| Show I Vilson and Taft Speak in in H Hi 1 i Behalf of League of Nations ns 1 j Cy SEW YORK March Following t OJ o the speeches in full delivered lyv Wilson and and former r nt Taft raft President Wilson Vilson said My Iy Fellow I Citizens accept the m tion of the all air just played I will w not come bac back TIli Its It's Over Over There y yet 1 pray God In the tho Interests of lace and of the world that that may be on The first thing thine that I am going to tell the people Ort oa the other side of the eater ter Is that an overwhelming majority American people Is In favor of the league of nations I know that that thatIs thatis Is true I have tave had unmistakable of It from ali parts of the country coun- coun try and the voice rings true In every d I count myself fortunate to speak li here re under the unusual circumstances circumstance of this evening I am happy to associate l self with Mr Taft In this great cause lIe has displayed an elevation of view end d a to pUblic duty which are arc b beyond yond praise RAnd And I am the more happy because this means that this Is not a party Issue No party has the right to appropriate this Issue and no party will In the long Ions r n dare oppose It We have listened to so clear and anel admirable ad- ad mirable an exposition of many of the rain features of the proposed covenant of the league of nations that It Is perhaps perl per per- l haps aps not necessary for me to disCUss ii to any particular way the contents of oft t ile document CONSIDERED Y DY STATESMEN I I will seek seel rather to give you Its set set- I do not when I have hae been rt impressed mt i than by y the hO hOb hOo conferences o fl e g gf df the l commission SI set u up b by the con con- f of peace to draw up a covenant the league of nations The 6 of fourteen nations sat around teat not board young oung men not men inexperienced in the tho affairs of their own not men Inexperienced ip the of the world and the Hae Inspiring i influence of every meeting was the concurrence con con- currence of purpose on the part of all tose men to come to an agreement with regard to this league of the civilized world J There was a conviction In the whole Impulse there was conviction of more than one sort there was tI tiro conviction that this thing ought to be done and andt t there ere was also the conviction that not noti i man there would venture to go home say that he had not tried to do It WHAT HAT FAILURE MEANS Sir Taft Tact has set the picture for you ou oT df what a failure of this great purpose mean We Vo have been hearing for these weary months that this agony of war has lasted because of the sinister sini sin sin- i ister ter purposes of cf the central empires W we have made maps of the course courset t that at they meant their conquests conquest to take did the lines of that map lIe lIe- that at central line of that central line that we to call from Bremen to Bagdad tt They lay through fth these very ey regions I It tD which Mr Taft h has called your attention at- at t but they lay then through united The Austro Hungarian an empire those Integrity Germany was bound to respect as her ally lay In the path of oft t trat tat line of conquest The Turkish empire em- em pire whose interests she professed p to tou u ak her own lay In the dIrect path that she Intended to to tread lAnd And now what has happened The Hungarian Austro-Hungarian empire has gone to pieces and the Turkish empire ared and the nations that effected teat great result for It was a result of M liberation are now responsible as the tho trustees of the assets of those great na- na ons L LEAGUE EAGUE TO WATCH 7 You not only would have hae weak nat na- na t ons lying In this path but you Would tae nations In which that od poison poison- pol on- on t ous seed of Intrigue could be planted with the certainty that the crop would be abundant und and one of the things that the league of nations Is Intended to watch Is the course ot of Intrigue Intrigue c cannot can can- n- n not stand publicity and If the league ot of nations were nothing but a great debating debating de- de bating society It would kill Intrigue It Is one of the agreements of this covenant that It Is the right of every n nation which Is a member of the league to call attention to anything that I It thinks will disturb the tho peace of the world no matter where that thing Is occurring oc- oc Thera Ther Is no subject that may touch OC-I OC the peace of the world which Is exempt from Inquiry and discussion and I think everybody here present will agree with I me that Germany would never have havo gone to war It she had permitted the world to discuss the aggression upon Serbia for fora a single week NOTICE OF WARNING Tate British foreign office suggested It delay pleaded so that that there ht the might bg e be a day of or w two the i nations of Europe could get together and discuss the possibilities of a settlement Germany did not dare permit a days day's dis- dis You know what happened So Sosoon Sosoon soon as the world realized that an outlaw outlaw out out- law was at large the nations began one by one to o draw together against her We Ve know for a certainty that If Gerhad Germany Ger- Ger many had thought for a moment that Great Britain would go In with France and with she never would have