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Show TABERNACLE CROWDED WHEN B.H. ROBERTS REPLIES TO CLARK ON THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, Explaining b question as to Great .Britain havine six votes In the assen.-bly assen.-bly Of the League of Nations as compared com-pared with the one vote of the Unl ed 8tat( . Brigham H Roberts, in his id dress at the tabernacle last nipht. dc- . hired thai Great Britain has but one tote in the council, as has the L" n i i States, Japan, France and Italy The sl vote, of Great Britain were in 'he assembly whit h Is In the nature o1 a debating organisation, he stated Vocal and instrumental music was I I furnished h Miss Mildred Ware, Nephl .1 Brown ami Samuel Whlttaker The speaker was interrupted fre-quently fre-quently by applause He said he b.-.d , been called In the past thlrt f e ; .ears to speak m Ogden on irarious subjects, but never on one of such llM- j portance The league, he said, could not be discussed without sincerity. Has anxone in the audience" the. speaker asked "been converted to an! objection to the league by Majoi 1 f'lark's speech? If so, what was 1 he argument 9 ' He received no response. He then proceeded to review the world war and !ts causes and then said: ' i the conclusion of the armistice the greatest statesmen in the world I met at th peace conference to devise I Ways and means to prevent future international in-ternational wars. "In regard to Major Clark's reported ' r.ri-(,erm.inism and his recent remark that the internment clause is slill in: ffOOt," continued Mr Robert. I Wffh I i to say he misunderstood me. Whtt l! Isold wa-. 'If the boys were still at the, fronl and Major ' lark talked as he did, Ihe would have been interned. ' "The boys are back now. There is! 'no necessity for internment. "Major ('lark. Bishop . W Niblev ,and Senator Reed Smoot have admit-; !ted that the constitution of the United States is inspired 1 can't understand! j their refusal to ndmit that the league of nations also Is inspired a It not I possible thai the same God, understanding under-standing th- loncinss of the men at the peace conference, inspired them to draft the covenant of the league of I nations?" He admitted that Major Clark's coil- I jlention relative to Great Britain's having hav-ing six votes to the United States, one, was correct. "Creat Britain is a commonwealth, made un of self-governing nations."; he said. "The assembly in which she Iholdds the six votes, Is a debating so-ciety so-ciety without power to command. But in the council, where voting counts, Great Britain has but one vote to the I United States, one. ' The speaker, then, in a retrospective retrospec-tive view told of the losses of Ihe na lions of the world as compared with that of the I nit ed States. After the iwar the great siatesmen of the world met to consider the plans for the j world's future. He referred to T,lod George, Clemenceau, Balfour and the other great statesmen gathered at r.in- He declared that America had (never produced a purer minded state -man than Woodrow Wilson, the remarks re-marks being greeted with vigorous ap-I ap-I plause. j He said thai he was here to help th- people of Ocden and the people of Utah to decide whether or not thty wanted the league Instantly there 'were a few "noes' from diflerent parts jof the house and the yes" which I started with a small lead, broke into a chorus of "yes ' which ended in applause. ap-plause. The speaker then asked if there was anyone present who had been converted convert-ed at the Clark meeting who would land up and tell him what Mr. Clark (had said that converted him. There :was no volunteer Mr. Roberts said that neither Germany, Ger-many, Austria. Turkey nor Bulgaria would be Invited into the league of Inations until they had showed rep-Tl jauce. for the brutality committed .'gainst the civilization of the world As to British Vote, j Regarding the vote of Great Britain Bri-tain in the league, Mr Roberts said ithat while '-ho hat! six in the asseni-jbly asseni-jbly she had only one in the supreme council, which WC.fi the highest body of the league, and in which only Eug-land, Eug-land, United States, France, Italy and Japan had but one vote. He com-I com-I pared the supreme council with the senate of th- United States, which Is considering the momentous question j of the league. He spoke of the Btsites , v. nh the millions of population having two Benators as do the western states i having but cne-twentieth part of the I population, He said Nevada with its Ii . - than half a million persons had Ihl same representation in the senate as had New Yirk and Illinois. He said 'ihe treaty was being considered by the senate and not by the house, which ' membership or representation is given the cities bv according to the popula lion. He said that this was the rule similar to that regarding the representation represen-tation in tho assembl of the league of nations ;.nd the supreme council (which will decide the big questions. America's representation was really the same as Liu-land's, which had one-I one-I fourth ol the population o: the world. Regarding the moral obligations of the league, Mr. Roberts said there was nothing that legally or moralh bound and that there was a way to correct an) injudicious act on the part of an ration. The Monroe doctrine is fully protected in the league, the Bpeakei uvcrred. The amendments which the proponents of the doctrine wanted' were inserted in the league. Before the United States went Into the war Great Britain and France, Mr. Roberts declared, had entered into a treaty regarding Japan's reward if she went into the w,ir, and that was h;:t Japan was to be given control over the Shantung peninsula Twenty years ago he baid that Germany had secured the peninsula and nej objection wat made, no one took China's part p.nd China did not make any protest, alii al-ii hough Germany had taken the penin-uula penin-uula for ninety-nine years. He said that man of the opponents ol the leacue said that the United j Slates should stav out of It and let it lone let well enough alone, asking, i Wh not let the matters rest where they are " He declared, "Nothing Is well enough If it can be made better-." oo |