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The Common
President Wilson's
New York Speech
(Continue from pago 9.)
world; and tho Inspiring influonco of
ovory mooting was tho concurronco
of purpose on tho part of all thoao
mon to corao to an agroomont and.
an offoctivo working agreement with
regard to this leaguo of tho civilized
world.
PLEDGED TO FORM LEAGUE
"Thoro was a conviction in tho
wholo impulse; thoro was conviction
of moro than ono sort; thero was
tho conviction that this thing ought
to bo dono, and there also tho con
viction that not a man thoro would
venture to go homo and say ho had
not tried to do it.
"Mr. Taft has sot tho picture for
you of what a failuro of this groat
purposo would moan. Wo have boon
hoaring for all thoso woary months
that this agony of war has lasted bo
causo of tho slnlstor purposes of tho
central omplros, and wo havo made
maps of tho courso that thoy meant
their conquests to take. Where did
tho linos of that map lie, of that
central lino that wo used to call
from Bromon to Bagdad?
"Thoy lay through thoso very re
gions to which Mr. Taft has called
your attention but they lay then
through united empire, the Austro
Hungarian empire, whoso integ
rity Gormany was bound to respect
ns sho really lay in tho path of that
lino of conquost; tho Turkish empire
which interests sho professed to
mako her own lay in tho direct path
tlVat sho intondod to tread.
PEACE OF WORLD AT STAKE
"It' is ono of tho agreomonts of
this covonant that it is tho friendly
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Moved their cases hopeless, yet thoy found ', . ?
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right of every nation a member of
tho league to call attention to any
thing that it thinks 'will disturb tho
poa6o of the world, no matter where
that thing is occurring.
"Thoro is no subject jhat may
touch tho poaco of tho world which
is exempt from inquiry and discus
sion, and I think everybody hero
present will agree with me that Ger
many would never have gone to war
if sho had permitted tho world to
discuss tho aggression upon Serbia
for a single week.
"The British foreign office sug
gested, it pleaded that thore might
bo a day or two delay so that tho
representatives of the nations of
Europe could get togethar and dis
cuss tho possibilities of a settlement.
Germany did not daro permit a day's
discussion. You know what hap
pened. So soon as tho world realized
that an outlaw was at large, tho
nations began one by one to draw
tocother againit her.
"We know for a certainty that if
Gormany had thought that Groat
Britain would go in with Franco and
with Russia she never would have
undertaken tho enterprise and tho
leaguo of nations is meant as a
notice to all outlaw nations that not
only Great Britain, but the United
States and the rest of the world will
go in to stop enterprises of that
sort. And so tho league of nations
is nothing moro or less than the
covonant that the world will always
maintain in tho standa'rds which it
has now vindicated by some of the
most precious blood ever spilt.
LIBFr.ATED PEOPLES WANT IT
"The liberated peonies of tho
Austro-Hungarian empire and of the
Turkish empire call out to us for
this thing. It has. not arisen in the
council of statesmen. Europe is a
bit sick at heart at this very moment,
because it is seen that statesmen
have had no vision, and that the
only vision has beeh the vision of
uio poopio. thoso who suuer seo.
Thoso against whom wrong is
wrought know how desirable is the
right and tho righteous.
"The nations that havo long been
under tho heel of tho Austrian; that
have long cowered before the Ger
man; that have long suffered the in
describable agonies of . being gov
erned by tho Turk, have called out
to the world, generation after cene-
ration, for Justice, for liberation, for
succor and no cabinet in the world
has heard -them.
"Private organizations, pitying
hearts, philanthropic men and women
have poured out their treasure in
order to relievo these sufferings, but
no nation has said to tho nations
responsible, 'You must stop: this
thing is intolerable, and we will not
permit it.' And the vision has been
with tho people.
"My friends, I wish you would re
flect upon this proposition. The vis
ion as to what is nocossary for great
reforms had seldom come from the
top in tho nations of tle world. It
has come from the need and the
aspiration and the self-assertion of
great bodies of men who meant to
bo freo. And-1 can' explain some of
the criticisms which havo been lev
eled against this great enterprise
only by the supposition that tho men
Who utter the criticism have never
iuit mo greai- puise or- tho heart of
AMAZED AT HOME IGNORANCE
"And 1 am amazed not. alarmed
but amazed that thero should be
in some quarters such a comprehen
sive ignorance of tho slate of the
world. These gentlemen do not know
what tho mind of men is, Just now.
Everybody else does. I do not know
where thoy have been closeted, I do
not know by what', influences1 they
havo been blinded, but I do know
that thoy have been separated from
tho general currents of the thought
of mankind. '
"And I want to utter this0 solemn
warning, not in the -way. of a threat;
the forces of tho world, do Sot
threaten, thoy operate. The great
tides of tho world do not give notice,
that they aro going to rise and run:'
they rise in their majesty and 'Over
whelming might, and those who
stand in the way are overwhelmed.
Now the heart. of tho world is awalco.
and tho heart of tho world must.be
satisfied.
"Do not let yourselves suppose for
a. moment that tho uneasiness in the
populations of Europe is due entire
ly to economic causes or economic,
motives; something very much
deeper underlies it all than that.
