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

the idea that it was genuine League o.
Nations and described it as "a coalition
of powers to rule the world" The con-
trolling powers, he said, would be the big
five, Great Britain, the United States,
France, Italy and Japan who would be
able, by the league terms, to force their
wills on the whole world. He pointed out
that war was legalized in a number of in
stances and made mandatory in others.
He deduced as a corollary that each of
these nations must have have big army
and navy and compulsory military SER
vice.
In this connection he said:
81 warn you that if you put in opera
ton this league we shall have a perman-
ent compulsory military system which
will reach into the homes of every one of
you, to take off your sons and husbands
to fight in battles in which we have no
concern, which have no permanent effect
upon the history of the world, and in the
issues of which we cannot by any stretch
of the imagination be ourselves affected
at is not customary to go into street
brawl and risk your life merely for the
abstract idea that fight is wrong. Why
should we go into an international brawl
on any such theory? Would it not be wis
er to save American life to protect Amer
lea and her institutions?
Again, if two nations get into a dis
pute and, pursuant to the terms of the
treaty, they refer the matter either to ar
bitration, or to the council, or to the as
sembly of the league itself, they may I'M
der this treaty, go legally to war after
thrao months fro,o, bo ,.anIa,,,nrr Of ba
decision, if such decision so rendered be
not satisfactory to them.
"What shall be the alignment of the
other powers in such war so waged is
entirely unstipulated in the treaty and we
should not know to what lengths a war
so sanctioned by the treaty itself might
lead us.
Further, if after the determination of
such difficulty by the council, by arbi-
tration or by the assembly, one of the
parties thereto shall fail to observe that
decision, war is legalized against such
party.
Again war is not declared illegal
where it results from situation or dis
pute concerning which either the coun-
Gil or the assembly has not been able to
reach unanimous decision, excluding the
parties in interest
Finally, if two members of the league
refuse obligations of membership for the
purpose of dispute between them and
go to- war, for or against either of these
parties on the part of members of the
league is proper and legal
What the ultimate lineup of the var
ious parties signatory to this treaty in
case of any such conflicts is unprOvided
for in the treaty, but it is as certain as
that day follows night that the grouping
of the powers would be guided by their
purely human selfish interests; and anv
such war so legalized must all but newt
ably lead us into world confederation
far greater than the one we are now fin
ishing.
DO you find in those things, ladies and
gentlemen, any provisions for the proven
ton of war; any provisions for the cur
tailment of the area of war, if once ini-
tiated?
But this is not ALL we are obliged to 90
to war whenever it is necessary to protect
the league covenants from breach brought
through the waging of an authorized war,
or to prevent nonmember from conduct
ing war which as a member it would not
be authorized to conduct
"In these cases we, willing or unwilling
must, under the compulsion of a moral
obligation, furnish for the waging of
wars, such men, such munitions and such
measures of war as may be recommended
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