The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-28
CUMMINGS CHAMPIONS
 LEAGUE COVENANT

Aii4es, in their reply aated at FdrlS' Jaaaary 10th, 1917, declareds
 ~Their whole-hearted agree
 ment with the proposal to create
 a League of Nations which shall assure peace and justice through
 out the world"
 On January 22. 1917, the president addressed the Senate with reference to these replies, and said:
 Tn every discussion of the peace khat must end this war, it is taken for granted that the peace must be fol- lowed by some definite concert of power which shall make it virtually impossible that any such catastrophe shall overwhelm as again."
 Speaking of the League of Peace which was to follow the war, he said: ~If the peace presently to be made 1s eo endure, 1t must De a peace made secure by the organized major force eok mankind
 Acting upon these proposals, both the French and the British govern meats appointed committees to study the problem while the war was still i'm progress
 On April ? 1917, the President de- 4fvered his famous war message to Congress and thrilled the heart of the country anew by his announced rpurpose to make the contest Ca war against war" High above all of our other aims, he placed ga universal dosninaon of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free"
 Following this message the Con- gress by resolution. passed April 6, 1917, recognized the state of war. On January 8, 1918, the President went before Congress and set forth his famous Fourteen Points. The 14th point, which is practically identical in language with the provisions of Article x of the covenant, provided that "a general association of nations must be formed under specific cove nants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political inde- pendenoe and territorial integrity to great and small states alike" Senator Lodge himself, before the eKigencies of politics forced him to take the other side, said that an at tempt to make a separate pessce would brand us with everlasting dishonor" and that the intent of the Congress and the intent of the President, was that there could be no peace until we could create a situation where no such war as this could recur."
 
 July 18th, 1918, said:
 Unless we stand by all our
 Allies who have stood by us, we
 shall have failed in making the
 liberty of weli-behaved, civilized
 peoples secure and we shall have
 shown that our announcement
 about making the world safe for
 democracy was an empty boast"
 On November 4th, 1918, the armis- tice was agreed to and it was con cluded upon the basis of the fourteen points set forth in the address of President Wilson delivered to Con- gross on January Sth, 1918, and the principles subsequently enunciated by him. At no point, at no time, dur ing no period while this history was in the making, was one responsible American voice raised in protest.
 Thus, before we entered the war we made the pledge; during the war we restated the pledge; and when the armistice was signed, all of the pa tions, ourselves included, renewed the pledge; and it was upon the faith of these promises that Germany laid down her arms. Practically all o1 the civilized nations of the earth have now united in a covenant which con- atitutes the redemption of that pledge We alone have thus far failed to keef our word. Others may break faith the Senate of the United States may b-eak faith; the Republican Party may break faith; but neither Presi dent Wilson nor the Democratic Party will break faith.
 The Fundamental Purpose
 In this hemisphere, the mere de claration of our young republic tha the attempt of any foreign power tt set foot on American soil would b. considered an unfriendly act, ha served to preserve ''the territorial in tegrity and the political indepen dence'' of the nations of Central anC South America. The Treaty pledges all of the signatories to make thi doctrine effective everywhere. It i the Monroe Doctrine Of the world.
 The purpose of the League is t give notice that if any nation raise its menacing hand and seeks to eros the line into any other country, tn forces of civilization will be arouset to suppress the common enemy O peace. Therein lies. the security o small nations and the safety of tn world.
 Every war between nations that ha ever been fought began in an attemp to seize foreign territory or to invad political independence. If, in 1914 Germany had known that in the even of hostilities, Great Britain woul have entered the war; that Franc would go in; that Italy would go in that Japan would go in; and that tn United States would go in-ther would have been no war.
 Objections to the Treaty
 The opponents of the Treaty CT out Shall we send our boys abroa to settle a political quarrel in tn Balkans?' Immediately, the un thinking applaud and the orator rec ords momentary triumph. Hay we forgotten that we sent more tha two million men to France, sper more than twenty billions of dollar and sacrificed nearly hundre thousand lives to settle a Balkan dis pute?
 There was a question between Sel bia and Austria. Territorial que. tions, political rights and boundar lines were involved. The Crow - Prince of the House of Austria wa assassinated. A little flame of wa licked up into the powder house E,urope. and in a moment the cont