The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-30


straddle bug as the Salt Lake Tribune.
Again the opposition to the European
League in the Senate was confined to {,
very few in the beginning, but as its real
self became known to the Senators tee
opposition grew to mammoth proportions
SO if at present there are but three pa
pers in the state opposed to this mon
strosity, please let us hope that the his
tory Of the league in the Senate will be
duplicated and as time passes the good
work will go on.
We noticed the other day that Premier
Lloyd George made the proud boast to
the British parliament that he had added
to the United Kingdom 100000 square
miles of territory, and then he proudly
exclaimed, "We have so arranged it now
that whenever we are called into any war
the United States enters automatically"
We admit that, league or no league, there
may be more or less truth in substance ir
this declaration of the Premier, from
the fact that the day of isolation and in
difference to foreign affairs by the Unit
ed States is more or less past. We are
sure that never again, league or n,
league, alliance or no alliance, will the
United States sit by and watch world
war raging with its President advocating
that our people be neutral i'm thought a.,
well as in name," nor at such time will
his chief claim for reelection be that she
kept us out of war;" We know now that
no nation can set out to dominate the
world without our being directly en-
cerned. But we don't want Europe call
ing us automatically" into every conflict
that, judging from the past, will be peren-
nially affecting Europe. We do not want
Europe automatically declaring war
for us, when our own constitution is plain
and specific on that point In the words
of our distinguished President in his mes.
sage of December 8, 1914, 1--WE mean to
live our own lives as we will, but We
mean also to let live" Further we aso
incline to those words of Thomas Jeffer-
son, 1.-THE Constitution thought it wise to
restrain the Executive and Senate from
entanghng and embroiling our affairs
with those of Europe"
In his address at Salt Lake City the
President said that the league provided
nine months to "think it over" before go
ing to war, and then asked "Who would
go to war after waiting nine months" 1t
will be remembered that the President
recently waited two years, and then went
to war, but we think it not possible that
there will ever again be time when any
other living man will duplicate this act
of the Presidents, and therefore think it
well to go on pursuing the even tenor of
our way. The more we monkey with
European affairs, the more Europe will
want to monkey with our affairs. The
league is only treaty, and as Thomas
jefferson says Treaties of alliance are
generlly insufficient to enforce compli-
ance with their mutual stipulations." AT
ter all the moral obligation holds sway.
and on that end Of bargain the United
States is strong, which as much cannot
be said for some of the others.
Frankly we would like to see the
league covenant segregated from the
treaty, the treaty passed and the league
considered on its own merits, submitted
to the people if possible and then it would
be known what the majority wanted. AT
ter all anything that is not worth consid-
ering on its own merits is not worth much
N N n
With Washington threatened with a
catastrophe similar to that of Boston, the
President practically sided with the mu-
tineers rather than with the responsible
authorities. He did not. of course, favor
strike by the police But he did depre-
cate any exercise of discipline over them
by the officials whose rules they had
flouted. The police were joining labor
union in defiance of their superior Off
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