Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Gonntry. SHORT DITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. RABBI WISE AT FT. WAYNE Decries Opposition to World League Without Offer of Substitute. . Ft. Wayne, March 25. —It is cowardly for anyone to criticize t'he league of nations and the work of the peace conference when they have nothing to offer as a substitute, declared Rabbi Stephen A. Wise, in an address here tonight. In part Rabbi Wise said: "President Wilson is the foremos£ man in the world. 'He did not draw ujp the league of nations, but he is attempting to put it through for the future peace and happiness of the world. The people of Europe are in accord with him and they cannot understand why his own- people in America oppose him. Those who do so are actuated for the most part by politics and I am sorry to know that politics has crept into this great American and world question.’’

He predicted that the American people will compel the United States senate to ratify the league of nations. Rabbi Wise believed the formation of the league would make certain the establishment of a Jewish republic in Palestine. He said there should be a just criticism of the proposed league, but that such criticism should not be dictated in the spirit of political partisanship. "In the end,” said Rabbi Wise, “the American people will have scant patience with any group of min who seek to make it impossible for us to reap the fruits of the last great war. The league of nations means not a surrender of American Independence, but the extension of the sovereignity of American ideals over the Whole world.”