The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
HARVEY DEMANDS
OUR INDEPENDENCE
Prefers War 10 Surrender Of
Slightest Part Through the
League Of Nations.
.TREE MEN WILL ARISE"
Asserts Danger Confronting
Country Is Greater Than
Before Civil War.
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BOSTON, March so-Col George Har-
w IN an address delivered tonight be-
tore the City Club Of Boston Asked
pointsdiy II the Independence Of Amer
IN must BE- SACRIFICED to humanity. HIS
spssch In opposition to the League OF
Nations covenant In one Of the strongest
- has yst dsliversd-
The meeting was sponsored by stanch
Republicans OF Boston who did not agree
with the turn the Lodse-Lowell debate
took last night. Col. Harvey found whole
hearted enthusiasm among the audience
when he declared The League Of Ma
tons covenant IL . pill Of British con-
coction which Anertcans arc asked to
swallow hook. line and sinker. There
r. no need for any suoh league for the
prospect for universal peace was never
% bright ~ II 10 today" Col Harvey
said in part:
let there be no misunderstanding:
n the establishment Of peace Ii depend
snt upon the sacrifice of ono jot Of the
absolute Independence Of America then
] am not for peace: am for war. We
fought that issue onoe. II began at Lex
inEton and Concord. We supposed We
had settled II for an time We do not
want to be forced to do II again. And
I say to you that II you put America
under subsection to foreign dominance
q the worry FIRST insistenoe Of direction
oy Europeans and Asiatics the free men
u America will arise as they arose be-
fore, regardless OF Executive or Con-
gressional acQuiescence. in defence OF
their liberties. I insist further that We
can serve mankind best BY serving
America frst
''Ths danger which now confronts
America Is vastly greater than even that
OF those black days Immediately pre-
eeding the civil war, for the reason that
ve are now asked to change our form
Of Government. to divest our nation of
fee full independence and Its most cher
fshed tradition. and to sacrifice in part
at least our sovereignty. That, gentle
men, Is what the proposed mingling OF
the United States with the Powers OF
Europe and Asia means.
Says Evidence In Admitted.
IF It were necessary to produce evi-
dsnces In substantiation of this state
mont there would be no difficulty in doing
%. Both the President and the EXPIRES
ident, the leaders Of the movement, have
made the acknowledgment over and over
again. They insist merely that such a
waiver II one only of degree.
Tho present proposal L. perpetual.
eovsnant from which mono Of the parties
Shsreto can withdraw with honor or
without In effect declaring war upon
me rest OF the world. Upon this point
also there II no disagreement
shali not attempt tonight to anaiyse
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country by the President. That has
already been done 80 thoroughly and so
effectively that nothing that could say
would add materially TO the store OF
knowledge which you already possess
10 u now clearly evident that the cove
nant In Its present form Is doomed to
failure.
Even though as we have assumed
ne tentative programme cannot win es-
sential acceptance. the substance OF tho
plan has not been and will not be aban-
doned. Tho President Ia so fully COM
United TO the project and so FIRMLY con-
vfhced OF the support OF the people that
. test of the sentiment Of the country
u Inevitable.
League TO Enforce war
TN the first placa no league to on
1nrce neace can he devtsed which ia not
n effect a league to enforce war-war
- he waEed by its members upon any
country which refuses to submft to their
4ecree. The President, unconsciously
rerhaps. admitted that when at Great
6ritain's insistence he withdrew his de-
nand for freedom of the seas because.
forsootb. upon reflection he perceived
mat there could be no neutrals with a
.ss.o,na,Y no no,o.,v.,,. .1v.r..~.
ahall accrue to the United States, Upon
nat point the President was rightly in
astent from the start and finally.
through the exercise Of his remarkable
persuasive talents. he won the acauies-
ancs of tho other Powers. Indeed II the
truth must be told, from the very be-
ginning their sole concern has been not
whether they could get any thing out OF
-, but how much Great Britain OF
course will yield nothing. She Is in the
position Of the rich man whose sole need
y to md somebody to guarantee his
psrpetual possession of what he already
has. We are to be that somebody
maybe. France and Italy will readily
cancel manufactured claims to territories
which they have no use for and never
snaaIIv uyantad In raturn for the az