Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-18

!. washington, June 1S.-DeclAring
opponents Of the League of Nations
have conducted a campaign of mis-
representation and distortion. Senator
ltcan member of the foreign relations
committee told the senate today, the
league covenant offered the only pros
pect of preventing future and more
terrible wars. He upheld the league
as entirely consistent with the Amer
lean constitution and devoid of any
ability to entangle dangerously or cur
tail American interests.
I'm twenty years in, the senate"
said the North Dakota senator. 1T
have known but one instrument
whose terms have been so wilfully
misinterpreted as. the covenant of the
League of Nations. That some Of it is
vague. I know, and some portions OBJ
jectionable from particular view
points. But that 1t discriminates
Iagainst us, is unfair in its treatment
OF our country, or that it imposes on
us any obligation or burden that is not
|equally borne by every other nation I
must emphatically deny. 1t is re-
grettable that the mighty power of
~eloquence Isl used to defame and dis
tort the true meaning of an instru-
ment, the most important that ever
appeared to the heart or the soul Of
man.
What Would Happen?
with: the rest of the world> in some
scheme to prevent war, what will
happen? AS surely as the sun shall
rise every great nation will proceed
to devise means for the wholesale de-
struction Of nations. Sc desperate
will be the nex wal that all the hate
and venom created by this struggle
will be infnitesmal compared with
the next. And, against what race
used? Against the white race
Quoting the declaration of Senator
johnson. Of California. that. America
by virtue of her isolation does not
need the European powers "as part
ners," Mr.. McCumber said isolation
had long since broken down, a Euro
pean quarrel having cost this country
IN the last five years fifty thousand
lives and $45,o00.00 900. There is no
in his relation to his fellow man." he
continued. that is not equally in
cumbent upon a nation in its relation
to every other nation. What would
you say of the strong, vigorous man
who would stand on the shore and see
a woman struggling in the waves
while he. folding his muscular arms
On, that is no concern OF
mine. she is not my wife or daughter.
"'Oh,' say opponents Of the League
of Nations, we a make up our minds
what to do when the occasion arises.
What I want us to do is to be right
there on the spot when the occasion
arises. Had the United States beer
right on the spot with an agreement
signed by us and signed by Germany
that Germany would not make war on
France or any other country without
submitting to a League of Nations the
question of the Righteousness of her
cause, the, world would have been
spared this awful conflagration.
You talk about our entering this
war for a great world principle. The
man who makes that assertion knows
that he falsifies the record. He
knows that we never once said tc
Germany You have no right to make
war IN France
I'VE based our right of action, sole.
ly on the ground that by the acts O.
Germany she had made war on US.
want to put ourselves in such a posi-.
ton that we shall lever feel it neces'
sary to reiterate such a falsehood.
Knew German Attitude.
I'VE knew all along just what Ger
many had in mind. We knew he
purpose Of world domination. But ".
had not the right under international