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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, P ORTLAND, MONDAY. JUNE 23. 1C20.
Gummings' Keynote
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AIM AND RESULTS
Democratic National Convention. San
Francisco. CaL, June 28. Homer Cuny
mlngs, temporary chairman of the na
tional Democratic convention, save the
following keynote speech at San Fran
cisco today: V. . . ,
"At this high hour when the destinies
not only of political parties but of
peoples are at stake ; when social unrest
is everywhere apparent; when existing
forms of government are being chal
lenged, and their very foundations dis
turbed or swept awaja It Is well for us,
here In America, to pause for a period
of solemn deliberation. . t ; "
Wewho assemble In this great con
vention, counsel together, not merely
as members of a party, but as children
or the Itepubllc. Love of country and
devotion to human service shoull puree
our hearts of all unworthy or mislead
ing motives. Let us fervently pray for
a Divine blessing upon all that we do
or undertake- Let us pledge ourselves
anew to equality of ' opportunity ; the
unity of our country above the interests
of groups or classes ; and the main
tenance of the high honor of America
in her dealings with other nations.
The people will shortly determine
which political Instrumentality Is best
suited to their purposes, moat responsive
to their needs. They will have before
them many platforms and many prom
ises. In what direction will they turn?
There Is no better way of Judging the
future than by the past. We ask, there
fore, that the people turn from the
passions and the prejudices of the day
to the consideration of a record as clear
urn it is enduring. , r
REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP :;0
-The Republican party was unsuc
cessful In the elections of 1912 because
It had persistently served special in
terests ' and had loet touch with the
spirit of the' time. Those who controlled
its destiny derived their political In
spiration . from ' "the good old days of
Mark Hanna" and neither desired a new
day nor were willing to recognise"; a
new day when It had dawned. To each
pressing problem they, sought merely to
reapply the processes of antiquity. -
"There were elements In the , Repub
lican party which were Intolerant of
Its mental sloth and moral Irresponsi
bility. These Influences sought to gain
party control in 1912 and again, in 1916.
They renewed the hopeless struggle at
the convention recently held at Chicago.
. '"Despite these efforts, the leaders who
have manipulated the party mechanism
for more than a generation are still
in undisputed control. -
"The Republican platform, reactionary
and provincial. Is. the very apotheosis of
political expediency. Filled with pre
meditated slanders and vague promises.
It will be searched in vain for one con
structive suggestion for the reformation
of the conditions which it criticises and
deplores. The oppressed peoples of the
earth will look to It In vain. It con
tains no message of hope for Ireland ;
no word of mercy for Armenia, and it
conceals a sword for Mexico. It is the
work of men concerned more with ma
terial things than with human rights.
It contains no thought, no . purpose,
which can give impulse or thrill to those
who love liberty and hope to make the
world a safer and happier place for the
average man.
DEMOCRATIC ACHIEVEMENTS
"The Democratic party, is an unen
tangled party a free party owing no
allegiance to any class or group or
special interest. We were able to take
up and carry through to success the
great progressive program outlined In
our platform of 1912. During the months
which , intervened between March ,
1913. and the outbreak of the World war;
we placed upon the statute books of
our country more effective, constructive
and remedial legislation than the Re
publican party bad placed there in a
generation.
"The income tax was made a perma
nent part of the revenue producing agen
cies tot the country, thereby relieving
our law xl the reproach of being un
justly burdensome to the poor. The
extravagances and Inequities of the tar
iff system were removed and a non
partisan tariff commission was estab
lished so that future revisions might be
made In the light of accurate Informa
. tlon, scientifically and Impartially ob
tained. Pan-Americanism ..was encour
aged, and the bread thus cast upon the
international waters came back to us
many fold. The great reaches of Alaska
were opened up to commerce and devel
opment. Dollar diplomacy was des
troyed. A corrupt lobby was driven from
the national capltol. An effective sea-
trade commission was created. Child
labor legislation was enacted. The par
cel post and the rural free delivery were
developed. A good roads bill and a rural
credits act were passed. . A secretary
-of labor was given a seat in the cab
inet of the president Eight hour laws
were aaoptea. Tne Clayton amendment
to the Sherman anti-trust act was passed,
freeing American labor and taking. it
from the catagory of commodities. The
Smith-Lever bill for the Improvement of
agricultural, conditions was enacted. A
corrupt practice act was adopted. A
well considered warehouse act was
passed. Federal employment bureaus
were created. Farm loan banks, postal
savings banks and the federal reserve
system were established.
