Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-10-29

have to suffer the intOlerable burden
and privation of war if the League Of
Nations were adopted. The League
of Nations is the well-cOnsidered
effort Of the whole group Of nations
who were opposed to Germany to
secure themselves and the rest Of
mankind against a repetition Of the.
war.
Guarantee of Peaceful Future.
1T will have back of it the watcn-
fulness and material force of all
these nations and is such guarantee
OF a peaceful future as no we'll
informed man can question who do IS
not doubt the whole spirit with which
the war was conducted against Ger
many. The great moral influence of
the United States will be absolutely
thrown Away If we do not complete
the task which soldiers and sailors so
heroically undertook to execute.
lone thing ought to be said, and
said very clearly about article 10 o.
the Covenant of the League Of Ma
tons. 1t is the specific pledge Of the
members of the league that they will
unite to resist exactly the things
which Germany attempted, no mat
ter who attempts them in the future.
1t is as exact definition as could be
given in general terms of the outrage
which Germany wonid have commit
ted II it could.
Germany violated the territorial
integrity Of her neighbors and flouted
their political independence IN order
to aggrandize herself, and almost
every war Of history has originated
in such designs. 1t is significant that
the nations of the world should have
at last combined to define the general
cause of war and to exercise such
concert as may be necessary to pre-
vent such methods. Article 10, there.
fore. is the specific redemption of the
pledge which the free governments
of the world gave to their people
when they entered the war. They
promised their people not only that
Germany would be prevented from
carrying out her plot, but that the
world would be safeguarded in the
future from similar designs.
Make Good or Quit.
I'VE now have to choose whether
We will make good or quit. We have
joined the issue. and the issue is be
tween the spirit and purpose Of the
United States and the spirit of i'm
perialism, no matter where 1t shows
itself. The spirit Of Imperialism is
absolutely opposed to free govern
ment, to the safe line of free nations,
to the development of peaceful in
dustry. to the completion of the
righteous processes of civilization.
1t seems to me and l think it will
seem to you, that it Is our duty to
show the indomitable will and IRE
sistible majesty of the high purpose
Of the United States, SO that the part
we played in the war as soldiers and
sailors may be crowned with the
achievement of lasting peace.
mo one who opposes the ratifioa'
ton of the treaty of Versailles and
the adoption of the Covenant Of thu
League of Nations, has proposed an!
other adequate means Of bringins
about settled peace. There is nc
other available or possible means
| and this means is ready to hand
They have, on the contrary. tried t.
persuade you that the very pledgt
contained in Article 10. which is thu
essential pledge of the whole plan o
security. is itself threat of war.
l SoCalled Amcricanism Spurious.
at is. on the contrary. an assur
peoples Of the world in the future, a
in the recent past, to see justice don
and humanity protected and vindi
Gated This is the true, the rea
Americanism. This is the role 9
leadership and championship of tn
right which the leaders OF the repub
lie intended that it should play. TIL
so-called Americanism which We hea
so much prating about now
spuriously invented for party pur
poses only.
"This is the supreme choice Of tn
present campaign. 1t Is regrettabl
that this choice should be associate
| with a party contest. AS compare