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3pp3yfp5 "."lrTT a" "' The Commoner F0L.l9jNa, 10 ,-. ' '' , President's Speech to the Senate (Continued from page 8.) opportunity to throw safeguards about the rights of racial, national and rellglouB minorities by solemn international, covenant; an oppor tunity to limit and regulate military oHtabliBhments whore they word most .Hkoly to bo miLcliiovous; an oppor tunity to effect a' comploto and sys tematic internationalization of wator ways and railways which were neces sary to the free economic lifo of more than one nation, and to clear many ' of Ilia normal channels of commerce of unfair obstructions of law or of privilege; and the vory welcomo op portunity to secure for labor the con certed protection of definite interna ; tlonal pledges of principle and prac tice. Thoso wore not tasks which the conferonco looked about it to find , and wont out of its way to perform. They were inseparable from the set tlements of peaco. They wore thrust upon it by circumstances which could not bo overlooked. The war had created them. In all quarters of the. world old established relationships had beori1 disturbed or broken and affalrri wore at loose ends, needing to bo mended or united again, but could not be made what they wore' before. They had to bo set right by applying some uniform principle of Justice or enlightened expediency. And they could not bo adjusted by merely pre scribing in a treaty what should bo fdono. New states were to be set up 'which could not hope to live through their Urst period of weakness wlth ; out assured support by tho great na 1 tlons that had consented to their ' creation and won for them their in- ' ilependohco. 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Future international conventions with regard to tho control of waterways, with re gard to illicit traffic of many kinds, in arms or in deadly drugs, or with regard to the adjustments of many varying international administrative arrangements could not be assured if tho treaty were to pro viae no perma nent common international agency, if its execution in such matters were to be left to the slow and- uncertain pro cesses of co-operation by ordinary mothods of negotiation. If the peace conference itself was to be tho end of co-operative authority and com mon counsel among he governments to which the world was looking to enforce justice and give pledges of an enduring settlement, regions like tho Saar basin could not be put under a temporary administrative regime which did not involve a trans fer of political connections by popu lar vote to be taken" at a distant date; no free city like Danzig could bo created which was under elaborate international guarantees to accept exceptional obligations with regard to the use of its ports and excep tional relations with a state of which it was not to form a part; properly safeguarded plebiscites could not provide' for where populations "were at some futuro date to make choice, what sovereignty they would live under; no certain and uniform method of abitratlon could he se cured for the settlement of antici pated difficulties of final decision with regards of many matters dealt with in tho treaty itself; the long- continued supervision of the task of reparation which Germany was to undertake to complete within the next generation might entirely break down; the reconsideration and revi sion of administrative arrangements' and restrictions which the treaty prescribed but which it was recog nized might not prove of lasting ad vantage or entirely fair if too long enforced would be rather impractic able. 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AGREED LEAGUE MUST BE FORMED That there should be a League of Nations to steady tho counsels and maintain the peaceful understand ings of the world, to make, not treaties alone, hut the accepted prin ciples of international law as well, the actual rule of conduct among the governments of tho world, had beon one of the agreements accepted from the first as the basis of peace with uie central powers. The statesmen of all the belligerent countries were agreed that such a league must be created to Buatain the settlements that were to be-effected. But at first I think there was a feeling among some of them that while It must be attempted, the formation of such, a league was perhaps a counsel of per fection which practical men, long ex perienced in the world of affairs uiuai- agree to very cautiously and with many misgivings. It was only as the difficult work of arranging an all but universal adjustment of the world's affairs advanced from day to day, from one stage of conference to another that it became evident to them that what they were seeking would be little more than something written upon paper, to be interpreted and annlied bv' snnh mofimrio o v. changes of politics might make avail able if they did not provide a means ul cuiuiuuu counsel winch all were obliged to accept, a common author ity whose decisions would be .recog nized as decisions whinh nil f respect. ALL CONVERTED TO LEAGUE ' And so tho most practical, the most skeptical among them turned morS and morn t.n fho ion..n t . .. thority through which international action was to be secured, the author- j wimuut wnicn, as they .had come to see it, it would be difficult to give assured effect either to this treaty or to any other international under standing upon which they were to depend for the maintenance of peace. The fact- that the covenant of the league was the first substantive part of the treaty to be worked out and solution, helped to make the formu lation of the rest easier. The con ference was, after' all not to bo ephemeral. The concert of nations was to continue, under a definite covenant which had, been agreed unon and which all were convinced was workable. They could go forward with, confidence to make arrange ments Intended to be permanent, The most practical of the conferees were at last the most ready to refer to tiie League of Nations the superinten dence of all interests which did not admit of immediate determination ol all administrative problems wlucn were to require a continuing over- pqrfectitin had come to seem a vm counsel of Necessity. Tiie hew -vri i. nMtnn Rtfttesmanfl hope of success in many of tho mow difficult things he was aueminm&. : PEOi?LE KNOW THEY HAVE BEEN LIED TQ And it had validated itself in W thought of every member o i" .conference as something " ger,. much greater every way w mere instrument for carrying out w provisions of a particular treaty. n was unanimously recognized tt tho peoples of the world demtf of the . conference that it f create' Bneh a continuing co n art free nations as would ceis aggression and a poi la ton sue itliis that has ust ended foreyw tf . sia ,'kXr ,H,