Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-19
RFI, LANE SUPPORTS. LEAGUE OF NATIONS
.;dant's Plan Would Not Invali- 'rss sste Monroe Doctrine; Is in Europe TO Heal Nations.

No,,, York. Jan. 16.-AppeaIng for
 Ne" e,,nnort of President Wilson's idea
 Iaague of Nations by tie busi-
 a,s e nen of the United Sta es, de-
 s,s ar;no w that the Presidents plan
 ,ar ,anld ie he in no way invalidate the
 sonroe % doctrine and that MT. Wilson
 M od cone to Europe mot as conquer
 @0 b5,t for the healing of the nations,"
 ,'ontlin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior. in an address here today be- ore @ the Merchants Association of
 Tow York. gave an outline of what bo fundamental clements of such
 eague must be-" Its basis, he assert
 d will be international co-opera- ion."
 MT. Lanes address, previously was
 dvertised by the Association as being (n answer to the question: "What is President Wilson has gone to Paris a bring about? How will it preserve beace and help humanity"
 MT. Lane explained how, through he formation of a League of Ma ions ouarrels between Nations could be adjudciated by "an international ourt," following investigation of the ase by "an international council of nediation;" How a delinquent" na- ion nation could be "encompassed by
 circle of iron," completely shutting Diff its economic life and isolating t from the rest of the world; how, if his failed, the members of the Lea Eue of Natios, could as a last resort, urn to war
 The speaker declared that President Wilson had gone to Europe 0as representative of an ideal of the tatesmen of many centuries" and he ecounted the struggles for demo- racy from ancient to modern times. He said the time seemed propitious Or this association of nations, that Vhen the war ended it vas costing he United States $50,000,000 day, md that the burden was "borne by our sons and mine." America, and Il the world, he said, was now past he age of the pioneer and now the ime had come "to master. continents htensively for the good of men,"
 "f-do not say that all wars are un- easonable," said the Secretary, Cor hat all wars have no justification. ly feeling is that we cannot devise my machinery between men by fhich conflict will be stopped; but it
 unreasonable, certainly in 99 per ent of the cases where nations go to var, that they should make war upon (ach other, for the reason, that it fets no where. It will not stand the Pragmatic test; it does not work; it oes not solve the difficulty in the
 Forty different plans," he contin- ca, have been presented to the american delegation in Congress for
 League of Nations. I suppose those i |orty will be multiplied by ten be- ore this conference is concluded. This hmg must be in the very nature ot ! ne thlngs a growth, but I want to resent to you the possibility of the llngs so that you may not believe |
 IS IS thing utterly in the air.
 NOW, international law is filmy, suzy, founded upon precedent, and ! l1hout certainty, decision or defini. sness. Suppose that that council had .e power to take into it's own hands ' eHort, first to inquire as to what trouble between nations may be; voiia, to make an effort at concilia-
 n' tnird, to bring about arbitration. possible; fourth, to call upon the ! nsIolls ns to encompass the delinquent ,M make its social and economic life. nposslble; aI and fifth, as a last re- 0ss, nS to bring about war. Now' the first thing that that Uu,eil non would do would be to declare bat paper Just what the rules are
 w b;.i isovern as between those nations i sssa na.n entered into that compact. 1 ot s., 4 1ne nations would agree upon. : th.t t"e .s machinery, but the principles;
 naS sM, the law is. (oprt rhen el there should be established a adj ad hen mat could decide whether there hal peen hss a vialotion of the compact kat;onsa au m, Deen entered into by all the t''s. vant 5: That would not bind usifwe kent ' +L lneo 1t to accept anything ex- i | rI' nS n1; mat at which was brought back.
 sF;ra4 F%s,ch we approved of. lL,rs1, then a council which wonld Eers a'e what the rules of the game Fules' Fls' saS ana we do not know what the khats car1, are now; second, then the court kot nosa ,uulo enforce those rules; that is kry. Itlhreetas:onable; that is not vision '"a' IS not a dream.
 aAna How Enforced.
 Nhev a,a now are they to be enforced? |? ss bressrrc are to be enforced first. bv the bnd dI,e don,o Of the nations of the World bf newal uUn,t belittle that. In these days Fhantss'S saps and telegraphs, of mer. hnds 'o of association, of ali the thous- bs4ooNo1 N1 1iIgs 11fiIgsanizations-and there are |UnitsuS1 Utu1 sIf different organizations in the the prgao;zsat;ate a states today-in these days M of of huicklv1 ale, when opinion can be De floyytee11 fly ee11ystallized, opinion is not to
 "Tbau "Tbasea as a matter of coercion be msdo faea as body, the inquiry could bpon aue wh;,a and the facts ascertained then # f"a,eh me. that opinion could act; kh.a oIDlCr9fiOn ,,,. l1,