The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1919-08-30
LEAGUE FULFILS
AMERICAN IDEAL
Herbert Hoover Says Democra-
cies Replaced Autocracies
at Our Bidding.
FOOD ADMINISTRATION CHIEF.
Urges Ratification on Ground That
Peace Treaty viii Collapse
Without League Of
Nations.

Herbert Hoover Is SO deeply con.
eerned over the opposition to the
League Of Nations In the United
States that he has let himself be In
terviewed at length on the League sit.
uatiOn. In talk with the New Yorl
Times correspondent in Paris, thu
Food Administration Chief asserts that
having caused the League Idea to pre-
vail America cannot abandon II. We
cannot withdraw. he says. and leave
Europe to chaos. ITO abandon the
League Covenant now means that the
treaty itself will collapse"
Mr.. Hoover's wide Acquaintance
wtth conditions both here and abroad
bis reputation az an administrator, .
man Of great affairs who deals with
facts, not theories, make his state
ment one Of The most important con
trtbutions to the recent League discus.
lions.
'.There are one or two points In con
nectIon with the present treaty" sale
Mr.. Hoover. shat need careful consId
Grafton by the American public. We
need to digest the fact that we have
for 4 century and a half been advo
eating democracy not only as q
remedy for the Internal Ills Of all 80
ciety. but also rs the only real safe
guard against war. We have believed
and proclaimed, In season and out
that a world In which there was
free expression and enforcement o,
the will Of the majority was the rea
basis Of government, was essential FOL
the advancement Of civilization, ant
that We have proved its enormous hu
man benefits In our country.
American idsas Have Prevailed.
"We went into the war to destro,
autocrncy as menace to our own ant
all other dcmocracies. II we had no,
come into the war every inch OF Euro
pean soil totlny would be under auto
cratic government. We have imposed
our will on the world Out OF thi,
victory has come the destruction OF
the four great autocracles In Ger
many, Russia, Turkey and Austria and
the little autOcracy in Greece. New
demOcracies have sprung into being 10
Poland, Finland, Letvin, Lithuania,
EsthOnia, CxechoslovakIa, Greater
Serbia, Greece, Siberia, md even Ger.
many and Austria have established
democratic governments. Beyond
these a host OF small republics, such
as Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and
others, have sprung up. and again a.
a result Of this great world movement
the contributions Of Spain. Rumanin,
and even England, have made final
ascent to complete franchise and de.
mocracy, although they still maintain
a symbol Of royalty.
1--WE have been the living spring for
this Inst century md half from which
these idens hive sprung. and we have
triumpheti. The world today. except
for a comparatively few reactionnry
and communicate autocracies, is dem.
ocratic. and we did 1t.
IL man who takes wife and
blcsses the world with several infants
cannot go away and leave them on
the claim that there was no legal mar
riage.
"These infant dcmocracies all have
political, sOcinl and economic prob
lens involving, their neighbors that
are fraught with the most intense
friction. There are no natural bound
aries In Europe. Races are not com
pnct; they blend at every border. They
need railway communication and sea
outlets through their neighbors' terri
tory.
"Many of these stntes must for the
next few years struggle almost 70.
bare bones to maintain their very
existence. Every one OF them Is go
Ing to do It's best; to protect It's owl
interests, even to the prejudice OF III
neighbours
Governments Lack Experience.
eve In America should realize tha