Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-22
HOPE
OF UNIVERSE
SAYS M'NARY
Republican Senator Would
Have Changes-Moses
Assails the Treaty.

of speech making on the peace
| treaty was before the senate today,
four senators having given notice
! that they would make prepared ad-
dresses on the subject. Senator
| McNary, Republican, Oregon, VINO
spoke first in support of the League
i of Nations, was followed by Sen
ators Moses, Republican, Of New
Hampshire. Senator Johnson, South
Dakota, and Beckham, Kentucky,
slated for speeches.
Supporting the League of Ma
tions in a senate speech today,
Senator McNary, Republican, Ore
gon, urged that it be accepted with
out any such amendments or res
ervations as would "aIter the
splendid purpose of the covenant
or weaken it so far as it affects
our duties"
The senate, said the speaker,
could without harm adopt certain
reservations in the form of in
terpretations," but should not en-
danger the covenant by making
reservations that would vitality af-
feet important features. Article
10, he said, must be unimpaired, be-
cause it was the pillar section" OF
the league,
Accepts League.
81 ann stoutly in favor" said Mr..
McNary, @of the principle embod-
led in any effort to insure the per-
manent peace of the world, and !
am willing to accept the covenant
of the League of Nations contained
in the peace treaty.
"Of the objections I take It that
article 10 is the most obnoxious
and productive OF the most contro-
Versy.
"Indisputably this provision
casts upon this country an under
taking to go to war to protect an
associate of the league from in
vasion through external force, but
this obligation Is IN no proper
sense a legal one. but purely a
moral obligation, entirely depend
ent upon the condition that the
cause of the war and tho war itself
is violative of the moral conscious
ness of the American people.
Can Not Force War.
"In no sense can the executive
branch of the government, aided
by the senate, cast any legal obli-
CATION upon this or any future con-
gress to pass a declaration of war
upon any nation, however unjustly
offending.
The moral force In the obliga-
ton imposed upon the nations OF
the world. In my opinion, will do
much to chill the ambitious de-
signs OF nations that heretofore
have been the cause OF cruel wars,
and for that reason l shall oppose
by my vote any eradication of ar
ticle 10 from the covenant
Is Hope Of World.
''The construction of the league
is not the final and unalterable
judge of the worlds opinion. Time
opens the way and presents epper-
tunity for all needed amendments.
Within this league will ripen a new
code of international law and JUS
tice that will guide the nations OF
the world by the path that leads /
to peaceful settlement Of all inter-
national disputes that will avoid !
controversies that result in war
Let this country be committed to /
a step in the direction of everlast !
ing peace, and it is my sincere be- |
lief that the League of Nations is |
the greatest step the world has |
5veF taken toward peacei there
fore l shall support the league as |
it is the hope of the world"
Moses AssaiIs Treaty.
Declaring it is not the League of I
Nations but the big five to which I
The peace treaty gives responsible !
ity for effecting the terms of the .
peace, Senator Moses. New Hamp-
shire, a Republican of the foreign |
relations committee, told the SEN
ate today that by accepting the
role of a principal power, as defin-
ed in the treaty, the United States
would embroil itself for many
rears to come in the troubles of
Europe
The senator said that while the
eague covenant was bad enough,
,ther provisions of the treaty were
Eorse.
"AIliteTatiORs' ArtfHI Aid"
"In this treaty" said Senator
Noses, "aFe considerations of many
shoes and ships and
ealing wax. of cabbages and
Iings. 1t roams the plains, sails
he seas, deIves into the earth and
oars into the sky; Huns, horses
nd hqntsmen alike come within
IS purview; books, boundaries and
guns, goats, guarantees
nd governments; wa-ships, water
Eays, woman suffrage and VIII
elm Hin short, the alphabet
nd alliterations alike are agon-
zed in an attempt to deal adequate
y with merely a topical index to
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