Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-30
GERARD IS CALLED
| 4SAFE AND SANE"
Y. S. G. Cherry Places Former
Ambassadors Name Before
Convention
PRAISED FOR HIS VISION

San Francisco, June 3O.-(Rv u ,
--Praising President Wilson'S att;tnd0
on the peace treaty and terminp Sono
tor Lodges keynote speech at the Re
publican convention at Chicago, n moro nor
hymn of hate" U. s. G.. Cherry toJa :,
placed the name Of former AmbassaJor
James w. Gerard in nomination for tba
presidency before the Democratic Ma
tional Convention In session here.
Mr.. Cherry pleaded for the nomipo
tion of safe and sane man, a ouiet
man, but one of clear vision, a man
who has been tried In the great furnace
of the times, and he claimed that James
w. Gerard had all these qualities.
Mr.. Cherry's address follows:
Things have been going on in this
world during the last six years. said
Mr.. Cherry, very different from the
things which had occurred before. Some
-35,000,000 or 10000, 900 of men were
hurled into deadly conflict. Battle
fronts were organized sufficient to reacl
across this continent from ocean tc
ocean. The men in the trenches. in tn,
reserves and in the training camps wer,
the most capable, the most active and tn,
most fit for civil pursuits, possessed BY
some thirty nations, engaged in the ap
ipallipg conflict. These nations quickly
turned away from the processes ant
purposes Of peace, threw all their physi
cal all their economic and all thei,
moral powers and resources into tn,
most stupendous mortal combat of al
time. The great war was In Europe
II extended quickly to the continent,
of Asia, of Africa, of Australia, o,
North America and of South America
Every great nation on earth was q
belligerent. Sometimes, in every truth,
1t seemed that western civilization, and
eastern civilization as we'll, was being
wiped out. There was doubt and dis
but not yet despair in the
faces Of stout hearted men and womer
everywhere. .r.,
'Then this world convulsion sub
sided. The armistice was signed. TIL,
stupendous conflict ended. And ther
the nations and the men and womer
within the nations began the reorganiza
tion of their affairs, and OF new worlc
order, and began the organization O
a new, higher and even a bette
civilization than the one that has 81
suddenly and so ruthlessly been tori
apart and out Of which this world dis
aster had issued.
APPALLING Price Paid
'"The price which had been paid wa
appalling. Ten millions of the bes
lives were gone. sForty billions of ma
tional debts resting upon the belligeren
nations before the war began had leap
ed to 200 billions of debts. Propert!
destruction beyond the estimate of ex.
perts had been sustained by individuals
by communities and by nations alike
Waste and destruction had been pilet
up like mountain upon mountain. Lit
orally, not figuratively, thousands o
villages and hundreds upon hundred
Of cities. and towns had gone out O
existence as to their inhabitants, as t.
their places of business and as to thei
homes. A spirit of wastefulness, of ex
travagance and of recklessness had
perforce, taken hold of the human minc
everywhere. The economic, the mora
and the religious world had received
a shock beyond any present day power
of understanding.
The customs and processes of high.
ly civilized and organized life had beer
largely changed. Great nations, ever
Russia, with her 130, 900, 900 souls, ant
the four autocratic nations, composing
middle Europe, with their 175, 900. .OO(
souls, began to totter and to fall. Pow
erty, sickness, disease, helplessness
starvation and chaos were abroad il
great areas formerly a part of nations
possessed of the highest civilization.
"A strange new doctrine of govern
ment, sometimes and in some places
called S1e thing, sometimes and in some
places called another thing, began to
take hold of the minds Of men and WON
en- in these places where sorrow, mourn
ing, suffering and despair prevailed
The followers of this doctrine, as il
more and more took form, fell in behind
the leadership of a few fanatical aud
dangerous men who advocated, and to =
day are advocating, that all our gov
ernments, all our institutions and all
our civilization as now constituted must
be overthrown, and that an interna
tional soviet system must rule the
world, and with these few men, as new. .
found autocrats, Mt the head of it all.
And this doctrine, like an epidemic,
nas been spreading throughout villages
and countrysides, and towns, and great
,ities, and has taken possession of great
nations as well.
Peace Treaty Felled
''But strong men and strong women
did not despair. Great nations, like
America, Great Britain, France, Italy,
Japan and some thirty odd smaller ma :
lions were not dismayed. A treaty of
peace between all the belligerent ma
lions, so drafted as to ultimately in
,lude all the neutral nations as well,
was drawn up in five months of confer
,nce at Versailles, and solemnly signed
'y all the belligerents, and many Of the
odd nations in all, and
has been accepted and ratified by nearly
III Of them, except this nation-thirty-
light nations in all. And the basic prin- =
'iple upon which this greatest of all
human documents Is builded the motive
Ind purpose that runs through it all |;
he thing that makes 1t quick with life
Ind vitality; the heart and soul of it
Ill Is that this sort of thing shall never
,ccur again; that war shall be dis
,ensed with, so far as human institu-
ions can so provide; that all future in :
ernational disputes shall be settled and
adjusted by processes of peace and upon
principles of justice and reason. rather
han by force.
This document, greater than Magma
Jharta; this document, carrying into
he relations of nations the principles
If the Declaration of Independence (;
his document. extending and applying
% all the nations of the world the
principles of our constitu-
ion this document, extending to all
the principles of the
Monroe Doctrine, first applied by this
iation to the western hemisphere,
,olemnly signed by all these nations
aid by the President before the Senate.
FOR ten months, that body debated it ;
Iuarreied over minor details relating to
Is application and then formally re-