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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER4 28, 1920. 28 , the Salt Lake office of the United States weather bureau. The report follows: Stormy weather during much of last week was general over the state, though moisture is still .Insufficient In the exThese treme southwestern portion. storms served to increase the temporary field crops, of though difficulty gathering the fair cold weather since Friday is permitting a resumption of sugar beet and potato .digging,1., threshing,, apple picking and alfalfa hay and seed gathering. The fields are drying out rather slowly beof the abnormally low temperaFair weather haa permitted the re- cause and the handling of beets Is stiU tures, sumption of sugar beet and potato dig- unsatisfactory because of mud. The aphinple picking is pretty well along In all disging and other harvesting activities tricts, no losses being reported duo to dered by storms, according to the weekly Inclement weather. Cattle and sheep are weather, crop and range bulletin issued In good to excellent condition on the yesterday by J. Cecil Alter, In charge of mr JiJDKB i farm pastures; marketing has slowed up somewhat, and sheeprcontinue to sptead over the nearer winter ranges There !e tome corn and sunflower silage yet to be stored at Richmond, and field work was generally suspended because of 4.(3 Inches precipitation elace the 12th. Potato digging haa begun, and sugar beets are three-fourtdug at Tooele: sheep ate arriving from Idaho points In good condition. Apple picking Is nearly completed Inthp. Salt Lake valjey and.Ui done at Elbert. At Levan no potatoes have been dug, some bay la still in the fields much wheat is to bo sown, and there are two weeks threshing to be done. "Highways are drying, having become readily passable In many districts, though they are still mors or lest muddy off the paving." three-fourt- G irl Telit-Stor- ys of d Parkhison,' supervisor of the Wasatch, national forest. and screamed for help. Attention of many persona was attracted by her screams which caused the driver The ladies of 8L Patricks parish Will to throw her out of the car. She was not sals at (31 South injured by the fall, but failed to notice hold their rummage (Advt.) the license number of the car. which went Stats Thursday and Friday. on without stopping. Patrolman Reed Billings and Motor James E. Woodward investigated the case. The girl described the man to them as being between 3S and 40 years of - Second iwomaa-ia- . age, . wearing a ireen cap and brows coat. It ttiktUgvdtiirterffsr-frbHithrTiiaiirhol- Attempted Abduction Audrey 'Hyde. daughter of Mrs H. S. Hyde, 422 Sixth avenue, reported to the police yesterday that while , walking home from the Lowell school at O' street and Fourth avenue at 4:15o'clock yesterday afternoon alarge automobile stopped beside her; the driver Jumped out, seised her and made her a prisoner In the car. MANV TROUT PLANTED. . The man drove with one hand, while he kept the other over her mouth, she said. . Trout fry and flngeritngs numbering The girl could not shako herself free un- (1,000 have been planted recently in til the- car had reached a point almost the Snake river and the head of the opposite the Oqulrrh school, at- - Fourth Hoback river in Idaho, according to South and Fourth Fast streets. She then received yesterday by Dana Mr. and a jLeawe WARNING, 40-assi- st in serving. I ytwa Kwlii li Apply Superintendent, at rW t- - - kitchen a hriwTotM?l itmjmm 5 -- AUERBACH CO. Cjumum - ' Republicans and Independents, Read This Nonpartisan Analysis of the League of Nations Covenant by k Irving Fisher, Republican, of Yale University INDEPENDENTS You Are to Decide This Election Senators to vote against nullifying reservations as dis--' tinct from interpretative ones). My one and onjy object is to help remove a great stumbling block in the wav of the League, the disposition to accept the Senator a statements at- face value. The voter, who sincerely and patriotically wants to do his duty at the Let him think for himself and polls, should beware. from people who not take hia opinions second-hanhave so many axes to grind. This beinp said. I shall not waste time defending Mr. Wilson, "because, in the first place, he is not the candidate; because, in the second place, hip record speaks for itself; and" because, in the third place, I believe there is much truth in some of the fault which the Republicans find with him. Even if the Wilson record were as bad as it is painted by bis worst enemy1, the only part of it which vitally concerns this campaign ia the League of Nations. It is the League, pot Mr. Wilson, that is the ' issue, and the League must stand or fall on its merits,. not on our opinion of Mt. Wilson. Before the blight of politics had come', the 8enate, August 28, 1916, by unanimous vote, passed a measure requesting the President" to take the lead in auch a world movement as the League of Nations. In February, 1919, the first and tentative draft of the League was published and opportunity was given to all to William II. Taft offered four, submit criticisms. amendments; Elihu Root, six; Charles E. Hughes, seven. Most