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HUGHES OPPOSES
LEAGUE POLITICS
Question Must Be Devoid Of
Partisanship, He Tells
Bar Association.
HIS OPINION WITHHELD
POstpones Giving Judgment
Until He Has Time to
Study Draft.

Charles F.. Hughes declined to ex-
press his opinion Of the wilsonian draft
Of the League or Nations. when he ad-
dressed tie New York County Bar As
ISOLATION last night at the Victory din
ner held by that organization in the
llovel Astor. lie did say that discussion
OF the question OF the League OF Ma
lions must be devoid OF craftsmanship,
and he was warmly applauded. At some
future date, when he has had time to
give the draft the study It deserves
before criticising it. he said he will
have something to say about 1t.
81 think 1t is vitality important" he
said. THAT certain preliminaries OF the
discussion should be recognized The
first is this This question must not be
approached from any point OF view as n
partisan question. 1T is a great Amerl-
can question, and whether | am on one
side or the other OF that question has
nothing to do with partisanship. ard
where A, h or G appears on the other
side should have nothing to do with
making 1t a partisan question.
This is a time when we should deal
with great public questions as such. [
never believe in calling names in polti-
cal discussion. have never found Il
necessary TO indulge in abuse OF any
body: and l deprecste that anybody on
either side of this question should i'm
pute the motives OF those on the other
side.
"Generalities are absolutely neces-
sary in constitutions We have got
some great generalitses in the Constitu-
ton of the United States. 1t does not
follow that every ambiguity is 10 be
defended. I believe in dealing with this
matter in an analytical way. don't
believe in crusading with n matter OF
this sort. | think that emotion should
rot get the upper hand. We must have
in this matter thorough going discussion
on the part of both sides II we are to
get at the truth of the thing and sc-
complish what we set out TO do
we must have new international
order with as firm n basis as can be
secured for lasting peace. America
must find it by searching her heart
for what her real duty is, and when she
has determined what that is and when
she can do it without sacrificing her
essential interests then she must do H.
Whatever we do we must make no en-
gagements which we do not under
stand and that we will not fully and
readily perform. 1 believe most thor
oughly that we must have an interna-
tional court.
THE crucial point will come when we
consider what guarantees we are to give
and how far they are to go with respect
to the integrity of European nations.
One thing must be certain We must
not sink into vague decentralization
and lose the love of our country"
Franklin ID. Roosevelt. Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy. told the lawyers of
the wonderful work of the submarine
chasers in European waters during the
war He favored compulsory military
service, as one means OF insuring the
peace Of the nation. Morgan J. O'Brien
presided.
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battles have had chance to vote
upon II.
Another reason why am fundamen-
tally opposed TO this leag liz because
II is first step. distinct and unmistak-
able, TO internationalism, and a first
step to sterilize nationalism. 1t was
nationalism that turned back the enemy
at the Marine and built up all civiliza-
ton. We may by joining the league.
gain some profit, but what thall 1t profit
a people II they gains the whole world
and lose their own soul? To say that
you must have this league instead OF
Bolshevism is like saying that you must
inoculate Yourself with small pox In
order to avoid spinal meningitis will
separate from any organization, before
l would give up nationalism--the ma
tionalism OF Washington. Jefferson. Lin
coin and Theodore Roosevelt.
All the.I. W. VS. who have raised
their voices are in favor of It. and there
IL not a Bolshevist who is not In favor
Of 1t. Instead of taking the first step in
interna tionalism let us bring our boys
home from Europe. Let. us build I'D
our nationalisrn. compose the differences
between capital and labor and esta sh
here upon this Western Continent a re-
public devoted to these free institutions
of ours, and thus exer7 what influence
VIC 70" ny eAtuipie' pTulCipIe anu lead-
ership upon the other nations of tie
earth. But let us no; entangle our
selves with European affairs.
what the opponents OF this league
ask is that the, Ar,ericsn people have
All opportunity tovote upon IT,
"All we ask is time for discussion. II
they do not give II to us We will be
placed in, the position OF having trans
ferred our sovereignty to a tribunal
which is controlled by aliens and may
be alien enemies TO us
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HOLYOKE COLLEGE
APPEALS FOR FUNDS
Deficit Caused by Increased
Costs.

BOSTON, March S.-Mary T. WooAey.
president OF Mount Holyoke College. told
members of the Boston alumne Assoc
citation at meeting to-day that the col
lege probably would have a deficit of
$4,000 for 1918 and 1919. owing to the
increased expense of administration. She
said 1t would cost $691 to support stu
dent at Mount Holyoke for the present
college year. The college officials are TO
conduct a campaign for a fund $780,
600.
We must train girls" she said FOR
professions. for social work and for bust
ness. 7 understand there will be de-
m>nd In New York in the autumn for
100000 teachers. We must prepare
girls so they will be properly fitted to
fill these positions. 1t is prominently
the work of the liberal arts college to
train girls to think right and to apply
ideals in the home and schoolroom''
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Wadsworth to Discuss League,

AT a luncheon Of the Brooklyn Cham
Der OF Commerce next Saturday United
States Senator wadsworth will discuss
the League OF Nations United States
Senator Calder will preside There will
be q brief talk by Brig. Gen. r. G. Mar
shall, who was in charge OF all canton
ment construction in the United States
after which the members of the cham
Der will be taken on an inspection trip
through what is described as the
worlds greatest war base" at the foot
OF Sixty-fifth street, Bay Ridge.
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Nebraska Nears Boston

BOSTON. March S.-The battleship Ne
braska, which is bringing troops from
France to this port, expects TO arrive
Off Boston lightship at 6 A. NJ. Monday,
March 10. A radiogram to this effect
was announced to-day by the naval COM
munication Office of the First district
The Nebraska later sent word that she
was bringing twenty-eight army officers
and s55 enlisted men. including a small
group of marines, together with fifteen
sailors and twelve Y. NJ. G. A. score
taries
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sIaycrs Fail 10 Get Reprieves.

