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Show THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Never since the signing of the Declaration De-claration of Independence, has there been a document up for consideration considera-tion by the people of the country of so much consequence as the Paris peace treaty, including the agree-.ment agree-.ment for a League of Nations to enforce en-force world peace. The question is Receiving the serious consideration of the great minds of the nation, and there are able arguments for and against the agreement. For anyone who has not "in r nite and exhaustive study of the instrument as drawn to presume to say whether or not the treaty should be signed and ratified by the United Ktates Senate is but idle and silly; ,but It is a great question which concerns con-cerns us nil. and ought to be studied and understood by the rank and file of the people. Also the opinions of our best statesmen should be read and considered. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, is recognized by the country coun-try at large to be one of the foremost fore-most advocates of protection principles prin-ciples in the United States, and Mr. Smoot sees serious objection and danger to the treaty as submitted without first being amended. One of the defects pointed out in the treaty in a lengthy letter to Editor Lund of Mt. Pleasant, is the discrimina tion in the matter of representation tof the. United States in the international interna-tional council, as compared with that of Great Britain. To concede six or seven votes to England to our one, would be suicidal on our part, land would make of the United States 'a, small tail which England -and the nations she directly and indirectly 'controls could wag at will. The majority ma-jority of the U. S. Senators are insisting in-sisting that the United States be giv-en giv-en equal representation with England En-gland if the treaty be ratified, a contention con-tention which appears to us quite jproper and right. Iron County Record. |