The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-07
! "Oh, if we had been there we would
 have fixed up everything all right.'

acceptance ne Sd1Q ne WdSnL TOT the League of Nations, wasn't for going into the treaty at all. but after he got to be President of the United States he was going hopefully to ap- and see if he couldn't, with their as- sistance, devise some form of asso- citation of nations. Not a league. an association How can he consult them? They are all satisfied, they have one, they like it. The world has accepted it now. Every nation in the world except us is living under it. The League of Nations is now engaged in publishing all the treaties that all the nations of the world have League Is now publishing all those treaties in six languages. That is a great gain, to have open diplomacy to do away with the secret agree and lock up in safes and then spring them on the world and send men to slaughter for the text of a covenant of which they had never heard or ating the texts of treaties are pub lished and the world can judge of them. The nations of the world are satisfied with them. Senator Harding going to throw that aside and issue an invitation to all of the nations who have made a treaty to throw it away and he will make a new one I dop't know that you all remember that phrase of Shakespeare when Harry Percy was speaking to Owen Glen dover. Glendower with splendid self confidence said to Harry Percy, 1T can summon spirits from the vasty deep" "Yes," said Harry, "so can I and so can any other man. but will they come?" have no doubt Sem ator Harding if President could issue the invitation. but would they come?
 How did we secure that conference from all the remote parts of the earth agree and send delegates to Paris and agree to the treaty when 1t was finally written. In the first place, at that moment the world was so utterly stricken and woebegone, so weary of war that the voices of men, women and children everywhere said ''Go and join and don't dare come home until you bring some permanent peace arrangement" IL was not so much the will of states men as the irresistible demand of peoples that made the Treaty of Paris possible. Another thing was that just around Paris where tho Peace Conference was sitting the great civilized nations of the world had an army of six million victorious soldiers and every savage and semi barbarous power that cherished an impure or unho1y ambition knew that civilization was on top and they didn't dare to stay out of any con tract proposed to them that was fair and just and in the interests of man. kind.
 If Senator Harding issues his hopeful approach for the forma- ton of 8 new association there will be no great army, many parts the world will have in some degree over come the horrors of war, wrong have gotten the better of the people. and if such a conference should as- semble, there would not be this un- anirnfty of opinion which at that time was possible to secure. because of the stricken and sore spirit of the world,
 There is the Treaty, there is the Covenant of the League of Nations. have heard very impudent,. unjust and untrutlfu1 things said about 1t. I have seen in the newspapers that Senator Lodge said that the Coven- ant of the League of Nations was de- signed by the President in order to have himself at the head of it and world in another war. That is in- sanity. GA voice-Abso1utely). Yes, absolutely sir. If Senator Lodge said that. what he needs is a committee.
 Let T3 look at the Covenant and sea whether it is designed for war what does the preamble say2 It says: '@Tfia High Contracting Parties, fin efdeF to promote international CO., uPSfatlOn and 10 ach16V9 1ntefpdL1On- al peace and security, by the accept ance of obligations not to resort to wGr; by the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations; by the firm eata blishment of the understandings of internation- al law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by tn maintenance of justice and & seFupu- lous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples fn h venaHt of the League of Nations" Does anybody start out to make war by declaring themselves in favor of peace based on justice? don't know how many of you know the poetry of Browning. Browning is & great but unusual poet, His language is ex- ceeding1y difficult to understand until you have been reading it a long phodei, that don't think anybody understood It was shown to an English poet as he lay in bed and he sobbed and the friend who had ed to see that it moves you so much" He saids ''dt isn't that.''
 Eve lost my mind. I can't under stand the English language" I have that feeling about things that are be- ing said about the League of Nations. Either people who say those things are mad OF ought to be locked up. I have the same feeling for men who like MF: Taft, who says the way to get into the league is to vote for the man ~ha is against it. Governor Cox saysi T am in favor Of going in" SenateF Harding says; "Fhe diffeF= enee between myself and GoFeraeF Cox is that he fs in faEar af~going ia and I an in faFeF of staying eut.n MF. Taft teiis us tfle way to get in is te vote for tfs emaR who is in favor Of staying out. That is Asphadea:
 We nAeA paae4aiRerx to keen fAe peace ef the world. Fhe covenant undertakes iR eReeeaiagiF simple Ian guags te make the machinery Take about a t ;tseit. H It " ss 50 simapIs a sRaf ssa a child can understand it. Get it and sec whether I am right when I say to you, that # is the only plan pF8- posed by anybody in modern times by which tfe people of the world can be preserved.
 Let me eRumefate twp OF three of the Peaeemaking provisions have n al nf