"I have tried once and again, my
fellow citizens, to say to little circles
of friends or to larger bodies, what
seems to be the real hope of the
peoples of Europe and tell you
frankly I have not been able to do
so because when the thought tries to
crowd itself into speech, the pro
found emotion of the thing is too
much; speech will not carry. I have
felt the tragedy of the hope of those
suffering peoples.
"It is tragedy because it is a hope
which canrfbt be realized in its per
fection, and yet. I have felt besides
its tragedy, its compulsion, its com
pulsion upon every living man to
exercise every influence that he has
to the utmost to see that as little as
possible of that hope Is disappointed
because if men cannot now, after
this agony of bloody sweat, come to
their self-possession and see how to
regulate the affairs of the world, we
will sink back into a period of strug.
gle in which there will be no hope,
and therefore no mercy.
NO MERCY WITHOUT HOPE
"There can be no mercy where
thore is no hope, for why should you
spare another if you yourself expect
to perish. Why-should you ,be pitiful
if you can get no pity? Why should
you bo just if, upon every hand, you
are put upon?
"There is another thing which I
think the critics of this covonant
have not observed. They not only
have not observed the temper of
uiuso spiencna ooys in khaki that
thev sent np.rrK tim oooo t i.-,a
had tllO nrnilfl nnnrlrmorinca nf 41,
reflected glory of those boys, because
cue cuiiHuuiuon made me their
uuiiuimuuer-m-cnier, and they have
taught me soma lr-irmrmci Who wrt
went into tho war we went into It
on tno oasis of declarations, which
it was my privilege to utter, because
I believed them to be an interpreta
tion of tho purposo and thought of
the people of the United States.
"And those boys went over there
with tho feeling that they were
sacredly bound to the realization of
those ideals; that they wero not only
going over there to beat Germany,
they wero not going over there
merely with resentment in their
hearts against a particular outlaw
nation; but that they' wore' crossing
those throe thousand miles of sea
in order to show to Europe that the
United StateB, when it became 'neces
sary, would go any where' where the
nmus oi mankind were threatened
VOMUoj
"Thev would nf ott n i -
trenches. They would not be reV
I V ., iatmce of experi
enced continental commanders. They.
thOUght thev had nr,mn i "1"
to do a particular thing and they
Worn frnlno- ,i j T ' , .. t
---- o.-",o ny aim toHao it at
onco. And just as. soon, as thaVrushJ
. walnut wim tue:i lines of
3
the enemy, they baTT
iLioy continued f i. rujaKu
end. wu urea, until
EFFECT OF UNITED STATP
ENTRY TEj
"They continued to bronv
low citizens, not merely1'
the physical force of th?"?
of tUe United StntT. ,,"' ""4i
they elt. It was that th f ""'
lodeed and thomiw ..." "e 4
frrmmrl fW .:.:. T uyery foot Of
effirTK:
f
fnAfnw yU f.UOT0Be UM bavin,
felt that crusading spirit k
youngsters, who went over there
to glorify aeainsf. W.f '..B?
fellowmen. I am ioW Z l,
mn tt 1'CIUUlmT.
self for one moment to slacken ia
1UUUil LO e woruiy of them and
their cause. What I said at th
opening I said with a deeper mean.
ing than perhaps you have caught
I do mean not to come back until
it's over, ovei thfiro. nH tt ,i
be over until the nations of thj
world are assured of the permanencj
UJ. JJUUUU.
"And men win, when I first vent
over there were skeptical of the pos
Sibility of forming a league of u
tiona admitted that if we could but
form itt- it would be an invaluable
instrumentality through which to
secure the operation of the various
parts of the treaty; and when that
treaty comes back gentlemen on this
side will find the covenant not only ,
in it, but so many threads of the
treaty tied to the covenant that yon
cannot dissect the covenant from the
treaty without destroying the whole
vital structure. Tho structure o!
peace will not bo vital without the
league of nations, and no man is go
ing to bring back a cadaver with ,
him.-
PUZZLED BY THE CRITICISM
"I must say that I have been pur-'
zled by some of tho criticisms not
by the criticisms themselves; I cm
understand them perfectly even whea
'there was no foundation for them,
but by the fact of the criticism. I
cannot imagine how these gentlemen
can live and not livo in the atmos- j
phere of the world. ;
"I cannot imagine how they can
live and not be in contact with the ,
events of the times, and I particularly-
cannot imagine how they can pe
Americans and sot up a doctrine j ;
careful selfishness, throughout to tt
last detail. I have heard no counsel
of generosity in their criticism, i ;
have heard no constructive sugges
tion. I have heard nothing except
will it not be dangerous to us w,
help the world?' It would be faw
to us not to help it.
"From being what I will venture ,
to call tho most famous and the mos
powerful nation in the world
would of a sudden have bfcome;
most contemptible. So, I aw
need to be told, as I havo been iW
that the people of the United m
would support this covenant, i
an American and I knew they m
"What a sweet revenge it JP
the world. They laughed at us u
they, thought we did not mean
profession of principles. Thoy w ' ,
so until April of 1917. It was K
creditable to them that wo wou
more than send a, few wf11.0.;' aDi
go through the forms of elpwg
when they saw multitude? iw
across tho. -:sea and saw w vbB
multitudes were eager to u to0j
they got to tho other side, tiw
amazed and said, 'The thing is
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