Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
LEAGUE OPPONENTS
SCORED BY PALMER
Attorney General Says condi-
tions Have Changed Since
Washington's Time
PRAISES GOVERNOR SPR0UL
BY q star Correspondent

Harrisburg. June 25.-opponents of
the league of nations were scored by
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
last night in an address before the state
Senate.
The attorney general did not men.
tion the league of nations, but there
was no mistaking what and who his
attacks were aimed at.
Another portion of the attorney gen
erals remarks were interpreted as an
Endorsement Of the administration
anti sedition bill
Judge Bonniwell, Municipal Court.
Philadelphia. Democratic gubernatorial
candidate last November, made public
letter Monday night before the vote on
the bill was taken, severely attacking
that measure.
In his letter Judge Bonniwell men
toned Attorney General Palmer and
Vance G. Mccormick for failing to op-
pose the bill as Democratic leaders,
and declared they had abandoned their
functions
Regarding the league of nations, the
attorney general said:
I'VE must agree that the world has
indeed become small. Means of trans
portation and means of communication
have made this world a little world.
Why a new revolution in Russia tonight,
an outbreak in northern Siberia today.
the discovery of new diamond mine
on the west coast of Africa, the pas
sage of reform measure in the Par
lament of New Zealand today will be
all matters Of interest because read and
known by civilized men everywhere at
their breakfast tables tomorrow.
Men Refuse to See Conditions
"These are conditions which the war
has brought about and the perfections
of inventions which the war demanded
has made more apparent to the people
of the world that they are conditions we
must consider whenever we undertake
to legislate for state and nation in the
future. and vet there are men who re-
, fuse to see them.
There are men who still argue for
the old doctrine of aloofness from the
rest of the world. There are men who
say they subscribe to a spirit of ma
tionalism. which is nothing but a con
fession of ignorance of present world
conditions.
close to the Orient, that war in the
Balkan states or an uprising in China
affects our interests as they never could
before.
"In Washington's s day when he ar
gued that we should attend to our own
knitting, stay here at home and be
careful not to mix in the affairs across
the sea. London was four months away.
Today London is nearer to Washington
than Mount Vernon was to the site of
Washington when the father of his
country lived there.
1--WE have got to remember these
things and realize that our peace, our
happiness anl our prosperity depend
upon the peace, happiness and pros
perity of the rest Of the world and
we can no longer play the laggard part.
as we have entangled ourselves with
European affairs by sending the great
est army the world has ever known
to settle the greatest war in history.
Have Always Fought for Peace
80 we must mix in the world s
affairs by sending the power of the
American people for peace into every
corner of the world The things for
which we fought when America went
into the war were the things for which
America has always fought, liberty for
America and for peace
The attorney general stopped off or
his way here to Bedford Springs tc
attend the meeting of the Pennsylvania
Bar Association and was the guest OF
Governor Sproul in the executive man
sion.
In opening his remarks he paid a
tribute to Governor Sproul, whom he
termed "a great Governor" and de.
clared the Legislature had performed
"a creditable work" in passing radical
changes in present day laws through
a peaceful method.