nerve the arm of our own boys and encouraged the masses
in the enemy country to revolt against their leaders. Shall
we now disappoint their hope? Prove traitor to our pro-
fessions? Tell the maimed and the mothers of the dead,
at home and abroad, that we did not mean what we said?
Suffer conditions to grow up which will make similar -lb /> nay, far graver -- sacrifices necessary in the future? "I
say that the men who advocate our staying out of the
League by reason of a policy against entangling alliances
laid down by Washington for a small nation struggling for
existence, whereas today we are one of the most powerful
nations in the world -- I say deliberately that these men
are little Americans and belittle the United States and its
people." Now is the time to set up the international organ-
ization which for generations thinking men have sought;
now, while the dreadful character of war has so impressed
itself on nations that they are willing to make the concessions
called for.

Should we not, then, say to the nations of Europe: "We
realize that the sea no longer separates us but is become a
bond of union. We know that if war comes to you, our
neighbor, it is apt to come to us, and we are ready to stand
with you in order to suppress this scourge of nations. For
love of our brother we will do our share as men and women
conscious of the responsibility to help along mankind, a
responsibility which God has given this nation in giving it
great power."

Led, by experience in furthering new measures, to expect
violent attack on the proposed League from the side of the
Federal Constitution, Mr. Taft took early occasion to deal.
with that important question. His full and satisfactory

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