FARMER IS BENEFITED
"These, enactments, and many other
provisions of a remedial character, had
a cleansing and quickening effect upon
the economic life of our country. The
farmer , was freed from the deadening
Labor was given Its magna charta of lib
erty. Business ana finance were released
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hazard. The economic life of America
waa refreshed by the vitalizing breath of
economic freedom. a f "
"This extraordinary narration sounds
like a platform of promises. The sober
fact is that it is an inadequate recital
of actual performance. It constitutes
Democracy's response to the demands of
social Justice. . It is our answer to the
antiquated slande that the Democratic
party is unable to understand the great
affairs of the country.
: "If the Democratic party had accom
plished nothing more than the passage
ot the fedsral reserve act. - it would be
entitled to the enduring gratitude of the
nation. This act supplied the country
with an elastic currency controlled by
the American people. Panics the re
curring phenomena of disaster which the
Republican1 party could neither control
nor explain are now but a memory.
Under the Republican system, there was
an average of one bank failure every 21
days for a period of nearly 40 years.
After the passage of the federal reserve
system, there were. In 1915, four bank
failures; in 19K and 1917. three bans
failures; in 1918, one bank failure; an'd
in 1919, no bank failures at all. The
federal reserve system, passed over the
opposition of the leaders of the Repub
lican party, enabled America to with
stand the strain of war without shock
or panic; and ? ultimately made our
country the greatest creditor nation jat
the world. i .;
WAR IS REVIEWED
"And , then the great war came on.
Ultimately, by the logical steps of neces
sity, our peace-loving nation was drawn
into - the conflict. The necessary war
legislation was quickly supplied.
"A war finance corporation was cre
ated. War risk insurance was provided.
Shipbuilding laws re-established Amer
ica's supremacy upon the seas. - The
office of , alien property custodian was
created. A war Industries board was
established. A j war f trade board was
created. Food and fuel regulations were
formulated. Vast loans were ' success
fully .-floated. Vocational training was
provided. A nationat council of defense
was created. Industry was successfully
mobilised. ;. t j ' w.- - .
"Almost over j night, the factories of
the nation were made a part of the war
machine, and the miraculous revival of
the shipping industry filled the ocean
lanes with our transports. tJ,
"Our 'fleet laid the North sea mine
barrage. We sent fighting -craft: to
every sea and brought new courage and
Inventive genius to the crucial fight
against the U-boat. - i
."In transporting our troops to France,
we never lost a man in a ship convoyed
by the American navy, r - . '
"One of the first decisions was be
tween the "volunteer system" and the
selective draft, i Many patriotic citizens
strongly deprecated conscription and
dreaded its possibilities. The adminis
tration, however, placed Its influencerbe
hind the measure, secured Its passage,
and made possible the winning of the
war. ' ... . 4 . u . . .
"It proved a democratic system assur
ing equal service, equal danger and
equal opportunity. At one stroke of the
pen, bounty jumping, the hired substi
tutes that had disgraced the manage
ment of the Civil war were made im
possible. The selection of men to go to
the front was placed not merely In the
hands of the civil authorities, but ac
tually in the hands of the friends and
neighbors of the men eligible for serv
ice. No fundamental law was ever ad
ministered with such scrupulous honor.
Not one breath of scandal touched this
legislation ; and so cheerfully was it ac-1
eepted that , today, the term "raft
dodger" is an epithet e?f reproach in any j
community. -
PARTISANSHIP PTJT ASIDE , j
"Partisanship was put' aside in the se- i
lection of General Pershing as leader of
our forces and ; no military commander
in history was ever given a freer-hand
or more unflagging support The policy i
of selecting ; officers through training
camps avoided the use of political, favo
rites and- guaranteed competent leader
ship for the youth of the land.! Ten
million men were registered within three
months from the declaration of war
and 32 camp cities, complete In every
municipal detail, were built in 9j days.
Tin France we had to construct our
own docks, railroad lines, storage depots,
hospitals and ordnance bases. We had
to cut down the : forests for our bar
racks. In June, two months after the
declaration of twar, our fighting men
were in France ;. in October, Americans
were on the firing line ; in scarcely more
than a year, we had 2,000.000 men in
France, had whipped the enemy at
Belleau Wood,: beaten them back a
Chateau-Thierry wiped out the St.
