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Show BORAH SAYS U. S. BOYS MAY POLICE ALL EUROPE PERU, lnd.. Oct. 21 Senntor Wlll-llam Wlll-llam Ho rah. In an .iddrrss here Wednesday Wed-nesday night declared advocates of the leaR;e ,f nations al the beginning of the presidential campaign has attempted at-tempted to satisfy the voters that If the I'nlted Stat' s joined the league thla country would be under no obligation obliga-tion to send troops to F.urope and that , OOngraea could rxerclae itn discretion I In the matter. That position had now been abandoned, he said, and by the OOnetrUCtton now put upon articles ten and elevon by those who wrote the 1 covenant, the average clilzen of ih! country should no lontfr be In doubt j as to the obligations these articles entail. "For instance, the president, him- i arlf." he said, In answer to a question ques-tion propounded to him by Senator' Knox, when he was before the foreign relations committee settled the whole controversy. Senator Knox asked him this question 'Suppose that It la perfectly per-fectly obvious there had been an externa! ex-terna! aggression against some nation, would WC be under obligations to participate par-ticipate in the oontroverayf Th pseetdenl responded 'We would l. wml' i in absolutely compelling compell-ing moral obligation to do so.' SOW, whether you csll It a legal or a moral obligation makes no difference differ-ence u long hs It Is absolutely com-1 pelllng The thing which the peo- j pie of this country are called upon! to determine la whether they want to pledge their boys to heroine police- i men or aoldlera to patrol the boundary llns of gvoTy nation In Kurope. And It ought to be remembered In this con-I nectlon that if v e were now members of the league under article ten our bejra would, some of them, be In Kurope Ku-rope and 0 therg Would bo on their! wsy. |