' v ,0 'v lt4 n I- E9 & lL IK 1 L,. Tiu'- EVENING PUBLIC) EEDUEEr-PHHaDECPHIX, FRIDA.Tr IXPRIE 11, 1910 have always been In tlio world nnd fhey - VIU always be in the World. They ate lnrvltabln unless the notions put a stop to it. Thnt Is my first proposition. My second proposition Is thnt our position lu the world is .such thnt we rnunot nvold helus drawn Into nny war ,thnt starts. Now for awhile after this 'tyar between Ocrmauy and the Entente gallons began we thought we could keep out of it because we thought we were R000 miles away. We hnve nothing to do with It. AVo all know what desperate efforts the President of the United States' mode to keep us out of It, and lie was1 sustained by a tremendous pub jlc opinion in this country! ',- "We cannot live ns a hermit nation, If there' is another war we will inevit ably bo drawn into It. We occupy a big space in the world. We occupy the largest space In the world, and if .there in another war we will inevitably be Involved in it. That means that If we are In the 'program of wars wo have to prepare for them. We may not have n' war for, twenty-five years, but we 'have to prepare. That proposition means, this: it means taxes. Not the ,tnxes that we paid to the United KtntpR'. Taxes mnnv times larger than that. This peace which is to be Mgned In Paris very shortly will not h'c tho Inst, for peaces -navo been signed in the past. Predicts Great Tax Burden "The greatest nation, the richest na tion and public sentiment in the United States have a war program never here tofore tolerated nny preparedness of the United States. Remember that. I nientioncd this because it was far from the horrors of actual war. The burdens ' of the war preparations will be nwful nnd the national taxes' of tho United Stntcs will be four and perhaps five times beyond even what they have been in the past, and that will be in in direct taxes. A lnrge part of the Unit ed States have discovered that taxes can ,be raised by levyiug on the profits of the corporations, and if we nre to pre- mre for ivar it means that every man and cycry woman, professional manor business cleric or his employer, having an income of S1000 or more, must make up his amount and must pay the war taxes for .the rest of his or her if. X ""- , "Mv first nroDosltion is thnt now is ftnt. nnlv tho best hut nrobablv irf the most admirable time in the history of the world when it is. possible to make a contract between .the nations of the world tn nrevont wnr. nnd I will tell you why. Heretofore, throughout the history of tho world it has been the course of the government to prevent an agreement ngatnst war. Itvhas been the course by nations who have been behind the government whether to make wnr. As lnnir ns thnt condition existed there was no tiso to consider a great covenant like this and to agree against the war. When, however, war broke .out virtually all these nations have honn winoil nut nt existence except three. Tou remember when our great republic was formed much more than a hundred oto mm tho first irreat experiment in self-government was made and 'we are the oldest republic in the world that has existed longer than any otner re- i,.l,H,. Whnt -arn illrl hna had A tre- mendo'us influence on the rest of the world. "Great Britain is as much a repre sentative government, almost as much of a democratic government as the United States, and France Is another great republic; Italy Is a limited mon archy; ahd even Japan, our other asso ciate in this, great enterprise, even though governed by a mlkallo. is in reality governed by, the people, and every time mo people cuango meir minds the mlkndo has to change ins cabinet. I have heard it snid that we were going into this league of nations in which we would De nssociaieu wuu Kuropenn mnnarchs and Asiatic des pots. That is nonsense. Theso iMiro- pean monarcus nave coinparuuvei utle power. "The President of the United States lias, by the gift of the people, a hun dred times more power thnn any king in Europe. And so the time nns come now jn the history of the world when It Is possible to do what was not pos sible before this war broke out. Says Europe Will Despair "Sty next proposition Is thnt failure at this time when all the world has its eves focused upon .the Star of Hope failure -at this time win spreau a cloud of dark despair over Europe and will leave everything In such confusion nnd mUerr there that it is not without Not tho the possibilities that we might have in uurope u return or me aarn ugi-a. i c nre not affected? Oh, yes we arc. c are interested in Europe. Europe is our great customer. Yes, we are interested In nnnthiir ivnr. Tf that Calamity comes to Europe you nre going to see what was referred to by the chief Justice A ftm mnmina na.lv vmi flrC COmC tO 'see a spread of Bolshevism and anarchy' ! 