The sun., 1919-09-21

during those fatefui moments. while
they were talking to us In idealistic
phrases; and during the very time they
were talking TO us their pockets were
oulging with secret treaties made before
| we had entered the war, treaties which
disposed of the peoples and territories
OF the earth, and which partitioned the
earth's surface; but they never men,
TONED them to Senator or Congressman.
or to the President or the Secretary OF
state, never lisped a syllable of their
existence; and the President told us he
never heard of those secret treaties UNI
! I'll he reached Paris.
Il wouldn't stop to characterize this
sort of duplicity and double dealing, but
l say that when we have had that sort
OF experience with the men In whose
power we are about TO place ourselves
| under this treaty. that we ought TO
know just what we are going to do be-
fore we undertake II.
Would Always Aid Distressed.
Whenever humanity calls, whenever
mankind Is in. distress, or the anguished
cries OF civilization are heard. I would
have our country in the future do lust
what II has done in the past, because Il
VIII answer to that cry and do Il full
| DUTY by peoples and humanity. But
what say to you IL that we at Wash
ington are lighting for this: When the
time and the call comes for acting, we,
as Americans, shall determine that time
and mode of acting, without the British
Empire or any other nation deciding for
us.
That is the issue, Not that we wan.
to live Isolated from all the rest of the
world. but when you put us at the con-
Terence at Geneva in secrecy with eight
Foreign nations, in reality it's only i've
because It's the big rive that are going
TO rule the world In the future-you put
us there with one minority vote under
the control and power Of the other four
great nations of the earth and you make
them determine the character of our
action and the tNne Of our action.
IT'S silly. to talk about moral or legal
| obligations The honest man and the
honest nation carry out their moral OBJ.
legations as readily as either would carry
| out legal obligation.
1T may be legal or moral, or as the
President says, 'cumpulsorlly moral II
may be of one sort or the other never
theless when the United States Of Amer
lea signs It's name to a document by
which II guarantees territorial integrity
Of another nation the United States OF
America will carry out its obligations NO
matter what the cost may be. So don't
stop to talk to you in differentiation OF
one kind of obligation or, another.
Our splendid isolation of the past, to
which our friends on the other side SO
feeiingly refer. is a matter quite apart
from the discussion. They say we have
entered upon our world career we can't
turn back. Not so at all We have never
been Isolated from the rest of the world
financially, socially. commercially, polit-
ically of any other way. The only isola-
ton which has been ours is geographical
God gave US the two oceans, and what
God has given US in these two oceans
even the League of Nations can't take
away from us.
SIX Votes to Our One.
"If any man had come to you three
years ago. before the war; IL any mar
| should come to you three years hence
and say to you that he was entering
into a partnership between this nation
| and a foreign nation by which the for.
eign nation should be given six votes In
| that partnership and our country should
| be given only one you would boot hin
| from the rostrum II he did that three
years ago or three years hence YOU
But so strange and distorted Is oul
psychology to-day that that very propo-
| sition is made to US. Now, I have nc
| prejudice against our English brother
admire him immensely. I admire the
| ability with which Lloyd George repre-
scented the British Empire. I would thai
we could have secured somebody to rep
resent America who could have served
our interests as we'll.
What q proud boast 1t was that he
made to his Parliament the other day
| when he said he had added to the great
British Empire 100000 square miles OF
territory. What a proud thing 1t was
| when he said to them, We have so ar
ranged II now that whenever we are
called into any war the United States
| enters automatically What a PROUD
| thing It was for, him when he was able
| to demonstrate that the great British
| Empire holds to-day practically one
fourth of the whole surface of the earth
| and that its dream of rule from Cairo
to the Cape is now realized.
U. s. Fought for Ideals.
but as I look about the nations OF