South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-12


shall by solemn agree TO their respec-
tive rights, which shall not be questioned; that
they shall agree that all other questions arising
between them shall be submitted TO court of
arbitration; that they shall also agree-and here
the vital and essential point OF the whole
systenl-to with the combined strength all of
them against any recalctrant nation against
nation which transgresscs at the expense of any
other nation the rights which il is agreed shall
be questioned, which arbitrabIe matters
refuses TO submit TO the decree of the arbtral
court"
Can you beat it? Now read Art. K in con-
junction with it:
members of the League undertake TO respect
and preserve against external aggression the
territorial integrity and existing political independ
ence o a members of the League. In case of any
such aggression the council shall advise upon the
means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled
And now read it again. and not only in con-
junction with the above quotation from COL
Roosevelt in this division but with those back in
Division ILL., and with the presidents ] 4th point
upon which he was commenting.
Rooseveltian comment might be said to have
furnished the very groundwork upon which Art.
< is based; proposing united action against any
misunderstanding nation after efforts at concilia-
ton have failed-the vital and essential point of
the whole system which Sen. Johnson would
emasculate; this too in the name of Roosevelt
"
JOHNSON and his co-conspirators-in behalf of
j Germany-strke another bad snag in seek
to the Paris treaty. and the league by pleading
anti-Brtishism Roosevelts mouthpiece.
This comes to the surface in the insistence that
Britain has six votes to one, and demanding
that it must be equalzed. 1t may be that Roose-
welt would prefer that America have many
votes as Britain, but upon having it explained to
him that it has, he would probably not be so
bone-headed but that he could see it.
When appraised of the fact that Canada. Aus
tralia and South Africa. all self-governing coun-
tries entered the war voluntarily and without
British compulsion, he would doubtless say just
as Pres't Wilson and ex-Pres't Taft insist, that
they have as much right in the league the
United States, Cuba. Panama and Nicaragua
When appraised further, which is the case. that
while Britain. including her colonies. have six
votes in the assembly, the executive body is the
council, not the assembly, and that there the en-
tire British empire has only vote. as
the United States; then one can quite imagine
hearing the colonel say, were he alive to say 1t,
iOh, shucksT
Add to this the information, which is correct,
that in both the assembly and the council. except
on the subject of the admission OF members, the
appointment of committees, and the publication
of majority findings, a decision to be binding
must be by unanimous vote-making vote
as good as hfty.-and you pretty near hear
the colonel saying. oh pifle' to the claim of
foreign control or British dominance.
1t is almost certain that when explained to him
that if the assembly of the League-whch is the
only place Britain and her colonies have more
votes than Amerca,-were based upon popula-
ton the League opponents loudly demand in
behalf of l00,000,000 people then not
only the British empire but China would have at
least five votes to one; we'll you can hear
the colonel shout quite emphatically oh hellT'
to the idiots with no more sense than to suggest
such an equalization.
One thing to Roosevets credit can never be
denied. He was all American; never pro-Ger-
man-not even during the campaign of 10 g,
and he wouldn't for the purpose Of helping
Germany out of her plight pretend to be fighting
Britain when there nothing to fight her for.
in Germanys behalf.
W
INDEED, yes when Sen Johnson and his CO.