Show TAFT TUFT RAPS HUPS FOES OF lEAGUE OF NATIONS DECLARES SMALL AMERICANS OF SMALL VISION HAVE S SENATE SEATS F Former rm r President in n Address at San Francisco Condemns Senators Who Opposed League of Nations Plan San Former Former President William U. U 11 Taft addressing the time cl clos closing sIng s- s ing ag se selon lon Thursday night February 20 O of the Pacific toast const congress of th the L League ague to Enforce Peace replied to o his critics and opponents of the plan for the establishment of ff f a league of f nations and referred pa to toan toan an in open open open- letter to him by United States Senator William E. E Borah of Idaho which questioned the efficiency of the tile Monroe doctrine Inthe in inthe the he event the league of of nations plan was i-as adopted Senator Borah wants to know in In what runt he calls an open letter said Mr Taft raft whether I would consent to a a. league eague of nations In which the Monroe doctrine Is not recognized I will answer him hint by saying th that I would like Ike to have hani the Monroe doctrIne acknowledged ac- ac ac ac- li specifically by such a league eague e but if 1 u recognition of Its Us principles prin prin- cINes is contained In lathe the covenant for fOl such uch a league I w not object to the form orm in which It Is put Article X of the covenant drafted In a Par Paris s extends the Monroe doctrine e eto to to 0 the entire world and gives It backing of th the entire world Consequently Conse Conse- recognizes the Monroe doctrine doctrine doerIn doc doe trine rIn and I am hm In ui entire support of that covenant 1 Refers to Wild Words What I would like to ask Senator B Borah l rah is s this If It he Insists on the specific acknowledgment of the Monroe Monroe Mon Men roe roe 00 doctrine In Ia the covenant for the league tague of nations mInd dud if such reco recognition Ilion is given It in the covenant as finally nally agre agreed d upon In Paris Palis will he be sote ote te for a n treaty based upon the coven coven- covenant oven ant lit as f finally amended The TIie wild words of f Representative Fess ss and Senators Reed and x- x te-r te ter er shot out Into the the air on the theory that the Uie people of this country do not nOl read or that they will accept t their bald balcI statements unquestionably would b be humorous humorous' If It they were not the utterances utterances utter utter- ances of such eminent and learned gentlemen Characterizing as small Americans members of the United States senate who are opposing the covenant for tor a u league of nations Mr Ir Taft made an especial appeal to the women of the Pacific coast to bring their Influence Influence influence ence to bear on the senate In behalf of ratification of ot the league Certain small Americans on the floor of the tJ United States t t senate e profess pro ss s to lee iee see dire danger and eventual disaster to the country i If Ii we we enter eater Into a league of nations aCtions said Mr Taft I I do not use the term small Americans Americans' Amer Amer- leans leans' lc ns' ns In man Inan an Invidious sen sense senS but but simply to Imply that that- that that- these these gentlemen have havea a i ismall small view of America the pro n- n cial selfish view that the highest duty of America Is to preserve for our oui our own wn people beyond which we hav h e no other responsibility toward the rest of the thew w world orld |