The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-01-09

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upon the plan outlined by the father.
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, the two propositions are presented +,
me that / must go into co-nartnarsbi,
with all the nations of the earth anf
submit the interests of the people Of
the United States to a tribunal com
posed of a majority of those nations
OF submit questions of peace or wa,
} TO the people Of the United States
prefer to leave it to the people of the
United States.
MR.. SHAFROTH. Mr.. President.
MR.. WALSH. Pardon me. That
gets us back. Mr.. President, to the or
iginal question. OF course, everybody
would who considers the interests of
the people of the United States alone;
but the trouble is that every other ma :
ton Will exercise exactly the same
right; 1t will determine for itself when
1t vii start war, the same as we
VIII determine when we will start a
war, and then we will encounter the
difficulty which we seek now to avoid.
MIR. BORAH What the Senator
from Montana is arguing for is that
we turn over to a tribunal other than
tribunal constituted by oour own
people the question of whether we
shall be at war or whether we shall
be at peace upon a particular question
MIR. tSHAFFROTH. Mr.. President
MR.. BORAH. Just a moment. The
Senator assumes that if we do so
that that will be likely to lead to
peace. / can not conceive of anything
more likely to arouse animosity upon
the part of the people of the United
States and to stir the people of the
United States to conflict than to have
a decision rendered concerning their
vital interests by some tribunal con-
stituted in its membership by those
who are not responsive to the people
of the United States. Besides, the
Senator assumes this tribunal will al
ways decide for peace; suppose it has
a bent for war The people of the
United States will always decide for
peace when honor and security are
involved.
MIR. WALSH. Mr.. President, if the
Senator will pardon me. / interrupted
him merely to emphasize as much as |
could that those who are opposing the
propositions as if the United States
were the only nation on the earth;
that is to say, if whenever the question
arises it is asked whether we desire to
determine our own future or allow
some other nations to determine it,
there is no answer to be made. OF
course we will not bind ourselves; but
other nations of the world are equal
ly at liberty to determine their own
future. Germany was entirely at lib
erty under the existing system to de-
tcrmine her own future. She con-
ceived that she would go out and con-
quer the world, and we were drawn
into the controversy. We may be
drawn into it again. That is the situ-
alton that, it seems to me, must pre-
sent itself for the consideration of
senator's, rather than the question as
to what we should like. OF course
we should like. to run our own future
according to our own wishes and de-
sires.
MIR. BORAH And l venture to
prophesy that we will.
MR.. SHAFROTH. Mr.. President
MIR. BORAH. Wait just a moment.
l should like to dispose of the argu-
ment of the Senator from Montana
first
The Senator from Montana says that
Germany was at liberty to pursue her
own course Now, Germany could not
be bound more strictly and more in
honor that she was at the time she
entered into this war. She was one
of the signatory powers to treaty
which bound her not to do what she
did do, and she understood perfectly
that these other nations with whom
she was going into war were hound to
prevent her from doing that thing, but
Notwithstanding this agreement,
which was backed up by the most
powerful nations of Europe, Germany
conceived the proposition that she was
able to disregard the treaty, and she
did disregard the honor of it, and
therefore proceeded.
MIR. WALSH Quite so.
MIR. BORAH. Now, suppose that
Germany was in a league of nations
and that she was bound % submit her
PROPOSITIONS to an arbitral tribunal;
but suppose Germany conceived at the
time that she was powerful enough to
dominate the world to disregard the
tribunal, to disown the obligations OF
the league would she be in any diff