Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-05
SENATOR PoINDExTER WARNS
 PATRIOTS TO BE ON GUARD

Rochester. N. Y. July 4-United States Senator Miles PoindexterS~ of Washington declared in a. speech at an Independence Day celebration of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce here today that international big bus mess is backing the League of Ma tions and international pacihsts are supporting both the League of Nations and Bolshevism. The land,'' he said. ifs full of tories. as in 1776; and it is time for every patriot to be on guard"
 The senator devoted a considerable part of his speech to an analysis of the League of Nations and it's effect upon the independence of the United States. He said in part:
 This Fourth of July is the first in one hundred and forty three years when, instead of giving ourselves over wholly to gratitude for our liberties we actually find our people engaged in a discussion whether we will unite again our fortunes with Europe, from which we were freed in blood and tears. The most potent ia ctor in pre- serving the peace of the world has been the power and independence of in the name of peace we must sub merge our independence into a greater United States of the world.
 "We are told that to secure the CO., operation of nations to preserve peace we must establish a League of Nations and put under its control the major forces of mankind On the contrary should the power to enforce peace be surrendered to a League of Nations, with its own distinct government there could be no such thing as the free cooperation of nations to enforce peace, since the nations would have divested themselves of this power and conferred it upon the League of Ma tions.
 The Monroe Doctrine has done more to preserve peace for a hundred al hn la <Nf ever formed. It is proposed now to abandon it in the name of the very peace which it has preserved, and to give to League of Nations, domi- over every international dispute in which America may be involved.
 Tt is said that a league is neces- sary to enforce peace. Peace was en- league and such a military power as Germany possessed will not menace the world again in fifty years.
 Tt is said the league will bring now cooperating together in Paris. They have not brought peace to the world. War is going on in twenty places in the world.
 ''It is said all future wars can be prevented by a League of Nations If that is so. why did not the great League of Nations of 1889 for the neu- trality of Belgiub prevent the invasion or sbelSlum Dy one 0f the members of the league? Will the new league be any less scrap of paper. than the
 It is said a League of Nations is necessary for a limitation of arna- ments. The truth is disarmament cannot be ordered by a League of Ma tions but can only be brought about, if at all, by conference and free ac- tion and agreement among the na- tions.
 "The league to enforce peace pro- vides neither for peace nor for dis armament.
 Tt is said that as Iitigants submit to the decree of court, nations ought to submit to the decrees of a League of Nations. This is an admission that the independence and sovereignty of the nation is to be surrendered. If League, dominated by foreign powers is to have each control over the United States, then the liberty we are celebrating today will be at an end Peace has been earned by victory, and will be preserved by the continued cooperation of the free nations of the world, and not by the surrender of their independence to a league.
 There is another menace to our liberties in the propaganda of Bol- shevism. It is put forward in the name of labor, but in fact would be utterly destructive of labor Bolshe- vism would destroy industry, and there would be no labor. The end would be the destruction of civiliza- tion, and a reversion to barbarism. if