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Show THE CITIZEN a guarantee is of the very essence of the league and constitutes put in force without the aid and advise of the senate, and yet the presY ident denounced the senators as pygmy minds because they insisted alliance for war. w his own reservations, ix he has this. Cox Mr. knows a Indeed, make to tries Cox Nominee in the was what on knowing treaty. before the lished in the New York Times, to make him twist and squirm, jj of the a secured senate the fact treaty of that the copy point of. his reservations was to the effect that the United States decl the that as far to so He copy even to. it wished say goes president be that it was designed to prc$ ; came from an enemy source. It is true that the text of the treaty was its understanding of the League to and that if we discovered that such was not its purpose Jjfi being sold on the streets of Berlin for fifteen cents before the senate peace, reservation. The text oxj of the United States came into possession of a copy of the treaty. It could withdraw. What an ineffably silly S3 At enforce to is a the shows that peace. league league is true that although the constitution of the United States requires covenant to find the genesis oij the president to act on treaty matters by and with the consent of clear is this to Mr. Cox that he undertakes in the propaganda of the leagtf the senate, the ragamuffins of Berlin were reading the treaty before league and he is entirely correct Citizen has often alluded to that propaganda the text was obtained by our senate. But it is not true that the copy enforce peace. The of the Wilson covenant. For years that covenant was splj came from an enemy source. Two copies found their way to this source a New York over the country through the philanthropy of Carnegie and othersjf to of Wilsons friend a confided was one by country of contained one proposal which should not be lost sight of. The Ift the Paris in obtained correspondent was other the ; by acquaintance of its covenant was an international army and navy which was tcjW the Chicago Tribune, and it was from these two copies that the senaforce peace. tors obtained their information while the president of the United Thus the true character of the covenant is not altogether obsjrj the to of treaty keep trying States was engaged in the noble task even to Mr. Cox. He tries to pretend that the covenant provides! secret from them. but he must know, if he has analyzed that document andw peace, Mr. Cox shows his unfamiliarity with the covenant when he says served the passage of events in Europe, that the purpose of Artic Jj that it is like the Monroe Doctrine. He seeks to make the point that is to bind the United States, at the dictation of a European cxectL the Monroe Doctrine was a sort of League to Enforce Peace and that committee, to send its billions of dollars, its millions of men an( j e never had a shot been fired to enforce that doctrine. great navy to Europe to preserve the territorial integrity and i 1 The Monroe Doctrine was promulgated by the United States ing political independence of member nations. It is from such a covenant that the people of this country rj--f and depends for its effectiveness on the might of one nation alone the United States. If Mr. Cox means that the League of Nations de- and no fine phrases of president or presidential candidate can ob'jr ; United the issue. The Republican platform repudiates such a covenant. i pends upon the might of one nation alone, and that nation the if is to be an international agreement it shall takeM States, we may accept his analogy as in some measure legitimate. But says that there conciliation and a high coin; how can be promise us that not a shot will be fired if the United form of tribunals of investigation and j justice. States becomes a member of the league? boundf; the underwrite to terriafford The United States cannot If the Monroe Doctrine had undertaken to guarantee the enforce torial integrity of the South American republics we would have been of Europe. The Polish war shows the folly of trying to j (Continued on page 14) at war virtually every year from Monroes, day to our own. But such : ; -' The friends of Mr. Sylvester Q. Cannon believe that he is eminently qualified to cope successfully with the problems confronting the state of Utah FINANCIAL INDUSTRIAL LABOR CAPITAL SYLVESTER Q. CANNON Candidate for Governor on the Republican Ticket Utah needs roads. Mr. Cannon is a ROAD BUILDER. His years of experience will save the state vast sums of money. b |