OCR Text |
Show oo HE CONTINUES TO REJECT THE LEAGUE. Senator Reed Smoot in an address last evening at a banquet in the W. b r club, said he would vote to ratify the I league of nations, if the covenant was amended as reported tn the newspapers. newspa-pers. Now Senator Smoot has been concil-lated, concil-lated, but our friend Henry A Wise Wood, who Is a clever speaker and writer, sends The Standard a lengthy letter in which he declares unalternbl? opposition to a jeague Strange, is it not, how great minds J differ? "New York, April IS, lf19. "Editor Ogden Standard The official summary of ihe revised constitution of the proposed league of nations, made public at Paris on April 12, has led many of your readers, no doubt, to believe be-lieve that the objectionable features feat-ures of the first draff have been eliminated and that the now document docu-ment should therefore be satisfactory satisfac-tory to those who had condemned the old one. "As one who disapproved the first draft because it called for an intolerable derogation of fundamental funda-mental American rights, I shall as I vigorously oppose the second, for the same reason. "While the league's powers over the western hemisphere seem to have been abridged, by an apparent appar-ent exclusion of the subject matter mat-ter of the Monroe doctrine from its jurisdiction, it has not at all been made certain that the league will be rendered powerless to assert as-sert itself here, by putting its own interpretation upon the Monroe doctrine, as well as upon other clauses of the instrument, and intruding in-truding upon American affairs whenever American affairs present pre-sent international aspects "Many other possibilities of trouble could be cited which this undertaking, if it be ratified by the senate, may bring upon us But the cases described are sufficient, I believe, to show the unwisdom of hastily exchanging the well tried policies which have made of Anvr-icans Anvr-icans the safest, most prosperous, and happiest people in the world, for a wholly experimental excursion excur-sion into the unknown and obviously ob-viously dangerous regions of internationalism, in-ternationalism, whence they may return sad, sorry, and impoverished. impover-ished. Let a fortunate America let -well enough alone. "HENRY A. WISE WOOD." If Henry A. Wise Wood Is right, then America never should have entered en-tered the European war. This country coun-try should hae let w. enough alone. Henry A. Wise Wood is too provincial provin-cial and furthermore is too mucb given to creating bugaboos to deeply sway the American people Mi ood Bays he is afraid of the Asiatic. Why, bless you, Henry, one of the few nations na-tions that in the centuries has never attempted to do a neighbor an injury comprises the heart of Asia China. China for and Japan against would neutralize Asia, ajid wipe out that bete noire. on |