of these were incorporated in the Final draft. At the White House dinner to the Congressional Com- mittees on Foreign Relations, the President specifiIn a debate between Presically asked for advice. dent Loweii and Senator Lodge in Boston, President Lowell asked Senator Lodge to send his suggestions to Paris. Mr. Lodge refused. He refused to accept even Air. Taft's proposed compromise, although ratification would have been assured thereby. The Treaty of Versailles, was submitted by the President to the Senate July 'l0r 1919. The first vote came November 19th, when the reservations proposed s failed for lack of a majority. Tne same was true March 19, 1920. The resolution terminating the State of War waa vetoed May 27th. It took about three times as long for our deadlocked Government to do nothing as it took our Allies to draft the whole Treaty of seventy-fivthousand words. And the Senators at first complained of the slowness of the peace negotiations. When the Senators began their discussions the League did not exist. While they have been discussing it, it has been born and all other eligible nations ot have joined it. consequence (thirty-seven- ) The League of Nations ia no longer a plan but a ' fact. All the nations of the earth of any consequence, except Germany, Austria, Russia, Tnrkey and Mexico, are already members, bo far as 1 know, none of tho thirty-sevenations now members of the League made any reservations, although the League was the suba ject of heated debate in Switzerland because of the German cantons. Switzerland joined after a popular referendum May 18, 1920, resulting in a vote of 414,830 lor and 322,939 against. This result is remarkable when we consider that the German Swiss, with encouragement from Germany, and Bolahevlsta, with help from Russia, hoping to scrap tho League and so scrap civilisation, conducted a most active campaign. French Vaud polled 63,284 for and 4.800 against; mixed 20,080 tor and 6,101 against; German Zurich, 40,280 for and 00,887 against. are, likewise, opposing the League in this country. The league is a administering goiug concern, the Saar t alley and the city of Danzig, conducting a public health campaign to shield the world from typhus and other diseases, and for the elimination of the opium trade, establishing an international labor bureau, and already settling international disputes which otherwise would have leu to war, especially one between Sweden and Finland over the Aland Islands. Poland has recently submitted to the League her case against Lithuania. it has developed plans in which Elihu Hoot participated to organize an International Court of Justice. Treaties are being registered and published, thus marking the end forever or secret treaties. It is acting as a clearing bouse for information so that secret preparations tor a predatory war will be difficult. It is helping the Red Cross to bind up the wounds left by the war, to reduce the appalling deaths from underfeeding and lack of medical care. if is gathering the facts as to Bolshevism. It is, ia shor, reducing fighting of man against man and substituting fighting of man against disease and hunger. It is organizing international conferences to secure better finance, so that nations may not go bankrupt. Deflation of currency and diaarmameqj are being nought. The League com prises ha Assembly of all nations, a Council ui nine (ot which the United State is entitled to be a permanent member with tne veto power which each member has) and a Secretariat for recording and punching treaties, etc. The League members agree to arbitrate certain disputes, to abide by tha decision of arbitration, and to conciliate in other disputes, and not to go to war after . the recommendation of the . until three month conciliators. To break faith will constitute an act of war on all member of the League, 'lhp penalty is an immediate boycott. Force will not be used except as a last resort and then ouly after the United States haa twice assented, once through its representatives on the Council and then only if Congress votes to follow the advice (not orders) of the CouuciL Reduction ofsgmaments is on of the chief objects of the League, f? As i see them, the chief reasons for supporting Cox uud Roosevelt are as follows: (1) To Insure our entering the League. A vote for Cox is a vote tor the League. A vote (or Harding is a vote for no one knows what. Our entrance into the League of Nations is, 1 am firmly persuaded, an absolute necessity for four rea- The following prominent Republicans of Utah are leading the movement in the state: Dr. M. C. Merrill, Dr. M. P. Henderson, Dr. E. E. Erickson, Prof. John H. Kemp, Prof. Fera-moY. Fox, Prof. H. Leo Marshall, Dr. H. C. Carroll, John L. Coburn, Prof. C. F. Eyring, Prof. Joseph R. Jenson, Prof. Heber C. Kimball, Prof. P. A. Christensen, Director William E. Day. - I have always practised and preached independence - in voting. There will probably be more independent voting this fall than at any time since the Civil War, and for three chief reasons. First, the Great War has Secondly, the loosened and opened men s minds. that it will issue an colossal so is of Nations League inevitably throw