The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-31


son in an address to delegation of
pro-league Republicans at the White
House, Wednesday. said:
My fellow countrymen: 1t is to be
feared that the supreme issue pre-
sented for your consideration in
She present campaign is growing
more obscure rather than clearer, by
reason OF the many arbitrary turns the
discussion of ii has taken. The editors
and publishers of the country would
render great service II they would
publish the full text of the covenant
of the league of nations because. hay.
ing read that text, you would be able
TO judge for yourselves a great many
Things In which you are now in danger
OF being mistaken. ! hope sincerely
That 1t will be very widely and gener-
ally published entirely. 1t is with Il de-
sire to reclarify the issue ana to as
sist your judgment that ! take the
liberty of stating again the cause sub
nitted TO you in as simple terms as
possible
Three years ago it was my duty
10 summon you TO the concert of war
10 Join the free nations of the world
in meeting and ending the most slnis-
Ter peril that had ever been developed
In the irresponsible politics Of the Old
world. Your response To that call
really settled the fortunes Of war.
You will remember that the morale of
thp German npanin
before the strength of the German
armies was broken. That vas obvious
ly because they felt that great
moral force which they could not lcok
in the face had come into the contest
and that henceforth all their profess
sions of right We're d.scredited and
they were unable TO pretend that their
continuation of the war was not the
support of n government that had
violated every principle of right and
every consideration of humanity.
1T Is my privilege TO summon you
now to the concert Of peace and the
completion Of the great moral achieve
ment on your part which the war
represented, and in the presence of
which the world found reinsurance
and recovery OF force which il could
have experienced in no other way. We
entered the war, as you remember,
not merely to beat Germany, hut 10
end the purpose of the renewal of
such iniqultious schemes as Germany
entertained. The war win have been
fought in vain and our immense sac
rifices thrown away unless we com
plete the work We then began, and
i ask you to consider that there is
only cne way TO assure the world Of
peace-that is by making it so dan
gerous TO break the peace that no
other nation will have the audacity
to attempt it. We should not be de-
ceived into supposing that imperial
istic schemes ended with the defeat of
Germany. or that Germany is the only
nation that entertained such schemes
or was moved by sinister ambitions
and long standing jealosuies to attack
the very structure Of civilization
There are other nations which are
likely 10 be powerfully moved or are
already moved by commercial jealousy.
oy the desire TO dominate and TO have
their own way in politics and in en-
terprise. and it Is necessary 10 check
them ard to apprise them that the
world will be united against them as
1t was against Germany. if they at
tempt any similar thing.
THE mothers and sisters and wives
NJ ha
OF war. They will feel that we have
riisled them and compelled them to
make an entirely unnecessary sacri-
flee OF their beloved ones If we do
not make il as certain as ii 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 1t seems TO me to con-
stitute q primary demand upon he
conscience of every one OF us. 1t is
nconcelvable TO most Of us that any
men should have been so false or so
hearllcss as to declare that the women
Of the country would again have to
suffer the intolerabe burden and priv
alton If war If the league OF nations
were adopted. The league Of nations
Is the well-considered effort to the
whole group Of nations who were OPP
posed to Germany TO secure themselves
ana the rest OF mankind against
repetition of the war. 1t viii have
back OF it the watchfulness and
material force of all these nations.
and Is such u guarantee Of peaceful
future as no we'll informed man can
question who does not doubt the
conducted against Germany, The great
moral Influence OF the United States