The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-09
Covenant Assailed By
Senator Johnson
IN Senate
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difficulty of any character.
1T is unthinkable that any Amer'-
can wrote Article 10. 1t is unthink-
able that any American can subscribe
to Article 10. Those who penned
this provision knew exactly what
they meant and exactly what they
intended. With scrupulous care the
provision was designed to preserve
for all time existing governments and
the territorial integrity of existing
How best could this
guaranty. in the light of world events
and in the kaleidoscope changes OF
the, last few years, be accomplished F!
The shrewd nationalist OF Europe
or the able diplomat Of the Orient
taking unto his country the I'M
mense new territories acquired by
the peace. at once would realize that
the only substantial guaranty IN the
world Of the stability of his country
and of the preservation OF its
enormous gains in. territory ana
people would be the great free De-
mocracy, the United States.
"And this League of Nations is
written around the one centre idea
that the great Democracy of the
United States shall guarantee, main
tain, and perserve the British En-
pire's boundaries with its seething
millions of disconnected people; the
increased territories of France; the
vastly extended boundaries Of Italy
throbbing with revolution; and the
rape of China by japan.
%This League of Nations, with
the men who really wrote it. was
! meant to obtain peace only inso far
as peace maintained forever invio-
late their territories. and their sub
ject peoples and it was meant that
, this kind Of peace should be obtain
ed by the exercise Of the power and
the force of the United States.
How can any man of liberal views
agree to answer Article X? When
Il speak Of men Of liberal views I
mean those hearts throb in unison
with humanity; those who believes
Governments obligation is first to
men and women and children. The
section freezes the world into in1mu-
liability 1t arrogates to those of US
who are here today a knowledge SUI
perior to that Of all facts Of all flu
ture generations. It takes no heed
of new world events of ever chang
ing advances and progress. 1t as
sumes today to be the end and that
the men of today may write the his
, tory of tomorrow"
at assumes to put the world in a
straitjacket wherein there can be no
movement for betterment, or prog
ress, or humanity. But beyond and
above all this maintenance of the
static condition can bye accomplished
by the blood of just one nation and
that is ours. Are you ready, Amer
ians, to pledge your sons and your
sons sons to maintain and preserve
for all time the present government
Of the little nations we are setting up
in Europe and the present govern
ments and boundaries of the British
and the Japanese empires?'
The Monroe Doctrine
Turning to the Monroe Doctrine
Senator Johnson read the amendment
regarding it, which is as follows:
Article Fl. Nothing in this cove
nant shall be deemed to affect the
validity Of international engage
ments, such as treatines of arbitra-
tion or regional understandings like
the Monroe Doctrine for securing
the maintenance of peace"
Senator Johnson proceeded:
What is meant by the language:
Nothing in the covenant shall be
deemed to affect the validity Of re-
gional understandings like the Mon