The sun., 1919-10-19

| $4,000 words, and that It takes any
man about two and half or three
days to read
| A voice: What about Ireland?"
Senator Reed: zone moment One
trouble with Ireland is it gets too i'm
patient. If you wait little bit I will
get around to Ireland.
When that Article 1 was given to
us the rest of the German treaty was
not given 1t was not given to the SEN
| ate, although 1t was given to every
| chancellory In Europe, although 1t was
sold on the streets of Berlin and in
Paris, and although 1t was in the hands
of the international bankers of New York
| city. and had been for weeks.
And yet they dare to complain of
| delay. That Is not all, sir AS part
of this German peace treaty was the
French treaty, which provided that we
| should agree to defend France against
| attack, and that instrument expressly
| declared that II should be submitted
to the Senate at the same time as the
| German treaty. 1t was not so sub
mitted. The Senate passed a resolution
respectfully asking for its submission,
and 1t was withheld. as l recall, for
ever three weeks of time. although it
was In law a part of the very docu-
ment we were asked to pass upon. Why
was It withheld? Nobody has ever told
| us. When the question was raised in
| the Senate the spokesman for the Ad-
ministration. that distinguished Senator
| from Mississippi, Mr.. Williams, said that
1t was impossible to submit two docu-
| ments at the same time; that there
would be fraction of a second between
them anyhow. and that was the excuse
| for Withholding it for some weeks. Yet
an attempt was made to arouse the
country to frenzy on account of delay.
| But that Is not ALL The Austrian treaty,
which has in II from its first to its
| last provision new and unusual and
strange powers upon this League of Ma
lions. that treaty was withheld and is
withheld to this day from the Senate
| of the United States. We obtained
copy-one of the Senators did-from
newspaper man who had carried 1t over
here in his hip pocket, or some other
pocket, l don't know what pocket, and
when It was sought to be presented to
the Senate every White House Senator
| bumped his back and showed his claws
| and teeth like a cat and started fill
buster. because it was proposed to put
1t in the record where the Senate and
| the country could see II.
Process Verbal Denied.
we ask, SITS, TOT lnt pTOCeS
What is that? When they negotiate
treaties they take down what is said
and preserve 1t and everybody knows
that the conversations that go on and
the reasons advanced and the argu-
ments that are adduced are important in
constituting any written instrument
But the President denied us that, and in
the French Chamber the other day
French statesmen asserted that the rea-
| ha gtlnnraSsad
kept secret from the world was because
the President of the United States had
requested that it should be kept secret.
THE papers in this case are not yet
before your representatives in the Sen
ate and / say frankly that II 1 had my
way 1 would refuse to consider any one
OF these papers until they were all sub
mitted so that / could know what the
bargain is.
In the meantime a propaganda has
gone on such as the world has never
seen. Mr.. Taft and his great organi-
zation of which he boosted months ago
(hisses)-you need not hiss; it is not
necessary to do that. Everybody knows
what you think Of Taft (laughter). Mr.
Taft boosted that they had 5000 lee
turers and 5000 preachers in an organi-
zaton that spread over the country and
later boosted in one Of his circulars that
they were chiefly financed by the great
international financiers of the country
who had vision enough to see across the
Atlantic Ocean and observe the fine crop
that was to be harvested over there.
And so you have had this propaganda
beginning years even before this time
by the Carnegie Peace Foundation, an
organization that was pro-British from
its centre to it's circumference from its
organizer to it's secretary.
And the American people are now
told in the Senate TO make haste II
l have my way again there would be no
vote upon this document in any legisla-
tive body until the people had elected
a legislative body on the issue and had
! determined that issue.
Now, my countrymen, let me very
briefly try and make plain to you the
issue, the League of Nations as presented
to the people by this propaganda. Was
1t a device by which all wars were to
cease. amity and good will were to come
| upon the earth, armies were to be dis
banded. the battle flags were to be
| furled, the war drum would no longer
beat its alarm. the sun of the millen-
mum was just about to rise and with
its glorious effulgence engulf the world
in the glory of love? And so the men,
bers of this country were told that this
meant that their boys would not have
to go TO war and that peace and good
Will WOulu come because Rutnereu
around the table at Versailles there
would be the representatives Of some
thirty nations, who by the mere act of
signing would be transformed into saints.
Laughter
MY countrymen, IL you would stop to
think little bit you WOULD have known
that what Christ with the Sermon on
the Mount and with the blood of the
cross had not accomplished in 1000
years, would not be brought about by
| Woodrow Wilson over at Versailles
France. You would have known that
the only way the evil passions OF men
can be held In check is by those who
believe in good government, those who
believe IN law and order, organizing to
enforce law and order, and so you
, would have known that II two or three
or four nations undertook not only &c
govern all the nations of the world. thai
they would have to be at war all the
, time II they succeeded in doing II, and
| that instead OF this being a league Of
peace II was a league of war, instead OF
: being a bed of roses, 1t was a bed Of
blood ard terror.
, Fears War With Russia.
Instead OF by entering it and secur.
ing for ourselves complete amity, peace
! and good will and the disarrangemen
! of our armies and our navy, we woulC
have undertaken the task OF controlling
all the evil elements of the world. ant
! imposing our will upon them, and yol
3 would have known, II you had paused
TO consider, that when America under