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Show SENATE WILL RATIFY : COVENANT OF LEAGUE,. : GENERAL YOUNG SAYS Drag-inp- of Great Moral Issu3 Into Politics Is Deplored by Ensign Stake Head in Assembly Hall Address. ! o-i :;' r.o say. T.re ar.- el'-r'.W-n I r, ,-n'::i.'-r.:s to the f.-o'is'it'.i'ion of tr.e j ' " 1 1 ! Sr.u- s :-:r--- :l z.r. t .Tlopt'-d, Ya.-- '.i:".:t'.n's r.:,". nroviu.::-,' frr i'!'-;t n:l ' 'i-; id.:. (:" the !":t 1 ::ts ' was. r h'L t on,- rr.t-:i viiii vo: -.vi.y extend ' the vn-to -.v u '.' V.':; s-: :rm" on's idea :.s ti.jtt s- r.:i i-'-ioui'l :- eie'-ted by t:.; T-::ii !i .-. V;. v r--'":i t'.e pc-o- I pie n.'.v to .!' s.-ri:.t'..rs? T:.--re was no I i '.inLLt (5 i.vii.' prohini-ion in Wa.-h-tun's 'i:i.y, y-jt it i.s vnttun down in r-onpiif.utiMn r.f tr.e I'nitcd States. Ti:e fact i.s, as tL'.e yus on. n-v iipees-alties iipees-alties ari.se a:.d ih-y .shor.M lie roet ijy the law and by tLe constitution. Many Insincere. I ".So I pay for my own part I have the i Kn-ateKt sympathy for tliose who believe difjVn.-ntly. I believe there are a good j many honest men who think that we j would be giving- tip something of our i Americanism if we approved of this, and who are perfectly honest and sincere. But at the same time I must fonfeps that I believe that the frrat bulk of. those who oppose this are do in;? it for political reasons and considerations. "I am not authorized to speak for the i men who served in the Tnited States army. I do not know what the senti- : men L of all the men is. I know only this: That so far as I have talked wfth j the men who wore the uniform in the late tfreat war they stand for the , league of nations. I do not pretend to j have talked with all of them. I made a little talk down here in one of the south- ern towns a few weeks ago of welcome i to the returning soldiers, and when I pot I through a returned soldier pot up for I response. I did not know what he was K'oin'? to say, but he made a very impassioned im-passioned appeal for the ieague of nations. na-tions. And he considerably amused the audience by making this argument: He said, 'If you people of the United States do not approve it, and we have another big war, why, you fellows go to the war and let us stay at home." Adoption Urged. "Those are very briefly and hurriedly some of my sentiments, and I give them to you for what they are "worth. It fleems to me that this is the opportunity, almost certainly, of decades. It seems to me that here is the great moral chance, the great chance for the Christian Chris-tian people of the world to write Christianity Chris-tianity down into the laws of all the nations, na-tions, and that to reject this and g back to the old order of tilings, where there was strife, where the Lord helped the foremost and the Devil took all the rest, to go back to that condition of force, it seems to me, would be a crime. "I cannot see why we should not try this thing out. If it needs amendment, like the constitution of the United States, let us amend it. If it needs amendment twice, let us amend it. If it needs amendment eighteen times, like the constitutiop of the United States has needed it, In order to make a more perfect per-fect government, let us amend it eighteen eight-een times. But if you will permit something some-thing which sounds like profanity, but which is not, for God's sake, let us approve ap-prove this league of nations." 0. F. Whitney Favors Pact. Orson F. "Whitney of the council of twelve also spoke in favor of the league. "I am sorry to hear people speak of England, France and Belgium as if these nations were rogues and not to be trusted. I believe they can be trusted in entering into a league to prevent war just as they have trusted us in the war. "It was all wrong, that war. It would never have been had there been a league of nations such as now proposed, and which is now before the United States senate for acceptance or rejection." The meeting was presided over by George F. Richards of the council of twelve. It was voted at the meeting to sustain the general authorities of the church. The opening prayer was offered by Bishop Levi Savage of Woodruff, Ariz., and the closing prayer by Kodney C. Badger. Other speakers were - President Frank Y. Taylor of the Granite stake and Alon-zo Alon-zo A. Hinckley of the Deseret stake. WAliXryG tliat the world Wfuld return to :t :;t:Ue f db:,nl:r if tliM l-ni!.;,l .Si.at-.s senat-o fai!.-d t' r.'iiil'y i In; i;-acM treaty and the b-.ii'.u: ,i natioiKj eoviriiant W.ia rioundi-rl y::;;.-vl y at'ternoon by llich-ard llich-ard V, Youin;, iu-rwvy briga.dlT general gen-eral f.f ihc .Si'iy-liltli bru;adu, ami pi-t-:i-t'"!il. of Hi,; iMi.sign Htak.:, in addre.sstii 1lie o rilov Nn:-iiiig d!' the L. Ij. S. cmii- ier.- , in-id m Up: A :-;:;emiily hall. fJ' ina-al Vijuiif-- .icrii.ri.-d that riuj league of ii.ti.ioiiM is a .