Woodrow Wilson as I Know HimTumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick)
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Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick)
Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
The only thing that that ugly, poisonous thing called Bolshevism feeds
on is the doubt of the man on the street of the essential integrity of
the people he is depending on to do his governing. That is what it
feeds on. No man in his senses would think that a lot of local Soviets
could really run a government, but some of them are in a temper to
have anything rather than the kind of thing they have been having; and
they say to themselves: "Well, this may be bad but it is at least
better and more immediately in touch with us than the other, and we
will try it and see whether we cannot work something out of it."
So that our immediate duty, not as Democrats, but as American
citizens, is to concert the most powerful campaign that was ever
concerted in this country in favour of supporting the League of
Nations and to put it up to everybody—the Republican organizations
and every other organization—to say where they stand, and to make a
record and explain this thing to the people.
In one sense it does not make any difference what the Constitution of
the League of Nations is. This present constitution in my judgment is
a very conservative and sound document. There are some things in it
which I would have phrased otherwise. I am modest enough to believe
that the American draft was better than this, but it is the result of
as honest work as I ever knew to be done. Here we sat around the table
where there were representatives of fourteen nations. The five great
powers, so-called, gave themselves two delegates apiece and they
allowed the other nine one delegate apiece. But it did not count by
members—it counted by purpose.
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