The Washington times., 1920-10-27
VOICES FEA[TY
TO covenant
President Asserts U. S. Must
Not Destroy Confidence OF
Civilized World.
SUGGESTS SUPREME TEST
Would Have Candidates Rise or
Fall on Willingness to
Satisfy Hopes.
BY DAVID m. CHURCH.
I.teruatiSnal News Service.

By DAVID M. CnUhSn.
International News Service.
"The whole future moral force Of
right in the world depends upon the
United States, rather than upon any
other nation. and it would be pitiful
indeed if after so many great peo-
Piles have entered the great League,
We should hold aloof," declared Pres
ident Wilson today in an address to
q group Of proponents of the League
of Nations at the White House.
Although the President delivered
the address to a small delegation, it
was addressed ITO My Fellow Coun-
trymen."
CALLS FOR SUPREME.
81 suggest that the candidacy OF
tested by this question: Shall we or
tested by this question; shall we or
| shall we not redeem the great moral
obligations of the United States? the
President declared.
| Members Of the delegation on leav-
ing the White House stated that the
President had received them while
/ Citing in a chair. and that they
! were Impressed by his apparent good
u
va attitude.
Z MEMBERS OF DELEGATION.
The delegation was composed OF
the following: 49,. -t q
| Col. Samuel p. Wetherill. jr., Phila
delpha. chairman Of the Pro-League
Independents, Pennsylvania branch:
Hamilton Holt. editor The Indepen-
dent, New York: Theodore Marburg.
Baltimore; Edwin F. Gay, president
Evening Post, New York; John +,
Meers, chairman League of Nations
| Club of Massachusetts; Mrs. +.
Meers, treasurer, Pro-League Repub-
| licans, of Massachusetts,: Mrs. Schuy-
Ter Warren. of New York; director
League of Political Education; Schuy-
ler Warren, jr., New York; Mrs. MAJ
colin Forbes, Boston president Wo-
men Voters Association of Massachu-
setts. Joseph Nj. Price, New York.
chairman Board of Trustees of City
| Club; DR.. John Bates Clark, profes-
| sor of Economies of Columbia Cni-
versity, New York; DR.. John Spencer
Bassett professor of History, Smith
/ College; ID. G. Rowe, New York: the
Rev. Arthur !. Brown, honorary vice
| president. League to Enforce Peace;
| George X. Hunton. New York.
THE PRESIDENTS sTATESENT.
The President ssi5 IN reply 30 NJ
Hollis speech:
my fellow -courtrynen.
"It is to Jc feared that the So
| preme issue presented for your con-
sideration in the presen. campaign
is ErowirC more obscure rather trsH
I clearer ny reason Of the many arbt.
trary turns the discussion OF ii has
| rpl NJ
the country would render n great
! service IL they would publish the
! fun text OF the Covenant OF the
League of Natiors, because. having
| read that text. Hov woLlG oe able
to judge for yourself e. u G-eat man,
| things in when you are now IN oar-
ger or being mislcd. I hope sincerely
that IL will be- very widely and gen
! orally published entire. 1t is with a
desire to reclarify the issue and to
assist your judgment that l take the
! liberty of stating again the case sub
mitted TO you, in as simple term. as
possible.
Three years ago il was my duty
to summon you to the concert OF war,
to join the free nations of the world
in meeting and ending the most sin
ister peril that had ever been de-
voloped in the irresponsible polit'ca
of the old world. Your response q
that call really settled the fortunsl
OF war. You will remember that tho
morale of the German people broke
down long before the strength OF the
German armies was broken. That
| was obviously because they felt that
great moral force which thcy could
not look in the face had come into
the contest and that thencefortb all
their professions of right wero dis
credited and they were unable to pre-
tend that their continuation of th.
war was not the support of = gov
ernment that had violated every prin-
ciple Of right and every considera-
| ton OF humanity.
ut is my privilege TO summon YOU
now TO the concert of peace and the
completion of the great moral
achievement on your part which the
war represented and in the presence
OF which the world found a resssur-
ance and n recovery o: force which
II could have experienced in no other
way We entered the war. as YOU
remember. not merely to heat Ger
many but to end tho possibility OF
the renewal OF such Iniaoitous
schemes as Germany entertained. The
war will have been fought In ~ n
and our Immense sscriness thu s~s
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