Show I Reaching a Decision BO BOYD YD national campaign manager cr of the tho I W WJ WIt League LIO to Enforce Peace assures the local public that there theTo arc are no lurking dangers an for the tho United States in the Paris constitution which is urged ur for adoption amendments wit without lout without reservations without change Coming as as the tho representative of the organization tion lion on which has devolved the task of reconciling the American people to a European document his unqualified unqualified fied lied indor indorsement of the tho Paris covenant is not surprising It is thoroughly in line lino wit with h the altitude of the League ue to Enforce Pence Peace to consider pitfalls which may present themselves s after we have fallen into them His viewpoint is that Ow t if America asks for reservations reservations reserva reserva- Hons Japan France and Great Britain might do likewise and thereby endanger the ratification of the peace pence treaty The document at hand would indicate that these powers demanded their reservations and obtained them before their representatives n 3 at the peace con conference affixed af- af I af-I i fixed their signatures The whole constitution smacks of or British reservations and guarantees The side alliance including Great Britain France and the tho United States adopted on the demands of Prance France impresses us as a distinctly distinctly dis dis- dis- dis French TeS reservation T The Tilo Shantung settlement is nothing if not j a Japanese reservation th the and the foreign These reservations arc are ih h treaty of them The reservations reserva reserva- powers are in no danger o losing asked by the United States Senate an nn in no way affect then their although the they may prove vital ital to the future of our country The foreign reservations mean involved f for them to chuck the 1 loo o much to the powers powe s 's r treaty overboard simply because the United States demands demands de de- de- de mands pro protection of her integrity The threat which Is is now used by hy the thc league proponents that we mu must t accept the treaty without change or forever forego peace is too preposterous for consideration Mr Ir Bo Boyd d is here to urge to use their influence influence in in- fluence on the states state's representatives s in Washington to obtain immediate ratification of oi the peace treat treaty without without with with- wiLh 1 out chuD change e. e The campaign extends not hot alone to Utah hut but to ee every even state in the thc union and is directed against American reservations One of the chief arguments against reservations is that the treaty as it stands al already already already al- al ready protects protect them No Xo one questions the wisdom of the thc reservations that the Senate would make opposing them merely because they believe that t the be present text lext co covers cors lie ground round In a word the le league Ue proponents argue that the reservations are already there although they admit that the language may be s somewhat vague If the they arc alre already cly there where is this foreign l opposition opposition opposition op- op position coming from 1 Would France Japan or Great Britain object to definite words taking the tho place of Y vagueness for something already y implied and granted William Howard Taft who is probably one of or the foremost foremost foremost fore fore- most lea league advocates in the world admits the reservations reserva reserva- lions will safeguard American interests J If f these reservations reservations reser reser- will strengthen then the document and leave heave Americas America's understanding thoroughly understood by t the h c world worl why not have hae them theme 1 If Jf we already have this understanding we C can encounter no difficulties with forc foreign powers by clearing the phraseology y The real danger ahead of us lies in in accepting a n. text which is subject to many in in- in The fhe minute the peace pence treaty is rat ratified fied the United States loses lOBes its power to make muke American in in- in Su Subsequent sequent interpretations will be made madely by ly the league itself of which Europe is to b be he the dominant dominant dom dom- influence livery individual in Iii the United States has nas tile tue n right ngul II to urge his his viewpoint uPon upon the representatives o of his slate state in Washington With that right however is also i involved ol elut that is that he will not decision de tic- a duty duly and ur urge e a c- c winch is is not the result of his own individual thought For a man to ur urge e a senator to make a ti decision ision that he himself has not honestly arrived at is to turn the conduct of Ameri American n government over to the forces a of or propaganda a and J to invite new dangers dang for himself and und family Before ur urging ng official action upon this important important important im im- im- im issue the American citizen should examine both botU sides SHIeS of or the question should know that the decision he hc urges is M Iris his own and is not made in response to clamor or emotional appeal 11 Jn |