A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Many men cannot agree with the principle of the League of Nations. The reasons are obvious. In the first place it is an experiment, previously broached, perhaps, but actually untried. It would further seem to surrender a part of the cherished sovereignty of nations. Many powerful arguments are launched against it. Yet the men who are most violent in its criticism are helpless when they are asked to provide a substitute.

The world does not yet appear competent to decide the question. Perhaps if we had begun our active discussion a few months earlier, we should now be able more intelligently to accept or refute the principles involved. But the question is still before us, and our duty is plain. We must support every enterprise that undertakes sensible consideration of the idea.

President Taft, in his message to the University, speaks in this manner: "Indifference and even opposition will be met, but among you college men this must not be." In other words the colleges should lead in the discussion of this vital matter as they have led in such discussions through all history. If thoughtful men of the world are unable to reach any conclusion in regard to it and the whole proposition is lost in the diplomatic shuffle we shall be forced to admit that as our nation was unprepared for was so is it unprepared for peace.