Mlhiel salient , and delivered the terrific
hammer blow at Sedan that virtually
ended the war.: .
"PS88,thn t' -roars "ago. General
Haig, with the bluntness of a soldier,
said : "The British army is "fighting
with Its back to the wall ;" Lloyd George
was crying: "It is a race between
Wilson and ffinrinnhuw" . it-
clung like a drowning man to the Rock
raun, turning agonised eyea toward
America. And America ' came. We
challenge the critics of the -administration
to point out how. within the limits
of human possibility, the war could have
been won more promptly or with less
loss of American life.. .'
. "It ; was not by mere,: chance that
these things were accomplished." To
readjust the processes of 1 peace -so as
to serve the activities of war required
leadership of unexampled skill. Petty
criticism of minor defects and individual
officials may for a time attract a super
ficial attention, but . the significant
things, the great outstanding facts,
plead, eloquently for the Democratic
cause., . ... ,
GREAT LEADER LAUDED
"Let no one misunderstand us. These
great airairs were carried forward un
der he stimulus of American patriotism,
supported by the courage and the spirit
of our people. All this is freely and
gladly acknowledged. : but surely the
time has come when, because of the
calculated . criticism and th tmi
tated calumnies, of the opposition, we
"iu cau attention to the fact
that all of these things were accom
Dlished under th iMdarahin
Democrat and a great Democratic ad-
uiiiiisiniiion. -we nave no apologies to
make not one. We are proud of our
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did army ; we are .proud of the power
' country ana tne manner in which
that power has been used ; we are proud
of the work that America has done in
the world ; we are proud of the heroism
or American men and women; and we
are proud of ; the inspired and tncom
parable leadership of Wood row WilsorK
Has not the time . come when all
Americans, irrespective of party, should
begin to praise the achievements ef our
country rather than to criticise them?
Surely a Just and righteous sense of
national pride should protect us from
the insensate assaults of mere partisans.
Wf, J? ' war- w reat
La ? ha leadership that
carried America to greater theighta of
k IT lo w w glory than she
has ever known before in her entire
history. If the American flag must be
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Republican convention and not in a
Democratic convention. ,
r?iT.JS "VESTIGATIOXS MADE
It is this shining record of tremen-
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dous achievement that Republican man
agers and the Chicago platform seek
to shame and besmirch. Various con
gressional committees, which , for want
of a more appropriate term,-are called
smelling committees. were, appointed
for the purpose of ascertaining whether
or not there was any graft in the con
duct of the .great -war. Over 80 investi
gations have been made, over $2,000,000
have been wasted and the one result
has been to prove that it waa the clean
est' war ever fought in 1 the history: of
civilization.:.'-.-. ? . ;-!.. j:.'
"Through the hands of a Democratic
administration, there have passed -more
than $40,000,000,000, and the finger of
scorn does not point to one single Demo
cratic official In all America. It is a
record never before made by ' any
political party in any country that ever
conducted a war. 1:
"If Republican leaders are not able
to rejoice with us In this American tri
umph, they should have the grace to
remain silent, for it does not lie in the
mouths of those who conducted the
Spanish-American : war i to indulge : in
the . luxury of criticism. What was
there in this war to compare with the
typhoid-Infested camps and the paper
soled shoe controversy, of ,1898? What
was there in this war : to compare to
the embalmed beef scandal of the
Spanish-American war? , Despite 1 all
their. Investigations, not - one singfe
Democratic official has either been in
dicted or accused, or even suspected ;
and the only dignitary in America of
any outstanding political . significance
who is moving in the direction of the
penitentiary is Truman .Newberry of
Michigan. - ' '. . ,
Q. O. P. IKTE8TIOATES SELF
"The Wnower flf tl PsnnMtA
party to conduct n
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. o control tne organisation of the
senate and to wreck -the prospect of
world peace rests upon a bare major
ity of one secured through the tainted
senatorial vote from Michigan. v
- The Republican party became! so
fixed -"In Its lnrvtrrvhla hot. .r
ducting investigations that it finally
lumwi 10 tne rruitrm task of investi
rating itself. For the first time mince
thev entered nnon thi nnm n
discovered . fraud . and - graft and gross
inexcusaoie expenditures. The
revelations disclose the f actv long un
derstood by the initiated, that the meet
ing at Chicago was not a convention,
but an auction. The' highest bidder,
however, did not' get the prize. The
publicity which overtook the proceed
ings frustrated the initial purpose.' In
more senses than one the recent Chi
cago convention has left the Democratic
party as the sole custodian of the honor
of the countrw
"There are men so small in spirit; so
piuiuuy cramped in soul, t that they
suggest that the war cost J too much.
