Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-18
OPPOSES LEAGUE THAT WILSON FAVORS

The Mems club OF the United Con-
gregational church went on record on
Monday evening at their meeting held
in the Second Congregational church
as opposed to the proposed League of
Nations, which President Wilson IA
vors. The following resolution was
unanimously adopted after an excel
lent talk on the subject by Ex-Con-
gresham Edwin W. Higgins:
| Voted: While we seek earnestly and
lrayerfully for methods leSsening fu-
ture wars, and will go far indeed in
an honest effort TO that end, we will
Iaccept nd indefinite internationaliZa-
ton as a substitute for fervsnt Amer
| lean nationalism.
Mr.. Higgins took an entirely differ
| cnt view of the subject than has yet
| been taken by the majority of speak
| ers on the question. His view was
not so much in eenunciation of the
league as in suggestion and criticism
Of certain parts of the plan
| After the talk by Mr.. Higgins the
men entered into discussion of the
| Rev. H. NJ. Pollock William A. Aiken
Henry G. Peck, Edward a. Cudworth
and B. P. Bishop and others.
| Previous to the talk the men en-
ioyed delicious supper which was
served by the following committee:
Miss Marion Beebe, chairman. Mrs A
| r. DeProsse, Mrs. John Tanning. Miss
| Hattie Carter and Mrs. H. W. Gallup.
The Mattresses We're Miss Ida Adams
Miss Mabel Bowers, Miss Mildred
| Francis and Miss Frances Kessier.
The tables were prettilv decorated
| with cut flowers in baskets During
|
rendered by James j. Moore. Harry
| NJ Clark presided at the meeting.
Ex-Congressman Higgins spoke as
| fellows:
Well meaning, God fearing people,
inspired by the loftiest motives and
the purest and highest ideals have a
deep seated determine ton that their
faces shall be eternally set against a
repetition Of the awful conditions that
have, during the past four years, en-
broiled the world. | rcverently join
them in such hopes and dreams and
pray that they may be realized to the
utmost.
Some of these people grasp at the
covenant drawn at Versailles and
known as the League of Nations as
the means to fOrestall the possibility
Ct another world war and prevent ali
the misery, woe, deSolation and de-
strgction which accompanies and fol-
lows such a war and which language
is unable to adequately picture. l dc
rot
Although the progress of civiliza-
ton fppm the beginning of time has
been registered by wars, God grant
that the wisdom of man may yet de-
wise some method to prevent their re-
currence.
I am willing to make any sacrifice
and to concede that most of our citi-
Zens are to see the fullest possible at
tainment of universal Righteousness
and peace. This question transcends
in importance any question except The
fright of state of the Union to Sc
cede that has arisen since we an
nounced to the world some self eVi,
dent truths as to the rights of rner
in the Declaration of independence
and our federal constitution was
framed and adopted, Since these
self evident truths" were proclaimed
by us in 1875, although not accepted
for years after by many nations an(
not by all. to this day this country
by divine Providence and the courage
applica ton and sacrifices of its peo
lie have prospered to an extent al
most beyond calculation. Our prog
ress in righteous living, in maintainin:
a. high order of civilization, in ac
eumu1ating material wealth is not eX
ceeded by any nation on Gods foot
stool and still we are almost thu