Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-09-01
Wednesday, September 1
The League Triumphant.
BY Felix Lake.

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man of the ages.
No other person ever worked and
1abored with such unselfish aim as did
this man for the interest of all the
people, but more especially for those
of his own nation, the Jews.
See him on yonder mountain, heart
broken, mourning over doomed city.
Hear his pathetic words,
"37 o Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
that killest the prophets, and stoneth
them which are sent unto thee, how
often would 1 have gathered thy
children together, even as hen gath
crest her chickens under her wings,
and ye would notp'
Since the time of this Matchless
Galilean no sadder picture has been
presented to the world than that of
Woodrow Wilson calling upon the
people to vindicate their own cause in
solemn referendum by accepting the
League of Nations.
Fellow countrymen we do not at
tempt to eulogize Wilson.
He spent his entire public life
working for the welfare of the down
trodden of the entire world, but he
has loved America with an undying
love.
History will record him as the
greatest constructive statesman of
this generation, and no eulogy of ours
could add to the immortal glory that
future generations will accord him.
He has made no stage-play but has
worked with accuracy of an adding
machine plus the great dynamic force
of mighty heart.
He entered the fight for the world
a strong vigorous man, but now his
strength is broken. In his own words
we close any further reference to
him.
81 would gladly lay down my life
for this league"
Twenty-Five nations are members
of the league which is now in active
operation and America holds back
while they go forward.
Certain members "of the guard"
for no other reason than that of po-
litical aggrandizement are advocating
reservations which would make it
possible for us to enter into the
existing compact.
Think you that each of these
twenty-nine nations has not some
reservations that they would like to
put into the Versailles article of
agreement?
Is it not the opinion of the thinking
people of America that we should
enter this League as it now stands
Imperfect though it be), and that
its members make from time to time
such changes as the conditions may
warrant?
There was a time when many
countries of the world seemed so far
removed that their interests were not
enough in harmony with ours to
demand such federation.
This is not the case now, we are
bound together by bands of steel, by
great ocean-going vessels, by wire
and wireless communications, and by
navies of the air, until the world is
today but a neighborhood.
Let no false prophet persuade you
that our interests are different from
the interests of other nations, but be
assured that we have reached the
point in civilization when the
:master-minds of all races and all
nations should meet in an open forum
and together work out a plan OF
living which would be worldwide in
its scope.
More than eighty years ago Alfred
Tennyson wrote prophesy OF this
league.
ssMen, my brothers, men and workers,
Ever reaping something new;
That which they have done but earn
est of the things that they shall do:
For 1 dipt into the future,
Far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world,
And all the wonder that could be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce
Argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight,
Dropping down with costly bales;