Show democratic COLUMN paid advertisement THE LEAGUE preventing walt IYAR there Is no use any longer tor for prejudiced or part izan critics at 0 the league idea to pretend says the philadelphia public ledger ind rep that the league as constituted in paris can call not prevent wars vars it has even without the powerful backing of the united states and with europe still in a state of 0 hair trigger excitement the council of 0 the league has headed off one war and seems to have another actually in progress in the first case the dispute between sweden and finland over the aland islands in the baltic Is rear red to a commission of inquiry appointed by the council of 0 the league in the second case poland and lithuania agreed to submit boundary differences feren ces to a similar commission and suspend hostilities although dispatches report continued military opera tons during negotiations tor for au all arms tie tic like the public ledger other important republican and independent republican papers credit the league with making good by thus averting war and this of at the enthusiastic democratic acclaim marks an all interesting development of 0 the campaign says the public ledger it will lie be noted by tearful fearful persons who are always seeking to make our flesh creep by insisting that this horrible orge ot of a man eating league would infallibly drag our sons oft off to di die e on distant battlefields battle fields wh whose 0 se very names we would have great difficulty in pronoun pronouncing effig that both these gifts of peace to the volcanic regions about the baltic have been made without the employment of 0 a single weapon not eyen economic not a soldier has been sent not a shot has been filled by league forces not so much as a blockade has been established not so far as we are told a single cargo ship has been deflected I 1 J the League worked its benefi clent aj miracle by simply offering the quarreling n nati att ns a coi co mission of oe inquiry which they could trust we are not given all the details of the tour four cases involved so b we are not in a position to say for certain to what extent the disputes would fall in true category of questions but it is altogether likely that in both cases there are matters for settlement which could hardly be handled under the formal rules of a court but which must be dealt with along political or diplomatic lines that is a statesman as well as a judge is needed that calls for a league council as well as a league court the last answer to the leagues opponents is the league itself declares the chicago evening post ind rep which observes while opponents of the league of nations are declaring in ill one breath that it is dead and in the next that it is a menace to the worlds concord dramatic answers come to both charges in the tact fact that the league of nations operating as a living organization is preventing war ind and restoring peace it is to be noted that it is not some vague association of nations nebulously nase nascent ent in the minds of certain gentlemen but the league of nations created at versailles and operating under the much abused covenant which commands the confidence of sweden finland poland and lithuania and acts now as the worlds de bense ense against new strafes fes premier branting Brantl ng or of sweden said that hat the action which the league has taken aken on the aland islands question furnishes urnis hes proof to the world that tile the league even in its present state is an efficient world court for hearing international difficulties and forestalling conflicts between nations the new york globe ind rep calls this a significant statement ill that t should affect NI profoundly the american can and the world attitude toward the league of nations the stockton cal record 1 repa I lep says saya let the campel campaign ign of abuse cease the league of nations is not the iridescent dream of an all impractical idealist bitter partisans parti to the contrary notwithstanding tb standing it is a living tact fact and its potency has already been splendidly demonstrated eventually america will join not a league of at nations but the league of continued on page four our I 1 democratic COLUMN continued from first page nations it is inevitable there is I 1 no other honorable course de democratic mo cratic papers stress the news that the league is at work that the league prevents war ivar that menaced nations put trust in the league that it is a servant of 0 peace that t the he league is a going concern successful functioning comes at the psychological moment in the national campaign observes the atlantic constitution an and drobs robs the republicans of any supported argument against the league as an effective means of 0 stopping or pre preventing venting wars europe is not ti tt eating treating the republican party with proper consideration notes the little rock arkansas gazette the league of nations to say the least is a very valuable failure many blany democratic journals point out the contusion confusion in the republican press c tied cited by the new york evening post between those days when the league i is s called a ca dever and alternate days when it is called a tho the dallis news is one of many papers that see persuade per suave evI evidence deuCe that the league needs only the added strength of the united states states to make it a powerful force for the prevention of t war |