The Washington herald., 1920-10-10
League Of Nations Is World
Need, Says Former Food
Administrator in Review
ing Events Since Armis-
tice. American States
manship Deplored.
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action. All else merely involves
methods of reaching this great OBJ
)ect, and some of the methods pro-
posed are today regarded by the
majority of our people as being
dangerous methods. Compromise on
method is the essence of statesman
ship that would plant the founda-
tions of principle solidly upon the
rock of public support. The dispute
has not been one of principle, for
the Republican party has supported
and does support the principle. The
contention has been over methods,
and on methods men must divide
and good craftsmanship will com
promise. -
The most important thing in the
consummation of our relation to this
great world aspiration is to have
the good will of the majority of
our people, for without such general
support ANY league will fail 1t
cannot have the good will IL in it's
method II is to override our ma
tional institutions and our sense of
proper national obligation. 1t can
| not hold the good will of the world
IL its method is founded on either
threat or obligation to use military
force. Its methods must be the
processes Of peace. not the processes
of war.
| '.Greatest Failure Since Civil War;
, To have obstinateIy held up the
peace of the world for eighteen
! months, with its fearful cost to our
selves and millions of helpless peo-
pie; to have rejected the opportu-
nifty of amicable adjustment of diff
ferences as to methods; TO have
| projected the issue, which, with in
telligent cooperation, would never
have existed. into the Presidential
election, is the greatest failure of
American statesmanship since the
civil war. Real regard for the well
| fare of our people and the world
would have accepted the treaty with
reservations and then IL they thought
| il so vital a matter have gone to
the country on the political issue
of correcting reservations alone.
| The solemn referendum is not on
the league, il is on the failure of
the Democratic party.
Inasmuch as forty nations. COM
prising three-qusrters of the peo-
pie OF the globe, have embraced
the League OF Nations" as a term
| expressing certain ideas, l prefer
that term, but / care little for ter
| minology. The essential thing is
that the Republican party has
| pledged itself by platform. by the
actions of it's majority in the Sem
! ate, by the repeated statements OF
| Senator Harding. that they under
| take the fundamental mission to
put into living being the princi-
pie of an organized association of
nations for the preservation OF
peace. The carrying out of that
promise is the test of the entire
sincerity. integrity and statesman
ship of the Republican party. This
is a positive undertaking. 1t is
an undertaking TO establish such an
association that will be effectual as
| far as human hand can make II
effectual for its purposes.
G. o. p. Pledged to Covenant.
The Republican party has indeed
| pledged itself against the unmodi-
|
| port the party are indeed voting
against some of the methods of the
covenant in putting this great prin-
| ciple into action. But this position
| of the party Is as far as daylight
| from dark from ths attitude OF
| those who wish no league or no as
| sociation for these purposes. II
there be persons supporting the
| Republican party today on the be-
lief or hope that this party is the
| avenue to destruction of this great
| principle. that the party will not
with sincerity and craftsmanship p
| carry out their pledges to bring it
| into effect. then they are counting
| on the insincerity and the infidelity
of the Republican party and its
nominee for the Presidency.
do not believe it would fail, or
I would not be here at this moment.
! If, by any chance, it should fail, il
will have made deeper wound in
| the American people than the tenn
| porary delay in our adherence to a
| league Of nations. 1t will have de-
stroyed the confidence of our people
in party government, it will have
projected us into the DANGEROUS
path of party realignment. Out of
1 n.
| ton, and the domination of eXtrem-
| lists in government.
My personal view with regard to
| the practical development of a
/ league is that some articles in the
| present treaty must be abandoned
| and some modified. But a great
many parts of the present treaty
are good and are intertwined with
10 q ~ ha nrlA
! fer opportunity to secure co-opera-
! tion of the great majority of ma
| tions who have Joined it. Therefore,
I believe that in keeping faith with
| the promise to use all that is good
| in the covenant for the develop
| ment of the great principle to
which 1t has pledged itself prac-
tical Republican statesmanship
must build upon the foundations of
the existing treaty. and include in
| it. the great step forward in inter-
national justice now settled by Sem
| ator Root.
Humanity Cannot Forget Loss.
Men will not forget the $4,000 900
human beings who have died be-
| cause of this war, or the death roll
| which will stream from IL for many
years to come. They will not forget
the social revolutions that have fol-
lowed from the collapse of govern
ment, the dangers that these revs.
lutions have presented and continue
to present to our civilization. They
know that every social student real
ICES that another great war will
| further loosen social forces that
would destroy our civilization and
its foundation in individualism. They
Will not forget that it is impossible
with our modern world communica-
ton and dependency on commerce