The Republican nlatform knM ..
compUint. It was, indeed, an expensive
war. war la tne most wasteful- thing
In the world. But is money to be meas
ured against the blood of American sol
diers? Would it not be better to spend
a billion dollars : for shells that were
never exploded Hhan to have one Ameri
can boy on the firing line minus an
essential "cartridge? Ws it no tvt.
to prepare for a long, war and make it
aan uiaa to prepare tor a . short war
and make it InnirT Whn mrltloian. -
made f the expense of the war, let
us not iorget that we bought with it
the freedom and the safety of the civi
lisation of the world. - --v ;
PREPAREBJTESfi IS ! COK8I9ESEO
"Again, .they - say that we were not
preparea ior war. in & strict military
sense.: a democraqy U never prepared
for war ; 1ut America made ready In
a way that was far more effective than
by maintaining at enormous cost great
armaments- which neither party ever
advocated and which our people would
never approve. ,
"Wars are not fought by armies
alone. -They are fought by nations. It
is a measuring of the economic strength
of nations. The front-line trench is no
stronger than the forces which lis be
hind the trench. : The line of communi
cation reaches back to every village,
farm, counting-house, factory and home.
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America prepared by making the eco
nomic life of the , country sound.
"What would have been our situation
If. priorto the outbreak ' of the Jtvar,
we had not prepared so that our farm
ers were able to feed the armies of
the wdrld? What would have been our
situation If labor had not been willing
to follow the leadership of the presi
dent? What would have been the situ
ation, If we had not established a cur
rency system which made it possible
for us . to finance the war? What
would have been the situation if the
Republican party had been In control
and had maintained its old attitude to
ward, legislation? : There would , have
been v an inevitable breaking down of
the economic structure of our country.
We would : have been caught ; in i the
throes of a panic more devastating
than any we had ever known. Indus
trial life would have been disorganised
and the tasks of war. difficult as they
werei . might then have become alto
gether impossible.
REPUBLICAN RECORD SINCE 1918
"The Republicans have now been In
eontrol of the senate and the house for
more than a year. They won the elec
tion of 1918 upon the faith of alluring
promises. They said that they - would
earnestly support the president, at least
until the tasks of war were finished. It
Xas their contention that they would
enter upon tne wora 01 reconstruction
with superior intelligence and even with
greater patriotism than would be pos
sible under Democratic leadership. They
gave publicity, when they entered upon
the recent session, to detailed and am
bitious . statements as to their program.
If we are to be judged,' as I hope we
may be," by the record, let them also be
judged by the record. What have the
Republicans ' accomplished since their
political success in 1918? What beneficial
results have flowed to the American peo
ple? : What promises have been re
deemed? ' What progress has been made
in the settlement of foreign or domestic
questions ?a t
"Twice the president went, before" con
gress since the termination of hostili
ties, calling attention to needed legisla
tion. He urged the passage of laws re
lating to profiteering ; measures to sim
plify and reduce taxation ; appropriate
action relative to the-returning soldiers :
the passage? of" a resolution concerning
the . constructive plans : worked out in
detail "by former Secretary Lane and the
measures advocated by the secretary of
agriculture, r He suggested" that the con
gress take counsel together and provide
legislation - witn- .reference to; industrial
unrest and the mutual relations of cap
ital and labor. After more than a year
of sterile debate., our country has neither
peace nor .reconstruction. Barren of
achievement, shameless in waste of time
and money, the record of the present
congress is without - parallel for its in
competencies, failure and repudiations.
Are the American people so unjust or so
lacking in discrimination that they wfll
reject the service of a party which has
kept its. word and place trust in a party
which merely renews the broken prom-
ims 01 a previous campaign?
ATTACKS UPOar PRESIDENT s
"Republican leaders-have been moved
by a strange and -inexplicable Jealousy
of the president. , Their feverish ani
mosity, expressed in gross abuse and
through secret intrigue, , 'has been pror
ductive of one of the. most unhappy
chapters In American history, recalling
the similar experiences of Lincoln and
Washington. Political malice followed
the president to the peace table. A sen
atorial "round robin" was widely cir
culated. Every device which partisan
ship could - develop was employed for
the purpose of weakening the influence
of our commission at Paris, and mak
ing the task there etijl more difficult.
