The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-08-11

or not, but if you do, and if you be
lieve in the Monroe Doctrine, | say,
without fear of contradiction from
any advocate of the League-if you
believe in the Monroe Doctrine, you
cannot be for the League of Nations
ENGLAND took no chances on this
League. Oh, it was clever, clever
thing that the English statesmen did
Not only did they take enough of the
worlds surface to give them almost
quarter of the entire globe and hun
dreds of millions or more people, but
they turned to the creditor nation,
the nation to whom England owes
81 600. GOO,CO0 and to whom the other
nations owe $10,000,000,000 in round
numbers, and they had that creditor
guarantee their quarter of the earth
surface and their hundreds of mil
lions of people. And then they wer,
not content with this. They gave
the Hedjaz one vote in this assem-
bly, of the Ieague of Nations and
Just think of their generoslty-they
rave the United States of America
with 100000 people, one vote, too
Then that there might be no mistake
about the matter and about the con
struction of the League, they too.
good pains to protect Themselves not
alone by your guarantee, not alone b!
putting us in hopeless minority
but by taking unto themselves "a
vote for Canada. another for Austria
liza. another for New Zealand, anoth
or for South Africa, ana then, after
they had taken these five votes, they
looked around to see whether there
was not another that could be TAX
on, and they showed in India for Il
vote"
so in the League of Nations,
England has six votes and we have
one. Just think OF it, in the Council
we have one vote with eight others
across the sea. England, to be GER
tain that it should not under any cir
cumstances be treated harshly by
the League, took six votes in the as
sembly to our one"
Il think that this Infamous pro-
ject is one that America should never
and can never tolerate. You ought
to rise in your might, in your indig-
nation, and say to your representa-
tives in Congress that you never will
permit them to vote for such an in
strument as this"
HDi orr,ap 1aDtf WbV diSnrma-
ment under this particular docu-
ment, is as far from contamination
as it has been at any time in the
worlds history"
This League never touches peo-
pies at all. This League goes farther
away from peoples themselves, This
League sits in secret at Geneva, just
as the peace conference has sat in
secret in Paris. 1t renders its de-
crees upon secret testimony, and the
first that you know of any decree OF
this League of Nations is when you
are called upon to enforce the decree
with your blood and your sons blood
and your sons sons blood"
1--WE must be no party to the Sc
cret treaties across the water. The
difficulty with our representative was
that he went there with words. The
rest of them went there with the bar
gain signed, sealed and delivered in
their pockets in the shape of secret
treaties, and they put over their secret
treaties"
although we were not parties in
the first instance to the secret trea-
ties, we became parties to the secret
treaties. Do you realize that in
Shantung, practically 100000 of re-
publican Chinese are handed over to
60,0O0,O0O, the entire population OF
Japan? Do you realize that in the
injustice we despoiled not Germany
| the enemy, but China, a friend? We
| despoiled not an enemy, but an ally
in our war When we did that by the
peace conference, by the very same
instrument containing the League
of Nations, we rivetted down for al
time that injustice. We not only COM
mitted the crime in the peace confer
ence but we committed the additional
crime of guaranteeing its perpetual
ton by the League of Nations.
Nov, my friends, l am done.
| could talk to you all night upon this