Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-08-29

deceived, for such will not be the case
IL so, the revelations given to the Pro-
| phet Joseph Smith, as recorded in the
Doctrine and Covenants are not true.
cannot understand why you take it
for granted that The League of Ma
tons will do more for the world than
the teachings of the Saviour have
been able to do. ask you to read the
many passages of the Book of Nor
mon, referring to this nation as well
as to the many revelations given to
the Prophet Joseph Smith as to the
destiny of the same.
Army of More that a Million.
A few days ago there was present
ed in the Senate, a bill by Senator
Wadsworth, prepared by the War De-
partment. 1t represents the views of
this administration as to the size of
the American Army. 1t provides for
an army of over a million men, and
of that million there is to be reg
ular standing army, in times of peace
of between five and six hundred thou
sand men. Does this look as if the
dove Of peace is to hover over the
world as soon as the Covenant is rat
flied? This administration is asking
for nearly one billion dollars to be
spent this year in increasing the navy.
England is preparing for an army
of two million men, and in connection
| call your attention to an article in
Golfers Weekly, which says:
"That August day in 1914, when the
war broke out, the British army had
tonnage of 100000 and a person
mel of l45,0 900 officers and men. Today
it has a tonnage (including the aux
iliary feet of 100000, and per-
sonnet of almost 100000. This does
not include the mercantile marine or
patrol vessles, mine sweepers, ETC., in
the auxiliary feet. There are 100000
men serving in these
In commenting on the above ar
ticle, Mr.. Hannis Taylor, author of
international Public Law" makes
the following statement:
"ln addition the British Empire
holds in it's hands the surrendered
German colonies, and the long COW
eted Dardanelles, besides the Suez
Canal and kind of over-lordship over
our own Panama Canal, which can
be defended by sea power alone. When
! to all that is added the combined sea
power of her allies, France, Italy and
Japan, she is not only the Mistress of
in way in which no world power has
ever been since the fall of the Roman
Empire. The newspapers report the
the building of British dreadnoughts
is now progressing more rapidly than
ever before. With her hated COM
mercial rival Frustrated in the dust,
with it's great war ships at the bot
tom of the sea, Great Britain has
Our day will surely come the moment
that our growing merchant marines
dare to conflict with her commercial
interests on the high seas. After the
first gun fires, Southern cotton, Mon
tana copper and Western food sup
plies will appeal in vain to neutrality
laws which President Wilson has a
greed to abolish absolutely. With
starvation blockades in full force
Britannia will rule the waves if the
League of Nations is adopted, entir-
ely unmolested for the first time by
neutrality laws. Cicero made no mis-
take when he said, that he gains the
command of the sea must obtain SUI
preme power
France Lacks Confidence in League.
France evidently has no confidence
in the efficacy of the League of ation'
to protect her, for she insists tha
there be a separate treaty between
France, England and the United
States, in which America and England
pledge themselves to come immediate
ly to Frances assistance in case o
and unprovoked attack is made upol
her by Germany, and, in my opinion
France will not ratify the Covenan
and Treaty of Peace until she feel
sure America will first ratify the sep
q arate treat.
The people want peace. The worl
is a seething mass of race antipa
thies, social theories, ambitions t
govern from the top, ambitions t
> govern from the bottom, races jus
: emerging from savagery, races tina
: have been all their lives subject t
e tyrannical government, and who hat
i all government. We are now asked
put all these elements into Leagu
= and give them votes to merge all tn
> stable, enlightened, peace loving nf
: itons into this League, and then W
e shall have eternal peace. Is it possibI
II that you can believe that such thin
: can be done?
s. have no patience with the a
e gument used that we should ratii
&c the Covenant of the League as it j
n and trust to having it amended late
u Those proposing to the plan poll
20 to the fact that our Constitution h'