The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-06-05

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these men left US, though they dld not
in their counsels conceive 1t, Is the
great instrument which we have Just
erected in the league of nations.
"The league of nations is the cove
nant of government that these men
shall not have died in vain. | Ike 10
think that the dust of those sons OF
America who were privileged to be
buried in their mother country VIII
mingle with the dust Of the men
who fought for the preservation OF
the Union, and that America might be
united, these men have given their
lives in order that the world might be
united.
Those men gave their lives in order
TO secure the freedom of nation
These men have given theirs in order
to secure the freedom of mankind, ana
look forward to an age when it VIII
be lust as impossible to regret the re-
suits of their labor as 1t Is now
impossible to regret the results
| of the labor of those men who
fought for the union of the states.
look for the time when every man who
now puts his counsel against the uni
ted service of mankind under the
league of nations win be just as
ashamed of it as If he now regretted
the union of the states.
Fight Final Battle for Right.
you are aware, as / am aware, that
the airs of an older day are beginning
to stir again, that the standards of an
old order are trying 70 assert them
selves again. There is here and there
an attempt to insert into the counsel
of statesmen the old reckoning of sell
hshness and bargaining and national
advantage which were the roots of
this war and any man who couhselS
these things advocates a renewal of
the sacrifice which these men have
made; for if this is not the final hat
tie for right, there will be another that
will be final.
Let these gentlemen who suppose
that il Is possible for them to accom-
plish this return TO an order Of which
we are ashamed and that we are ready
to forget, realize they cannot accom-
plish 1t. The peoples of the world
ere in the saddle. Private cOunsels of
statesmen cannot now and cannot
hereafter determine the destinies of
nations.
IF we are not the servants of the
opinion of mankind, we are Of all men
the littlest, the most contemtible, the
least gifted with vision. II we do not
know courage, we cannot accomplish
our purpose, and this age is an age
which looks forward, not backward
which rejects the standard of national
selfshness that once governed the
counsels of nations and demands that
they shall give way TO new order Of
things in which only the questions viii
be, Is It rlghtY Is it just? Is it in
the interest Of mankindT
This is a challenge that no preyi-
GUS generation ever dared TO give ear
to. So many things have happened and
they have happened so fast in the last
four years that do not mink many Of
US realize what II is that has han
pened. Think how impossible II would
have been to get body of responsible
statesmen seriously ia entertain tba
idea Of the organization of league Of
nations four years ago.
And think of the change that has
taken placel | was told before came
to France that there would be copfu.
sion of counsels about this thing and
found unity Of counsel. was toIJ
that there would be opnositlon ANA
found union of action. found tbe
statesmen with whom was obout IN
deal united IN the idea that wa must
have n leoue Of nations. nm MA
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