thousands, if not millions, of votes across party lines. Thirdly, there will be some ten million new women voters who have not yet formed any real party affiliations. Pro League Republicans and Independents are get1 am ting together to form an organization in October. such an organization. getting letters every day favoring toho favor Among those Republicans and Independents issue on the Roosevelt League Cox of and election the are: THEODORE MARBURG, Republican Minister to Belgium under President Taft. HAMILTON HOLT, Editor of the Independent. PROFESSOR CHARLES SEYMOUR of Yale, author of Diplomatic Background of the War, called by Mr, Taft the most illuminating' book on the war. JOHN F. MPORS, Boston, Matt. of Harvard. CHARLES W. ELIOT, of Wellesley. CAROLINE HAZARD, HENRY C. KING, President of Oberlin. MARY E. WOOLLEY, President of Mount Holyoke. - KATHERINE LEE BATES, author of America, the Beautiful, which might be called now one of our national anthems. - - two-third- .TAMES TOUMEV, Dean of Yale Forestry School. PROFESSOR 8CHLE8INGER, President of the' American Astronomical Society. RABBI STEPHEN H. WISE, New York City. REV. HENRY A. 8TIMS0N, New York City. e MOORFIELD STOREY, Boston, Mass, COL. II. M. WAITE, former Republican City Man agcr.of Dayton. This is no ordinary campaign. Not since the Declaration of Independence has America been railed upon to take as serious a step as that of joining the League of Nations. The voter should vote not for a party to be in power four years but for a policy to be in foree four hundred years. The election is a referendum. Mr. Lodge and Mr. Wilson have both appealed to the country. No such solemn referendum should be decided by mere thoughtless traditional voting as for the party for which our grandfathers voted because once there was a Civil War; mueh less should it be decided by the impulses of personal passionsbout President WilBon or anybody n Frei-bour- else. As I see the picture, the facts are as follows: Mr. Wilson brought back from Paris the greatest German-American- document for safeguarding civilization since the Magna Charts. Taft, Elihu Root, Judge Hughes and other Republicans seemed to so regard it. Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts, now the nominee of the Republican party, in an address of welcome at Boston to President Wilson on W'e welcome him bis return trip from France said: with a reeeption more marked than even that which was accorded to General George Washington, more united than could have been given at any time during bis life to President Abraham Lincoln. We welcome bira as the representative of a great people, as a great Statesman, as one to whom we have entrusted our des-tin.and one whom we assure we will support In the ' future In the working out of that doatiny as MassachuBut Governor setts has supported him in the past. Coolidge did not reckon with an offended group of Senators whose advice, according to one interpretation of the Constitution, the President should have sought more promptly and more formally than he did. Mr. Taft, the leading authority on the League, and a sincere a man as we ever had in political life, favored ratifying the final draft without reservations and without delay. But Republican party politicians saw that if they did (bat, Mr.. Wilson would seem to be another and the Democratic party might win the coming election apd perhaps stay in power indefinitely. that by opposing , If these men sincerely believed or belittling the League they were patriotically saving their country from a terrible mistake, they had a perfect right to protest, if their motive was merely to help jjiacredlt Wilson by discrediting a League which they, with-M- r, Taft, believed to be a great boon for the world and this country, they acre little short of criminal That there was a certain percentage of sincerity in Some of their criticism cannot be doubtqd. Each voter must make up hie mind for himself as to what that percentage was and is. It would do no good for me to sons: impugn motives, or to insist on the correctness of my (a) The League and our membership in it are own diagnosis. I will only say that most Republicans needed to finlkh the job; for it is not yet "over who are beet fitted to judge the League, and most over there. sincere, notably Mr. Taft, strongly disapproved of the (b) It is necessary, in order to secure general add to save ourselves from the crushing taxattitudes assumed by Senators Lodge, Knox, Johnson, ation (billions of dollars a year) and aggravation of Brandegee, Borah, Harding, etc.; that their attitudes League Covenant, as reported to tbe Fans Conference, were often inconsistent with their previous statements; other preparation for war will soon requirp. If w in them of that many frankly say private conversadon 't combine with the rest of the world, w must tion that the opposition to the Treaty consisted mostly compete with the rest of ths world. to win the election of 1920, presidential (e) It is necessary, ia order to prevent another Of politics great world war. The world is now so shrunken by ambitions of several Senators, hatred of Wilson, and rapid transportation that frequent contacts produce