The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-24

sented on the council (exclusive Of the disDutants in both instances) ana this means the unanimous concur renee of the council, including of course, our members, all of which above facts makes the majority of assembly action of no vital conse- quence without our one-member of council assent.
 After the league Is in practical | force, an amendment can be made by | a majority of the assembled provid- | ing 1t has the unanimous concurrence of the council, including our own rep | resen tative.
 As to the Monroe Doctrine, 1t Is seif-evidanr that even if ic were not | excepted from league jurisdiction no action upon it could be either taken in the council without the consent Of | our one vote, or in the assembly with out the concurrence of our one vote ! in the council, and therefore that we would be amply protected without any change in the reference to that subject in the league covenant.
 Let us now pause and proceed slow ly and deliberately, for I am anxious for you Co grasp fully the astounding | assertion I am now about to make. namely, the great American trait of
 
 matter has been made evident through the above correlation of facts in this article and the really wonder ful position of the United States taIong equally with each of the other members of the Big FTve) Is shown clearly by the actual fact that our one voice on the council Is greater in power than if we had no voice on the council and S1 out of 32 on the assembly.
 Now. pause aEain-ponder above statement well, for, If it is true, all the antagouism in the senate and in the public press and among the peo- pie is founded upon a mistake which has perpetuated itself because so oft repeated without the specific detail ed proof herein given of It being such an eEC=E5ous error. Under such above claim the entire fabric of the opposi- ton must either banish or be per sisted in as an outrageous lie which the public will soon nail t. & deserv- ed demise
 A few words in conclusion will suf- flee as comments upon the few rem nants Iest of the senator's address, He advocated an international court as if 1t was a present day device with untried effort behind It, con venientIy forgetting the futile four months labor on that problem of Al telega,e ,es to the second peace confer ence at the Hague, forgetting the ef- forts of Secretary Knox (now sena- tor) in 1909 to turn the international prize court into an arbitral without an advance beyond the suggestion stage; forgetting the enthusiastic sup port of an international court by Roosevelt who found no fertile ground for the idea. Then he makes the amazing statement that no inter national court is proposed for adju- eating international differences not touching on the vital things Tn any nation, and in so doing he makes another gla-iEg misstatement of fact, since article IA of the covenant con sists entirely of the following two paragraphs:
 ''The council shall formulate and submit to the members of the league for adoption plans for the establish ment of a permanent court of inter national justice. (Note-Let us not forget that such council action must be unanimous and that our interests are thereby protected).
 '@T'he court shall te competent to hear and determine any dispute of an international character which the parties thereto submit to it The court may also give an advisory opinion on questions referred to it by the council or by the assembly,
 The senator claims that economic pressure" would not prevail to avert war, and asks ''Is there any man who will not choose to die on the battle field rather than see his wife and babies die of starvation?'' How path eiCally humorous is such a straw ar gument can be realized by the senator if he uses a little of that horse sense'' he commented so highly, and also asks this question: But wouldn't the death on the battlefield be an ad- ditiOnal sacrifice and bitter hardship for tho family and would not the star vation process merrily continue and grow worse by the enlarged soldier use of food and the absence of the man from the farm fields?'' Most naturally the senator brings in the Irish question and adds Egypt and India and grows furious with dis may at the very thought of our boys being lined up to shoot down the pos sible revolutionary forces in either of the countries in order to protect the territorial integrity of Great Britain Patience has a limit and it is
 
 ton. persisted in although seIf-evi- dently false. that calls forth some of those deserved epithets the senator decried as an effort to lock the jaw of opposition
 The senator knows and every intel ngent man, woman or high school pu- i pil knows that the words "External Aggression" cannot be truthfully manipulated into '"Domestic Revolu- tion," but even if such were the case, I have proved by the quotation from article 1 3 that our own assent would absolutely be required on the council for us to favor or oppose either dis putant and if we were in the minori- ty we would have the right specifi- cally granted by the league phraseol- ogy or reserving to ourselves any ac- ton we may deem just and right. Therefore, the great bamboozling political game of trying to line up Irish sentiment against the league is founded upon an outra ageosuly gross misstatement of fact.
 The most forceful part of the sen ator's address in which he proclamed