At a time .when every instinct of fair
ness pleaded for a whole-hearted sup
port of the president, political antagon
ism and personal envy- controlled the
anti-administration forces. .
"The president made every sacrifice
for the cause of peace, : The long con
tinued strain while composing dlfJHv
ences abroad ; the expenditure of nerv
ous vitality and Intellectual force in
building a now . order of human rela
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tionships upon the ruins of the old, laid
heavy . toll - upon his reserve powers.
Then came the return in triumph, only
to find here a widespread propaganda
of opposition, making it imperative that
he take up in. his own country a strug
gle for. the preservation of that which:
had been won at such incalculable cost, j
Following the superhuman labors of j
seven years of unexampled service, this 1
meant the wreck of his health, sickness
for months, upon ; a bed ' of pain, . and
worse than the physical sickness, " the
sickness ot heart which comes from the
knowledge s that t political adversaries.
lost to the larger sense of things are
savagely destroying 1 not merely - the
work of men's hand, but the world's
hope of settled peace. This was the af
fliction this the cruclfixion 1 ..
SLANDERS ARE REPEATED
"As be lay - stricken in the White
Bouse, : the relentless hand . of malice
beat upon the door of the sick, chamber.
The enemies of the president upon the
floor of the senate repeated every slan
der that envy could invent, and they
could scarcely control . the open mani
festation . of their glee when the great
man was. stricken at last. The -congress
was in session for months while
the president lay . In the White House,
struggling with a terrifying illness and,
at times, close to the point of death. He
had been physically wounded just as
surely as were Garfield and McKinley
and Lincoln, for. it la but a difference
ef degree between fanatics and parti
sans! The congress, during all this
period, when the whole heart of Amer
ica ought to have been flowing out, in
love and sympathy, did not find time,
amid their bickerings, to pass one reso
lution of generous Import or extend one
kindly inquiry as to the fate of the
president of their own country.
"And what was ls offense? - Merely
this that he strove to redeem the word
that America bad given to the world ;
that he sought to save a future gener
ation from the - agony through which
this generation had passed ; that he had
taken seriously the promises . that all
nations had made .that they would unite
St the end of the war in a compact to
preserve the peace of the world; and
that he relied upon the good faith " of
his own people. If there -was any mis
take, it was that he made a too gener
ous estimate of mankind, that he be
lieved that the idealism which had made
the war a great spiritual victory, could
be relied upon to secure, the legitimate
fruit of the -warmths reign of univer
sal peace.
i "In one sense, it is quite Immaterial
what" people . say .about the president.
Nothing we can say can add or detract
from the fame that will flow down the
unending channels of history.'
c ''Generations yet unborn will look back
to this era and pay their tribute ot honor
to the man who led a people through
troublous ways out of the valleys of
selfishness up to the mountain tops ot
achievement and . honor, and there
showed them the promised land of free
dom and safety and fraternity, whether
history records that they entered in or
turned their backs upon the vision, it
is all one with him he is immortal.
REQUIREMENTS OF H"0N0R
- "There are men who seem to be an
noyed when we suggest that American
honor' is bound up in this contest, and
that good faith requires that we should
enter the League of Nations. The whole
Republican case is based upon the theory
that we may. with honor, do as we please
about this matter and that we have made
no promises which it la our duty to re
deem. Let us turn again to the record.
' "The Republican party, in Its platform
fn had declared for. a world court,
for the -pacifie settlement of Interna
tional disputes. -The Progressive party
in 1912 and 191C had likewise declared
for an arrangement between nations to
make peace permanent. The Demo
cratic party In 1918 had specifically de
clared in favor Of the establishment of
a League of Nationa . The senate, itself,
on August 28, 1918. by unanimous vote,
passed a measure requesting the presi
dent to take the ead in such a world
movement.
"On December 18. 1918. the president
addreaaed an "ts 1(1 jh nations
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at war,, requesting them -to state the
terms upon which they would deem it
possible to make peace. In this note be
proposed the creation of a League of Na
tions, saying: -,4v -.. r - ,.:-, ::
"'In the measures to be taken to. se
cure the future peace of the world, the
people - and government of the United
States are as vitally and directly inter
ested as the governments now at war.
