Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-09


our own wills: that the world shall
be saved from a repetition of this
crime.
To this end the democratic party offers
treaty of peace, which, to make it a
real treaty for a real peace MUST in
clude q league of nations because this
peace treaty, if our best and brayest
are not to have died in vain, must be
no thinly disguised armistice devised by
cynical statesmen to mask their preFara-
tons for a renewal of greed-inspired
conquests later on. Peace" must mean
peace that viii last.
A practical, workable, permanent, en-
fOrcible kind of a peace that will hold
as tightly as the business contracts OF
the individual
We must indeed be, above all things,
busfness-like and practical in this peace
making business of ouls.
The league of nations is prac-
teal solution of q practical situation.
1t is no more perfect than our origi-
nal constitution, which has been amend
ed eighteen times and Will soon, we
hope. be amended the nineteenth, was
perfect. 1t is not anti-natlonal, 1t is
anti-war.
METHOD AT LAST
Is AT HAND.
No super-nation, binding us to the
decisions of its tribunals, is suggested,
but the method and machinery by which
the opinion Of civilization may become
eueCt1Fe against those VINO seek WIZ 10
at last within the reach of humanity.
Through it we may with nearly every
other duly constituted government IN
the whole world throw our moral force
and our potential power into the scale
of peace.
That such an object should be con
trary to American policy is unthinkable;
hut if there be any citizen who has hon
est fears that it may be perverted from
its plain intent so as to conflict with
our established form of government, 1t
viii be simple to declare to him ami
TO the other nations that the constitu-
ton of the United States is in every
way supreme.
vagueness, no double dealing with
the people on this issue.
The league viii not die.
An idea does not die which meets the
call of the hearts Of our mothers.
War may be "declared"; peace can
not
1t must be established by mutual con-
sent, by meeting of the minds OF tie
parties in interest
From the practical point of view alone
Il peace by resolutions of congress is
unworkable.
From the point of view Of the mil
lions Of splendid, Americans who served
in that whirlwind Of war, and of those
other millions at home who saw, in our
part of the conflict, the splendid hope
of days of peace for future generations,
q peace by resolution of congress Is an
insult and 4 denial OF our national pur-
pose.
Today we are offered a seat at the
table of the family of nations tn the
end that smaller peoples may be
truly safe to work out their own des-
tiny to the end that the sword shall
not follow on the heels of the mar
chant, to the end that the burden of
increasing armies ami navies shall bo-
lifted from the shoulders Of world
already staggering under the weight
of taxation
We shall take that place.
l say so because 1 have faith-fsith that
this nation has no selfish destiny, faith
that our people are looking into the years
beyond for better things, and that they
are not afraid to do their part.
The fundamental outlook on the associ-
atoms betgeen this republic and the other
nations can never be very different In
character from the principles which one
applies to our own purely Internal arairs.
REACTIoNARY ABROAD,
ONE AT HOME.
A man who opposes concrete reforms
and improvements in International rels-
tons is Of necessity a reactionary. or at
least conservative in viewing his home
problems.
We can well rejoice in our great land,
in our great citizenship brought hitheT
out of many kindreds and tongues. but
TO fulfill our true destiny we must be
glad also for the opportunity for greater
service.
So much calls to us for action. and
the need is so pressing that the Stacker
OF peace is a greater menace than the
Stacker Of war. Progress will come not
through the takers, but through the
doors.
It is for this reason that I am espec-
tally happy in the pledges gwen in the
platform OF the democratic party.
That document is definite.
1t is n solemn pledge that, given the
authority. our party will accomplish
clear aims
Among the most pressing of these
national needs L place the bettering
of our citizenship, the extension OF
teaching to over 5000. 900 OF our
population above the age of 10 who
nre iIIiterate, the strengthening of-Our
immigration laws to exclude the phys
ieally and morally unfit the improve
ment of working conditions, espec-
tally in the congested oenters, the
extension of communications to make
rural life more attractive. the fur
Their protection of child life and Of
women In industry. All of these
If we raise the standard Of educa-
ton, Of physical fitness. Of moral sense,
the generations to come will have no
difficulty in coping with the problems
Oh material economies.
So, also. with regard to the further
development of aur natural resources
we offer a constructive and definite OBJ
jective. We begin to appreciate that
as a nation we have been wasteful Of
our opportunities. We need not merely
thrift by saving, but thrift by the proper
use of what we have at hand
Our efforts in the past have been scat
tered
1t is now time to undertake a well-con-
sidered, cO-ordinated plan of develop
ment, so that each year will see progress
along definite lines.
DAY OF PORK
BARREL PAST.
The days of "pork-barrel' Iegis-
1ation are over.
Every dollar of our expenditures for
port facilities, for inland waterways, for
food control, for the reclamation of
swamp and arid lands, for highways, for
public buildings, shall be expended only
by trained men in accordance with q
continuing plan.
The golden rule of the true public serv-
ant is to give to his work the same or
even higher interest and efficiency that
he would give to his private affairs.
There is no reason why the effective
ness Of the national government should
not at least approximate that of we'll
conducted private business