The Washington times., 1920-10-27
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G.O.P.FR|ENDS
President Welcomes League
Supporters and Reaffirms
: Fealty to Covenant.
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away unless we complete the work
We then began. and / ask you to
consider that there Is only one way
TO assure the world OF peace: that
is by making Il % dangerous 70
break peace that no other nation
will have the audacity TO attempt it.
I'VE should not be deceived into
supposing that imperiaiistic schemes
ended with the defeat OF Germany. or
that Germany IL the only nation that
entertained such schemes OF was
moved by sinister ambitions and
long standing jealousiss TO attack the
very structure OF civilization. There
are other nations which are likely TO
be powerfully mSvsd or are already
moved by commercial jealousy, by the
desire to dominate and to have their
own way in politics and In enter
prise, and II IL necessary to check
them and to apprise them that the
world will be united against them
as II was against Germany IL they
attempt any similar thing.
TELLS OF sACRNICEs.
"The mothers and sisters and wives
OF the country know the sacrifice of
war. THEY will feel that we have
misied them and compelled them to
make an entirely unnecessary sacri-
nee OF their beloved ones II we do
not make II as certain as IT can be
made that no similar sacrifice will be
demanded of mothers and sisters and
wives in the future. This duty'is SO
plain that IL seems to me to consti-
tute a primary demand upon the con-
science of every one of us. 1t is in
conceivable to most of us that any
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heartless as to declare that the wom-
en- of the country would again have
to suffer the intolerable burden and
privation OF war II the League Of Ma
tons 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. 1t
will have back of 1t the watchfulness
and material force Of all these ma
tons. and is such a guarantee of n
peaceful future as no 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 absolutely
thrown away If we do not complete
the task which our soldiers and
sailors so heroically undertook to
execute.
One thing ought to be said. and
said very clearly, about Article Y, OF
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 matter
who attempts them in the future. 1t
is as exact a definition as could be
given IN general terms Of the out-
rage which Germany would have
committed IL she could. Germany vio-
lated the territorial integrity OF her
neighbors and ffouted their political
independence in order to ag srandize
herself, and almost every war of his
tory has originated in such designs.
NATIONS ARE TRUSTED.
1t is significant that the nations
OF the world should have at last COM
bined to define the general cause of
war and to exercise such concert as
may be necessary to prevent such
methods. Article X, therefore. 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