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Show NELSON I Minnesota Senator Asks for Early and Lasting Peace. VISION !S LACKING Shortsighted Statesmanship Statesman-ship Waits Until War Before Acting. j ' 1 , WASHINGTON Oct. 9. -Senator Nelson. Republican of Minn. i.. pleading in the senate today for a lasting peace, declared he could not sympathize with the sentiment of league of nations opponents thit would have this country crawl in'o a closed shell with no other label thai the 'Monroe doctrine.' "Statesmanship which is oblivious to the Importance of providing bj ill reasonable methods against the re currence of raw," said Senator Nelson, Nel-son, "and insists on standing still until un-til war actually occurs, is short Sighted, Sight-ed, lhes in the past, lacks a wind's I vision, and overlooks the fact that a world's war should result in a world's peace, and that such a peace should be of n permanent character." The senator charged that when all other arguments against the peace treaty failed, those who openly or covertly cov-ertly desired to defeat it resorted to a scare about England antl lapnn, 'and paint in lurid colors the threatening threat-ening dangers of them." This was the favorite policy, he said, adopted by those who during the war sympathized with the encm There was a time not long ago. the Minnesota senator declared, when the United States sent warships "to chastize chas-tize Barbary pirates without even a declaration of war." while now when still technically at war, "we grow nervous over the landing up of a few American marines in a small part of the Dalmation coast." This nervousness, nervous-ness, he added, was "like the greater nervousness manifested toward England Eng-land and Japan " "As to Shantung, while I am Hoar that it should be restored to China, and I believe it will be," the senator said, "let it be remembered that ex cept for th war Germany would have retained her hold on Shantung, and as between her and Japan I cannot see why any of us should prefer Ger-! many " 00 |