Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-27

OF being misled. hope sincerely that
It will be very widely and generally pub
hshed in its entirety.
It is with a desire TO clarity the issue
and to assist your judgment that I take
the liberty OF stating again the case sub
possible
Three years ago It was my duty 70
summon you to the concert OF war. to
join the free nations OF the world IN
peril that had ever been developed in
the irresponsible politics Of the old
world
Your response to that call really set
tied the fortunes of, war You win re-
member that the morale Of the German
people broke down long before the
strength Of the German armies was
broken.
That was obviously because they felt
that q great moral force which they
could not look In the face had come into
the contest and that thenceforth all their
professions Of right were discredited and
they were unable TO pretend that their
continuation or the war was not the SUP
port of n government that had violated
every principle Of right and every con-
sideration of humanity.
1t IS my privilege to summon you now
70 the concert Of peace and the compile
ton of the great moral achievement on
your part which the war represented and
a reinsurance and a recovery Of force
which it could have experienced in no
other way.
We entered the war, as you remember,
not merely 70 beat Germany, but to end
the possibility of the renewal OF such in
iquitOus schemes as GERMANY entertained.
The waE viii have been fought in vain
and our immense sacrifices thrown away
unless we complete the work we then
began, ard 1 ask you to consider that
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Of peace:
That Is by making it so dangerous
to break the peace that no other na-
ton will have the audacity to at
tempt it.
We should not be deceived into sup
posing that imperialistic schemes ended
with the defeat OF Germany, or that Ger
many is the only nation that entertained
such schemes or was moved by sinister
ambitions and lOng-standing jealousies to
attack the very structure Of civilization.
There are other nations which are
likely TO be powerfully moved 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 it is necessary TO check them
and to apprise them that the world will
be united against them, as IL was against
Germany, If they attempt any similar
things.
OTHER NATIONS ARE
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The mothers and sisters and wives Of
the country know the sacrifice of war.
They will feel that we have misled them
and compelled them to make an entirely
unnecessary sacrifice of their beloved ones
If we do not make Il as certain as il
can be made that no similar sacrifice viii
be demanded of mothers, sisters and
wives In the future.
This duty is so plain that it seems to
me to constitute a primary demand upon
Of of &c
Uncomfortable to most OF US that any men
should have been so false or so heartless
as to declare that the women Of the
country would again have to suffer the
intolerable burden and privation of war
if the League of Nations were adopted
The League of Nations Is the well-con-
s,dered effort Of the whole group of ma
tons who were opposed to Germany to
secure themselves and the rest of man
kind against a repetition Of the war.
1t viii have back of il the watchfulness
and material force of all these nations
and is such a guarantee Of a peaceful fu-
ture as no well-informed man can ques-
ton 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 under
took to execute.
One thing ought to be said, and said
covenant Of the League of Nations
1t is the specific pledge of the mem
bers 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 exact a definition as could
be given In general terms of the
outrage which Germany would have
committed IL IL could
Germany violated the territorial in
tegrity of her neighbors and fiouted their
political independence in order to ag-
grandise herself and almost every war
OF history has originated In such de-
signs.
II 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 10 SPECIFIC
REDEMPTION OF PLEDGE.
Article 10, therefore. is the specific
free governments of the world gave
to their people when they entered
the war.
only that Germany would be pre-
vented from carrying ont her plot,
but that the world would be safe
guarded in the future from SINH
lar designs.
We have now TO choose whether we
will make good or quit
We have Joined Issue, and the issue
Is between the spirit and purpose of the