The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28

l t.It is incoHceivabic to most of us that my men should have been so false, or so heartIess, as to declare 1 that the women of the country 1 would again have to suffer the in- | toIerable burden and privation of war. If the League of Nations were l adopted.
 A COMMON EFFORT ! The League of Nations is the we'll considered effort of the whole group of nations. who were opposed to Ger many to secure themselves, and .he rest of mankind against a repetition of the war. It will have back of it the watchfulness and the material forces of all these nations, and is such a guarantee of a peaceful future as nc Well-informed man can question who does not doubt the whole spirit with which the war was conducted against Germany. The great moral influence of the United States will be absolutel, thrown away if we do not comp et . the task which our soldiers and sailors SD heroically undertook to execute. .sOne thing ought to be said, ana
 said very eseuriy, a bHRt Article < of the covenant of the League of Nations. It is the specific pledge ; Of the members of the league that they will unite to resist exactly the things which Gexx,any att tempted, no matter who attempts them in the future. It is as exact definition as could be given in general terms of the outrage which Germany would have committed, if
 it could.
 Germany violated the territorial in- tegrity of her neighbors and flouted their political independence in order to aggrandize herself and almost every war of history has originated in such designs. It is significant that the nations of the world should have at last combined to define the general cause of war and to exercise such con cert as may be necessary to prevent such methods. Article X, therefore is the specific redemption of the pledgt which the free governments of the orld 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
 @WC have now to choose whether we will make good or quit. We
 have Joined issue and the issue is
 between the spirit nnd purpose or
 the United States. and the spirit
 and purpose of impe fism, no
 matter where it shows itself.
 The spirit of imperialism Is abso- lEtely opposed to free government, 10 the safe life of free nations. to the de- yelopment of peaceful industry and to the completion of the righteous pro- cesses of civilization. It seems to me, and think 1t will seem to you, that it is our duty to show the indomItable will and irresistible 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. Nc one who opposes the ratification of the treaty of Versailles and the adop- ton of the covenant of the League of Nations, has proposed any other ad- equate means of bringing about settled peace. There is no other available or possible means. and this means is ready to haad- They have, on the con- trary tried to persuade you that the very pledge con tained in Article X. which is the essential pledge of the whole plan of security, is itself threat of war. It Is, on the contrary, al, assurance of the concert of all the free peoples of the world in the future, as in the recent past 10 see justice done and humanity protected and vim dicated This is the true, the real
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