South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-28
Says United States
Mast Enter League OF
Nations to Keep Peace

order tO aggrauCizc herself and al
most every war o. history has ORR
giratod iu sucn designs 10 IS sig
riiicant that the nations Of the
world have az last combined TO de-
Cine the general cause OF war and
% exercise such concert as may be
necessary 90 prevent such methods.
Article y therefore is the specific
redemption ~ the pledge which the
free governments or the world gave
90 their people when they entered
the war They promised their peo-
pie not only that Germany would
hc prevented from carrying out her
plot but that the world would be
safepua rdcd in the future from sim
liar designs.
Make Good or Quit.
we have now TO choose whether
$50 viii make good or quit We have
Joined issue and the issue is be-
tween the spirit and purpose of the
United States and the spirit and pur-
pose OF Imperialism. no matter where
IS shows Itself The spirit OF i'm
perialism is absolutely opposed 10
free government. the safe life Of free
nations, % the development OF
peaceful industry. and 10 the COM
pletion OF the righteous processes
or civilization.
'lt seems 20 me. and ! think II
viii seem 90 you, that DO is our duty
to show The indomitable will and ir-
Ie.-.tiple majority OF the nigh pur-
pos. ~ the United States. so that
tha part Eve played In the war as
soldiers and sailors may be crown
cd with the achievement OF lasting
peace.
$50 one who opposes the ratifi-
cation of the treaty OF Versailles
and the adoption OF the covenant
of the League o. Nations has pro-
posed any other adequate means of
bringing about settled peace. There
is 100 other available or possible
means. and this means is ready 20
hand. They have. on the contrary.
tried 20 persuade YOU that the very
pIsd-c contained ion article Y. which
Isl the essential pledge of the whole
piHn OF security Is itself threat
of war. IJ is ON the contrary an as
sgrauce of the concert of all the
free peoples of the world in the
future. as i'm the recent past. 10 see
justice done and humanity protect
ed and indicated. This is the true.
the real Americanism. This is the
l'If fL I'NAfi sil.f anu VI illlLfi-
ship Of the right which the leaders
of the republic intended that il
should play The so-Called Ameri-
cauism which We hear SO much pratt
ing about now is spurious and in
vented for party purposes only.
Two Ways open.
This choice is the supreme choice
of the present campaign. Ii is re-
srettable that this choice should be
associated with "a party contest. AS
course OF action that now unCerIies
ever other. the fate of parties is
matter of indifference. Parties
are significant now IN this contest
only because the voters must make
mp their minds which OF the two
parties is most likely TO secure the
Indispensable result. The nation
was nc' er called upon TO make a
more solemn determination than II
must now make. The whole future
moral force OF right in the world
depends upon the United States ra-
Their than upon any other nation,
and Do would bee pitIful indeed II. af-
ter 50 many great free peoples had
entered the great league. We should
hold aloof. I suggest that the can
dldacy of every candidate for what
ever office be treated by this Ques-
zion shall we or shall we not re-
deem the great moral obligations Of
The United Statcs?