Show I Ii i Sena Senator tor Sm oot's oot s Stand F OR months friends and critics of the Paris covenant for lor a League of Nations have hae ur urged ed cd that the question ques tion lion he be kept 01 oiX of oC politics Our people were agreed that it was not a partisan question but one commanding a national decision based on truth justice and righteous righteous- ness But Bat even this desire has been heen distorted by league prot protagonists ea eager er to secure the adoption of the Paris document without chan change chance e. e We Ye betray no secret when W we say that the thc League to Enforce Peace has toured th the e n nation tion urging citizens to demand support of the un un- Chan ed document without regard to official convictions I ur or p In many instances threatening forebodings of political defeat have ha been the basis of these arguments Senators determined to protect American interests have c been that political defeat would he be the thc reward of their watchfulness The threats stand as their own criticism comin coming as the they do from the men and women 1 I who Brno prate pale O Jl most t of ot keeping the document out of partisan Io politics If It our Oily American senators are arc worthy of or their hire hire- if they thc are r men enough h to assert their honest convictions convictions con con- rather than limn be subsidized by desire of future votes rotes the attitude of the thc league protagonists should hould rove little effect Vc We believe c that all American senators regardless of political faith will a arec ce with Senator Smoot that political political cal extinction is to be bc preferred to a vote in this crisis which would be hd contrary to their honest convictions The American people do not admire men without the thc courage of their convictions they shun those who turn from their official duties to make political patronage Senator Smoot docs does not dodge the issue and we believe e there arc man many more in the thc United Stales States who will win be just as frank frnnk and nd honest with the electorate Senator Smoot says T T You testify to me that if my stand on the league is not all that it should be before God and man I will be bc badly repudiated at the polls I want you to Know that I f am doing what I r believe is duty to my ms mv Vl r Vi 4 in m m c f tn ii n n I l T I VUe nu 7 V UJ J noE not nol do otherwise if rf it cost me e every ery ry yot vote in the State of Utah 1 I am just as sure as I live lie that when the present form Ionn of the covenant is explained to the people they will support me in standing standing- for and demanding the reservations reser as I have ha already outlined I believe in the Americanism of the Utah people and will be content to abide by their decision in this matter The stand of the Utah senator is based on months of stud study of the intricacies of the league and the possibilities ties Of of American complications It is not unmindful of popular expressions reaching him which have dwindled from fifty to one for unreserved ratification to ten toone toone to toone one for ratification with American can reservations It Jt is ba based d on sound logic logie and whole Americanism neither of which merit the condemnation of honest hones t Americans Senator Smoot defines his stand in detail in a n letter written to C. C X N. Lund Lun Jr of Mount l Pleasant Pleasant Pleasnt Pleas Pleas- ant nt and published in the tile Salt SnIt Lake papers Citizens whose first i interest terest is preservation of the American America n ideals and traditions which have IHle made peace pence progress nd md prosperity possible should gil give c it earn earnest cst consid consid- cration When Then the Utah salon olon Ion declares that we wc- wc should we-should should Ameri Americanize anize Europe lie he reflects the opinion of every cry ka luague u advocate The fhe only difference in in the viewpoints is is ono one of expression Jt It has hat been heen the foremost a argument lr l- l ment for a league of nations When r Senator Smoot says j a Americanize e Europe Europa he lie says say's the thc same thin thing as resident President I Wilson lson when he lie S says s 's reform Ell European diplo mae macy But Senator Smoot shows that the method proposed pro pro- posed is i its a il failure that can re result only in fn Europeanizing America He says say's 4 Xo No one can m successful successfully defend the basis of representation as provided for in the len league ue 1 It t assumes that any ho body of people not affiliated with a any other tate state skull shall be he called a nation and entitled nt to one QUe vote ote while any any body hody of people affiliated affil with any state shall be considered as a province pro and not e entitled t to representation tation and vote oto in the thc league The pro is provision on is a nar narrow row technical concept conception on and assumes that flat a state in in the union like New York with a population of is is not noL entitled to representation while Panama with a n population of shall have havo one vote vole with wilh a population of have hue one vote ote and even Liberia i is is' s entitled to one one vote otc In 1 n effect ff eel this gi gives gies es the majority o of f the votes and the control of the into assembly the hands of the small countries that are arc indirectly con- con trot led by a n few of the large larg European i r This This basis basis of representation as applied powers to the league a e is a parody justice on and some da day if the le t true J becomes a reality will defeat the J pose of the very P pur pur- le league rrue Jn In the foregoing forc go ing facts we find the tentacles from v America meriea may never escape if she goes into this i s l league ue blindly without makin making her stand before the t world orld clear and unclouded V We c have ha nothing to con- con I teal cc-al and we are arc still stirred by tho American principles on which our republic was founded Senator Smoot says Eit Ei 1 I I. I have ha absolute t faith in the American people and their undying faith in their form of overn- overn n ent and I do not believe tho tIO American people will I bc b be content to surrender their birthright in return for f r a l world WorM government that will be two and three three- quarters per vcr cent American Do 0 you 00 or the people at It home believe that as soon as normal conditions 1 return return when every nation will rill be struggling t to i s secure the commerce of the world passing la laws Ws to I J protect ct the interest st of its its' own 11 citizens as as C ai th the balance balanco of the thc world when petty jealousies I will well arise and race rate 1 hatred is in ili fl flame mc the tho two and three quarters per cent can dictate to or control control con con- the warring 0 seven ninety and aud quarter one per percent cent Let us by our example our patriotism our love 10 of country our willingness w neis to fj fight ht for righteousness righteous righteous- nc ness s and against 1 against l evil cil for liberty and against autocracy l Americanize Europe rather than under the leaguer league Europeanize America The Shantung settlement which is referred to b by Senator Smoot is is sufficient to condemn the treaty 1 inthe in n the thu eyes of or righteous rig people There has hns been no defense de do fen e of it il it everywhere it is admittedly wrong Tong an and d contrary to the ideals prompting the formation of a n league ne of o nations If this league is to be he all we hope hop for it we tine cannot afford to accept such violations violations of o the lati Jaws laws of God and humanity as n a foundation for future peace pence Respecting Respecting- this settlement the Utah senator senator senator sen sen- ator sa says s 's Tile THe tr treaty treat t of peace without a disavowal on ong our part of or the Shantung outrage g places a an n inI in- in Iel li le stain upon the thc good rood name of or the nation f I and md will ill tend to 0 stir up war in Asia Asin If I 1 know the temper of the Senate a disavowal will be he made so that this nation will not put the stamp of its ils approval upon upon tho the wrongs wrong's committed committe against China one one of of oL our allies We Yo believe that Senator Smoot has hns shown conclusively con con- elusively ely that the lease league covenant lo is so far fac out o of f alignment with its own ideals strong reservations ar are arc e in indispensable Certain it is that he has hns established th the e need ned of an nn American viewpoint view in consideration of the document The American people can no more afford to be hound bound by the majority vote of Europe in the their r moral conduct than limn they can afford to tear the American Ameri Amen can constitution to scraps and haul down the Stars an and d Stripes forever I I |