Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-03-20
Our Job to Save a League Of Nations

Our Job to Save a League Of Nations.
The following letter to the editor Of
the Kennebec Journal comes from
another state but from gentleman
we'll known and highly respected in
Maine. a leader in a great movement
for the uplift of humanity. We have
withheld his name because we have
not secured permission to use public
ly this personal communication. But
we believe it is of interest to our
readers as indicating the trend of
thought among men Of broad grasp of
human affairs-as in the case of the
heads and faculty of Maine colleges:
I have followed with great inter-
est your editorials on the League of
Nations and l hope that you will
continue on the same lines. The sit
uation is complicated by President
suit anyone else and his extraordi-
nary behavior toward the Senate.
If he had consulted them. as he
should have done in decency. ! think
Senate would have developed. All
of the advices from the o,ner side
in the newspap ers or by personal
letters are that the covenant as
published Is not intended 70 oe a
flnal document. 1t was put forth for
the purpose OF creating discussion
and suggestions for its amendment.
1t seems to me that all this talk
about the Monroe Doctrine IS en-
tirely beside the point. fhe League
of Nations is in itself contirma-
ton Of the Monroe Doctrine as 1t
applies to the Western Hemisphere
and an extension Of it to all the rest
means that hereafter no nation viii
be allowed to conquer other coun-
tries in any part of the world.
In an editorial Of the Living
LAaSue the editor says. They are
fighting against the well-being OF
America and against American lead
%or We v tse oaton; the Of Na Ss
World. The old world is not trans
Atlantic. 1t is the world as it was
before 1914. The new world is not
cis-Atlantic. 1t is the world re-
We went into the war, according
to President Wilson. and / think
public opinion generally has backed
him up, for the sake Of world free
dom and democracy and righteous
ness. W.: cannon quit now and say
that We do not care what happens
to the rest Of the world.
Let us give another letter. one ex-
pressing the prevailing opinion Of
the American soldier regarding a
league Of nations. It was written by
Capt. Thomas G. Chamberlain Of the
American Expeditionary forces, who
recently returned from France wear
ing two gold service stripes. He was
in action at Chateau Thierry. YER
dun. and in Flanders with the First
Anti-Aircraft battalion. His letter
was addressed to Senator Borah but
that gentleman has not seen At to
make it public:
Hon. William Edgar Borah,
Senate Chamber,
Washington. D. c.
attended the meeting at Boston
which you recently addressed in Cd.
position to the League Of Nations.
the fulI case was not presented at
that meeting. Sailors and soldiers
the opportunity.
A nero soldier. one among four
million. could not challenge a United
States Senator: but as one so fortu-
nate as to have been on the firing
line when It was q question of the
life or death OF our nation, ask
permission to present at your meet
inRs the case for the men who were
willing to make and who did make
the supreme sacrifice for a better
world.
The American soldier fought with
no eeI1sh or sordid aim. He believed
that something nightly worth while
would follow his sacrifice. He be-
leved an organization would follow
which would make peace pore secure.
/ league OF Nations; but from his