Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-05
|ND|CTS LEAGUE OF
NATIONS AS UNFIT
in OPENING DEBATE
JUDGE HiNEBAUGH hRRAlGNS
Will SONS PET PLAN IN AD-
DRESS BEFORE GOOD SIZED
AUDIENCE AT CHAUTAUQUA
PARK.

Yesterday afternoon at the com
munty Assembly the boys and girls
program under the direction of Mis-,
Laura Eus,is made lots of fun for the
children and was greatly enjoyed by
the audience. Judge Hiucbaugh gave
an address IN the evening on the sub
ject. Why DO Not FaT3r ID League
of Nations" Il wai a logic@l, force.
nll address. He emphasized and clar-
flied the points In the famous docu'
ment which are being subjected to
the hammer blows Of United States
senators in their protest against IT,
Next Saturday night the other side
of the question will be presented by
DIR. Roswell Petit. This Is live
question and one upon which Ameri-
can citizens should be we'll informed
1t Is a burning issue in the country
today. Judge IIinebaugh said In part:
Il have been requested to speak to
y
which, in my Judgment has confronted
the American people since the birth
of the republic
The choice must soon be made be
tween continuance of our national
freedom and absolute international
bondage.
1--WE are asked TO approve and RAJ
fly a covenant for league of nations
without reservation and without
amendment in the exact form in which
it was prepared by a British general
and submitted by the President to the
United States senate.
You will remember that when the
President returned TO Paris after Il
brief visit to the United States he
stopped in New York City long enough
TO make a speech on the 4th day of
last March, in which he threw down
this challenge to the thirty.six sena-
tors who had stated they would nor
acCep. the league covenant If presented
to the senate as a part of the treaty
treaty comes back gentlemen on this
side will find the covenant not only
i'm it. but so many threads OF the
treaty tied to the covenant that you
cannot dissect the covenant from the
treaty without destroying the whole
vital structure
Think Of it. my friends, thirty-siX
senator's, elected by the people. rep,
rnsenting more than twothrds OF the
entire population of the United States,
and a cor-ordnatc branch of the
treaty making power under our con
stitution. were virtually informed by
This .autocratic representative Of the
worlds greatest democracy that the
advice and consent of the senate
would receive no consideration. at
least by the chief executive of the
nation which they as we'll as he were
commissioned to represent
DO Won men and women. citizens o.
this great republic, perceive that II
this can be done by our President Il
marks the extinction of representative
and constitutional government in the
United States?
"Do you think II was intended BY
the founders Of our great nation ma
the vital questions Of foreign policy
and international engagements shoult
| be subject to decision by single per
! SON.
"Do you know that in the Paris
peace conference the United State
was the only country not represented
| by a single person confirmed by th'
| legislative branch Of the government
And yet that body of men, working il
secret, have formulated comrac
which, If adopted. will become unde
our constitution the supreme law o
the land
do YOU know that Lloyd George
the British premier, found 1t neces
sary many times during the confer
ence to return in person TO l.on"on II
order to explain to the house or com
mons the attitude he had taken Il