The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-03-14

ional judgment until he could lay the
facts before the country. Just how
the league will work out in all re-
spects no man can now tell, but as to
the things charged against it by such
opponents there can be no doubt of
their falsity at all.
AS Professor Reeves, head of the
department of political science at the
University of Michigan so clearly
points out, the league of nations will
extend the Monroe doctrine through
out the world rather than murder it.
There will be no more aggression,
monarchial or otherwise, on either
hemisphere. We see the Monroe doc
trine strengthened rather than des-
troyed
Prof. Reeves, whose authority to
speak on such matters could not be
questioned even by the experts in
United States senate says:
al say it makes Monroe doctrine
of the world. President Monroe in
his address to Congress in 1923,
enunciated what we know as the Mon
roe doctrine. The significant sentence
in his address is:
with the governments (of South
America) who have declared their
independence and maintained it, and
whose independence we have on great
consideration and on just principles
acknowledged, we could not view any
interposition for the purpose of
expressing them or Of controlling in
any manner their destiny by the
European power of an unfriendly dis
position toward the United States.
"Now eliminate the word European
and substitute members of the
league of nations" for the United
States and that sentence summarizes
the covenant of the league of nations. "
Summing up his views, Prof. Reeves
says regarding the constitution of the
league:
at does not violate the Monroe
doctrine.
at does not infringe on the consti-
tutional privilege of Congress to de-
clare war.
at does not-this point | wish to
emphasize-give any of it's creations
the power to legislate; to enact rigid
international laws; it provides for the
logical development Of common law
of nations, growing flexible, adjusting
itself to conditions.
CAN power finally belongs to the
body of delegates, in which each mem
Der of the league stands on an equal
footing.
1t provides efficient machinery foi
compelling the peaceful settlement OF
all international disputes"
Accustomed as the American people
are to flip-fopping statesmen who
change their minds and their attitudes
upon important questions according
to the demands of political eXpediency
they will not be content to accept Sen
ator Lodges newly discovered dan
gers in the league of nations proposal
without some better explanation than
that of partisan necessity.
For years past Senator Lodge has
exerted a powerful influence upon con
,servatives in favor of the league of
nations idea. Until only a few months
ago, he was publicly championing as
absolute necessity the very thing he
now denounces. AS brief time ago
as December 21st, last, Mr.. Lodge
arose in the Senate to declare that
I'VE cannot leave the Jugo-Slavs, the
Gecho-Slavs and the Poles, the Luth-
eranians and the other states which
we hoped to see formed and marching
upon the path of progress and de-
velopment, unaided and alone"
Now Mr.. Lodge tells us that the
safety Of these states is none of our
business and that we must return To
the isolation Of our past. Can Mr..
Lodge explain his sudden desertion of
these newly freed peoples?
In his Bitter denunciation of the
league of nations delivered in the
Senate late last week, Mr.. Lodge
warned the nation that the provisions
Of that document violate the consti-
tuition of the United States, abolish
the Monroe doctrine, transgress Geo.
Washington's foreign policy of isola-
tion and threaten to undermine