abandoned child. We must share, with those with whom we
act in making it, the responsibility of securing and maintain-
ing its full and beneficent operation. If we make a treaty
to fill the outlines of President Wilson'smessage of January
8, as amended by the Allies, we shall have the job of its
execution lasting a number of years. It will not execute
itself.

We have put our hand to the plow and we cannot turn
back. The opposing Senators do not see the problems which
confront us.

The imagination of Senators has been strained to conceive
a situation in which the United States shall have had a judg-
ment against her, in the international court, of vital char-
acter which she resists, and the united military forces of the
world combine to destroy her. If the judgment against her
is just, she ought to obey it. If it is not, why assume that
it will be rendered at all or that, if rendered, all nations
would join in a world war to enforce it? Indeed, may not
our imagination, if we let it run riot, as easily conceive such
a union of military forces of the world against the United
States without a league and its machinery as with them?

Thus far the opponents of the League on the Senate floor
have been from both parties. If President Wilson returns
to his first view of the need for such a League of Nations to
Enforce Peace and succeeds in securing the concurrence of
our European allies in this view, we may assume that the
Democratic party will support him in his policy. The
League of Nations to maintain peace will likewise have the
passionate support of all the peoples of our Allies and of
neutral nations. It will have the earnest support of organ-

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