Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-03-26
LEAGUE CRITICS
INDICATED At.
PARIS SAYS REED
Perhaps Other Parts of
League Pact Are Not
Safe, He Adds.
FEARS ALLIED NATIONS
WILL SUBMERGE STATES

Kansas City, March 25.-Amend.
ments to the constitution of the
league of nations put forward in
Paris during the last "a hours vind)-
cate critics of the present draft of
the covenant, United States Sena-
tor James A. Reed, Of Missouri, de.
ciared in an address tonight.
"if the trainers of the covenant
now stand confessing they overlook.
cd two great vital principles, then
all the rest Of the work surely needs
investigation" he asserted.
"The papers state that article 10,
which binds US to protect the from
tiers of Japan, Great Britain and
every other member of the league,
is to be amended so that It will not
constitute an infringement upon
the principles of international poll.
cies heretofore recognized The at
tempt Of the American delegates to
incorporate such an amendment Is
their solemn confession that the
critics are right and that article 10
is dangerous abandonment Of our
national sovereignty. II Is also stat
ed that the delegates are fighting
hard to amend the covenant so as to
save the Monroe doctrine.
"lf tho critics have saved these
cardinal doctrine" Senator Reed do
cIared, 'then they are entitled to
the thanks Of the world.
"They tell US the league will pre-
vent wars. Yet as ] stand here
speaking, the children Of the new
republics we are about to set up
are cutting each others throats."
0U0T0s WILSON'S CAUTION.
Senator Reeds address was heard b,
4 large audience and the speaker wa
interrupted by applause.
Quoting from addresses of Presiden
Wilson in 1914 and 1916. in which tn,
America should hold aloof from Euro
pean alliances, United States Senate,
James Reed, of Missouri, in an address!
tonight, reiterated his opposition to tn,
league of nations and declared
that "once the American people under
stand what is involved in the league a!
now proposed. they will reject it almos
Senator Reed used the president
words, he said, to show that the doc
trine of Washington is not old, ant
should not be discarded,
This is not a political question" hs
declared. at grows directly out of thu
war. The war was not political 4
which involves the sovereign
ty of the United States. the integrity Of
the Munroe doctrine, the violation of the
and the life of the republic
IS not political; it is national.
Washington Doctrine Not Old.
'oThey tell us that the doctrine of
Washington is old and should be dis.
Senator Reed said. When die
t become old?"
Here the speaker quoted Mt length
rom an address delivered by President
Wilson, May 16, 1914, at the dedication
If monument to John Harry, a revolu-
ionary war hero, in which Mr.. Wilson
said in part:
I'VE cannot form alliances with those
VINO are not going our way. and i'll our
night and majesty and confidence and
'efiniteness Of our own purpose We nee'l
lot and we should not form alliances
With any nation in the world
again on April 13. 1916 said
senator Reed. ''the president delivered
hese memorable words at the Jefferson
Day banquet:
Gentlemen. are you ready for the
est? God forbid that we should ever
'ecome directly or indirectly embroiled
n quarrels not of our own choosing, and
hat do not affect what We feel res
,onsible to defend, but if we should ever
'e drawn in are you ready to go in
MY where the interests of America are
oincident with the interests of mankind.
Continued on ysaGe Threc.)