The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-13

In their hopes, their ambitions and in
their aspirations?
Have we not been free to come and
to go as we wish? Is there any pos
ition of honor or trust to which we
have been denied access? Is there
any spiritual or intellectual gift
which has been denied us?
Do you who make this contention
realize by IL you challenge Christ
and his teachings? Do you appreci-
ate that you are branding Christian
ity as a failure? That by this yod
assume Christ died In vain. that hui
manity is lost In spite OF His sacri-
flee and atonement?
: Are you willing to carry your ar
gument to its logical conclusion and
adopt instead of Christianity which
you so declare has failed Buddah-
ism, Brahmaism or Mohammed-
ism? For so surely as the sun rises
this is the end to which your logic
reaches.
That there has been in the world
wrong and oppression, no one can
deny, hut until man is made perfect.
who will expect to find those absent?
Unless. therefore. you are prepared
to say that Christianity is a failure
that my religion and your religion
is failure. l caution you to be
wary of accepting or promulgatinG
this doctrine of destruction.
THIRD CONTENTION
The third contention that is fire.
quently made Is that we must ratify
this treaty in order to terminate hos
tilttieS between ourselves and Ger
many.
That argument can be made by no
man who has read and understands
the treaty; and whenever you hear
such an argument made, you may by
that token know that the man speak
ing is not acquainted with the sub
ject about which he talks.
This is clear from the actual word
ing of the treaty itself.
In the last paragraph preceding
part |, the covenant OF the league OF
nations. there appears the following
From the coming into force of
the present treaty the state of war
will terminate. From that moment
and subject to the provisions OF this
treaty official relations with Germany
and with any of the German states
will be resumed by the allied and as
ISOLATED powers"
Some 10000 words further on the
closing paragraphs of the treaty read
as follows;
a first process verbal OF the de-
post of notifications will be drawn
up as, soon as the treaty has been
ratified by Germany on the one hand
and by three of the principal allied
and associated powers on the other
hand,
From the date of this first process
verbal the treaty will come into force
between the high contracting parties
who have ratified Il. For the deter
mination of all periods of time pro-
Yided for in the present treaty this
date will be the date Of the coming
into force of the treaty"
WHEN WAR ENDS
In other words the treaty itself
provides that the treaty comes into
force on the day when il is ratified
by Germany on the one hand and
by France, Great Britain and Italy
or Japan or the United States. that
us, any three of them. that when the
treaty comes into force, the war with
Germany ends for all of us.
A moments reflection will show
you how inevitably this must be SO
Otherwise, peace would be postponed
until the last of the minute powers
had ratified this treaty with the re.
suit that all of the great power!
would be afflicted with the numer
Gus ills incident to status of hostil.
!, tiles even when belligerent operation,
had ceased.
IL was therefore provided that Sc
soon as the treaty had been ratified
by majority II should then com,
into force, in so far as the termlna