Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-05
BAKER SAYS LEAGUE
SHOULD BE{ORMED
Secretary Asserts Spirits of Slain
Demand Action to Pre-
vent War.
LAuDs PRESIDENT WILSON
Declares He Has Become Spokes-
man for Democratic Peo-
pie of World.

Aio. y. y: January Il
Buffalo Chamber Of Commerce. Secre-
tary Baker declared i, Uncomfortable
the peace conference would make the
failing TO provide for a league Of
nations or some other arrangement to
prevent such disasters in the future.
We here in America who have work
ell and paid" he said. the fathers and
mothers who have. given their sons,
surance OF future peace as \ consois
ton for their sacrifices One canno,
close clos, his eyes and think of the peace
ing that there hover over IL the shirts
OF millions OF dead men demanding tina [
.neir sacriiices be no, in vain. that the
mankind the blessings which they died
TO obtain.
Mr. Baker said he had no intention
statement had been explicit, and i'm
now placed.
DECLARES PRESIDENT Is
ADVOCATE OF PRINCIPLE
He stands with head erect" said
the secretary. I'm the ancient places
o. The old world where other kinds OF
treaties used TO be made and rep.e
sents' a great and free people. He is
principle.
IT may he tina, there are voices in
tlon and here and there. timorous un-
certainty. bu; back OF him i'm that com
81! e c are the voices Of the
who labor. and the women who sacri
.ce: ne is by force OF events the spokes-
man or the democracy OF the world
and the compositions OF this war viii
De 4 new magma charta. Il new biz OF
fights : to liberate the children OF the
'ujure from the burdens of the past
HS 10 the proposal for a league Of
nations Mr.. Baker said it was not such
4 scheme as the holy alliance suggested
by some OF its critics.
is not proposed out o. cabinets
o. absolute minister's" he said. "but is
rather the passionate demand of the
man In the, street, the simple and The
unSophisticated who know little or The
antiques and wilea of statecraft: br,,
su ~ SnoW very grea; deal about the
tails" gu
PEACE CONFERENCES WILL
FACE MANY HARD PROBLEMS
nm Ine peace conference, Mr.: Baker sa i'd
iSi euftu seoera and DIFF
lions ft would be a conce lagiSI qn nes
s,loie: he added. ITO make treaties end
us present discords and dealing Viii
| eaSn national claim as though Il wert
! ,,nulStauai and OF no community In,
=, hui We had world organized in
IN! INC old way in 1914" he continued
I'm IN the last months. of that year the
iundersta ndinS swirled together. and
know or no more pathetic picture thar
and e on me neiplessness OF the grea,
Worlo as their statesmen watched Inc
stream and realized that no provision
w ,,aa D De- ar made to stem il; There
restraints of humanity and iusti,t
could operate
lISCONCEIVABI.E THAT
PEOPLE WILLED WAN
n Is inconceivable that the peoples
I q tI.ilf Ia
Is equally inconceivable that the PEG.
! pies OF the world would be wilkins
nov nov TO race the possibility of another
vance modes OF concerted action which
| VIII restrain the madness OF the mo,
ms e.Wa ,,..
among nations for the purpose OF max.
ing war. offensive and defensive. Is
+ too much 10 believe that in This en-.
has beeome age safpe to prevent wal
me war had given Amer:cr new
,Hts!3n o. ne! own strength and power
MT. Baker declared.
DEMOCRACY PROVED
EFFECTIVE AND WHOLESOME
we have made voyage OF dis.
coTery and found unsupported capaci.
TIES IN ourselves" he continued. de.
mocrncy has been tested and proved
1t was the spirit of freedom anc
rlgnt that animated the American arm,
IN france. Hindenburg lines crumplcC
IKE houses. of cards in the face OF
that spirit"
Mr. Baker made only one referenc,
t1cuchlns subjects Of criticisms OF The
war Department; recently voiced in the
Senate.
| IAithonsh there is much talk of .ht
United States having TO rely upon
| Great Britain and France To supply il,
armies with heavy artillery" he said
"'nevertheless. American industry did
IN fact. supply to Great Britain ant
France practically an equivalent Il
that made available to us from them
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