41.. TT-t..l Dh.( as waII "' ertaln radical nnd far-reaching nmend ncnts which V shall personally specify re adopted I shall be opposed to Its atlflcatlon by tho United States when he tiinc comes for final action. "First, 1 am going to explain my rasons lor advocating a league of na lons. and in so ilnln? I nin mint? to distinguish between what I shall de- cribe ns tho emotional values of the league Idea nnd the rational value of he specific Provisions of the covenant. There nre two distinct questions not suf ficiently sepnrntcd In public nnd debate. What do I mean by the emotional value f the league idea 7 Why, J mean the ood effect that is produced in world psychology when nations come to re gard themselves ns integral parts of tho inglo great organization. It Is a good thing I bellevo to give organic cxpres- ion to tho great conception of the brotherhood of man. My training, has icen to conceive of all men everywhere as hnvlng been mode of one blood. The motional conception is one fnmiliar to me. In tho second place, other circum stances equally necessary nnd Inevitable likewise impair the value of the league idea and that is that among those that are to bo admitted to fellowship of the league there must necessarily be so cial nnd rnclnl discrimination. In thn TTnlteri Hfnfea IM well. "My next proposition is that the fnrmntfnn rtf n lAntrun nt nations hSS the sanction of Congress, the approval of the American people nnd ,uas ncen agreed upon by the nations that fought the war as well as the co-operation of the neutral uatlons. "My next proposition is that this league of nations must be confirmed by tho other nations. Wc cannot make it to suit ourselves. No other one of the fourteen nations can make' it to suit itself. It must necessarily represent a compromise between all the nations that agreed to it. Tills League or Nolhlng ".Now let me say, furthermore, Indies nnd gentlemen, it Is this league or nothing. I may have my idens nbout the league. I know that Mr. Tnft has had his idens nbout the league, and Mr'. Boot has had his ideas, and I know Mr. Wilson has had his. You know Roosevelt had his. . "All theso great men have labored with a treat Ideal. But there is only one thing, nnd that is this-'leaguo. nndl it is a question wnetner we win rainy or defeat it. "It has been said that a great mat ter of, this sort should not bo decided until we heard from the American peo ple. I think we have heard from the American people. Tho great question has been before the American people now and they have given their answer." RADICAL CHANGES URGED BY PEPPER "There is one other circumstance that wc ought not to forget to mention and It is that tho political document is n governmental covenant and the great evils from which tho world Is suffering today are not to be cured by political action or government reforms. "The thing that the world stands In need of is social justice: that is the thing wlhch the league of nntiohs can concern itself with. "This lcaguo is advocated from the platform as being an expression of re ciprocal friendship, but I fear that the brotherhood Idea occupies but a minor position nnd that the rent basis of the desire of the nntions to enter Into It Is not so much reciprocal friendship ns mutual' distrust. "This second minor point Is this, that while I nm wholly lu favor of this program of tho reduction of nrmnments. nnd 'heartily in favor of the control of munition manufacturers, I shall be con slstcntlv of tho opinion that it will tic I the bounden duty of a dcniocrocy like ours to seo to It that our imnuuuou i built up by a.systera of military truiu- , f , "Reduce the armaments nnd control tho munition manufacture and you have an effective check. on militarism. Give to the youth of your country the benefits or universal ana compulsory luiminj training nnd you build up American manhood and you sec to it thnt in these piping times of peace that are ahead ot us we do not develop for our young men collapsible spines. I nm for tho reduction of armaments and for the control of munitions. In the second plncc, I nm for the establishment ot iiie high court of justice of all