The sun., 1919-07-05
M'ADOO SEEKS PACT
HELP FROM CHURCH
Methodists Urged to Compel
Ratification Of Treaty
and League.
Special pespatcA 10 TIE snx.


COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 4.-William G,
McAdoo. former Secretary OF the Treas
ury. appealed to the Methodist Church
in America on the occasion of its CEN
tenary celebration here to-day, to compel
the United States Senate to ratify the
treaty with Germany and the League Of
Nations without amendment or ratIfica-
ton. Declaring the League of Nations
would consolidate our victory and make
the future peace OF the world "prac-
dcally certain" for tho future, he said:
"A blessing SO colossal seems unat-
tainable. and yet 1t Is within our grasp
II We have the vision, the courage and
the determination to take it. Here is
where the Church has Its noblest oppor-
tunity. 1t faces its greatest responsible
ity. We must not permit any man or set
OF men to destroy the League of Nations
or to emasculate It, The Issue Is so mo-
mentous that the very future of civiliza-
ton is at stake and humanity from every
stricken quarter OF the suffering world
cries out In agony to Christianity to save
It"
He described the world war as the
real conclusion of the American Reyolu-
ton in the fight for freedom and lkened
the present struggle over the League Of
Nations to the struggle over the Federal
Constitution. He called the League Of
Nations the Organization through
which thirty-two nations agree through
cooperative effort to prevent war by
forcing all nations concerned to sub
NIT either to arbitration or to conference
and discussion international disputes be-
fore resorting to war"
The great essentials of the League Of
Nations. he asserted to be the following :
l. The limitation OF ornaments.
2. Guarantee OF territorial integrity
and political independence.
3. Abolition OF secret treaties.
4. Compulsory conferences TO discuss
questions of common interest that may
from time to time arise. and thereby to
bring about cooperation among the ma
tions concerned"
He insisted that the limitation Of
ornaments would in itself make more
unlikely the aggression which all the
nations bind themselves to repress. He
denied this was a limitation of the Con-
stitutional power OF Congress because il
was to be a Limitation voluntarily ac-
copied by Congress
Article X. he described as the soul Of
the covenant, necessary II the struggling
nations of Europe, jast set Up for them
SELVES, hOEo " NC pEOlcClGu lie bdlu
the covenant provided for modification
without war of the political entities now
created SO that these entities were not
imposed upon the world forever. and he
denied that the guarantee against ex-
ternal aggression could be interpreted so
as to enable one nation to call on the
others to repress 1ustifable internal
revolt.
1--WE cannot be drawn into war unless
our Congress authorizes It," he declared.
despite the provisions of Article y. He
insisted that in case OF conflict in Europe
the nearby nations would first be called
on to suppress it, just as we would first
be called upon to suppress trouble in
this hemisphere.
Germany, he reminded. had signed the
treaty under duress and the other
Central Powers would do likewise. The
League of Nations. he said, was the only
method whereby the victorious Entente
and the United States could make sure
the completion OF the treaty terms.
I'VE cannot risk the undoing of al
that has been accomplished" he con-
cluded. by forcing another peace con
ference at Paris. Amendment to the
treaty is rejection of the treaty. Re-
lection of the treaty means a new peace
conference and the indefinite postpone
ment OF peace"