The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-03-13

the policy Of this entire program,
whatever 1t Is to be, under the league.
A matter of profound significance!"
Vote, Five to One.
/ ask you who are in favor of this
league, are you willing to give to any
nation five votes against our one? Do
you presume that the questions Of in
terest, of ambition, of selfishness, OF
caprice, of humor will not arise in the
future? Have they not already, in a
proper way, but none the less in an
unmistakable way, made their APP
pearance since the armistice was
signed? Are we not already advised
thar we must use the same intelli-
gence, the same foresight, the same
provision, and the same patriotism
that our fathers used against the in
herent, the inevitable sellishness OF
all nations? Yet we are seriously pro-
posing that we shall join a league
!. whose constitutional powers shall de-
termlhe-what? Shall determine poll
cies, polite and economic, upon the
two continents and shall give to our
greatest commercial rival five votes to
our one.
Mr.. President, I have called atten-
ton to some of the obligations which
we assume. Let me repeat single
statement. You have now observed
the number of votes in the executive
council, but that is not all. There are
Italy and Japan associated with Eng
land and more nearly like her In their
systems and in their policies than they
are like the United States. There are
already treaties between those nations
and England, which Mr.. Balfour frank
| ly says are not to be abrogated; in
other words, we are in the very be-
ginning put up not only against this
extraordinary vote by one nation but
we have the disadvantage of contend
| ing against a system, which system
covers other nations as we'll as that
of Great Britain.
We all want the friendship and the
respect of and future amicable rela-
tions between Great Britain and this
country. That also was Lincoln S
! wish; but never for a moment did they
surrender any power or any authority
or compromise their capacity in any
way to take care of the situation in
case there should not be an agree
ment between the two powers.
What has England given UP in this
league of nations? What has she sur
rendered? VIII some one advise me?
Did she surrender the freedom of the
seas? That was pushed aside at the
first meetings of the conference as not
subject to it's jurisdiction. Has she
surrendered her claim for the largest
navy? What has she surrendered?
A Menacins Feature.
| come now to another feature which
to me is even more interesting, more
menacing than those over which we
disguise it as some will attempt to do
this is the first step in international
ism and the first distinct effort to
sterilize nationalism. This Is a recog-
nized fact tacitly admitted by all who
support it and expressly admitted by
many, that the national state has
broken down and that we must now
depend upon the international state
n at Ia al To-, %
preserve our interests and our civili-
cation. The national state can nc
longer serve the cause of civilization
and therefore we must resort to the
international state. That is disclosed
in every line and paragraph of this in
strument 1T begins with the pream
BILE and ends with the last article-a
recognition that internationalism must
take the place of nationalism.
May 1 now call attention to a state
ment from perhaps the most famous
Iinternationalist now Lying. read
from a book entitled THE Bolsheviki
and World Peace" by Trotzky. He
says:
The present war is at bottom a re-
olt of the forces of production against
the political form of nation and state.
II means the collapse of International
state as an Independent economic
unit"
In another paragraphs:
THE war proclaims the downfall of
| the national state We Rus
sian socialists stand firmly on the
ground of ernationalism. :.
%he German social democracy was to
us not only party of the information
Alt was the party par excellence
| Again, he declares:
THE poorest war signifies the coll
lapse of the national states"
He proceeds to argue that the only
thing which can take the place of the
national state is internationalsm to
Iirternationalize our governments, in
ternationalize our power information
alize production, internationalize our
economic capacity, and become an in
ternational state the world over That
is at the bottom of this entire proceed
ure, whether consciously or uncon-
sciously, upon the part of those who
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