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Show PRO-LEAGUEflS MEET IN IN Yale Professor and Hero of Lost Battalion Addre-ss Meeting H SM.T I.AKR. Od B Colonel Charles M. Whittle-, com- H tnander of the "Tost RatUHon." and H frott-mor Irvine Fthr of Vale. I H the Salt Lake theater IhhI n.'rh;. plv- Inic reason for leaving th Iteoubll-can Iteoubll-can party to nupport 'iovcrnor Jane .Mr. 'ox and the bagey of BStlODJ stand of the Drmorra' The meefinff WM held under he umpire of the It.ih branch of the WM uroleagne Independents and wa pre- M 1 .id osrr b Professor Merrill Of the lH I t.ih Aim- "i! ' .. r il colle-. Profewor Flflher aa!d. cincr-r.ing President Tuft, that hlle he and Taft .re upon opposite v.ildcs of a qUOViOIV that In reality, they are in absolute A . ireemi n mm Mr. Taft says, In substance, that the; HI Democratic platform In right and that I .-form 1- irronc; thai ttu , BB attitude of Mr COS 1" correct :nd I hut 1 the attitude of hit candidate Is not J BB: known, and conclude that, in order to BB nter the league of nation, we should BB for Senator Harding." .t 11 I S FAF1 H Mr. Fisher thereupon quoted from! B prsvtoos uttsrsriees of ex-PfresIdsnl I BJ Tift anil referred to them a- the be; j BJ inumral for voting for Cox saying BJ that Mr Taft hlmrelf ald the UMUej BJ was beyond partisan politic and that) Mr Tafl i illed upon pp ' i BJ "We. prolesjpie independents .ire Ihcj In rrtiintrv . 1 o I nil BBVBg pendent and Ttr publcns. nut prind- BBBBJ lile above part-. wi BBbBB houid. We should eleol e lond- BBVBa man who has his herrt In this Bl n terprlne. BBVBI In dleuslng the league- n a mean BBhB of preventive war. Professor Fisher BBhB ipov.e espst lally of article x. saying BBhB 'hat the only cjifference het'een t V e BBVBj Monroe Doctrine and article X is that BBVBj the league article extends the doc- BBVB trine from one hemisphere to both I B .''ill makes it mutual rind reciprocal. I BBVBj 'Article X Is really the heart of the! BBhB QOTanant," he said, "and to sacrifice it BBVB would e to sacrifice one of the effl- 1 BBVB meanH of h league to keen' BBhBJ mesne Hut without It we would still I BBhBi have other means. Mr. Taft jsrerita ar- BBhB tide X. but Rays It ean't be secured i BBVH nd wnnts to let it go. it article X Is I BBVH . good thing uml 1 think It is. let! BBVH - for BBhB Citing the pet Ion taken by President . BBhB Itooeevrll in the dispute with Germany ' BBBhj rojicerjilnx Venesuelai Professor F)h- BBB or said: "Suppose we had had ai BBhB) l.udge reservation then?" I :i( l' i N ( i i i BBhB ' Consider the economic boycott, it If BBhB a most clever wenpo: jznltsl n-r. i BByB There is but one- nation whldh bbiild BBVJ stand ffonomii- Isolation, and that H BBBI America. I' I really ns an Indopendenl t Pa' In thin league of nations there :ire loubtless defects. Mr. Co. however, bus nnnounced himself :-" rr:ily to cept the Icajue with "jch reoervit.lons n the senate and the people ' the , United Stnles desjre. "A prominent eastern Republican senator lold B friend of mine In Xw York that If Hireling Im elfCltd he ran forget about the league. s ;m officer I would no- triial that otflCOt or msn who could not tell me wha army he is fighting for. Ani tt. my mind Is exactly the position Benti-I tir Harding Is In. "It Is substantial tO anlsrOf Mi-Root, Mi-Root, Mr. Taft and others li".. them that the present le-aguf is ;i or isj concern, con-cern, with forty-three nations -ter.i-iers of It Tn the war 1 learn l the) value of co-operni ion. I would ralhfr have the most stupid officer under one: If he would play th game Wllh th others, than the mo.Ht hrlUlsnt officer who would not ro-opt r i j "We have now In thlr IfOSj the I I greatest experiment In thi worl 1 for! i.rodui inp peace, and If Anu ri a loc I not play its part th league tnusi r: il . I l or how can thes ot)i ,- iliops dis- arm If we do nol ? So here this ex- periment deser'e our support i the' first practical thirg I hat the world! has done for peace. Hnrdins s'.tg- geted association of nations Is rot i worthy of being dignl;:el by consideration. consid-eration. Mexico. Germany rnd Turkey, Tur-key, aside from the Unite 1 Stole-, are 'he non-membera of Mir ; .-j |