The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-19
M'CUMBER PLEADS
FOR RATIFICATION
OF WORLD LEAGUE
REPUBLICAN SENATOR SAYS
TERMS OF COVENANT HAVE
BEEN WILFULI.LN MISlN'
TERPRETED.

Washington, June ls.-Declaring OPP
ponents of the League of Nations nave
conducted a campaign Of misrepresenta'
tion and distortion, Senator McCumber
OF North Kakota, a republican member
of the foreign relations committee, told
the senate today that the league cove
nant offers the only prospect of pre-
venting future and more terrible wars
Reply to arguments of many repuo'
lican senators. he upheld the league
as entirely consistent with the American
constitution and devoid of any ability
dangerously TO entangle or curtail
American interest.
"In 90 years of service in the senate
said the North Dakota senator, Il have
known but one instrument whose terms
have been so wilfuily misinterpreted
and so grossly disrepresented as the
covenant of the league of Nations. That
some of it is vague. | know, and some
portions are Objectionable from partic
ular viewpoints; but that it discrimin'
ates against US, is unfair in its treat
ment of our country, or that it imposes
on us any obligation or burden that
is not equally borne by every other
,,,,io, n,ust emnb,ticallv deny.
"It is regrettable that the mighty
power of eloquence Is used TO deiame
and distort the true meaning oil an IN
strument, the most important that ever
appealed to the heaart or the soul oi
man.
suppose we now refuse TO JON WIN
the rest of the world IN some scherhe
TO prevent war. what VIII happoh AS
surely as the sun snail rise every great
nation will proceed TO ADVISE means
for the wholesale destruction OF ma
tions. so desperate VIII pe ''' "eA'
war that all the nate ana an 'ne venom
created by this struggle VIII pe minutes.
imal compared with the HeN'' ANU
against what race VIII an 'heSe weapon
of death be used? Against the "I''e
race"
Quoting the declaration OF Sehatot
Johnson. republican, oil Cahiorhl'' .hl'
America 10y virtue ol her lsoialloi uoeS
not need the European powers
partners Mr.. McCulnper s"iu lso'''
ton had long since broken uo""' Il
European quarrei haNlhg Cost 'ilS 'ou'
try IN the past i've years 'O'oOV 1--WE
and S45 5000, O,OOO
Nations Moral Duty.
"rbore is no moral duty incumbent
,,,,,, ,o,. NON in his relations to his
,'ro,,. ,,,o,, " ba continued "that is
Ill. i,,o,,r,,,o,t ,non , nation in
,aia+ion to overv other nation
Iy-h,+ ,,.o,,,d ,.ou say. of the strong
,.i,,o,o,,,, mon who yould stand on the
.to ,d 500 , ,yonoor strueoIine in
~ -, ,,tiI. folding his muscular
an,,.. ,nrounred .Ob that is no con.
aa,,, ~ ,,,ina shn is nor my wife or
,.,.,,a.,
.'sc,, o,,norarts or tho 1e,gus
e,.io,.. .,,., ,,,,, mako ~, our minds
,.,,,4 :. 10 ,,.b., tho occasior ,rises,
~. ,,,,,,+ -. ,o do 10 IN ha rigb,
.tara -, tho snot yyben fine occasion
-, t1a1 tta rrnito1 ctotes bear
,.irh+ ~, tho snot with an agreement
stoned hv MS and signed by Germany
that Germany would not make war OF
France or any other country WlthouI
submitting to the League OF Nations th'
question of righteousness OF her cause
the world would have been spared thl
awful conflagration.
You task about our entering thl'
war for great world prlnclpal. Ih'
man who makes that assertion knows
that he faslfies the record. lie knows
that we never once sald TO Germany
You have no right to make war OF
France We based our right OF actor
solely on the ground that by the act
Of Germany she had made war on us
/ want TO put ourselves IN such posi-
ion that we shall never 1eel II heces
sary to reiterate falsehood'
We knew all along Just what Ger
many had in mind. we knew her pur
pose of world domination, put we had no
The right under international law
under any agreement 10 demand ina
she refrain from the helllsh purpose
We do not want TINS country OF an.
other country to he again placed IN sucl
position of impotency.
Monroe Doctrine Universalized.
..oc ,,,,,,,,,, ,,o+ ana of nc ,vou,d hay
.,..o +,i.. oo,.anor+ inst ne If ho
=, 49, p,,t this covenant re,
-, +ha da,iboro,iors of notions
.,.,, oo,,,,,I.,, si+u.+iors If come
oor,nror,iSa comnact an
, ,,,.,,o,,. =, +hi, count.