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eager to cooperate ln"the accomplishment
of these endsrhen the war Is over with
every influence and'' resource at their
command.'
"This was four months before America
entered the war.
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"To this identic . note, the central
powers answered evasively, but the al
lies, in their reply dated at Paris, Janu
ary 10. 1917, declared: "
" Their whole-hearted agreement with
the proposal to create a League of Na
tions which shall assure peace and Jus
tice throughout the worloV : ;
"On January 22, 1917, the president
addressed the senate with reference to
these replies, and said:
" "In every discussion of the peace that
must end this war, it Is taken for grant
ed that the peace must be followed by
some definite concert of. power which
shall make it virtually Impossible that
any such catastrophe : shall overwhelm
us again.'
"Speaking of the league of peace Which
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was to follow the war, he said : I
" If the peace presently to be made is
to endure, it must be a peace made se
cure by the organised major force of
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"Acting upon these proposals, both the
French and the British governments ap
pointed committees to study the problem
while the war was still in progress.
"On April 3. 1917, tfce president de
livered his famous war message to con
gress, and thrilled the heart ef the coun
try anew by his announced purpose to
make the contest 'a war against war.
High above all- of our ether aims, he
placed a universal dominion ot right
by such a concert ef free peoples as
shall bring peace and safety to all na
tions and make the world Itself at last
free,'
WAR IS RECOGNIZES
"Following this message, the congress,
by resolution, passed April , 1917, rec
ognised the state of war, -"On
January 8, 1918, the president went
before congress and set forth his fa
mous 14 points. : The fourteenth point,
which is practically identical In lan
guage with the provisions of Article X
of the-covenant, provided that :
" 'A v general association of " nations
must be formed under specif le covenants
for the - purpose of affording mutual
guarantees of political Independence and
territorial integrity to great and small
states alike.' - '
, "Senator Lodge himself, before the
exigencies of politics forced him to take
the other side, said that an attempt to
make a separate peace would "brand us
with everlasting dishonor and that the
Intent of the congress and the intent of
the president, was . that there could be
no peace until we could create a situa
tion where no such war as this could re
cur.' Former President Roosevelt, on
July 18, 1918, said:
" "Unless we stand by all our allies
who have stood by us, we shall have
failed in making the liberty of well
behaved civilised peoples secure and we
shall , have shown , that our antiounce
jnent about making the world safe for
democracy was an empty boast.'
"On November 4. 1918, the armistice
was agreed to and it was concluded upon
the basis of the 14 points set forth in
the address of President Wilson deliv
ered to congress on January t, 1918, and
the principles subsequently enunciated
by him. At no point, at no time, during
no period while this history was in the
making, was one responsible American
voice raised in protest. . ;
"Thus, before we entered the war, we
made the pledge ; during the war we
restated the pledge - and when the
armistice was signed, all of the nations,
ourselves included, renewed the pledge;
and it was upon the faith of these prom
ises that Germanay laid down her arms.
Practically all of the civilized nations
of the earth have now united in a cove
nant which constitutes . tile redemption
of that pledge. We alone have thus far.
failed to keep our word." Others may
break faith; the senate of the United
States may break, faith ; the Republican
party may break faith; but neither
President Wilson nor the Democratic
party will break faith. -
FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE STATED
"In this hemisphere, '"the mere declara
tion of our young republic that the at
tempt of any foreign power to set foot
on American soil would be considered
an unfriendly act. ha served to preserve
the territorial integrity and the political
independence' of the nation of Central
and South America. The treaty pledges
all of the signatories to make this doc
trine effective everywhere. It is . the
Monroe doctrine of the world.
"The purpose of the league is to give
notice that if any nation raises Its
menacing hand and seeks to cross the
line into any other country, the forces of
civilisation will be aroused to suppress
the common enemy of peace,- Therein
lies the security of small nations and
the safety of the world., t
"Every war between nations that has
ever been fought began In an attempt
to seise foreign territory or to invade
political Independence. If, in 1914, Ger
many had known that in the event of
hostilities; , Oreat Britain - would have
entered the war; that France would go
in ; that Italy would go in ; that Japan
would go in ; and that the United States
would go in there would have been no
war. . '" . . - -
"The opponents of the treaty cry out
"Shall we send our boys abroad to set
tle a political quarrel In. the Balkans r
Immediately the unthinking applaud
and the orator records a momentary, tri
umph. Have we forgotten that that Is
precisely - what America' has already
done?. Have we forgotten that-we sent
more than 2,000,000 men to France, spent
more than 120,000,000,000 dollars and sac-
Saving Is Not jSpecu laiive
THERE'S no element of risk
; A in saving. The only point
of uncertainty is whether you'
area good saver or a bad one.
