Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-09-17
LEAGUE FULF|LS
~AR|ERlcAN'1DEAL
Herbert Hoover Says Democra'
.>cies Replaced Autocracies
at Our Bidding. y
FOOD ADMINISTRATION CHIEF
Urges Ratification on Ground Tha,
Peace Treaty Mill Collapse
Without League Of
Nations.

Herbert Hoover is so deeply con.
cerned over the opposition to the
League Of Nations in the United
States that he: has let himself be: in.
tervieWed at length on the League SIT
uat1on. In talk with the New York
Times correspondent in Paris, the
Food administration CHIEF asserts that
having caused the League idea to pre-.
vail America cannot abandon It. we
cannot Withdraw, he Says and ieave
Europe to chaos: "To abandon the
League Covenant now means that the
treaty Itself will collapse"
Mr.. Hoover's wide acquaintance
with conditions both here and. abroad,
his reputation as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. =
man Of great affairs who deals with
facts, not theories, make his state.
ment one of the most important con.
tributions to the recent League discus
sions.'
There are, one or two points IN con-
-nection with the present treaty." said
Mr.. Hoover, that need careful consid.
GRAFTON by the American public. WI
need to digest the fact. that We have
for a century and I ahaif been advo-
eating. democracy. not; only a. 1
remedy Tor the Internal tins .of all 10
c1ety. but also as the only. real safe
guard against war. Va have believed
and proclaimed, In season and out,
that a world in which Tiers was 4
free expression and, enforcement Of
the will Of the majorfty was The real
basis OF government, was essential ffor
the advancement Of civilization and
that we have proved It's enormous: hu:
man benefits In onr country. /
American ideas Hays;PrsvaIIed.-
Eve went into, the war. to: destroy
autocracy ;asF a menace: to cur: ownsand
all ether democraclea IT we had not
come into the war every inch Of Euro
pean soil today would be under auto
cratic government. We ha We imposed
our wifi on thee world. Out Of this
victory has come the destruction 81
the tour great: autocracies in Ger:
many, Russia, Turkey and Austria and
the little autocracy in Greece. New
democracies have sprung into being in
Poland, Finland; Letvia;z Itthuania,
Esthonia. Czechoslovakia, Greater
Serbia, Greece, Siberia. and even Ger.
many and Austria have established
democratic governments. Beyond
these host Of small republics, such
as Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and
others, have sprung up, and again al
Z result OF this great world movement
the constitutions Of Spain, Rumania.
and even England, have made a final
ascent to complete franchise and de-
mocracy, although they still maintain
4 symbol Of royalty.
I'VE have been the living spring for
this last century ind half from which
these ideas haYe n,sand Ne have
triumphed. The Void To-day except
for a comparatively few reactionary
ana communistic autocracies, is DEM
ocratic, and we did it.
"A man who takes wife and
blesses the world Nith severs infants
cannot go away md ieazaafhem %
the claim that there was no legal mar
rage.
''These infant democracfes al have
political, social and economic prob
lens involving their nedghbors that
are fraught with the most intense
friction. There are no natural bound
aries in Europe. Races are not com
pact; they blend ct every border. They
need railway communication and sea
outlets through their neighbors' terri.
tory.
"Many Of these states must for the
next few years struggle almost fol
bare bones to maintain their very
existence. Every one of them IL 20
Ing to do its best; to protect its own
interests, even to the prejudice Of ita
neighbors. = Il -,
Governments tack Experience.
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