-utt: m-'.iiis 'f putting an fjid tu lii'; wars now i;igu:g uVi;r tli-j can h. "If I can mult -vA a.nd the sen! iment of ti U- bl'i-Mil fi i tin 1 1 !.:; id '" uvt;i- til is church, and of Lin; pc.plo of the cliurcii, of I Iiih co nl'i !.) ii ;, wl; :-?tand si(u;ir.'ly U)i')i that gi'-a l. mora 1 qucsuon thai, we 1 1 i;; 1 1 a l a.s th; ie-ague of nations," Genera Gen-era I Young Ha id. "I hav.j tln.unlit that ir-rhaps by reason rea-son of tin: M'i:uliar fxpfi-M-iUM'S that liave 1m:.-ii mm i: during Lhj last two or three yea cm, ii might not be t nought improper thai r might add a. litth: Lu what has . been said upon that subject. '1 want Id say thai, nothing within . Yecriif yi.-ars has a si on ish:d me iuile j tiD irpifli as t hat In; .1 uies of opinion wil !i rrspi'i'l to this subject have been i divided along a political cleavage. What is thm: "in this -nm - ersv respecting I the l.aguc of nations that should divide! tiie political p.-u-Lii-sV. It is b-jyond my coniprchensiori. Cleavage Is Outlined. "rown through the decades of our history his-tory the I miur,ral if party lias stood for u strict consiruction r.f i he constitution. The I )cnmci a I U: party has stood, generally gen-erally speaking, for state's rights. The J Huiiocra ( i; parlv, in a way, lias stood for a large measure of free trade. "While, on tlio other hand, the Kepublican party has stood for writing the word 'nation, j its it is sometimes put, with a big 'N.' 31 has Mood for the protection of American Ameri-can industries. These, have been the .11 pvs of demarcation between the parties. par-ties. : "I :ut what is t here in this league of Tiatious that appeals to the historical differences dif-ferences that have separated these two M'ual. parties? I have been unable to discover it. "Mv justification fur spealdnp: a few tAvnrdri upon this subject this aflernoon Voines not unlv from thp fact that the 3i,nnote, I nuiv sav. has been sounded hv those who are my superiors in cccle-Sias(ieal cccle-Sias(ieal authoritv in this conference, but ;fTom the fact also that my own conceptions concep-tions and position in respect to that subject sub-ject were taken long before I dreamed (that this was to be u. matter of political controversy between the great parties. Politics Injected. "Xow we are confronted with the fact 3h the United .States that there are a Ivw Democrats that are against the r igne the groat bulk of them m the l'nited' Slates senate being for it. On -Hlt' other hand, there are a few Kepub i-.eans i-.eans wlio stand for the league, with the "fr'reat hulk of tiiem against it. I must ilnntoss tiiat it leads mo at any rate to "the conclusion which seems to me to be Xinfivoidable, that so far as the great bull: tit any rale, of the senators of the United States senate are concerned, the question ques-tion in some wav has become a political V.uest ion, which it should not be, and which it is in very fact and truth; and T thiik we ought to approach our conclu-fions conclu-fions on this subject free from any political po-litical affiliations, free from any political prejudices with reference to our affiliations affilia-tions in the past. "It seems to me, as was stated this jnorning. thnt it would be a matter of chagrin to the I.atfer-i.lay Saints to stand as opposed to that, winch as I conceive it, is to bring about, or contribute very largely to the bringing about of a reign of peace on the earth. We are the followers fol-lowers of Him whose coming1 into the world was announced as 'Peace on earth and good will to men.' That is the spirit Of Christianity, that that condition of af-lairs af-lairs should be .brought about. Rejection Impossible. "I take it that there is no question of the rejection of the treaty of peace with 'the league of nations, which forms a part of it. That certainly is not going to be done. The senate of the United States is not going to reject this peace pact. "Why, the consequences would be terrible to contemplate l'r one moment. Think what has boon brought about by this trea.y of pence. Think of the nations that have beu erected, and think of the rights that have .been given to the. world to determine themselves their own form of government. There is Poland ; what .would become of Poland if this . treaty were not approved ? There is .1 ugo-t-lavia; what would become of the Jugo-Slavs? Jugo-Slavs? What would become of Palestine, and what would become of the Rumanians? Ruman-ians? What would become of . Alsace-Lorraine, Alsace-Lorraine, and what would become of tiiat part of Denmark which Germany seized some forty or fifty years ago? If this peace pact is not approved," then It must go hack to Germany, and can it he believed be-lieved that Germany will approve now what she was willing to approve at the end of i. ho war? "I think the world will he in an Iride-s-Ti ha bv condition of disorder. Uonv.nny would demand more than she demanded at fir;:. 