Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-18
THE LEAGUE
OF NA1lCES
Continued from page y

AIIlCle 10 proScrlDeS IN consider
able detail the methods that will be
followed by the league in enforcing
its DEGREES. The moment a nation
resorts to war to preserve it's ma
tional honor in disregard of the OBJ
stacles to prompt action put in its
path by the covenant it is to feel the
might of the league. A world bo-
cott is to be instituted against the
offending state at once. All "inan-
cial, commercial, or personal inter
course" with the rest of the world
is to be severed, and an information
al army and navy, recruited from the
military strength of the other mem
ber nations, are to proceed against
the offender. Article 16 is war from
start to finish. Force without stint
is the prescription set forth in it's
language.
Article II offers membership in
the league to a nation, party to dis
pute likely to lead to war. If such
nation declines to enter the league
and assume its obligations, and un-
dertakes to settle its own affairs in
its own way, then the drastic punish
ment prescribed in Article 16 will
descend upon it. War again! This
time it is to come as a measure of
occasion to 'mpel a nation to enter
the league and yie'd up its sovereign
ty to the dictation of foreigners
Let country assert it's independence
and evince a determination to mind
its own business and compel its
neighbors to mind theirs, and its
lands are to be laid waste by this
league for peace" its nationals
slaughtered in the defense of THEN
homes, and the country as a nation.
al entity destroyed.
Article 18 prevents any future
treaty from taking effect until il
shall have first been registered will
the secretary general of the league
This transcends completely thu
treaty-making power of the Senate
and prevents the consummation o
treaties designed to promote amt.
between nations unless they hav
taken the course prescribed by tn
meddling league. Let a country un
dertake to enter into a separat
agreement with its neighbor, as ever
nation has a perfect right to do, an
it is Immediately liable to all tn
rigors of military and economic pres
sure that the league can bring t
bear. Situations have often arise
in the past when the interference @
third party in the treaty agree
ments between two nations have lie
to war;, and it is easily conceivabl
that they may be repeated in tn
future.
! Article 10 empowers the assembl
: to advise member nations to recor
, sider treaties that the assembl
! thinks have become inapplicable N
compulsion to change such treatit
is contained in the article but the il
:. ference is plain or the provisio
e would never have been inc 'uded
The covenant. England, it is unde
= stood, intends to reserve the trea,
e of alliance she has with Japan b.
n what will happen to other natiol
h that persist in keeping their inte
S national obligations is a matter
n conjepelre.
Article 20 goes step further ths
10. and binds members of the lie
2 que to abrogate all obligations
: understandings inconsistent with Il
terms of the covenant. That meal
J, that member nation, having
treaty with a non-member natio
: shall Immediately repudiate i
Q written word. Such a state of affai
;, has been productive of wars fro
:. time immemorial. Germany star
" ed hostilit es by repudiating h
;. t1eaty with Belgium and invadi1
! ! that unhappy country. But the lie
que actually proposes to make su
;" regulations mandatory. Any self-r
, specting nation that is thus f1out
by another with which it has
" solemn undertaking is justified in +
sorting to arms, and such will be t
result of a general APPLICATION of t
. principle enunciated in Artic 20.
1t Article q is declared bv Preside
" wilson to preserve the Monroe Dc
trine. English authorities say
. does nothing of the sort. Here is
clash even before the league b
comes an actuality. Suppose '
proceed on the theory that our Mo
roe Doctrine is not invaded by t
league and undertake to enforce
restrictions against foreign stat
Immediately there is conflict wi
the league, and it becomes incul
bent upon US to retreatsfrom our !
sition or fight. We are at once &C
fronted with the alternative of g
iect surrender or war.
Article % is the one under whi
manufactures are to be provided
weak states 1t lis suggested tt
Armenia and possibly Constantir
pie are to be allotted to the Unit
States. Think of the millions
dollars and scores of precious Anne
can lives that will be sacrificed if
undertake the policing of that port
of the Turkish empire. Howe0
GREAT our compassion for the suff
ings of the Armenians, are
ready to send armies for their p
lection against the cruel Turk? 1
tual war may not result from Al
Gle %, but unnecessary shedding
edod American blood Isl inev5ta'
if we assume the obligations that
contemplateS.