The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-07-03
A CoNCLAvE OF AMBASSADORS.


Washington, June % The following statement recent
y given out by United States Senator William e. Borah of
Idaho:
eff the people United States were asked to endorse
plan of under which they could elect their
PRESIDENT their their they would
hesatngy reject it and condemn to private life anyone who
ad proposed it. If there any principle thoroughly
established than another the minds Of the American people
and there any principle essential than another
to the preservation of free government it is isthat public
servants and public officials must be elected by the people
the approval rejection of their public service This
automatic universally accepted that presumptous
to call attention to it.
And yet is proposed place in the hands of five
CT at nine greater power than given any
nine in the history of the world and these nine
neither selected elected by the people They will not be sub
ec to check control by the people And yet these nine
entrusted with such power either directly in
directly by authority either expressed implied by the league
they commit the American people to states OF In
my opinion the only advance the OF is to
bring the power to declare to the people Ii had
INV | would write into the Constitution of the United
States that in all except of actual invasion war
should be declared without vote of the people, But is
proposed still further from the people the power to
say whether not there shall be The public
voice is to be senced entirely These nine sitting behind
closed doors Europe thousands of miles from those whom
they represent and responsible to the people,
under authority granted by the League through intrigue
manipulation express power the American boy
to be sent into any cline of Europe Asia soldier
had we better say policeman for some foreign nation.
'We have had some experience with similar plan The
boys been Russia and thousands
Siberia Who sent them there and why they sent We
told the press that President Wilson did want them to
go but owing understanding arrangement which
had with Japan England and France he finally yielded and the
American boys there suffering and dying for
which wise interested 1t is simply legalzed murder
And yet this the principle upon which League OF Nations
represented by this council wise responsible to the the
people will work.
Gin Article of this proposed covenant is provided
that shall guarantee against external aggression the terri
ora integrity and political independence of all members of
the League Mr. Bonar Law stated in the House of Commons
la few days ago that there twentyone IN
Europe Mr. Simmons the famous correspondent gives
list of eighteen The York Times few days ago published
list of sixteen 1t is safe to say that there from fifteen
to twenty going Europe in practically all of
which are involved the question of territorial integrity
political Independence These nine this council of the
league would have immediate with reference to all OF
these wars They would advise what number of soldiers shall
sent and where perform contract under Article
and having agreed that the council should advise would
compelled by every of honor and duty to comply
With that advice. The American people easily see how
uch chance would have acting under the unlimited
discretion of this conclave of ambassadors sitting III Geneva
and calling upon the young of America to do soldiers
services and police duty all the nteinabe bros and dis
Iturbances of Europe