South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-13
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RABBI WISE. BEVERIDGE ROOSEVELT AND TIKI
LEAGUE
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Fort Wayne journal Gazette)
RABBI Wise in a sermon in New York has just said
getting 1851 TO 1865, has rendered service of greater
or more permanent value than that of Prest Wilson
by taking part in the peace conference"
And the famous rabbi said something else that de-
serves separate paragraph because it eternal
truth in plain English when he declared may
not be long before the American people will apply
the term moral treason the and acts of
coterie of gentlemen eager to smash wilson as 70
forget the president of the.Inited States
meeting in councils of utmost delcacy difficulty with
representatives of countries other than our own
We have frequently called breaking
Of all precedents the any respectable portion
OF self-respeetng people in organizing propaganda
for the purpose of breaking down its prestige any
international assembly.
| Mr. Beveridge has spoken in Boston against the
league of nations basng his the ground
that must cling to isolation, and yet
Beverage who rather startled conservative Amer
leans when in 1898 he stood the senate chamber
juggling gold nuggets from the Philippines and insist
ing that should throw off the trammes of isola-
ton and take place the progress the
world because there would be money in it. Mr. Beye-
ridge then spoke imperialst. type ancient as
the first military conqueror and he speaks the same
type now
entering upon international career IF
conquest by right of might, and he now opposes an
international career of and justice He
| to type
And vet believe that Mr. Beveridge pretend
ed look Mr. Roosevelt for leadership And we find
that Mr. Roosevelt had enough vision long ago to
foresee the necessity of such league of nations
that which few politicians trying make mpos-
sible 1t only three that he published
book-"America and the World War" and if NJ.
Beverdge had consulted 1913 he would have found
the following:
Il earnestly hope we shall ourselves become
one of the joint guarantors of world peace under
such plan that in this book outline, and that
! shall hold ourselves ready willing
a member of the international comitatus to enforce
| the peace of righteousness against any offender
! big or small. This would mean great practical
! stride toward relief burden OF excess
mil hat a
| had been taken toward minimizing and re-
stricting the and extent OF possible warfare
1t would that all Hberty-lOving and enlghten-
ed peoples. great and small would be free
haunting nightmare terror which now besets
them when they think of the possible conquest of
! their land"
In the same book in the course of discussion of Mr.
Bryans peace treaties he says page 2O2 that:
| "a international peace will only when the
nations of the world form some kind of league which
provides for international tribunal to decide
international matters. which DEGREES that treaties
and international agreements are never to be enter
ed into recklessly and foolishly and when
! entered into are to be observed with entire good
faith and which puts the collective force OF civiza
ton behind such treaties and agreements and court
decisions. and against any wrong-doing or recalc
trant nation"
And it was in this book too that he met the sheer
the provincial and the without vision that all
plans Utopian that he discussed this man and
his view under the significant chapter head Utopia
And again on page 25s he says:
/ 1T is because l believe attitude should be one
/ of sincere goodwill toward all nations that / so
strongly feel that should endeavor to work for
"a league peace all nations rather than
| 10 alliances with any particular group. The
prime necessity is that all the nations should
! agree in good faith their combined warike
/ strength 20 coerce any nation whichever may
! be- that declines TO abide the decision of COM
| petent international tribunal Our business is
create the beginnings OF international order OF
the world OF nations these nations actually exist
we do not have with world OF pacihsts and
therefore we must proceed the assumption that
treaties will acquire sanctty until nations
i DIV IN aal hem
And il is particularly impressive TO have these
lcf Mr. Roosevelt expressed time when one
could possibly conceive Of anything monstrous
Ian attempt TO make opposition 10 league partisan
Question Mr. Roosevelt then wrote student OF his
tory and international relations in the calmness
tachment from prejudcial influences of partisan
shin.