| Show Let Lct us have ave faith falth Wat n right ht makes might and andin I in that faith let us to t the he end dare to do dos our duty I as we understand it Lincoln ft The etc League and the thc People la Elt 1 PRESIDENT r l WILLIAM Il TAl I TAFT benefit of his IllS hor hopes Ins has as asen i en e Salt SaIt Lake the f lull full old and Mill beliefs in in n H u JC-u league uc vi of or nations Many lany of our ens zens have ha subscribed to Ins his limes dot and ore are firral firmly efforts of the League To I Ln- Ln n. n the 1 l ed to support of the lw force ca Ic ear t Ls in r obtaining indorsement of league I outlined li in the th constitution brought home 4 as r I I 1 1 resident Present V ITil WiNon on Mr 11 Taft is is' u n man oL of experienced experience and nd of reputation atlon and anti commands n a willing willin g car wherever where v He Ile is man mac of or a judicial mind a fact laet which tic Ill g oc oe a n v hit Iw wan em for him b ugh bulli th a 0 national and n an l international 1 Nevertheless c s wo We would remind tl the e public reputation l of nations natIOn as proposed today is a a. new net that the thc league I i b issue uc ue before them and that it is something more than a ju judicial problem m I The league of nations vitally affects the future o oe ol of e 1 y individual ual and HUll deals with more than the tho present its the heritage ol or pos- pos r g n for cont contracts are arc 1 Members of the League To Enforce Peace ridicule ridicule rid ridicule rid rid- the i idea ca that the league of nations is a new Issue wit with II the public In denial they point to lo their own cam cam- of 1 which winch is is paHi ai u extending over O a period perio years r e. e neither In final nor conclusive c A Admitting miltin that g this or- or has been campaigning for a league of nations nations na no- lions for fOl years ears is it not also true truo that the American mind has been been concentrated on winning the war and not on the establishment of n a new order in the world I I So far as ns t the be League ame To 10 Enforce Peace is concerned I this is not a new qu question but it was n not t presented t to tot t the Ole public as ns an issue until the draft of the constitution lion tion of or the lea league e of or nations was made mado public a little littlemore i more than a week weck ag ago The question is to be bo openly discussed and efforts effort 8 by ridicule or censorship to si silence si si- hence lence public discussion are arc to be bc decried Tb The people must decide this issue and they must be permitted to I speak to their representatives es in Cona Congress ess who in turn must speak for them The Thc case of the league of nations naw na na- w dons has taS been heen ably and capably presented Jr b by y its most earnest advocates We e would ask the American people to retain an nn open I mind for the logic and argument oi of those who view this departure from other angles Mr Taft declares that senators who question the a ah advisability h ty of or the proposed league fail to realize the crisis crisi crisis which confronts the world The American people also face nce a n crisis which may mayor or may not be distinct distin t and apart from that involved n in the world These people peo peo- plc must formulate the decision and we would encourage encourage age ge an 31 open discussion of the league and its princ principles its its- and its before that des der decision de de- r I r ples advantages nd dangers s l' l sion is is reached The They themselves es must decide between between be be- t tween Americanism and internationalism Senator Reed Peed declares he sees the fangs fans of iani m showing in the constitution of th the league of nations An American an writer the other day da dad d declared 1 he before ore a congressional investigating committee that A all aH supporters of 1 the league were internationalists Saint Brice a French o edictor questions the success of the tile league for the tho very cry reason that it now temporizes I M ili h v far can vi WI go in in establishing p n a 0 t n new v thought in world government without upsetting y the principles of our own 1 z Ridicule docs does not nott answer these questions to the rut satisfaction of r the thc American people Faith alone is isI t I iu insufficient when it il robs us of or all the powers of pro- pro i v lection 1 Much M clr ch of the argument for a league of nations nahon is is' direct appeal to our hatred of war ar notwithstanding t the fact that entangling alliances ma may make more warna wars warn a for us as a people The Thc clause in the constitution directly di- di affecting labor lubor is vague ague and ma may lead to daners dan- dan ers which American l labor bor has never before faced y t l Italy n y is known wn to favor or a standardization of or labor conditions con- con 2 which may mayor or may not bring advantages nd to the thc American workingman Japan also has ambitions As s to the faith asked for the thc success of this league e. we arc are not to forget that the principles of a league of or nations are arc ancient Leagues of r the thc cities of Greece fc ere formed for mutual protection but thc they were con con- at war In 1623 a serious plan for world peace t was put pul before the world worM r Two T years ealS later Grotius the great writer on international law issued a treatise on f tho the same subject and later on Oil in 1031 1631 t the thc Ic Grand Deer Dc- Dc tj fr er s sign n of or Henry IV IY was vas promulgated It was hoped that nations could be tC brou brought ht together in a g great grent real league to i avoid oid war The Holy Alliance another effort was adopted in 1813 1815 m The Thc n American n people are ago face to to face with witha a big jt question and they arc are not to solve it by impulse or emotion They cannot agree to a plan that w will tell keep 4 our soldiers abroad if ir we have to act as a n mandatory We Te T a have no desire to become the police force of or Eu- Eu ff and this is one of or the thc possibilities of the league 4 of or nations as proposed by the existing constitution tei toj tD te A |
