New-York tribune., 1919-09-09
~Put Up!7 Cry
Draws Answer
By Poindexter
Senator, i'll Behalf of sIc
Treaty's Critics, Replies
to Wilson's Arguments
for League OF Nations
Nszr YORK 7'riJars
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'plshirotoai Bureau
WASHINGTON. Sept s.-Senator
Miles poindexter. Republican, of
Washington. delivering in TIE Senate
to-day the first detailed answer 10
President Wilson's arguments for the
peace treaty and the League of H;.tions
covenant. declared that the President
"otFers us a government. by council in
Geneva. and says you must take it il,
you have nothing better to offer"
Replying to President Wilson'S chal-
lenge that opponents os The 'eaguc
put up or shut up." Senator Poindex-
ter assorted they offered as substi-
ute the "Constitution of the United
States, the Declaration OF indcpen-
dence and Lincoln's government by the
people"
Asks Who Viii Pay Taxes
"The Prcsidert says we should pro-
tect Armenia, said Senator Poindextcr.
"Military authorities estimate one hun
dred and ffty thousand men would be
required ana that ii would cost ) 5l.oOo.-
600 600
~How can 5a~ President police
Turkey wi.hou- sending an army
there. While plans aye being made
10 send an American army 10 Turkey
and another 10 Siberia, and still an
Ser to Germany. how can the Presi-
dent tell the american people that if
the league Of nations IS adopted no
KHAKI cad troops will ever again eros;
the Atlantic? How will we be able to
perform our obligations in Mexico ?
WlL 1t be necessary to raise still an
other army for that purpose?
Soldiers for "Peace League"
"When at this moment American SOL
olers are being enlisted under the
authority o. the President for service
IN Siberia and in Germany, under the
league OF nations, how can the Prosi-
dent say that it IS . peace league?
TO how many other places in
Europe, Asia and Africa arc American
soldiers TO be sent IN Performance Of
the duties that VIII devolve upon rs
under the league Of nations?
IF it be said that 10 soldiers are TO
be sent TO Europe under the league of
nations, how can the asmies we are
raising for Germany and Siberia be
maintained there without the conseat
of the league Of nations? If no SOY
dlers are to be sent to Europe OF Asia
in performance OF cur duties under the
league Of nations. tnen what are we to
do under the league Of nations? ii
we are to do nothing, Why Join it?
'lf, as the President SAYS, we are
to depend on blockade and dcs .ructive
economic isolation, viii not that be a
sure cause Of war? VIII blockade
socia ostracism and economic isola-
ton as prescribed hy the President
tend to make any nation rcaceablc?
Of e President thinks. as he says
tat Lenire is 80 Dc soicablc why die
the President calogize His terms OF
peacc at the traitorous conference ol
Bres -Litovsl9
"Why dia the President both bc-
fore and after We entered he war at
temp. 20 bring about peace on the
same terms as proposed by Lenine
WY was tie President, as was
Ienine, Tor q peace without victory. as
he declared both before ana after We
entered The wa
II II What reason does the President
propose We should grant independence
to the Philippines and assume d man
date over Armenia?
con What theory = policy does the
Preliden' refuse to preserve cider in
Mexico and undertake to do il in 81
beria and Germany2
Pres idV.- says ii We re iec
the league " viii he contemptiblt