And that pnase of it is your
own responsibility, of course.
But whether your Savings Ac
' count here at the United
' States National Bank be large
or small, the rate of interest
a.hd degree "of good serviie
are the same. . . - ...
, Resources Over 35 Millions
UnitedStaiDs
Naffcmal Banlq "
DEMOCRATIC El
IS ONE OF SIGNAL'
rlf iced nearly a hundred thousand live
t settle a Balkan dispute?
WAR FLAME STARTS
- "There was a controversy between
Serbia and Austria Territorial questions,
political rightaand boundary lines were
involved. The crown prince of the house
of Austria was assassinated. A litcle
flame of war licked up into the powder
house of Europe, and in a moment the
continent was-in flames. It took all the
power of Civilisation to put cut the con
flagration. How idle to inquire whether.
We wish to send our boys to settle polit
ical disputes In the Balkans!
"It is extraordinary that mn should
waste our time and vex our patience by
suggesting the fear that we may b
forced into future far while forget
ting entirely that America was forced
into this greatest of all v. an. No league
of nations existed whn we entered the
war and it was only when we formed in
haste, in the midst of battle, a league of
friendship, under unified command, that
we were able to win this war. This
association of nationa, held together by
a uemmon purpose, fought the war to a
victorious conclusion, cict-ited the fernis
of the armistice anl formulated the
terras of peace. If vioh a result could
be achieved by an Informal and tcmro
rary agreement, why should not -be ui
orLitiOn b contlnu."l 1. mora rintt
and binding form? What plauntble rta
siii can be suggested f"r wavtinx the one
great asset which has come out of the
war? How else sha'l .we provide frr
Icte.-natlonal arbitration? How else shall
we provide for a perm.uient court of in
ternational justice? How else trail we
protfde for open diplomacy? How else
sha'l we prri(je safety from external, r
greeiion? 1 ejse shall we provide for
prcRiesslve V disarm-m-.nt? How ee
shall we check the spread of Bolshev
ism? How else shall industry be made
safe and the basis of reconstruction estab
lished? How else hll society be stel
ied so that the processes of healii.g may
serve their beneficent purpose? Until the
critics of the league offer a better
method of preserving the peace of the
world, they are not entitled to one mo
ment's consideration In the form of the
conscience of mankind.
JUSTICE IS GUARANTEED
"Not only does the covennnt miarantee
justice for the future but it holds the one
remedy for the evils of the past. As it
stands today, war is the one way in
which America can express Its sympa
thy for the oppressed of the world. The
Lrague of Nation r Amoves the conven
tional shackles of diplomacy. Under t.ie
covenant. It Is our friendly right to pro
test against tyranny and to act as coun
sel for the weak nations now without an
ef fi-ctive champion.
"Tr e Republican platform contains a
vague promise to establish "another or a
different form of association amongst
nations, of a tenuous and shadowy ch tr
ee ter. Our proposed co-partners in such
a project are unnamed and unnamabl.
It. is not stated whether it is proposed
to invite the nations that have estab
lished the present league to dinsolv It
and to begin anew, or whether the pur
pose is to establish a new association of
nations that repudiate the existing
league. The devitalising character ot
such an expedient requires ho comrr.ot t
Fatuous futility could be carried ro
farther. ' There Is no mental dishonesty
more transparent than that which ex
presses fealty to a league of nations
while opposing the only League of Na
tions that exists or Is ever apt to it.
Whv rlflM our eves to actual wnrM'rnn.
dltlons? A League of Nations already
exists. It is not a project; it is a fa?:.
We must either enter it or remain out
Of It.
"What nations .have actually signed
and ratified the treaty?
"Brazil, Bolivia, Great Britain. Can
ada, Australia, South Africa, Nw Zea
land, India, Csecho-Slovakla, Guatemala,
Liberia Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Hi am.
Greece, Poland, Japan, Italy, France and
Belgium.
"What neutral states. Invited to join
I the league, have actually done so?
1 m.j , vviifftwia, me ineuicntnaa,
(Concluded on Pasa Flra, Co hi ran Two)
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