Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-01

just erected IN the league OF nations.
The league of nations is the covenant
of government that these men shall
not have died in vain. like to think
that the dust of these sons Of America
who were privileged to be buried in
their mother country will mingle with
the dust of the men who fought for
the preservation of the union, and
that as those men gave their lives in
order that America might be united,
these men have given their lives in
order that the world might be united.
These men gave their lives in order
to secure the freedom of nation.
These men have given theirs in Or
der to secure the freedom of man.
kind, and l look forward to an age
when it will be just as impossible
to regret the results of their labor
as it is now impossible to regret the
result 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
united services of mankind under the
league of nations will be just as.
the union of the states.
OM OEQcI NctuInSs
"You are aware, as / am aware,
that the airs of an older day are be-
ginning to stir again, that the stand
ards of an old order are trying to as
sert themselves again. There is here
and there an attempt to insert into
the counsel of statesmen the old
reckoning of selfishness and bargain
ing and national advantage which
were the roots of@this war, and any
man who counsels these things advo-
Gates the renewal of the sacrifice
which these men have made; for if
this is not the final battle for right,
there will be another that will be
final. Let these gentlemen who sup
pose that it is possible for them to
accomplish this return to an order of
which we are ashamed and that we
are ready to forget, realize they can
not accomplish it. The peoples of the
world are awake and the peoples of
the world are in the saddle.
private councils of statesmen can
not now and cannot hereafter deter
mine the destinies of nations. If we
are not the servants of the opinion of
mankind, we are of all men the little
st, the most contemplate, the least
gifted with vision. If 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 sell
fishness that once governed the coun-
sells of nations and demands that they
shall give way to a new order of
things in which only the questions
will be, "is is right" "Is it just"
Is is in the interest of mankind.
Changes Came Fast.
"This is a challenge that no pre-
|vious generation ever dared to give
ear to. So many things have happen
ed, and they have happened so fast
in the last four years, that / do not
think many of us realize what it is
that has happened. Think how impos-
sible it would have been to get
body of responsible statesmen SER
iously to entertain the idea of the or
ganization of league of nations
four years ago; and think of the
change that has taken place; was
told before / came to France that
There would be confusion of counsels
about this thing, and | found unity
of counsel. was told that there would
be opposition, but 1 found union of
action. found the statesmen with
whom I was about to deal united in
the idea that we must have league
Of nations; that we could not merely
leave it to make itself effectual, but
that we must conceive some common
Organization by which would give our
common faith that this peace would
be maintained and the conclusions at
which we had arrived should be made
as secure as the united counsels of all
the great nations that fought against
Germany could make them. We have
listened to the challenge and that is
the proof that there shall never be
war like this again.
Their Spirits Live.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we all be-
lieve, hope, that the spirits of these
men are not buried with their bodies.
Their spirits live. hope-I believe
that their spirits are present with us
at this hour. l hope that feel the
|compulsion of their presence. l hope
that l realize the significance of their
presence. Think, soldiers, of these
comrades of yours who are gone. If
they were here, what would they
SAY! They would not remember what
you are talking about today. They
would remember that which they left
with their high hope and purpose.
They would remember the terrible
field of battle. They would remember
what they constantly recalled in times
of danger, what they had come for
and how worth while it was to give
their lives for it. And they would say,
forget all the little circumstances
of the day. Be ashamed of the jealous
les that divide you. We command you
in the name of those, like ourselves,
have died, to bring the counsels of
men together and we remind what
America said she was born for. She
was born, she said, to show mankind
the way to liberty. She was born to
make this great gift common gift.
She was born to show men the way