The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-27
There Is Only One League of
Nations Before the World,
Says Foreign Relations
Chairman
SENATOR is HEARD
BY COMMERCE MEN
ssPeace Signed at Paris Will Be
Only q Truce" He Said,
eff League Is Not
Formed"

Chicago. March 26-Declafing there
i is only one league of nations consti-
tuition before the world and that peo.
pie must accept this or nothing. Sen
ator Hitchcock Of Nebraska. chairman
OF the senate foreign relations COM
mittee. paused q. moment in his speech
to the Association OF Commerce today
and added Il am for It,"
I'VE need not deceive ourselves
with foolish hopes that wars will nat
urally cease" Senator Hitchcock said.
Experience has shown they come
whether nations are barbarous or CIV
ilixed. Christian or pagan. educated or
illiterate.
They will continue in the future
as they have in the past unless nations
unite In a plan to avoid them. For
the first time in history nations are
making an effort to do this. II the
league is not formed the peace signed
at Paris will be only a truce and
every nation will resume war prep
arations on q higher scale than ever.
| Perhaps the establishment of the
league of nations never was possible
before. A great change. however. has
come over the world. In the past the
world has been crushed by autocratic
governments bent on conquest
Nov. however. the nations OF the
world have become. or by our aid may
become. largely denoesntic. It should
be comparatively simple for them to
make an AgrecsasNa. - osta ljlish inter-
natiodSI 1lcs D6sed % 51Siz q
THAT II the effort now being made
at Paris. In this historic effort the
leader Is the American president.
Woodrow Wilson.
shall we support this effort or re-
pudiate it? Already opposition is
strongly developed. Considering these
objections. 1t was first said the league
would be a sort of super-nation with
i great standing army and navy cap
able of destroying any particular ma
ton. This objection disappeared as
soon the league constitution was pub
ltsned.
Second, the objection was made
that the United States surrendered a
part OF it's sovereignty in entering the
league. It has now become evident
neither the United States nor any ma
tion surrenders anything as the lea
que is not a government and has no
sovereign powers.
Third objection has been made that
the United States abandons the Mon
roe doctrine. How can this doctrine
be abandoned by joining a league
| which proposes to put. a stop to ag-
gressions by force against every ma
tfon including those in America?
'sFourth. objection has been made
that British self-governing colonies
like Canada and Australia may be ad-
m!tted to the league which 1t Is claim
ed would give Great Britain five votes
to our one. II 1t were true 1t would
rot matter because all important ques-
t:ons must be decided by unanimous
vote Also these colonies are now al
mcst completely independent of Great
Britain and Canada especially has
many interests in common with the
United States.
Fifth, it has been objected that
Japan might insist on having the lea
que settle the migration question and
Though the league force us to admit
japanese. II she could she could also
rage and divorce. taxation or any other
domestic question. The league, how
ever deals only with international
questions and has no relation to do
mestfc affairs.
II feel these objections will b.
brushed aside end men will meet tn,
Lig issue squarely. Our answer must
,,e yes or no and 1 am sure there
il but one correct answer and that IS
yes
i believe tn, people of the world
viii sccept the league as it has been
p,et sred in Paris bcause they must
realize. the promise the nations make
t., each other will act as an effectual
txentatiye of wa"