Weekly journal-miner., 1919-03-19
BOWLER TAXES FALL OUT OF
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SAYS UNITED STATES IS FOOLISH TO SURRENDER SOVEREIGNTY TO FOR EIGN ALLIANCE; CON- FLICTS WITH LAW.
(From Saturdays Daily)

while it takes so much power iron the government, that the United States constitution confers. is tho stand taken by Col. Fred Bowler O this city. Col Bowler takes q fal out of the people who are willing tC see America surrender certain right, and powers in order that it may be come a member of the league, whose benefits as far as this nation are con cerned, are yet to be demonstrated In a recent address in Phoenix, he said.
 Mir. Taft complains that the op- ponents of the League of Nation: offer only objections to the plan, and says that those who do not like the proposed plan should propose a bet ter plan.
 That is not so.
 The majority of Us do not want tc have anything at all to do with foreign alliances, whether such an alliance is called a League of Nations or given its true name.
 So it is not up to us in any way tC propose a substitute for the plan for mulated at Paris.
 Our alternative is the policy oi George Washington. the policy which the United States has followed dur ing its whole existence as a nation, and under which it has grown to greatness.
 We offer only objections to the League of Nations plan because this League of Nations plan is open only to objections.
 There is not a single feature of the scheme which appeals to us who be- lieve in the established policy of the United States of no interference in European affairs.
 The assumption that the league of Nations will preserve the world'@ peace, and that. therefore, it snould be supported by all who want peace to be permanent is purely assump- ton. and unjustifiable assumption.
 It is an assumption contradicted by all experience and by the very present conditions of European pol icy.
 We refuse to consent to the abdi- cation of our National sovereignty and the abandonment of our estab- lished policy on mere assumption -on the mere sey-so of Mir. Taft or anybody else.
 It is very noticeable that the op- ponents of this foreign alliance pres ent SPECIFIC objections and put their reasons in calm, straightfor- ward language. while all that has been heard so far in support of this proposed league is sentimental de- clamation, "high-sounding and gilt tering generalties," which mean any thing or nothing, and rhetorical flourishes which are all too reminis- cent of political stump oratory.
 On the one side are a band of men talking sensibly and to the point, en- forcing their arguments by the pre- cepts of our greatest statesmen, the mandates of the Constitution, the pages of hisory and the lessons of the worlds long experience.
 While the proponents of this scheme-Mr. Taft among tnem-act exactly like lawyer who has a bad case and tries to make up for the lack of evidence and law in his clients favor by making loud noise.
 MT. Taft has no right to demand that we submit better plan than the one lie favors, or any plan at all. be- cause it is he and his associates, and not we, who are proposing a League of Nations.
 Yet we will accept Mir. Taft's chal- lenge We will submit much bet ter plan than this League of Nations "a much better foreign policy than that would be.
 We will put it all in eight words:
 COME HOME AND MIND OUR OWN AMERICAN BUSINESS.
 Any objection to that?
 Nothing unconstitutional about that, is there?
 No surrender of American sover- eighty in that doctrine, is there?
 Nothing in that that any one hun dred per cent America First Ameri- can can object too, is there?
 Nothing in that that conflicts with the teachings of Washington, and all our other great statesmen, is there?
 If you can better that policy to- ward foreign nations, better that plan of domestic conduct, or prove that the League of Nations will better in sure OUR peace, OUR safety, OUR National growth in power and pros perity, we are quite ready to listen courteously to your argument, Mir. Taft.
 But to be candid with you, Mr. Taft, we think that you will find that job too hard for you.
 MT. Taft also challenges us who are opposed to the League of Ma tons on constitutional grounds to