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Show Article X,Wilso's "Heart of Covenant " Is Meld Superfluous by Leon Bourgeois Leon Bourgeois shared with President Presi-dent Wilson and Lord Cecil tho work of framing the covenant of League) of Nations. Ho was tho foremost French advoo.ato of tho plan, and as W reward for his work was mado i (and Is now) tho President of the' Council of the League of Nations. , An Associated Press dispatch from , Brussels, giving nn interview be-1 tween American corrcspndents and M. Bourgeois, says: "M. Bourgeois said ho had been surprised that this articlo X had! caused so much emotion in tho Unit- cd States. He stated that articlo 3t could bo ellmlnacd without In any way modifying tho effectiveness of tho Leaguo of Nations." President Wlbon spoko at Salt Lako City on September 23, 1910. Hero Is part of tho 'stenographic record: rec-ord: "Why, my follow citizens, articlo X is nn engagement on tho part ot tho great fighting nations ot tho world thnt they will observo, respect and preserve ns against external aggression ag-gression tho territorial Integrity of existing political Independence of the other members of trio league. "This is tho heart of the covenant." coven-ant." Tho nbovo from the Now York Herald of October 2C, 1920. Herbert Hoover, tho grcnt economist, econ-omist, tho man who could have had tho Democratic nomination for tho presidency on a silver platter, Uio man whom Mr. Fritz Champ, chnlr-man chnlr-man of tho Democratic club, preferred pre-ferred above all other men In the world for president, even to tho. extent ex-tent of supporting him for nomination nomina-tion on tho Republican ticket, thrit samo Herbert Hoover told Pdesldcnt Wilson In Paris that Article 10 meant war and should bo eliminated. eliminat-ed. This samo Hoover pload with Mr.Wllson to nccept tho Lenguo with reservations and then go to tho people peo-ple for tho elimination of the reservations reser-vations If ho deomed them Inadvisable. Inadvis-able. This samo Herbert Hoover, recognized ns ono of tho world'B foremost economists and constructionists, construc-tionists, says tho falluro of tho tne President to accept tho treaty with reservations, nnd thus thrust It Into tho campaign "IS THE GREATEST FAILURE IN STATESMANSHIP SINCE THE CIVIL WAn." He then declares "THE SOLEMN REFERENDUM REFEREN-DUM IS NOT ON THE LEAGUE: IT IS ON THE FAILURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. I WANT A LEAGUE, BUT I WANT AN ADMINISTRATION AD-MINISTRATION THAT HAS SOME SENSE OF ITS RESPONSIBILITIES..' RESPONSIBILI-TIES..' J . Governor Cox got Bore nt the Saturday Sat-urday Evening Post for running a cartoon "The samo old mulo," showing show-ing thegovcrnor as a British sportsman sports-man exhibiting to Undo Sam nn old whttfe-waehed mulo, saying to Undo Sam, "''You ought to seo his record." Undo Sam knowingly replies "I think I know it. Ho looks Uko tho mulo I drovo for eight years." Four I years ago Mr. Wilson won on the jBlcgnn "Ho kepi us out of war" Cov- Cox Is now trying to win on tho slogan slo-gan "Cox will koop us out of war." Just tho samo old mule. |
