Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 302, 3 October 1919 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ATTD SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1919.

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RATIFICATION OR WORLD WRECK, IS CHOICE-HOOVER

Food Administrator Savs

Treaty, While Imperfect, is All Which Will Save World. PALO ALTO, Oct. 3 "If the League or Nations is to break down, we must at once prepare to , fight," Herbert Hoover, formerly Economic director for the Supreme War Council, told the students of Stanford university in an address delivered here Thursday night. "The Peace Treaties," he said, "cannot be carried out without the league. If the League falls the treaties also fall. If the balance of power Is to supplant the League of Nations, we will have torn asunder the only hope that Europe will not break into further wars of races, classes and combinations that will take civilization back to the middle ages. "I am confident that if we attempt to revise the treaty we shall tread a road through European chaos. If we manage to keep our soldiers out of it we will not escape fearful economic losses. "The allies may, themselves, revise this treaty without us and then assemble a council of nations of their own in an endeavor to solve the problems of Europe. It would be a council of Europe and in the midst of these terrible times, considering the debts they owe us, the material they must have from us or starve, I would rather that we be represented therein lest it

i become a league of Europe against the Western hemisphere. A peace without us means more army and navy for us, the old treadmill of taxes and dangers for us." j Europe is Desperate. j Mr. Hoover said that few people seem to realize the desperation to which Europe has been reduced. "During the coming winter some of them will look with longing eyes to this rich, fat nation, with its surplus of every human necessity," he said. "We cannot fiddle while Rome burns. If we believe we can see our neighbors return to another 30 years war through the break down of this treaty, Rnd we still maintain our progress, it Is the egotism of insanity. Our expansion overseas has entangled us for good or ill, and I stand for an honest attempt to join with Europe's better spirits to prevent these entanglements from involving us in war. We are not dealing with perfection, we are dealing with the lesser of evils. "For us to refuse to enter into a joint attempt with the well-thinking sections of a large part of the world to establish a continuing moral conscience against war is the utmost folly in our own interests." Pointing out the likelihood that some European nations will again be plunged into war with their neighbors. Mr. Hoover referred to a probability of the invasion of Poland if the treaty failed He said: "There are many elements in Europe who wish to see the treaty break down and the Leasue of Nations disappear. During the last five months our Allies have been growing weaker from a military point of view due to the necessity of demobilizing

their armies, while at the same time ihf reactionary group in Germany baa been growing in strength through the hope of yet securing a division of the Allies. At the time I left Europe a month ago German militarism had already reestablished itself as a welldiEciplined, well-officered army of at least 400,000 men largely congregated

on the Polish frontier and even defying the government at Berlin. Under the alarm of this danger the Poles in the midst of the greatest economic misery that a nation ever knew, have been trying to create an army of 500,000 men for their protection from the Germans on one side and the Bolshev

ist on the other. If the treaty is ratified the German army will be reduced to 200,000 men and dispersed over Germany and their extra armament destroyed. The failure of the treaty means the Invasion of the Polish state. Powder Magazine. "This is only one of the powder magazines in Europe which cannot be destroyed until this treaty is ratified, and during every day of delay more explosives are poured into them." Mr. Hoover, in beginning, said he had been urged by Mr. Taft to give

his views on the Peace Treaty and that during the ten months in which he acted as economic director of the Supreme War Council he had an opportunity independently to observe the growth of ideas in the Peace Conference and the re-percussions of these ideas through Europe. He said he was not impatient of honest debate; that he believed the debate on the League of Nations now going on in the United States "is building the very foundation of the League." He did not believe in the criticism of the senate for not accepting out-of-hand the Peace Treaty evolved by 500 conflicting minds in Paris. "The treaty finally agreed upon at

Paris is by no means perfect," declar

ed Mr. Hoover, adding that he saw no method by which It could have been made perfect under the circumstances.

He pointed out that scores of inter

national wrongs wfticn breed war existed in the world before the conference was held. Of these, he said, the

Peace Conference corrected some but

he predicted it vfrould take perhaps 100

years to correct them all. Wronga Not Righted.

"It Is often overlooked that this was not a conference to settle the wrongs committed by Allies or neutrals but by the enemy only," said Mr. Hoover.

"It was Germany's wrongs that were on the operating table. It would have

been beautiful to have all the inter

national wrongs on the table but this

is not a pertect world. If this had

been attempted the conference would

have broken up into quarrels among

the Allies and Germany would have

been handed again the domination of

Europe. The old guard in Germany

hoped and expected this would result;

upto date they have been disappointed. "No one could be more disappointed than the American delegation that some great wrongs that were the re

sult of the secret treaties that had

been written in times of great desper

ation among the original Allies, were i

not eradicated.

Referring to the probable effect up- j id

. w

on an aggressor of enlightenment ana the use of the boycott, Mr. Hoover

said: "The hope which I, as an Inde

pendent observer, have placed in the

league is that it will forever relieve the United States of the necessity to again send a single soldier outside of

our boundaries.

"We hear the cry that the League i

obligates that our sons be sent to fight ,

in foreign lands. Yet the very intent

and structure of the League is to pre

vent war. There is no obligation for

the United States to engage in military operations or to allow any inter

ference with our internal affairs with

out the full consent of our representatives in the league.

"If there is no danger that we should

be charged with an obligation to any.

to war, either direct or implied, without the full consent and approval of

congress, I believe the president will

be the first to agree to any interpretation that this cannot be. To me every line of it is the complete nega

tion of militarism.

Reld Memorial

Saturday.

Hospital Tag Day,

Referring to the cost of the war, Secretary of War Baker told the fi

nance committee or tne senate ana

house that the total outgo in round numbers would be $30,000,000,000; but $9,000,000,000 of this was loans to our allies.

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