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actor McCumber Refutes the
MANY Arguments Against
League.
n OTHER WAY TO
AVERT EARLY WAR
9TH Dakota Senator Declares Cow
onaut Has Been Distorted and
Misrepresented by League
Opponents.

Washington, June 18.-The league
nations was supported in the SEN
today by Senator McCumber of
orth Dakota, a republican member
the foreign relations committee
no argued in a three hour speech
lat the league covenant offered a
lst and practicable plan for the
reservation of world peace,
The North Dakota senator replied
arguments of Senator Knox, of
Pennsylvania and other republican
Raders and declared he could not be
nfluenced against the league plan by
|arty consideration.
partisan that I am" he asserted,
hope shall never be so blinded by
barty exigency as to oppose a just
osition taken or a truth declared by
member of any opposition party. l
ouh not cast my vote against any
reasonable plan for the preservation
IF world peace without a conviction
hat would follow me to the grave
hat had committed an unpardon-
bbe offense against all future gen.
erations."
Replying to arguments of many
republican senator's. he upheld the
league as entirely consistent with the
american constitution and devoid of
any ability to dangerously entangle
pr curtail American interests.
Gross Misrepresentation.
I'm 20 years Of service in the SEN
|ate," said the North Dakota senator,
III have known but one instrument
whose terms have been so willfully
uninterrupted and so grossly mis-
represented as the covenant of the
league of nations. That some of it is
vague, | know, and some portions are
objectionable from particular view
points But that it discriminates
against US, is unfair in it's treatment
|of our country, or that it imposes on
JUS any obligation or burden that is not
equally borne by every other nation
! must emphatically deny. It is re-
efettable that the mighty power of
eioquence is used to defame and dis
TORT the true meaning of an instru-
ment, the most important that ever
appealed to the heart or the soul of
man.
suppose we now refuse to join
with the rest of the world in some
; to prevent war, what will
happen! AS surely as the sun shall
s every great nation will proceed to
aeVlse means for the wholesale des-
' sructlon of nations. So desperate
e De the next war that all the hate
ana all the venom created bv this
struggle will be infinite as compared
WIN the next. And, against what
Ia lace Will all these weapons of death
oe used? Against the white race"
U. S. Not Isolated.
quoting the declaration of Senator
republican, of California,
t t; America by virtue of her isola-
W. Goes not need the European pow
e 81, as partners" Mr.. McCumber
Ja isolation had long since broken
aown, European quarrel having
s sOs No tle country in the past five years
. ag'poo lives and $45,0O0, 100000.
~. mere is no moral duty incumbent
f sp1n any man in his relations to his
na4 man." he continued "That is
y. equally incumbent upon nation
W. relation to every other nation.
v mnae would you say of the strong,
:. shlsorous man who would stand on the
IL and see woman struggle in
clan waves while he, folding his mus
c ca, arms announced ooh, that. is no
dam Iglh OF mine, she is not my wife or
If IN IN say opponents of the league
wb na'Ions, we can make up our minds
Wa Wa. TO 90 when the occasion arises.
thaaa ' ! want us to do is to be right
ar;so. On the spot when the occasion
r;oSt What l want us to do is to
oc Sas 'here on the spot when the
Statssion arises Had the United
ao ~ees been right in the spot with ar
Gsr sement signed by us and signed by
ma llnlany that Germany would moi
conn,r war on France or any other
leaomay without submitting to the
eons ue OF nations the question fight.
bau s''ess OF her cause, the world woulc
r. ueen spared this awful conflict
aV vntered War in Self Defense.
NO, ieu talk about our entering thi:
man ~, vi, a great world principle. The
that Ino makes that assertion know.
know ne falsifies the record. HI
Gers that we never once said te
wa nlany you have no right to max.
Of aot; n france We based our righ
the aotn solely on the ground that BY
war a A. OF Germany she had mad,
in srch US. ! want to put ourselve.
suen position that we shall never