Arizona republican., 1919-08-20


 wisely decide how large naval or mill itary force we shall maintain or what our policy with regard to military training is to be until we have peace not only. but also until we know how peace is to be sustained, whether by the arms of single nations or by the concert of all the great peoples. And there is more than that difficulty in volved. The vast surplus properties of the army include not food and clothing merely, whose sale will affect normal production, but great manufacturing establishments which should be re- stored to their former uses, great stores of machine tools and all sorts of mer- chandise which must lie idle until peace and military policy are defi- nitely determined. By the same token there can be no properly studied budget until then.
 The nations that ratify the treaty, such as Great Britain, Belgium and France will be in a position to lay their plans for controlling the markets of Central Europe without competition from us if we do not presently act. We have no consular agents, no trade representatives there to look after our interests.
 There are large areas of Europe whose future will lie uncertain and questionable until their people know the final settlements of peace and the forces which are to administer and sustain it.
 Without determinate markets, our production cannot proceed with intelli- Gence or confidence. There can be nc stabilization of wages because there can be no settled conditions of em ployment. There can be no easy nor rermal industrial credits, because there can be no confident or permanent re- vival of business.
 Urges Quick Action
 But l will not weary you with ob- vlous examples. I will only venture tc repeat that every element of normal life amongst us depends upon and awaits the ratification of the treaty l of peace; and also that we cannot afford to lose a single summers day ! by not doing all that we can to miti- l gate the winters suffering which, un- less we find means to prevent it, may prove disastrous to large portion oi the world, and may, at its worst, bring upon Europe conditions even more ter.
 rible than those wrought by the wal l itself
 You will recall that when I haC
 the pleasure of conference with youl
 committee and with the committee O the house of representatives on for. eign affairs at the white house II
 March last, the questions now mos 1 frequently asked about the league 0 nations were all canvassed, with : Iview to their immediate clarification The covenant of the league was then il it's draft subject to revision. It wa pointed out that no express recogni ton was given to the Monroe Doctrin' that it was not specifically decided tha the league should have no authority t.
 act or to express a judgment on mat
 ters of domestic policy that the righ
 to withdraw from the league was no
 expressly recognized and that the con
 stitutional right of the congress t
 determine all questions of peace am
 war, was not sufficiently safeguarded
 All Suggestions Accepted "On my return to Paris all thes
 matters were taken up again by tn
 commission on the leagre of nation and every suggestion Of the Unite States was accepted. The view of tn United states with regard to question I have mentioned. have in fact alread
 been accepted by the commission an was supposed to be nothing inconsist ent with them in the draft of tn covenant first adopted the draf which was the subject of our discus sion in March--but no objection wa made to saying explicitly what ha been supposed to implicit in it. Ther was no doubt as to the meaning of an one of the resulting provisions of tn covenant in the minds of those wh participated in drafting them, and respectfully submit that there is nc vague or doubtful in their wording. sThe Monroe Doctrine Is expressl. mentioned as an understanding whicl is in no way to be impaired or inter fered with by anything contained il the covenant, and the expression ire gional understandings like the Monro Doctrine was used not because any on of the conferees thought there was an comparable agreement anywhere els in existence or in contemplation, bu only because it was thought best t avoid the appearance of dealing in sue a document with the policy of a singl ration. Absolutely nothing is conceale in the phrase
 With regard to domestic question! article XVI of the covenant expressl provides that if. in case of any disput arising between members of the 1eagu, the matter involved is claimed by on of the parties and is found to arise ou of a matter which by internations law is solely within the domestic juris d.ction of that party, the council sha so report and shall make no recon mendations as to it's settlement. Tn 1 United States was by no means tn