The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-06
SAYS BRITAIN GAINS
AND U. s. SACRIFICES
Borah Points Out Empire
Benefits Hugely Under
League Covenant.
CALLS PACT PARTY ISSUE
Asserts Cummings and Tu-
multy Already Have
Made 1t This.
CALLS PACT PARTY ISSUE
Sn.ct1I DespatcA TO TIE Soy.

WASHINGTON, June 5.-Chargfng that
the United States makes the sacrifices
while the British Empire gets the solid
advantages from the formation Of the
League OF Nations, Senator Borsh
Idaho). in a speech In the Senate to-day
analyzed the league covenant with spe-
clal reference to the British interests
IN l..
Incidentally he paid his respects in
strong terms to former President TAFT,
and Insisted that the League OF Nations
should and must be a party issue.
The Democrats" said Mr.. Borah,
are nowadays paying a good deal OF
attention to the former President l
heard one Senator declare that by his at
ttude in supporting the league covenant
nc had rehabilitated himself before the
American public. I object to robbing
Mr.. Taft of any Of the credit due him in
this connection. He Is entitled to all
that is coming to him. The people are
more kindly to him than formerly; he
rcts attention much as traftlc in the
street stops that the dead may pass by"
No Sacrifices by Britain.
Turning to the campaign for the
league Mr.. Borah said that mot only Mr..
Taft and the Democratic National
Chairman are urging its ratification. but
arguments for II are coming from our
friends abroad. We are not to be free
to settle the business by ourselves They
tell US we will disappoint the world II We
fail 1t now and do not form league or
nations TO guarantee the integrity Of the
British Empire.
II noted some observations recently
by Lord Robert Cecil. ] do not know
linn. but I know a, good deal about his
ancestors and about their activities from
1860 to 1854. He admits that II the
world shall unite to maintain peace. sac
rifices must be made by individual ma
tions: IL they are not willing to make
tcme sacrifices, to give up something OF
their sovereignty, Il is useless TO hope
Tor permanent results
What sacrifice has the British en-
pire made in the covenant? Freedom OF
the seas has not been heard from since,
at the very beginning. Britain notineo
the Peace Congress that that question
was not within its jurisdiction. Britain
Is left dominating the seas and through
her naval superiority able to dominate
the League of Nations. in which she has
six votes to our one. Britain retains her
long esta blished foreign policy I'M
changed. She emerges controlling one
fourth In area of the habitable globe and
one-third Of its population. From the
hour II comes into existence she WILL
through her naval power, dominate the
League of Nations.
What has England sacrificed? She
has acquired territory nearly equal to
. the area Of the United States and with
Il nearly $4,000, 900 people. She has
surrendered nothing Of her power or OF
her national independence. But the mo-
ment we enter the league We change our
entire policy of $50 years, which has
given us our great place in the world.
"I would have been satisfied TO let
the treaty be distributed at the pleasure
q the President II the action OF the
Peace Conference had been confined TO
making a treaty. But when the con-
ference assumed to make something
more than a treaty 1t became a matter
of the utmost concern to the American
public to know Just what kind OF a
supergovernment Is proposed. We are
facing such a situation as never con-
fronted US before. While making a
treaty We are changing the entire sruc-
ture of our Government
Says Taft Must Know Treaty.
THE League of Nations is being dis.
cussed from one end OF the land to the
other. Our people are being told that
the treaty and the league are INSOFAR.
able and that peace cannot be restored
until both are accepted.
Not a night passes that former Pres
ident Taft does not alight from his spe-
cial train ard expound the treaty. al
though It has not been made public
This presupposes that Mr. Taft Is "a
Yniliar with the treaty. Mr.. Taft says
the machinery of the league must make
the treaty operative This compels the
belief that Mr.. Taft knew all the de-
tails REGARDING the treaty. do moi
know how the treaty can be made effec.
tive by the League of Nations. 1t ID
utterly useless for that purpose. La
only effect will be to produce wars In
stead of ending them.
The President recently advised the
people that the League Of Nations would
be SO interviewer with the treaty tina,
It's opponents would not be able to dis
entangle them. We now have the League
Of Nations. but not the treaty and nc
means Of knowing how they are inter
woven. Are we not entitled to have both
instruments and to know precisely how
we are to meet the situation? I say
the people Of the United States are en-
titled to know.
IT emphatically disclaim any persona
feeling against the President but so fai
a. he may be attempting a betrayal Of
the independence and sovereignty Of this
American people into the hands of for
eigners will not spare the President al
the request Of any Senator or any in
dividual. I will do all possible intel
,ectually and physically to Illustrate such
a treacherous scheme to betray tbs
American people. If that be treason
make the most Of II"
Mr. Borah said he has no doubt cop
les of the treaty are in the hands OF
special interests in New York. He die