freoffended Senatorial dignity for not having been invited quent irritations and conflicts which must bs dealt with. These can be settled peacefully only through to Paris. the League of Nations. Otherwise war ie as certain It is fair to add that If the Republican Senators as that the harvest follows seedtime. were wholly sincere, we should have expected their '(d) W are in honor bound by the deeds of our solsustained to be the Democrats. But the The greatest diers. We are talking of monuments. by findings monument to thee who died in the War against War Republicans scarcely got any real support from the Leasrao of be to should the Nations, perpetuate, a well . Democrats except from one Senator who' had as commemorate toefr work. To secure safeguards for which personal grudges against President Wilson. eauao our was for the soldiers fought and peace I mention all this not because I am inteijj on provdied. ing that the fault Is wholly with the Senators and , To my mind thr best campaign document for Cox or mt with President Wilson (who is blamed for vetoing and Roosevelt is Mr. Tafts recent Apologia, the Knox resoluturn declaring peace, and for asking apology for voting for Ilardinr., , He says- - , y George-Washington- - V s long-etaadin- g V V , ' Pro-Leag- rz a v 1 two-third- whole-hssrtedl- y Governor-Co- x ay: I fa vor going into the League. Senator Harding says: I reject the League. Herbert Hoover aid: If the League it to break down we mutt prepare to fight. -- -- ue When Mr. Wilson brought to this country the League Covenant, aa reported to the Pans Conference urged, on the same platform with him, that we join I thereafter recommended the League. amendmenta, many of which were adopted into its- final form. Had I been in the Senate, I would have voted for the League and Treaty as submitted; and I advocated its ratification accordingly. I did not think, and I do not think, that anything in the League Covenant as sent to the Senate would violate the Constitution of the United States or would involve us m wars which it would not be to (he highest interest of the world and the country to suppress by universal boycott and, if need be, by militarfpree. I consider that the moral effect of Article X on predatory nations would restrain them from war as the declaration of the Monroe Doctrine ha done and that the requirement of the unanimous consent by the representatives of the Great Power in Council before League action would safeguard the United States from any perversion of the high purposes of the League. Moreover, I believe that tbe Issue of tbe League transcends in Its Importance any domes-- ' tic issues and would justify and require one who believes so to ignore party ties and secure this great boon for the world and this country. The only resist Mr. Taft gives for not is that not enough Republican Senator! can bebolting removed s by the fall election to insure the necessary majoritv for the program which Mr. Cox and Mr. Taft botlf want. but Senator Lodge, be Republican leader, expressly promised to abide by fhe verdict. If Governor Cox is elected President, we shall doubtless enter the League next Marrh. If Harding is elected, we shall noi only enter it then but probably Dot during hia entire administration; for Johnson and hia followers will inevitably proclaim Harding s election aa a vindication of their extreme opposition, asd-anattempt by Harding to run counter to their demands would only give Johnson his opportunity to raise his hue and fry with an eye to the presidency in 1924. Under such circumstances will the prudent Harding insist or desist I If he insists, the usual senatorial debate will consume more precious time while the world is burning. If he desists, the League is lost. Cox is for the League, with a united party behind him and a strong platform under him. Harding is straddling or oscillating between the Taft and Johnson wings of a split party and standing on a wsak and uncertain platform. If we really want the League, we should put it in the hands of its friends, not its enemies. While Mr. Tafts apology way seem to excuse him, it is not persuasive to the ordinary Independent, who has never .been a Republican President of the 1'qited States. Mr. Tafts argument amounts to saying that the Republican voter ought not to elect Cox because Lodge, Penroee, Johnson, Borah, etc., ean and may defy the will of the people of the United States; therefore the people pf tne United States would better"throw up their hands, abandon any thought of fighting the obstructionists, and instead, entrust tbe next administration to their tender care. If we can t purge the Senate of all of them in 1920, well finish thh job in 1922 or 1924. But purge them sometime we ean and will. Thrs brings us to tbe second great reason for oppos- ing Senator Harding, namely, ' check To Senate the (2) Oligarchy. If, as Mr. Taft seems to think, the people of the United States cant get tbe League because the Republican Senatorial oligarchy blocks their will, then the Senate oligarchy, not the League, is the issue. If the Senator kill tbe League, they should beware lest the people kill eventually the Senate. Outraged Democracy in England reduced