Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-26
FNAT0R REED C|)NT|NUES TO
 |OPP0SE LEAGUE
|ieyes People Will Reject
 [plans Unanimously. |oTEs WILSON TO
 1 SUSTAIN HIS PLEA
.uri Senator Fears United States |NHl Re Opposed By Ei.r0-
 pean Nations.

nsas City, Mo-, Mar. 25.-Quot rom addresses of President Will In 1914 and 1916, in which the lent expressed the belief that ica should hold aloof from Flu |n alliances, United States Sena. lanes A. Reed, of Missouri, ir dress here tonight reiterated his |ton to the proposed league o1 s and declared that "once the esn people understand what is led in the league as now pro- they will reject it almost un- usly."
 stor Reed used the presidents he said to show that the doc of Washington is not old and not be discarded.
 s is not a political question: dared. "It grows directly out war. The war was not politi- opposition which involved the ignty of the United States, the fy of the Monroe doctrine, the ion of the constitution and the the rIepublictis not political ational.
 Consider League.
 ny people declare they are in of some kind of a league. That the question we came here to The purpose of this hour is sider the proposition which we been officially informed has Tepted at Paris and which the an republic soon will be asked t.
 present league is not a mere lent among the nation to keep bee, coupled with an arrange disarmament. I affirm that {: -it undertakes to establish f-government, the seat of will become the capital of the The government will con- what is known as a body of es in which each country d is entitled to one vote, but eeifically provided that domin: nd self-governing colonies Admitted, shall be entitled each vote.
 Number Not Limited.
 e-The number of countries mus admitted is not limited, re cannot be less than nine. 1.-The large and the small B have the same voting regardless of population. Aside ; from the fact that treat Britain, France, Italy, United States are charter s, we do not know what other $ VIII be admitted. We dp nat a secret list has been the countries entitled to be ana that the other coun- De admitted by a two thirds " therefore, as there are to ast nine nations, and as there many more, the United States ays be confronted with the there will be at least eight foreign governments against vote and if there are more government admitted then ,il De just as many votes mat of the United States.
 teil us that the doctrine o1 son is old and should be dis :, senator {. Reed continued ,d it become old?"
 me speaker quoted at lengtE address delivered by Presi. ,son May 18th, 1914, at the o1 monument to Johr revolutionary % war hero, ir '; o. Wilson said in part:
 vpposes Alliances.
 annot form alliances witl sa are not going our way, ane .snt and majesty and in tho
 and definiteness of oul pose, we need not and w. z form alliances with an, the world"
 on April 18th, 1s16," sena o sald' "the president deliv memoriable words at tn,
 day banquet:
 smen, are you ready for tn, ,;ro ;,oro1d that we should eve,
 nectiy or indirectly em
 .qa saarrels not of our ow1 sa sno that do not effect wha Tsponsible to defend. but i
 ~ ever be drawn in. are yo, sv s m only where the inter
 s.S herlca are coincident witl nos. oes or mankind, and to drav ,snent cs the interest center c;so' % ana Is narrowed iron |'fEle nso of humanity?" :.
 ,,,, D,esires Peace.
 qua st have a peace, the term
 I ds.,ce Tnce agreed .upon," Sena
 sShsclared, and added tha
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