Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-10-27
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are ALREADY moved ny COnaI1IeFCldl
by the desire to dominate
to nave their W way in politics
and in enterprise, and it is necessary
to check them and to apprise them
that the world will be united against
them as it was against Germany, If
they attempt any similar thing.
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 sacrt-
flee of their beloved ones If we do not
make it as certain al it can be made
that no similar sacrifice will be de-
manded Of mothers and sisters and
plain that it seems to nte 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
men should have been so false or SO
heartless as to declare that the wom-
en- of the country would again have
to suffer the intolerable burden and
p~rivation of war if the League of Ma
tons were adopted. The League OF
Nations is the we'll considered effort
of the whole group of nations who
were opposed to German to secur
themselves and the res, Of mankind
against d ISpCLII4OLl III ~ wal
will have back of it the watchfulness
and material force of all these ma
tons, and is such a guarantee of q
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 no complete the task which
our: soldiersAand sailors so heroicaliy
undertook to execute.
About Article x.
One thing ought to be said very
| clearly about Article Ten of the cove-
nant Of the League of Nations. 1t is
; the special pledge Of the members Of
the league that they will unite to re-
sist exactly the things which Ger
many attempted no matter who at
exact a definition as could be given
in genera. terms of the outrage which
Germany would have committed if it
could.
Germa ny violated the territorial in
tegrity uf her !leishbors and flouted
their political importance in order to
aggrandize herself and almost every
designs. 1T is significant that the
nations of the world should have at
last combined to define the general
cause Of war and to exercise such
concern as may be, necessary, to pre-
vent such methods. Article X. there
fore. 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
their people not only that Germany
would be prevented from carrying out
her plot, but that the world would be
safeGuardcd in the future from
similar designs.
We%now have to choose whether we
will make good or quit. We have
Joined issGes and the issue is between
the spirit and purpose of the United
imperialism, no matter where it shows
itself. The spirit of imperialism is
absolutely opposed to free govern
mcnt,. to the safe life of free nations
to the development of peaceful duty
and to tho completion of the righte-
GUS processes of civilization. It seems
to me, and / think it will seem to you,
that it is our duty to show the in
domitable 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.
No Other Means.
No one who. opposes the ratification
of the treaty of Versailles and the
adoption of the covenant of the
League of Nations has proposed any
other adequate means of bringing
about settled peace. There is II o other
available or possible means and this
on the contrary, tried to persuade lis
that the very pledge in Article X,
which is the essential pledge of the
whole plan of security, is itself a
threat of war. 1t is, on the contrary,
an assurance of the concert of all the
free peoples Of the world of the future
as in the recent past to sec justice
dictated. This is the true, the real
~Americanism. This is the rule oil
leadership and championship. OF the
} right which the leader intended it tt
play. Parties are Significant now III
this contest only because the voters
must make up their minds which OF
the two parties is most likely to secure
dependable results.
The nation was called upon
to make a. more solemn determination
than it must now make. The whole
future moral force of right in the
world depends upon the United States
rather thar upon any other, nation,
and 1t would be pitiful indeed IL. after
80 many great free peoples had en-
tered the great league, we should hold
aloof. I suggest that the candida y
OF every candidate for whatever office
be tested by this question: Shall we
orShall we not redeem the great
moral obligations of the United States?
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