the House of Lords to impoMcCall of Massachusetts, the distence tinguished Republican authority, has in the September Atlantic Monthly sounded a note of warning against the growiug encroachments of the Senate. The Republican Senators, or a group of them, should bo rebuked for playing politics beyond the waters edge and over the graves of our soldiers in France; and for hitting the President when he is down. They should be rebuked for defying public opinion in tbe choice of their candidate. The people wanted Hoover. But, in the Republican Convention which they controlled, the Senators paid no heed to public sentiment, not even to the results of their own Republican primaries. They have tried one objection to the League after another; for instance: That tbe League was written by Smuts and put over on America by Europe; that it wae written by Wilson and put over on Europe by America; that it is a supergovernment impairing our sovereignty and binding us hand and foot;' that it Jague or not. The Knox resolution simply deelarin, is weak and- - powerless,, of jards.a- - rope that1 Peace exist.- will not. give us that! honorable that if it were of any use it would have prevent- - 1 standing in the eye of the world. We shall oe dismear ,ed all the Bolshevist and the other existing wars in graced before our Allies. The Knox resolution that we get Peace by the. cheap and easy method of Europe; that England could outvote us and override us; that the League could compel us to go to war against running away and leaving otjr Allies to impose terms on Germany and enforce them. Worse than that we our will; that it eould order our soldier boys abroad; that the League would create wars, instead of preventsay in the Knox resolution that we expect, Ueverthe ing them; that it would stereotype forever existing less, all the benefits of the Treaty of Versailles! C'au Americans submit to the humiliation of of Ireland, boundaries; that it would crush the hopes ' and the like. being called quitters! These are all absolutely and utterly untrue. Most As Mr. Hoover, who closely follows Mr. Taft, h, of the objections destroy each other. The League adhesion to the Treaty of Versailles our said, recently cannot be at once dangerous and harmless. England is a necessity. And if we reject the Lehgue, we shift-havdidnt put over the votes of her colonies. On the to reject the whole treaty, (of which the League is only the tenth part) and make a new treaty with contrary, England had great misgivings about letting ZeaCanada. Australia, India, South Africa and New Germany or, as Senator Harding proposes, declare we land get these votes. are quit of the war and of Europe and are at peace. Moreover, these-voteof British colonies eould never In that ease we shall lose all sorts of benefits which by any possibility hurt us becaase we have an absolutq we would have had under .the Treaty of Versailles amt eto on any measure concerning ourselves. Majority become entangled in all sorts of complications with vote is not the rule of the League, but unanimity. Europe from which that Treaty would have freed us. And further still, by staying out of the League and For instance, we shall bb obliged to restore German having no voice or veto we are at the mercy of the of ships, and all other German alien property, billions other members, should they unanimously take some dollars worth, which we appropriated durin- - the war action against our interest?. By stsying out we not which under the Treaty of Versailles we are tu only permit such action, but may even induce it, ss and retain. If we should not restore this property we our aloofness is already being regarded ss an unfriend-lTreaty with Frus attitude. We are running the risk of creating a should be violating Article 23 of the sia of 1785 renewed in the Treaty of 1828 which, unless new alignment of international feeling: The world we accept the Treaty of Versailles, will remain iu against the United States. Shall we be ostracized! force. If we violate the Treaty of 1828 we become For the same reason we are not subject to the orourselves Covenant breakers and liable to be haled into ders of a foreign League. Under the Constitution the International Court which, under the League of the League nothing whatever can be even recomNations Mr. Root has just assisted in forming. Gcr mended unless wa through Hiur representatives wish it. many could appeal to that Court and our own Allies And any military act by the United States will rewould condemn us. in is addition action quire bf Congress. The League Again, under the Treaty of Versailles, the propnot a supergovernment, for it has no authority to of ours which Gerinany seized can be recovered. erty on no even action members and its compel any power it cannot. . to levy taxes for its own support. It is not a govern-- , ' Otherwise ment but only a league,!, e., a means of of to Again, 'if we reject the Treaty- we lose 'all claim indemnity. sovereign nations. f Again! we shall ose valuable trade rights and pul The League does not prevent boundaries being at a disadvantage, or rather, keep them changed but only prevents their being ehanged by a our asmerchants they are at a