The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-31
URGES PROMPT
RATIFICATION
RansdeIl Believes Covenant
Meets, Ends of Uni
verSaI Peace.
TRYING HOUR FOR U. S.
Recent Conflict Demonstrated
: Dependence Of Nations One
4 on the Other.

Washington, July S1.-Urging
prompt and .unreserved ratification
of the league OF nations covenant,
Senator Ransdell, democrat, Louis
iara, declared in a senate speech to-
day that the document met the ends
Of universal peace "as closely rs any
| human agency can"
"It Is incomprehensible to me-
said the Louisiana senator, that
after the suffering and sacrifices OF
this war we should not organize
wcIld league. 1t would he n catas-
trorhe inde ed for America 10 sign
the peace treaty with Germany and
leave our allies to their fate.
Everyone demands that sonc-
thing should be some IL order 10
save mankind from the horrors OF
wnr. It's enemies submit all sorts
of objections 20 this particular
league, but propose NOTHING i'll lis
place. When one considers the
mighty stake does 1t not seem the
height of folly to bubble and COM
plain about each and every detail OF
the covenant, about whcther this Il
| should be dotted or that - crossed
when the fate of humanity hangs In
the balance?
an this most trying hour the
! United states is the sole hope OF
mankind. If our mighty republic
fails to ratify the league the league
will fail, and II the league fails the
various nations of the world will
continue the same mad effort for
! IL It5A, A NInA yn@A nf
the next general war darkness will
settle upon the world; men will move
back more than twenty centuries,
and Christian civilization, with all
the good things 1t has done for
humanity, will cease TO exist.
Dependence Of Nations.
The recent conflict has con-
clusively demonstrated the absolute
dependence of nations on each other.
The time has passed when war
against an individual nation Is
merelSt an attack on that country.
fOur consular andsg commercial rep
resentatiyes- encirc Atha-r globe. Aear-
j-rying our business eyerywheFe. This
4, is especially true because of the
great merchant marine we are now
building. H} Il.
"As a Louisianan I cannot refrain
from speaking of France and the
trials through which she has passed
The United States, and especially
Louisiana, looked with mingled feel
mgs of pity and admiration on
France in the awful days when she
was holding back the German hordes
Free governments on earth owe to
France debt Of gratitude that can
never be repaid. If for no other rca-
son than to protect France from fu-
t"re German oppression the league
should be adopted.
ut was all right to have the
United States beware of entangling
alliances when we were a nation of
three or four million pioneers scat
tered over the vast expanse of our
great country and separated from the
old world by 5000 miles of ocean
traversed bv small sailing boats. Iso-
lation was practical and wise then;
it is not now.
IF Washington and Jefferson. were
alive today they would not advise
their beloved country to- remain in
its shell and avoid political alliances
with the rest of the world. but would
tell us to accept our manifest des-
tiny as the leader among nations
and the champion of human rights
everywhere"