The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-22

great NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. eSldDllSHlEeileo
also which should be restored to their
former uses, great stores of machine
tools and all sorts of merchandise
which must lie idle until peace and
military policy are definitely deter
mined. By the same token there can
be no properly studied national bud
get until then.
Will Lose Markets.
''The nations that ratify the treaty
such as Great Britain, Belgium and
France, will be in a position to lay
their plans for controlling the mar
kets of Central Europe without CO.
operation from us, if we do not pres
emily act. We have no consular
agents, no trade representatives
there to look after our interests.
'There are large areas of Europe
whose future will lie uncertain and
questionable until their people know
the final settlements of peace and
the forces which are to administer
and sustain it. Without determinate
markets our production cannot pro-
ceed with intelligence or confidence.
There can be no stablization of wages
because there can be no settled con-
ditions of employment. There can
be no easy or normal industrial Gre
dts, because there can be no conf
dent or permanent revival of busi-
ness.
"But 1 will not weary you with OBJ
vious examples. l will only venture
to repeat that every element of nor
NAL life amongst us depends upon
and awaits the ratification of the
treaty of peace, and also that we
cannot afford to lose a single sum-
mer's day by not doing all that we
can to mitigate the winters suffer-
ing, which, unless we find means to
prevent it may, at it's worst, bring
upon Europe conditions even more
terrible than those. wroguht by the
war itself.
Nothing, l am led to believe,
stands in the way of the ratification
of the treaty except certain doubts
with regard to the meaning and I'M
plication of certain articles of the
covenant of the league of nations
and I must frankly say that / am
unable to under ,tand why such
doubts should .ltertained. You
will recall that wien I had the pleas
ure of a conference with your COM
mittee and with the committee of the
house of representatives on foreign
affairs, at the White House in March
last, the questions now most fire.
quently asked about the league OF
nations were all canvassed, with
view to their immediate Qualification.
The covenant of the league was then
in it's first draft and subject to revi-
sion. 1t was pointed out that no ex-
press recognition was given to the
Monroe Doctrine, that the league
should not have authority to act or
to express judgment on matters of
domestic policy, that the right to
withdraw from the league was not
expressly recognized, and that the
constitutional right of the congress
to determine all questions of peace
and war was not sufficiently safe
guarded. On my return to Paris all
these matters were taken up again
by the commission on the league Of
nations and every suggestion of the
United States was accepted.
The view of the United States with
regard to the questions I have men
toned had, in fact, already been ac-
complished by the commission and
there was supposed to be nothing in
consistent about them in the draft of
the covenant first adopted-the draft
which was the subject of our discus
sion in March, but no objection was
made to saying explicitly in the text
what all had supposed to be implicit
in it. There was absolutely no doubt
as to the meaning of any one of the
resulting provisions of the covenant
in the minds of those who particl-
pated in drafting them, and l re-
spectfully submit that there is moth
ing vague or doubtful in their word
ing.
The Monroe Doctrine.
'"The Monroe Doctrine is expressly
mentioned as an understanding which
is in no way to. be impaired or inter-
fered with by anything contained in
the covenant and the expression ere
gional understandings like the Mon
roe Doctrine" was authorized, not