Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-12
Continued from
TAkes In Alleged Inconsistency.

NNSlSUenGN. / 90 not Inlbh nave
zen inconsistent. but it does not
after whether | have or not. In
vidual inconsistencies have no re-
ton to the merits of any question.
nobody ever changed their minds,
would be stagnant world. Inc
ly difficulty comes, as II comes
III many habits, harmless in mod
alton, but dangerous in excess.
When Inconsistencies became eX-
ssve they are art to suggest self
aking and insiucerity or lack of
al conviction. | think it is hardly
)rth while to discuss inconsistent
: No one can tell where the dis
ssion may lead.
On May 6, 1914, at the unvelllng
the Barry monument iii Washing
Il. President Wilson said:
There are Just as vital things STIR
lg now that concern the existence
the nation as were stirring then,
d every man who Worthlly stands
this presence should examine HIM
ii and see whether he has the full
inception of what it means that
.merica should live her own life.
.ashington saw it when he wrote
: Farewell Address. 1t was not
lerely because of passing and tran
lent circumstances that Washington
aid that we must keep from entang-
ing alliances"
| pause for moment to say that
J ashington did not say that we
.l.oLld keep clear from entangllng
.liiances in the Farewell Address. He
aid that we should keep clear Of
aermanent alliances, and that tenn
hn -1,ffinio1,4
. meet an emergency-as they We're
the war just closed.
| merely mention this because the
ehrase "entangling alliances which
so familiar to the country, was
The utterance of Thomas Jefferson
n his first inaugural. He warned
IS from entangling alliances. He, too,
Ike Washington, | know is consid-
led antiquated by many people. |
"orely recall it for the benefit of
Ieffersonian Democrats, il any still
survive.
In Washington on January s, 1916,
addressing tie Pan American Con
rress, President Wilson said:
The Monrce Doctrine was pro-
aimed by the United States on her
vn authority. 1t ALWAYS has been
.aintained and always will be main
lined upon her own possibility
think | am not TO blame for wish
Il it maintained now.
All Agreed in Desiring Peace.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, we are
i agreed in desiring the security
the peace of the world. | am not
oing to argue such a question as
lat. We all hate war, and let me
~ to you that nobody can hate or.
ohor war more than those upon
hose shoulders rested the dread re-
onsibility of declaring war and
1ding forth the flower of our youth
battle. A man who has once
ne that responsibility can never
get it. | should not more think
arguing to YOU that peace is bet
ter than war than | should think
of insulting your intelligence by ar
ouing that virtue is better than vice.
We may dismiss it. We are equal
ly desirCus, Think, most of us GER
tainly are desirous of doing all we
can, through a union, or league, or
alliance of the nations, to make the
peace of the world secUre-more Sc
cure, at all events. than it has ever
been before. | will not stop to ar
sue that.
The question before us, the only
question Of practical nature, is /
the league that has been
d lafted bv the Commission of the !
Peace Conference and laid before it |
will tend to secure the peace of the |
world as it stands, and whether it is /
Just and faiG to the United States of
America. That is the question, and |.
! want now, very briefly, to bring
it to the test
Wars between nations come from !
contacts. A nation with which we
have no contact is nation with which |
we should never fight But contacts, |
foreign relations between nations. |
ale Inevitable, and the object of all /
and craftsmanship is to |.
make these contacts and relations as
harmoniCu Us as possible, because in |
these contacts is found the origin of |
all war
In this scheme for a league now
before US We create number of new
contacts, number Of new relations, |
which nations nave not undertaken
before to create.
Leagues Cf History Not Very Sue
ceSsful.
There have been many leagues.
There is nothing new in the idea of
q league They go back to the days
Of Greece. There is the Peace of
WestpF ALA, the League Of Cambria.
/ believe there are some thirty al
together in the pages of history, none
of them very successful And in the
Holy Alliance Of 1915 another attempt
was made, and that time league to
preserve peace. But we are ap-
preaching this League On differ
ent tasis and on a different theory
from any | believe ever attempted.
We are reaching for great object,
playing for great stake. But we
are :reating new contacts. There
fore, we should examine all the prop
Csiticns with the utmost care before
we give an assent to them.
| take first the form of the draft
without regard to its substance.
There were four drafts presented to
the Commissioner by Italy, one by
France, one by the United States and
one by Great Britain. The British
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