Taft has called your attention, but they lay then through a united empire.
Where did the lines of that map lie, of that central line that we used to call from Bremen to Bagdad? They lay through these very regions to which Mr. We have been hearing for all these weary months that this agony of war has lasted of the sinister purpose of the central empires and we have made maps of the course that they meant their conquests to take. Taft has set a picture for you of what failure of this great purpose would mean.
would venture to go home and say that he had not tried to do it. There was a conviction in the whole impulse there was conviction of more than one sort there was the conviction that this thing ought to be done and there was also the conviction that not a man there The representatives of 14 nations sat around that board-not young men, not men inexperienced in the affairs of their own countries, not men inexperienced in the politics of the world-and the inspiring influence of every meeting was the concurrence of purpose on the part of all those men to come to an agreement and an effective working agreement with regard to this league of the civilized world. I do not know when I have been more impressed than by the conferences of the commission set up by the conference of peace to draw up the covenant for a league of nations. I will seek rather to give you its setting. Taft's address preceding the President) of many of the main features of the proposed covenant of the league of nations that it is perhaps not necessary for me to discuss in any particular way the contents of the document. We have listened to so clear and admirable an exposition (Mr. No party has a right to appropriate this issue and no party will in the long run dare oppose it. He has displayed an elevation of view and devotion to public duty which is beyond praise.Īnd I am the more happy because this means that this is not a party issue. 
I account myself fortunate to speak here under the unusual circumstances of this evening. I have had unmistakable intimations of it from all parts of the country, and the voice rings true in every case. The first thing that I am going to tell the people on the other side of the water is that an overwhelming majority of the American people is in favor of the league of nations. I will not come back "'till it's over, over there." And yet I pray God in the interests of peace of the world that that may be soon.'
I accept the intimation of the air just played ("Over There").
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