der and a fairer and better world are
mot written into the treaty. NO;
your treaty means injustice. 1t means
slavery. 1t means war. And to all this
you ask this republic to become a