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Show J It :'J 1C eo-:- ; tlicj in- - THE CITIZEN THE LEAGUE PLANK The country has reason to congratu- - territorial late itself that the Democrats drew r, the League issue so clearly. It is pos-ioiJible for the people to render a ; cisive verdict for or against the Wil- jion covenant in the congressional flections. I jj The Democrats declare their faith the' jin the present covenant and will have o other. They intend to make their ght uncompromisingly for an interna-iona- l contract wihch is an alliance integrity to great and small nations alike.1" jt The platform is here quoting one of the president's fourteen points and, it is a point which, as were most of the others, was abandoned. It is true that Germany laid down her arms in accord with a specific agreement that peace should be based on the fourteen points. These principles were abandoned at Versailles and rit-!or war. the compact with Germany was brok en. The Democratic reference to the It is impossible to realize the treats pendous departure from the accepted fourteen points shows either confuof America, which the Dem- - sion of mind or the kind of nerve that vcr.i traditions ocrats advocate, unless we analyze the i ragnirpri tp pq?s a bogus The first of the fourteen points was League declaration sentence by sen-- t tence and almost phrase by phrase. By "open covenants openly arrived at, V that method we shall be able to viz- - after which there shall be no private ualize its viciousness and sense its international understandings of any timi. menace. kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." lcrc.r j The Democratic party favors the Versailles closed its door against jj; if as Nations of the surest, the nations and the "Big Five proceedIk League means of ed to parcel out the world. There weie Jpot the only, practicable lUiK .maintaining the permanent peace of feuds and then the "Big Four proiscd the world and terminating the insufceeded with the division of the spoils. i ferable burden of great military es-- : Finally the "Big Three consummated tablishments." the betrayal of. the fourteen po'ints 1 and a private international agreement was proposed for the defense of j Here we have an audacious declarasurtion that a league for war is the France in the event of an attack by est means of preserving peace and, Germany. more amazing still, a declaration that It is unnecessary to outline the methlists a military alliance is the surest means ods by which the various points were of bringing about disarmament. The abandoned. Merely to mention the ieart of the League is Article X which points themselves is to recall to mind hinds the member nations to preserve the means by which they were be(j the "territorial integrity and existing trayed. Freedom of the seas, removal M political independence" of one another. of economic barriers, nec-an is to make if war, obligation of nations, evacuation of Russian Hj Jt to French ssary, preserve the British, territory; free access to the sea of PoM or Italian empires as they are at pres-land and the award to her of all "inf nt constituted and history has shown disputably Polish territory; disarmaThat the only way to preserve empires ment and, in fact, all of the fourteen M is by war. An empire is primarily a points except two were abandoned in M itate of dominion by a conquering over whole or in part. M conquered peoples. The treaty of Ver-Faith was not kept with Germany sailles confirmed the rule of empires even in the matter to which the Demo1 jvhile hypocritically feigning to be in cratic platform alludes. Germany exhe interest of free nations. It pro- pected to be a member of a league of Jided for the most colossal scheme of nations to preserve peace and to re- m Empire since men formed into nations move economic barriers. She has been $nd that scheme is nowr being estab-- J excluded from the league, indisputably lished by means of war. German territory has been taken from Even if the nations in the League, her and she, with other powerful nadeparting from accepted tradition, tions, has been placed in a position make the strongest resolutions to keep which has embattled some of them he peace, they must wage war they against the leagued nations and has ire obliged to wage war when at-- j evenentuated already in wars small acked. It. is "so denominated in the and great. bond. Among themselves they may It is not unlikely that the framers of Be able to maintain peace so long a's the platform were trying to make a Ihere are no more worlds to conquer subtle appeal to the German vote by and they are satisfied with present suggesting that this country is bound blunder, but just so soon as any mem-- j in honor to keep its compact with Gerer of the League of Nations is at-- I many, but if the reference was so inacked all the members must take up tended indeed, whether it was so ininns if it is necessary to preserve the tended or not it is apt to have, a Issailed member from the loss of terboomerang effect. nary or independence. "We advocate the immediate ratifi"The armistice was granted and a cation of the treaty without reserva. reaty of peace negotiated upon the tions which would Impair its essential definite assurance to Germany that 'a integrity; but do not oppose, the acleneral association of nations must be ceptance of any reservations making 5 ormed, under specific covenants, for clearer or more specific the obligae purpose of affording specific guar-rtee- s tions of the United States to. the of political Independence and League associates." v By F. P. Gallagher In this sentence the Democrats have stated the issue unmistakably. It is the present covenant or nothing. They say that the American people must not so change the league as to nullify any part of it, and if the American people fail to nullify some parts of the compact they, will have entered a military alliance to keep subject peoples in slavery, to engage in wars that are no concern of ours and to uphold unjust boundaries from the Saar Basin to Shantung. They will have engaged to establish starvation blockades against peoples with whom we have no quarrel and even tn deny tn the peoples of Africa and other parts of the world the right to import arms or form armies to gain their liberty and Independence. If the League is established without modification we Oblige ourselves to go to war at the dictation of a supreme council without according to congress its constitutional right to declare for war or peace. And any reservation which assumes to interpret the covenant so as make believe that the moral irrespective obligation is of congressional action, will not clarify the covenant, but camouflage it. Our (Continued on Page 18.) non-existen- t, : - J self-determinati- M M H J jJ j jj jI . , . i WILLIAM E. RYDALCH CANDIDATE FOR NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET William E. Rydalch was born and reared on a farm in Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, his father settling in that place in 1853 and his mother in 1857, and where they still make their home. lie is the son of William M. and Margaret Rydalch, his mother being a daughter of Edward Hunter, a member of the Mormon Battalion. He graduated from the Brigham Young University with the class of 1894, where he also taught and from the University of Michigan law class of 1900. Upon his return from Ann Arbor he practiced law in Provo, and ten years ago removed to Salt Lake City,., where he is now actively and successfully engaged in his profession. He is married the father of two daughters and live sons, three of the latter having been in the service during the war, one in the navy and two in the army. If nominated and elected, he will be for a substantial reduction in the expenses of state government, for a ' strictly economical administration, and he will stand, as. he has always stood, for Utah, for the advancement of her interests and the prosperity of all her people. . t , i |