nations. My friends, note' tho distinction between the court which proceeds to administer justice nccordlng to fixed principle nnd tho political body such as the council of niue under tho provisions of the con stitution of the lengue. "I am going to make three construc tive suggestions for tho amendment of the article which refers to that court, and I nm going to call upon Senator Hitchcock in his reply to answer spe cifically the three suggestions thnt, I shnll mnke. Tho first point is this: thnt the nrtlcle in tho constitution nt the present time which deals with the subject of arbitration is the one which carries us back many decades in tho history ot tho development ot Interna tional agreements. "I nm advocating a court of justice with a carefully defined jurisdiction. I have been murdered, whether he has been murdered nnd by whom. "And four, whero there Is an ad nitted wrong nnd It Is a question of arbitration to the aggrieved nation, the want that jurisdiction to bo defined In damages thatiliould be assessed this fashion : that any dispute nrislng i "Those nre the judlcinblo questions between nations on nny one of the four which In their nnture should be decided subjects that I nin going to name must by n court, and this constitution is be referred to that court for final de- erlously defective in thnt it does not cislon. require that those judlcinblo questions "Tho first Is the interpretation of n should be submitted to the high court: treaty. Thnt Is n question of Inw. ' and it is more seriously defective in that "The second is the application of I it makes possible thnt those questions nny rule of international law; that is !" Inw, that those questions of the or n question of Inw. iderly ascertainment of facts should bo "The third the ascertainment of nny 'submitted, not to the court, but to the act necessary to be known before it ran Political body, composed of the retire bo decided, whether the position of n I Mntotives ot the different nntions, which nlvcn nation is richt or wronir. ns for ! not a court at all. example, it an nrchduko is alleged to ' "Now, tho third peace point Is like wise Important, mid that Is the cooling down per!pn I think It Is very Im portant that' when n matter has been ruled In tho high court, nnd the high court hns rendered its decision, that no wnrs should ensue until at least the three months' period hns elapsed. "The fourth pence point, which I be lieve to be good, is the publicity fea ture nnd the covenant thnt everybody will piny fair. "All justiciable questions should go to the courts by compulsion nnd tho de cision of the court should be final. 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And insist that your Dealer gives you All Sizes for Immediate Delivery Standard for Nearly 100 Years The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company 1 1 Four Years of War Have Put Europe in Rags Old Clothing Is Urgenttly Needed The condition of the neoule in the ravneed countries of Eiirono is pitiful. Tho garments that you no longer need will prove a God send to these unfortunates. Help them! The Red Cross will ship and diatribute, under its own auipicet, fifty shiploada of used clothipeajfo the people who need it in the countiHpoverseas. Every kind of garment men's, women 'stSnd children's is. needed, as well as sheeting, ticking, blankets and woolen goods and shoes of every size. Now that you are clianKlnR apparel n-lth the seasons, sort out and rend everything you can possibly spare, for the Red Cross to ship abroad. Make this year's house cleaning a real pleasure. Remember, the things that are simply "chest-flllers" here will be life-savers there. , Collection Ends April 15 The need is urgent. Help quickly and you will help twice. The Red Cross counts on you. Send All Parcels to Used Clothes Department Southeastern Penna. Chapter American Red Cross 255 North Broad Street, Philadelphia; 4 ..BiBSJBS .... ' I ?v i 1 I I ! U sH I I I ' I Sh I fc I ... '; :. I ft 1 I I i' I I I 4 I H ' " I H & .1 k I ' ' r I I BUY torn . I 'Kjf ' ''''"'' v-v.: m- t i " i i ii - - i - - - sjjjirslsBssMsM HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF Following all wars are years of great prosperity. The bonds of victorious nations have always advanced sharply after peace. The capitalists of Holland bought United States bonds after the Civil War, and made large profits. Farsighted Americans are now buying Liberty Bonds. 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