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Show THE 4 CITIZEN of adopting children, but we did not know that a development could articles were discovered. Article X is now recognized as the heart of the covenant. The President himself .so describes it. be adopted legally or morally or according to Article X. We assume that the members of the foreign relations committee The President having been delayed in Washington, where he sometimes passes a few distressing days, the Western Newspaper of the Senate objected to Article X. In fact, we seem to recall that some of the senators, at the Presidents dinner, asked Mr. Wilson y Union sent out another letter on August 23, reiterating the offer. ,t: In the first place, The Western Newspaper Union need not figure what effect Article X would have on the fate of Ireland. He is re- in this story except as a mere detail. That company is simply furported to have replied that Irelands fate was to be left to Great nishing the boiler plate as directed by the Mount Clemens News Britain, as that was an internal question. At any rate Article X was under fire while the President was in Bureau, simply transacting its ordinary, legitimate business. The point is that another multimillionaire has come to the rescue this country on his return from Paris and it was under fire after he of the President and his covenant. Millionaires have flocked to the had returned to Paris. No change was made in it. As long ago as February of this year, following the visit to Salt standard of former President Taft and President Wilson in promotLake of Mr. Taft, we pointed out that the league was a league for ing propaganda for the covenant. While the proponents of the covenant raise their hands in horror whenever they hear that a man of war. It is still a league for war. That was the main objection to it at the very outset and the character of the covenant has not money or a man representing money has spoken a kind word for rebeen changed. vising" the covenant in accord with American principles multimillionIt may be that the senators did not submit to Mr. Wilson a. aires are financing trips and publicity on behalf of the Wilson covenant. specific amendment to Article X. As the negotiatior of the treaty it We do not recall any captain of industry who has indorsed the was up to him to find the proper amendment, but he considered the fight on the treaty, but having listened to the innuendoes of B. H. article the heart of the league and naturally was not inclined to Roberts and others, we presume that we have missed some of the alter it. He offends sincere men, when he resorts to the subterfuge of news and, therefore, we will take it for granted that moneyed intermaintaining that he did not change Article X because no specific amendment was proposed to him by the members of the foreign reests are challenging the throne of grace by favoring treaty reservations. It would be only fair, however, if Mr. Roberts would list these lations committee. While he was in Paris revising the covenant the objections to Article X became more and more reverberant, but he moneyed malefactors. Henry Ford can send boiler plate publicity indorsing President ignored them. His argument is feeble from another viewpoint. Let us admit Wilson and the covenant to every paper in the United States without that the real perils embodied in Article X were not understood by the subjecting his $35,000,000 annual income to any noticeable strain. In the New York Evening Post, owned by Mr. Lamont, of the senators until recently. That would not be a good reason for acceptfirm of J. Pierpont M organ and Company, Senator Lodge is deing Article X. On the contrary, it would be a conclusive reason for and as the hope of Germany, because he providing against it before the ratification of the treaty. nounced as would make the league covenant conform to American principles. And, by the way, Article X is not the only article that makes it a league for war. Commenting on this Arthur Brisbane, in the San Francisco Examiner, says: Somebody said that back of the peace league stand the great LAWYERS OF INJUSTICE make United States the of the world, eager to grasping financiers army and citizens under conscription a collection, agency for wildcat any Salt Lake judge about the methods of lawyers in criminal ASK financial investments. and then prepare yourself for thunders and lightnings of That statement, made by responsible men, caused real or imitadenunciation. tion indignation. No doubt the judges would gladly send some of the offenders to Find a big financier eager for a chance at world exploitation and jail, but the criminal lawyer knows how to be a lawyer criminal withyou find a friend of the peace league. That being the case, and these out crossing the legal dead line. Nevertheless it is astonishing that the courts have not made some gentlemen being intelligent, dont you suppose the peace league contains something particularly attractive for them ? attempt to bring these malefactors within the grip of the justice they There are Americans in Russia today trying to collect for Wall so wantonly defy. Street gentlemen on bonds that Bolshevism repudiated. Is not RusIt is commonplace, but it is again and again necessary, to call atsia enough? tention to the fact that a lawyer is a member of the judicial depart. ment of our government. His highest duty as an officer of the court is to see that justice is done. So contrary to this precept are PRESIDENTS SUBTERFUGE the maneuvers of our legal Machiavellis that the public has almost President says that on his return to this country last March lost sight of. the true functions of a lawyer. If a lawyer knows that the first draft of the covenant he heard all of the objections a man is guilty he has no right, legal or moral, to defend him, but to it put forward by the foreign relations committee of the Senate and apparently the more certain some of our lawyers are that the a7 t noted the amendments which the members proposed and he declares cused is guilty, the more determined they are to make a case for and money for themselves. that all of these amendments were incorporated in the second draft. Consulting our own files we find that in the issue of March 22 we Hardly a week goes by that some brazenly fraudulent alibi is said : not backed by manufactured evidence. The court is morally certain In Korea there is a revolt against the rule of Japan. So long that the evidence is doctored and the testimony perjured, but so as the Koreans arc left to themselves they cannot make much headsmoothly is the lie buttressed by the wily lawyer and his criminal way, but they might triumph if they should receive the aid of the aides that the court is powerless to prevent the accused from going Russians were it not for Article X of the League of Nations. Just as free. soon as the Russians should step in to aid the Koreans the United Attorneys of this stripe are like crooked gamblers. To them the States and every member of the league would be required to defend statutes are cards for the playing of a brace game. First they stack the cards, then make a crooked deal and then rely on whatever treachthe territorial integrity of Japan. It is true that the President had kept the Senate and, indeed, the ery and trickery may suggest during the play. Nor are these the only kind of lawyers who deserve to be diswhole country in the dark as to the terms of the covenant. They had no- chance to analyze the various articles until he brought home the ciplined by the judges and the local bar association. We have lawyers who solicit business by mail or by other methfirst draft of the treaty. We cite our own comment, as early as March 22, to show that as ods of advertising, never hesitating to foment litigation if they think soon as the terms of the covenant became known, the dangerous that they can make a dishonest dollar within the law. Their pro-Germ- an THE then-clien- - |