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Show INPAVOR j Senator McKellar Says League Is Greatest j Forward Step. WASHINGTON, July 23 The league of nations was supported in the senate today by Senator McKellar, Democrat. Tennessee, as one of the createst forward for-ward steps in the nation's history Most of the opposition, he asserted, "came from reactionaries" of the same school as those who opposed the federal fed-eral constitution and those who later handicapped the growth and development develop-ment of the country "There have always heen reactionar ies In our country," said the Tennes-Bee Tennes-Bee senator, "and there hae always been procressiVes. Thre have al-was al-was been forward-looking men and . ui k a mi - iook iiik men. luere nave always been men who looked to precedents pre-cedents and to the past and men who looked to the future. If the reactionaries reaction-aries had had their way in the beginning begin-ning of our goernment we probably would not have had a republic. If! they had had their way the republic j would never have beer, enlarged "I am not a reactionary, I am a ! democrat in Its most progressive sense.! We ought to improve upon those who! 'have gone before us. Wo have had I j better advantages than they had. They j blazed the path Every dictate of con - i science, even, dictate of humanity, every dictate of an enlightened self 1 interest, every dictate of commercial land industrial advantage, i verj dictate! of a desire for peace .requires the establishment es-tablishment of this great world pact "Reactionary Republicans and reac- ' tionary Democrats who are opposing this league, don't let ycur haired of any one mnn warp and set aside your judgment Whatever may be said of Mr Wilson he has surely done great things lor America. Under his administration admin-istration we have become a world pow- -er faster than in any other like period in our history. All of his work has! been done for America. Let not1 America, who has given thla great covenant to the world, be the onl one' ' to repudiate it. "The real criticism of the league In the minds ot Its dpponents in the senate sen-ate is that Woodrow Wilson took a commanding part In the formation of the league. There mav be better plans, but why haven't they been produced?" Three incontestable reasons for the league, continued the senator, are the t Ol war, its sacrifice ol human life and "the utter folly of creatine: nations in Kurope without jrivins them the! guaranty of life " He said he did not aere thai Article X imposed onlj 1 moral obligation to go to war to pre i serve the integrity of members, but that it rightly imposed a legal obligation obliga-tion to do so. oo |