Show TAFT UPS RAPS FOES OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS DECLARES SMALL AMERICANS OF SMALL SM A LL VISION VISH 0 N HAVE SENATE SEATS EATS 8 former president in adress address at san francisco franc r co condemns conde nl na senators who H have av e opposed league of nations plan ann itin francisco fortuer former president william 11 II tuft taft addressing the closing session sp aslon thursday night february 20 0 ot of the pacific chast congress ot of I 1 lie league to enforce force pence replied to ills critics and opponents of the I 1 plan ili it for the establishment of a league 0 of nations and referred particularly to tin nn open letter addressed to him by un united I 1 ted S states tates senator william B E borah of idaho idabo which questioned the efficiency of the monroe doctrine in the event tho the league of nations plan wits was adopted senator borah wants to know in ili what lie he valls culls an open letter said mr air taft whether I 1 would consent to at a league of nations in which the monroe doctrine la Is not recognized I 1 will answer him by saying that I 1 would like to have the doctrine acknowledged specifically by such a league but if it a recognition of its principles 1 Is 13 3 contained ln in the covenant for such midi a league I 1 would not object to the form in which it Is put article X of the covenant drafted I 1 in I 1 i parts extends the monroe doctrine to the entire world and gives it tile backing of the entire world consequently it recognizes the monroe doctrine and I 1 ant am in ili entire support of that covenant refers to wild words word what I 1 would like to ask aak senator borah Is this it if he insists on the cille acknowledgment of the monroe doctrine in the coven covenant nut for the league of nations and it if such recognition la Is given it in the coven covenant tint its as finally agreed upon in parts paris will lie vote ote for a treaty based upon tile covenant ns its finally amended the wild words of representative fess and senators reed heed and ter cliot lot out into the air on the theory that the people of this country do clo not read lead or that they will accept their bald statements unquestionably would be humorous it if they were not the utterances of such eminent and learned gentlemen characterizing as small amei Ameri leans enns members of the united states senate IV who ito are opposing the covenant for it league of nations mr tatt taft made tin an especial appeal to 0 o the women of the pacific coast to bring their influence to bear on oil the senate tit in behalf of ratification atlon of the league certain vinall americans on the floor of tile united states senate profess to see lire dire danger and eventual disaster TO the lie country if we enter into it a league of nations said mr taft small senators 1 I do not use the term small americans in an invidious sense but simply to imply that these gentlemen have it a finall view of america the ilal selfish view that the highest lilg liest duty of america Is to preserve for our own people beyond which we have no other toward the rest of the world v oriel |