Show t DRW SAYS Af PACT I P A II Senator Senator Declares Declares League of Nations Now Holds I Forth Best Promise of oI Future World Pea Peace e eW v J 4 VV J ASH ASHINGTON ON July 15 W Characterizing ing the lea league U l lo o of nations as a practical st step stela tow toward rd world peace involving iio rio sacrifice of or national l sovereignty Senator Underwood Democrat of Alabama Alabama- urged In the senate to today la laa a acceptance of ot the league coven covenant t tI I without amendment or reservation The great causes o ot war he said may be paraphrased in in two words National selfishness Until the civilization of the world is pr prepared pared to dethrone its own selfish ideals and andI to recognize the rights of other pep- pep I pies ples the inherent cause of ot war must muss continue to exist I I 1 am not prepared to say that the adoption of the present treaty carries I within itself the elimination of ot these causes of war or that in the end I there will be no more wars but butI I dosay do 1 say say that within the folds of ot I treaty we find an agreement between en the great nations of the world that probably will in the future carry the I questions of national dispute to toa a court of final arbitration and tri in inI n i I many if not most instances avoid the horrors and Injustices of war 1 I NATION LEAGUE I do not regard the organization I of the league as a I No could exist without without with with- out out power potter to maintain itself Within itself the league h has s no power to lev levy levy- I taxes and without revenue a gover 1 ment cannot long exist The league league- has no power to raise armies and aud navies and without military forces it cannot defend itself With the right to withdraw I feel t that at there Is' Is I no need to fear the dangerous surf sun Sender ender ender of any of the fundamental principles and rights of the American I people Therefore I am willing to toI take tale it and try it and hope that from I the seed that is planted today in It Its fruition the final peace of the worl may be found ocr o oI I I I am more mor interested in the prin priti principles I enunciated in the clauses re relating relating relating re- re lating to the league of nations than 11 I am in the powers given f for its goI govI god gov- I I for on these principles the th future lif life of the league must depend I I would have been glad to subscribe to a contract that would have arbitrarily arbitrarily arbi arbi- I limited the armaments of the world Such a decree is not found i I within the contract but there is n i I covenant that seeks s to keep the peace of the world that authorizes the executive executive ex I council of the league to con consider conS con sider how much the present armaments armaments armaments arma arma- ments of ot nations should be reduced MAY MAINTAIN PEACE Another vital principle that we are asked to agree ree to is that all of the tile members of the lea league ue shall submit I differences between them that are not capable of being settled by negotiation I tion before a tribunal to be composed of judges or arbitrators agreed to by them and after entering into the arbitration they are required to abide I by the award But nut the greatest principle of ot the league tending the keep the peace of ot the world is that which declares that the high contracting parties to this treaty shall undertake to respect and preserve against external aggression the political independence and the territorial integrity of every member of the lea league ue Most 1 of the wars that have been waged in the ages that have passed have had as their cause the desire to conquer conque and control another people or t to tp expand the territory of the country that is the aggressor in iii the war Prevent the incentive for war growing o out t of a selfish desire for aggression as the overweening force of this covenant covenant covenant cov cov- will do and few actual causes of war will remain that cannot without without without with with- out difficulty or danger be submitted to the high court of ot arbitration CANNOT BE ISOLATED You may say Then why sho should Jd we become involved in an allian alliance that may drag us into the disputes the disasters and the dangers of ot other nations This was the doctrine doctrine doc doctrine trine our fathers believed In and on one one that I am slow to yield But we ws E Eface face a condition not a theory Time Tim and space have been eliminated Dangers Dan DaJ Dangers gers to our people and our pur republic that were not dreamed of ot a century ago confront us today at at our very doors a threatening menace to our lives our civilization and our institutions Shall we continue to dream Ol the ideals of the past or meet a as as practical men the dangers of ot the future fu tu- tu II ture For me there is but one course co course ri to pursue z |