The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-08
WHOSE OBITUARY?

by which that nation is promised
American aid in case Of an I'M
provoked attack by Germany.
was described as "the premature
obituary of the League of Nations
as a league of peace" in state
ment issued last night by Senator
Borah, republican, Idaho. =.
The senator also charged that the
promise was made by President
Wilson, to purchase French sup
port for the league plan.
The civilized nations of the world
are making history today more i'm
portant than any that has ever tran
spired. Three of the worlds greatest
statesmen have in the past six months
held in their hands the destinies of
all the people liberated in the battles
for freedom in which France, England
and America stood as one against the
enemy of that political liberty.
President Wilson is one of the three
men. He went away imbued with the
hope of sealing the liberties of those
peoples for all time. He went away
bent on stamping out the kind of
inilitarism manifested in those lead
ers who sent Germany on her ramp
age of war and bloodshed against in
nocent people. He aimed to destroy
German imperialism. He sought
moral victory with which to back up
our brave fighting man in their sup
preston of the fighting forces of
Germany. And he sought an eternal
end OF wars! Why should he not?
The world had been set free.
That six months in the peace con-
ference in Paris has meaning I'M
like anything Senator Borah has yet
offered the public. 1t has meaning
for the civilized world unlike any
thing Senator Borah could offer
There will be an obituary some day
right soon, but
Let us modestly suggest that since
all things pass away, this obituary may
represent the laying away of
those fondest hopes of Senator Borah
that he and his friends may be able
to destroy what the peace conference
is offering the word as a solution to
the great disruption of empires. 1t
may be the obituary of Senator Borah
as statesmen. If it is, the world will
say of him when he is gone, "He
never measured up to the occasion"
That's the obituary as we see it.
The peace treaty is not offered the
enlightened world in the silly vain
glory of a boasting, bigoted blow hard,
as Senator Borah would have you
believe. The league covenant did not
have to buy the support of. France.
That nation would shed it's last drop
of fighting blood defending its tenets,
for they are life and liberty to all
France as they are to the other great
powers who comprise its membership.
The president is not coming home
to boast about what he has done. He
is coming to ask the people of the
United States to approve World
Constitution that is made necessary
by invention and Accommodation,
to check all future wars. He is COM
ing to ask the people to endorse a
free government for each liberated peo
pie in France and to stand by that en-
dorsement. He comes to ask us to put
the stamp of approval an the allied
acts which sent German Imperialism
to it's doom,-German militarism to-
an eternal oblivion. Soon he will be-
gin to tell the people of the United
States the meaning of all this work in
Europe.
We hope when that explanation
comes it will unfold to all of us
just disposition of the problems
arising out of the world war We hope
that explanation will reveal fitting
finale to our battles for freedom in
Europe, for the principles of liberty
which we have cherished through the
centuries Somehow we have bright
hopes of his coming.