The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-10-26
DISCUSSION OF ARTICLE TEN AND ANSWERS TO THE cRITi-
 cISms OF HIS OPPONENTS

 treaty and the covenant of the league ul nations to the American people and the reasons why they should be ratified by the United States very clearly. So momentous are the Ques- tiOns involved that the Empire has made extracts from his various PaCi- hc coast addresses. as they have been furnished by the mail service of the Associated Press, that its readers may get comprehensive idea of the whole question. as the President of the nited States views It.
 AS OF GENERAL PROPOSITION
 Frequently the President caHed at trntion to the circumstances that the United States was the first nation to submit her grievances to the judg- mrnt of the world. She did that In the preamble of the Declaration of independence, wherein it is declared; :;
 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an other and to assume among the pow CTS ot earth the separate and equal station to which the laws Of Nature and Nrtu.e's God entitled them. a de cent respect for the opinions of man Kind that they should declare the causes which impel them to the sep aration." This plain acknowledgment of the necessity of having the ap- proyaI of the world is followed by recitation of some self evident" truths" of government and the fact that the King of Great Britain had disregarded them for the purpose of the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the states, and then comes the further appeal to the opinions of mankind: "To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world"
 He declared that the league of ma tons provides the means through which all peoples, influential and uon-inheunuaI," may appeal to the Judgment of mankind He declared The leaders of the American Reyo- have led them to separate them selves from Great Britain. America was the first to set the example. the first to admit that right and justice and even the basis of revolution are matter upon which mankind are entitled to form a Judgment"
 We cannot desert humanity" he said. We are the trustees of hu- manity l cannot conceive & motive adequate to hold men of from their great enterprise"
 America is under an Overwhelm- ing moral compulsion to accept the peace treaty" President Wilson de clared, because 1t was drawn up on American specifications and marked the worlds acceptance or AmerI- ca's principles. Even Germany has been forced to accept these princi- ples," said the President, and now some men are proposing that the United States herself repudiate them"
 And so the moral compulsion among us. among us who at the critical stage of the war saved the world and who threw in our fortunes with all the forward looking people of the world-the moral ComDulsion upon us to stand by and see it thru is overwhelming.
 We cannot now turn back. We made the choice in April 1917. We cannot with honor revert it now.
 There is only one conceivable way to do that, and that is by means of a league of nations. The very of nations. and the only thing that we can debate now is whether the nations of the world having met in a universal congress and formulated a covenant as the basis for league of nations we are going to accpet that or insist upon another. l don, find any man anywhere, rash oI bold enough to say that he does not desire a league of nations. l only find men here and there saying that they do not desire this league of na tions. And 1 want to ask you to re fleet upon what that means. Wher this covenant was drawn up in 1t first form, l had the occasion, fol me a very happy occasion. to return for a few weeks to this country, II March last l brought the covenan in it's first shape; I submitted 1t in al intimate conference to the foreigl relations committee of the senate 0 United States. or rather to thu two committees of the two houses the foreign relations of the committe, and the committees on foreign affair of the house. We discussed all part of the document. Many suggestion were made. l took all of those sug gestions with me back to Paris. an'