disadvantage already. war of external aggression. In fact, it provides much so, This all means a loss in cash of billions. The Reneeded machinery for changing boundaries by arbitraclaim they want to get in, in order to effect tion, and it does not interfere in internal revolutions. publicans economies. If they could save all the expenses of gov Some critics objected to the first tentative draft of the League on the ground that it interfered with the ernment and run the government for nothing, they would not save what they are proposing to lose by Monroe Doctrine. It didn 't, yet, to silence criticism, a failure to ratify tbe Treaty- - of Versailles, especially if specific reference to the Monroe Doctrine was inserted r in the final draft. But the critics didnt want to be our policy of washing ir'hands of Europe is satisfied. So, when forced to drop the Monroe Doe- - ' war problems results, as it may, in bankruptcy-antrine objection, 4.hey complained, instead, of Article X, inability, therefore, to pay us back some of the ten billions borrowed of us. although, as both Mr. Taft and Governor Cox have If we dont ratify, we shall have innumerable pripointed oat. Article X ie, in a certain sense, the Monroe vate lawsuit of American citizens against Germany Doctrine extended to the whole world. Article X states we eant prosecute with success, and of German that members undertake to respect and preserve, as whieh citizens against the United States. against external aggression, the territorial integrity Let us take a concrete case. A young American and existing political independence of all members. on the 8ussex, torpedoed by a German submarine, was The Monroe Doctrine means that the United States in tbe wgter four hours and contracted pneumonia undertakes to respect and preserve, as against Eurowhich led to tuberculosis. He is entitled to damages, pean aggression, tie territorial integrity and existing of say fifty thousand dollars which could be assessed political independence of American nations. Ia short, and collected under .the Treaty of Versailles, but, with first they insisted we should put in the Monroe Doc trine specifically, and now they ask that we take it out' if, he ean do little more than whistle for them, is that the sort of protection to ourcitizens afforded bv out in general. the Republicans! These complications eould be multiThe typical American Independent plied indefinitely. is beginning to resent what be believes to be attempts The' Republicans have gqtten themselves into an to hoodwink him, to plav on his prejudices and fears, to capitalize any dissatisfaction he may have with impossible situation. There is only one practicable business like thing to do and that is" to ratify. Wilson, or any dislike of England, and to pervert his The League cannot be dissected out of the Treaty-and- . patriotism into national selfishness, all for the purpose if it could, no other of the thirty-sevenatiom of capturing his vote next November. now in the League would consent. No workable plan (3) To uphold the honor of the nation. is possible by which we acce;. the treaty without the If we go into the League w should do so. not ss League while the rest of the world accepts it with the slackers but as we went into the war, willing and League, any more than one man on an athletic team could play football while the rest were playing baseball. eager to bear our share of the responsibilities. Mr. Cox and Mr. Taft both compare Article X to Tbe League had to be a part of the Treaty of Verthe Monroe Doctrine, of which it is an extension. sailles. At first many of the framers of the Treat What would the Monroe Doctrine amount to if we we're thought to have peace and the League later, as Senator to serve notice that while we have a pious wish that Harding now proposes. But they soon saw that was r war problems were so Europe shall respect and preserve the territorial inimpracticable. The tegrity and political independence of the Central and numerous, complicated and vast, and their immediate South American Rations, we must have it distinctly and complete solution so impossible that the League understood that we are under no obligation to back up came- at once to be recognized as an indispensatdt-meclianisour pious wish by force! to be first erected so that through it tbe As it was, Theodore Roosevelt once told Germany problems could be worked out deliberately and propto keep out of Venezuela or he would use our warships; erly. and previously, Grover Cleveland told England essenThese three reason! for voting for Cox and Rouse tially the same thing. In both cases we were saved velt, namely, (1) to Insure our entering the League, use of lores because we were known to be willing . (2) to check tne Senate oligarchy and (3) to uphold the If need be to use it. And for a century since Monrom the. honor of the nation are the great and compelling we have never had to fire a shot, just because it was ones. There are many minor ones, such as: known we were ready to do so. In 1915 Theodore To lnsnre Progressive Legislation. This is a period Roosevelt in a series of articles in the New York of reconstruction where the watchword should be Times