The Connecticut labor news. (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925, 1921-07-01

President Wilson's League of Ma
tons.
The League of Nations, drafted by
President Wilson and his co-workers,
is the first attempt to establish d lea
que of the democracies for the pur-
pose Of perpetuating peace. 1t was
this idea that inspired our millions OF
young men to cross the mine infested
seas, brave the perilS of German as
sassin submarines and end forever the
awful calamity of a world at war.
and begged the allies for an armStiCe,
President Wilson and the American
delegates that accompanied him
| pledged TO our youthful crusaders a
league of nations and a peoples
peace. An attempt was made in Paris
at the outset by Robert Lansing, Sen
ator Lodges friend at the conference,
to prevent the formation Of this lea
que, through the plea that the first
thing to do was to settle the terms of
peace with Germany. Those who OPP
posed the League of Nations, such for
example as the ammunition manutaC-
turers and others interested in special
privilege Of one kind or another, made
the same plea then and they make the
same plea today (Knox). The am
munition manufacturers we'll under
stood as did President Wilson, if they
could put off the formation Of league
of nations until the end Of the peace
conference it could be defeated and
the old theory Of the balance of
power" which provided for piling up
ornaments for future wars for big
business" the murderous policy could
be continued and another world war
guaranteed. To President Wilson
more than to any living person is
due the credit for defeating this
scheme and saving humanity from
this Moloch of the human race. He
wrote a peoples peace the first time
in the history of the world and rested
| it on the safe and sure peace the
| first time in the history of the world
and rested it on the same and sure
foundation of a league of the demo-
cracies of the world; on the princi-
piles laid down in the Sermon on the
| Mount; on the fourteen paints laid
down by himself as condition of the
| armistice. TOO bad" you say his
ideas and ideals did not prevail My
answer is 48 nations now recognize
| this magna-charta as their internation-
al guide, the nucleus of a parliament
of mankind
Some day Bolsheviki Russia and
Germany the only great powers out
side except this country will join the
| league; some day the laborer in the
vineyard, in every field of human
activity will understand the purpose
and meaning. of this League of Ma
tions; some day we will join with the
world through the >league in reducing
ornaments which we are now piling
| up preparing for future war. We are
now expanding 90 from every dollar
we raise from taxation in preparation
| for future war, or in payment Of past
war; this is the real cause for the
| high cost of living. We are now
taking the place of the Prussian mill
tarism which we said we went to war
to destroy. We are playing an
ignoble and unworthy part in the pac-
ifcation Of the world. Some day am
sure we will again take up the leader
ship of the world won for us so bril-
liantly, and held for US so gloriously
by our great President Wilson until
he fell like the great Caesar and like
Rome we fell with him and dashed to
earth the peace of this and other
lands. Some day we will vote as free
men should vote without fear, jeal-
ousy, envy or hatred in our heart; we
will vote for peace and for God, then
will understand.