Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

you would have nations in which
that old poisonous seed of intrigue
could be planted with the certainty
that the drop would be abundant;
and one Of the things that the Lea
que of Nations is intended to watch
is the course of intrigue. Intrigue
cannot stand publicly, and IL the
Neague of Nations were nothing but
great debating society it would Kill
intrigue.
''It is one of the agreements of
this covenant that it is the friendly
right of every nations member OF
the league to call attention to any
thing that it thinks will disturb the
peace of the world, no matter where
that thing is occurring.
There is no subject that may
touch the peace of the world Which
is exempt from inquiry and discus
sion, and l think everybody mere
present will agree with me that
Germany would never have gone to
war If she had permitted the world
to discuss the aggression upon ser
! bia for a single week.
No Discussion Permitted
"The British foreign office sug-
gested, it plead that there might be
day or two delay so that the rep
resentatives of the nations OF Eu-
rope could get together and discuss
the possibilities of a settlement. Ger
many did not dare permit DAY
discussion. You know what hap
pened. So soon as the world realiz-
ed that an outlaw was at large, the
nations began one by one to draw
together against her.
1--WE know for certainty thal
if Germany had thought for mo-
wi 10 in
in with France and with Russia she
never would have undertaken the
enterprise, and the League of Ma
tions is means as a notice to all out
law nations that not only Great Brl-
tain, but the United States and the
rest of the world will go in to stop
enterprises Of that sort. And so the
Legaue of Nations is nothing more
nor less than the covenant that the
world will always maintain the stan,
dards which it has now vindicated
by some of the most precious plooo
ever split.
The liberated peoples of the
Austro- Hungarian empire and of the
Turkish empire call out to us for
this thing. 1t has not arisen in the
council of statesmen. Europe is
bit sick at heart at this very NOM
ent, because it sees that statesmen
have had no vision, and that the
only vision has been the vision of the
people. Those who suffer see. Those
against whom wrong is wrought
know how desirable is the right and
the righteous.
Vision With the People
"The nations that have long been
under the heel of the Austrian, that
have long covered before the Ger
man, that have long suffered the in
describable agonies of being govern
ed by the Turk, have called out to
the world, generation after genera
ton, for justice, for liberation, for
succor, and no cabinet in the world
has heard them.
Private organizations, plying
hearts, philanthropic men and wom-
en-, have poured out their treasure
in order to relieve these sufferings;
ut no nation has said to the nations
responsible, You must stop; this
thing is intolerable, and we will not
permit it. And the vision has been
with the people.
my friend, wish you would re-
fleet upon this proposition. The Wis
ion as to what is necessary for great
reform has seldom come from the
top in the nations of the world. II
has come from the need and the as
piration and the self-assertion OF
great bodies of men who meant to
be free. And can explain some OF
the criticisms which have been lev
elled against this great enterprise
'nly by the supposition that the men