'i'ia- German people and some who sympathize v.'i;h hT believe that tnese r.T-ms of peace h: ve been overly harsh and aard. 1 tin not believe it, and you do nut believe it for one moment. Germ a ny has not property enough, hnfl not resources (enough nor the possibility of earning -money sufficiently to right the wrongs i hat she has done la this great war, and the terms that have been impose i upon her as a matter of fact have been the very minimum of what could have been imposed upon her. Amendment Opposed. "Hut If this thing is not to be approved, what will bec()ine Qf tiie world which has been brought under the American ideal of tiie right of people to determine their own form of government? What wouid become be-come of all those new creations that have been set up In the world, and peoples having the right as republics to govern themselves? Is it desirable? "The treaty of peace will not be rejected. re-jected. Will it be amended so that it will have to go back? To amend it by an actual amendment would bring about the same results; the thing would have to I be considered again, and what would be .he result of that? Reconstruction. "I do not believe that the senate' of I the United Slates will make an amendment. amend-ment. I certainly believe that the senate ot the United States should not make an amendment to tho treaty of peace. Will they make any interpretations? Will they make reservations that will be equivalent to an amendment? If they do. then, of course, it must be considered consid-ered aKaln; for, of course, such an interpretation in-terpretation will have the effect of an amendment, mid to that extent therefore, there-fore, a rejection of the treaty. And I believe that the great bulk of the people of the United States want that treaty approved in substantially the form in which it i.s written, rather than to undo that which is done and revert to the conditions which existed before that treaty was made. Old Order Deplorable. "What were those conditions? Why, there was nobody to stop any nation that had ambition to go ahead and build up a great army, and build preat plants wherein armor would be constructed, and then when the time came, when the hour struck, they could attack their weak neighbors, take a portion of their territory, ter-ritory, as' has been done in the history of the yreat nation that we have been fighting- against. Do we want that done, or do we want a restraint placed upon all the nations of the earth? Look what is happening. As we ara told in the press dispatches this morning, there is probability of a war between Italv and the Jug-o-Slav nations. That would not be possible if this league of peace were now in force. There would be the combined com-bined influence of the world to prevent that sort of .thing. There are some fifteen fif-teen or twenty other wars that are now waging waging because the league is not in force. "Gentlemen talk about our yielding sortie of the sovereignty of the United States. I do not think that is true. If it is true, then let us yield some of our sovereignty. I yield some of my sovereignty to the city government, to the police when ordinances are made and when laws are made that prevent me from treading- upon the toes of my neighbor, neigh-bor, taking his property, intruding in his home. That is yielding my sovereignty. Inhibitions Universal. "The law says that I may not infringe upon the rights of my neighbor. There is a league, there is a treaty between you and me, and all the citizens of every law-abiding country under which each of us gives up some of his God-given sov-eignty sov-eignty in order to preserve the weak from being overpowered by the strong. It is so in the government of the United States. The states are protected against foreign invasion. Nobody can violate the sovereignty of this state or any state in the Union but what the United States will come to its aid. "Why should not that principle be extended ex-tended to the nations, and that when somebody sees fit to rob one of the little nations of Its rights, why should there not be a policeman, why should there not be a combination of the other nations that shall say: 'Thus far shalt thou go, and no further'? Shall we return to the condition of force, where there was no restraint upon any nation? "Gfcmtlemen say that the Shantung business busi-ness is wrong. Suppose it is? It was wrong in the first instance. . I believe it. has been greatly improved, because it has been brought within the consideration consid-eration and contemplation of the council of the league of nations. Compromises Many. "Did you ever stop to think what' was done when the constitution of the United States was formed? Why, slavery which 'was bitterly opposed by the people peo-ple of the .northern states when the constitution con-stitution was formed was perpetuated . in the government of the- United States for twenty years, and for twenty years the people were permitted to bring slaves from Africa Into the United States. It was a compromise, it was a moral compromise. com-promise. The North gave up what it believed to be a very great moral prop-os; prop-os; don in order to make the constitution constitu-tion of the United States. "People say that we ought to be true to Washington, " who said that we should not make any entangling alliances. 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