undertaken the enterprise and the league of nations Is meant as a notice to all I I outlaw nations that not only Great Britain Britain Brit Brit- ain but the United States and the rest of oC the world will go In to stop enterprises enter enter- I of that sort And so the tho league of I na nations Ii Is nothing more nor less than enter I the I covenant that the tho world will always maintain the standards which It has now vindicated by some of the tho most precious blood ever spilt a I he peoples of the Austro- Austro Hungarian empire and of the Turkish empire call out to us fr for this thing It ItI I has not arisen In the council of statesmen states states- I men Europe Is a bit sick at heart at this ver very moment 1 because cause It Is saen en that statesmen have had no vision and that the the only vision has been the vision of I the tho people Those who suffer see Those against whom wrong is wrought know I how desirable 15 the right and the i righteous 1 NATIONS CALL FOR JUSTICE The nations that have long been under the heel of the Austrian that have cowered cowered before the German that have long buffered the Indescribable agonies of being governed by the Turk have called out to the world generation after I generation for justice for liberation for forI I succor and nd no cabinet In the world has hasI heard them I Private l organizations pitying hearts philanthropic men and women have poured out their treasure In order to relieve relieve re- re lieve these sufferings but no nation has said to the nations responsible You I must stop this thing Is Intolerable and andI we will not permit It And the vision has been with the people I My friends I wish you would reflect upon this proposition The vision Islon as to what Is necessary for great reforms has seldom como come from the top in the nations I of the world It has come from the need i and the aspiration and the self assertion ot of great bodies of men who meant to be I II I free flee And I can explain some of the I II I criticisms which have been leveled I against this great enterprise only by the supposition m that li the men r who utter e il the criticisms have never r felt t the great r pulse of the heart of the world COMPREHENSIVE IGNORANCE And I 1 am not amazed alarmed but that amazed there should be In some quarters such t a comprehensive Ignorance of the state of the world These gentlemen gentlemen gentle gentle- men do not know what the mind of men menIs menis Is just now Everybody else does I 1 do donot I Inot not know thEY have been heen closeted I II I I I 1 I I I I I II I do not know by what Influence they have been blinded But I do know that they have been separated from the general general gen gen- eral currents current of the thought of mankind And I want to utter this solemn warning warn warn- Ing not In the way of a threat the tho forces ot of the world do not give notice that they I Iare are going to rise and run they rise in I their majesty and overwhelming might and those who stand In the way are over over- whelmed Now the heart of the world Is awake and the tho heart ot of the world must Ibe I Ibe be satisfied Do not let yourselves ourselves suppose for tor a I moment that the uneasiness In the populations lations of Europe is 19 due entirely to economic economic eco eco- causes or economic motives something something some some- thing very much deeper underlies It all than that DISCERNING THE CAUSE They See that their governments have never been able to defend them against Intrigue or aggression and that there Is no force or foresight or of prudence In any modern cabinet to sto war And therefore they sa say There must be some fundamental cause for this And the fundamental cause the they are b beginning to perceive to be that nations have stood i singly cg y or in little Zealous groups Y against each other prejudice 1 increasing I ing the danger of war rather than concerting concerting con con- measures to prevent It and that It if there Is right In the world If there Is justice In the world there is no reason why nations should be divided In the support of oC justice They rhey are therefore saying If you really reany believe that there Is a right If you really believe that wars ought to be stopped stop thinking about the rival Interests of nations and think about men and women and children throughout the world Nations are not made to afford distinction dis- dis to their rulers by way of success In the maneuvers of politics nations are meant If they are meant for anything to make the men and women and children chil- chil dren In them secure and happy and prosperous pros pros- and no nation has the right to set setup setup up special Interests against the Interests anil an benefIts of oC mankind least of all this great naton which we love It was set up for the benefit of mankind mankind man man- kind It was set up to illustrate the highest highest high high- est Ideals and to achieve the highest aspirations aspirations as- as of men who wanted to be free and the world the world of todaY todaY-be- that and counts on us and would be thrown back in the blackness of despair despair de- de If we deserted It TRAGEDY OF THE HOPES I have tried once and again m my fellow fellow fel- fel low citizens to say to little circles ot of friends or to larger