Governor Cox is progressive and con favoring a League of Nations emphasized progress, the fact, that unless there was force in the backstroctive. Senator Harding and the group whose crea tore he is and whose tool he will be are reactionary. ground, the League would have little effect in preventing war. He said, There must always be a po- , The Republican platform is full of the word not. liceman behind the ludne.G It is little else than negation, criticism, complaint, He said in the, New York Time, October 18, - hatred. A rote for Harding- is really for Penrose and his 1915, that, bq favored a League of Nations and thatr The nations should agree on certain rights which group, denounced aa tfie worst of reactionaries bv should not be questioned, such as territorial Integrity. Theodore Roosevelt, which means a return of the old AJ1 should guarantee each of their number scandal of special interests to be protected in rein turn for campaign contritoitions. the possession of these rights. They should It is said that Harding will surround himself by furthermore agree, not only to abide, each of them, by the decision of the Court, but all of them to unite, men abler thaa he. But when a weak man, naturally with their military forces, to enforce the decree of the vacillating and without guiding ideas of his own, is Court ae against any recalcitrant member. Under these surrounds;) by abler men than ho who know exactly circumstances it would Je possible to agree on a what they want, bat arent responsible for the action limitation of armaments that would be real and effeo which they induce, the results are not promising, even tive. It would be impossible to say that if there be the best of intentions. On of Mr. Coxs bitterest political enemies in Ohio such aa agreement would at once and permanently stop said to me, I must confess I voted for him the last war but it would mark an important advance. It would certainly mean that the chances of war wera minimised, time because he gave us the best government the state ever had. He enforced tbe law without fear or favor for it will mean that, at last a long stride and whether he personally approved of it or not. haa been taken in the effort to put the collective Hae the Republican pgrty lost it soul in the death strength of civilized mankind behind the collective of Roosevelt! 1 shudder at the cynicism of one of the purpose of mankind to secure the peace of righteousRepublican leaders who said: The people are more ness, ths pence of justice, among the nations of the interested in their stomachs than in tne heart of the earth. world. If onr bove at Chateau Thierry had been Could a prophet have described better, five years before it gas born, the League of Nationa as it is, more interested in their stomachs than in the heart of the world, they would have run away. They wiped including Article X! very reproach which had been hurled at us Tbe Lodge Reservation on Article X says Ths ) away that United States assumes no obligation to preserve the during the three long weary years (1914 1917) whes territorial iategrity or political independence of any England and Franre did the fighting for us and kept back the Hub at the cost of millions of lives and bilother country. lions of treasure; and now that they are exhausted beRoosevelt or Lodge! us we are asked to desert them ss If we enter tbe League we want to command the cause they defended a bankrupt concern. respect and friendship of other members. What would Colonel House recently said of Europe: The feelan individual think of joining a club but with the ' reservation that he was to get all the benefits but pav , ing is general that America has shirked her responsihas bilities and deserted the world at a critical tune no dues! Would he be the most popular member of for selfish reasons. Some feel a grim satisfaction that club, especially if he were the (ply one of forty and in conviction If the that Europe goes down America members, ail the rest of whom entered without, any will go with her, no matter how hard she tries to hold reservations! " On of last aloof.s week, at the unveiling of Wednesday The obstrocting Senators have already gone far to of tho great, humane and universally beloved destroy the most precious asset, though an intangible ' tbe statuePremier Lincoln, Lloyd George gave voice to the feelasset, which a nation can hava and one which we possessed two years ago ia a higher degree thaa any ing lying deep in the hearts of all, when he said: This torn and bleeding earth U calling today for tho Arner-iranation in all history international goodwill. If SenAbraham Lincoln. ator Harding is elected, wa shall entsr the League (if Ia view of the logic of events, T believe that the at all) with nullifying reservations and under susfoundations which attach the Republican voter to bis picion; it will then be widely belle vsd both at home party are crumbling away as the mountain side is and abroad that our entrance into the League has loosened bv the rains preparatory to aa avalanche. insufficient sanction of the people. We want an honorable peace whether w cater the (Paid Advertisement.) - left-ove- d ' - n left-ove- , - ' a . I X I |