bodies what seems to be the real hope of or of Europe and tell you frankly I have not been able to do so b because cause when the thought tries to crowd itself Into speech the profound o e emotion of the tI thing h is too i ithe much c speech h will not t carry I have felt the tragedy of the hope of those sufferIng suffering suffer suffer- Ing peoples It Is tragedy because It is a hope which cannot be realized In Its perfection tion and yet I have felt besides Its tragedy Its Hs compulsion Its compulsion 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 19 disappointed because If men cannot now after this agony of bloody sweat come to their self possession and see now how to regulate regulate regu- regu late the affairs of the world wo we will sink jack back Into a period of strUggle In which there will wUl be no hope and therefore no mercy There can be no mercy where there Is no hope for why should you spare another If you lf expect to perish Why should you be pitiful If you can get no pity Why should you be just If upon every h nd you are put upon TEMPER OF BOYS IN KHAKI There Is another thing which I think the critics of this covenant have not observed observed ob- ob served the temper of those splendid boys in khaki that they sent across the seas I have had the proud consciousness of the tho reflected glory of those thole boys hoys because because be- be cause the constitution made made- me their commander In chief md and they have taught me some lessons When we went Into the war We went Into It on the basis i of declarations tt which It Ii was y privilege le to utter because I b belied them to be an Interpretation of the purpose purpose pur- pur pose and thought of the people of the United States And those boys went over there with the feeling that they were sacredly bound to the realization of those Ideals that they were not only going over oer there to beat Germany they were not going over there merely with resentment In their hearts against a particular outlaw nation nation na- na tion but that they were crossing those three thousand miles ot of sea In order to show Europe that the United States when It became necessary would go anywhere where the rights of mankind were threatened They would not sit still In the trenches They would not be restrained by the prudence of experienced continental continental conti- conti commanders They thought they had come over there to do a particular thing and they were going to do it It and do It at once And just as soon as that rush of spirit as well as rush of bOd body came in contact with the lines of the enemy they began to break and they continued to break until the end REASON FOR THEIR IMPULSE They continued to break my fellow I citizens not merely because of the physical force of those lusty youngsters but because of the Irresistible spiritual force of the armies of the United States It was that they felt It was that that awed them It was that that made them feel If these youngsters ever got a foothold foothold foot foot- hold they could n never ver be and ther therefore fore every foot of ground that the they won was permanently won for the lIberty liberty lIb lIb- erty of mankind I And do you suppose suppo e that having felt I that crusading spirit of these youngsters I Iwho who went over there to serve their fellow men I am going to permit myself I for one moment to slacken In my effort to be worthy of them and their cause What I said at the opening t r said with R a deeper meaning than perhaps you OU have caught I 1 do mean not to come back until Its It's over over there and Jt it must not be over until the nations of the world are assured of the permanency of peace NOT THAT WAY NOW Gentlemen On this side of the water ater would be very much profited by getting Into communication with some gentlemen on the other side of the water We Ve sometimes think my fellow citizens that the experienced statesmen of oC the Euro Euro- Jean ean nations are an unusually hardheaded hardheaded hard hard- I headed set of me by which we generally I moan although we do not admit It that they are abit a bit cynical that they say sayI this Is a very practical world by which I you always mean that It Is not an Ideal world that they do not b believe thaI that tha I things can be settled upon an Ideal basis I Well I never came Into Intimate contact with them before but If they used to I be that way they are not that wa way now ThEY have been subdued If that was I once their temper by the awful significance cance of rEcent events and the awful fw- fw I of what Is to ensue and there IS not one of them with whom I have come In contact who does docs not feel that I he cannot In conscience return to his I people from Parts Paris unless he has done his I utmost to do something more than atI attack at- at I tack tach his name to a treaty of peace Every Everyman man In that conference knows that the I treaty of peace pea In Itself wilt be e I tIe tive as Mr Taft TaCt has said wIthout this constant support and energy ot of a great I I organization such as Is supplied by the I league of nations j AN INVALUABLE INSTRUMENT I And men who when I first went over oer I II I there were skeptical of the possibility i of forming a league of nations admitted I that If we could could but form it H |