Giovanni FerrarO aud Antonio YER
rino, two murderers in Sing Sing death
house. learned yesterday that Gov Smith
had failed to grant reprieves TO them
when he give two OF their fellow prison.
ers stays Friday afternoon. Terraro
and Nerrino are TO die a Week from to-
morrow
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Senator Borsh was introduced amid
cries Of What about the Irish ques-
tom" He called the league the most
vital question submitted to the American
people since the ratification Of the Con-
stitution
II feel however" he said. that this
question is now in fair way TO be
solved. and solved rightly and justly.
II has been transferred from the juris-
diction of the Peace Conference to the
jurisdiction OF the American people, and
rs Wendell Phillips said: The American
people are not always right. but they
re seldom wrong I am myself be-
lever in the ideals OF peace. but there
Is an ideal greater and more profoundly
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500 Ynnks on British Transport.

HALIFAX, y. S, March S.--Naval su.
thorities We're advised by wireless to-day
that the British transport Toloa would
dock here tomorrow with 1.Ol0 troops
aboard. $50 OF whom are Americans
After landing $50 Canadians here the
transport will sail for an American mort
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longer isolated How nave we ever
been isolated? Not financially. not com
mercially. not socially. We have been
Isolated only In a political eense-only
in the sense that we have not bound our
selves to take part In alien quarrels
God forbid that the American people
ever allow themselves to be chained to
that body OF death. a permanent foreign
political alliance involving them forever
In historic and alien animosities, in racial
and alien hatreds!
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free trade country. Many distinguished
economists constantly refer to this great
authority. IL Is and has always been 80
modified in practice as sadly 10 impair
the Virtue of the principle. Great Brit
ain believes in an open market when she
has the advantage either in the ability
10 undersell. In merchant shipping, bank
ing facilities or other conditions favor
Ing her people. Without such favorable
circumstances she promptly invokes some
method Of giving advantage to her own
producer. This embargo Is one of the
Instances.
gayly along with its custom houses
wide open, inviting everybody who has
anything TO sell TO take possession. The
European producing areas will recover
rapidly from war. They have learned
the day of npall things and its worth
years ago. They will be quick to seize
tho opening here. IL we do not return
to sound, sane American system OF
protective schedules we may look In the
future TO a depressed market. Our pay
rolls will suffer and we will be con-
verted into an exporter Of raw material
and foodstuffs. This sounds old fash
toned. but like the Aws of life there Is
no substitute for 1t II we wish indus
trial survival.
The friends OF the proposed consti-
tuition OF the League of Nations have
appropriated the term Peace League for
their document Like many other un-
dertakings 1t Ia assumed the name will
be accepted at face value and thereby
an examination of the articles OF the
document itself will not be made.
shall therefore devote my time to an
examination of its practical effect on
our Government and our people. i am
opposed to It for the reasons shall
give.
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that body of death n herman eut foreign
political alliance. involving them forever
In historic and alien animosities, in racial
and alien hstreds,
~. .
For II we 20 I'm II will he forever
Unless we consider the treaty as a
'scrap OF paper' Remember that the
League OF Nations IL not to be created
by a statute which can be repealed. but
by n treaty which cannot he repealed
II we 70 in. and aftarvard are sorry.
we cannot get out except by breaking
A solemn formal oou-pact TO which our
honor Is pledEed. Unlike the ordinary
affairs Of life, this proposed treaty is a
finality comparable only 10 birth or
death.
'It Ia said that We arc now a world
burdsn, W. 81. ,uaana o ,,S W. um
and We do not intend to surrender that
position and become the tail of an inter-
national kite. We welcome now bur-
dens IL they are legitimate, but we de-
cline those belonging TO others which
they are eager to unload on us.
1--WE arc urged 10 try the experiment
1t will not hurt to try it. we are in
formed But we cannot try II and drop
1 it-nnlAag
a treaty, And II IL does hurt. IL will
hurt badly-perhaps fatally. And Il
will hurt-nobodv denies that I'm the
decades TO coma this league will cost us
billions Of rnonev ard tbouaa nds Of lives
AN amount ot money and n number
OF lives which cannot bs estimated. hut
surelv will he Great
put I, ,s .sia that -. want IN war
to create this Je.v,,a of Nations That
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AFTER that we can discuss the League
OF Nations plan. We ought to take
plenty OF time TO decide whether we
want to make the United states an IN
surance company for all the Govern
ments or Europe, Asia and African
insurance company which itself pays
tho premiums for the insured as well as
the benefits to the insured.
TUT eisnt years we ourselves nau
among our States league exactly like
this proposed League of Nations-the
Articles of Confederation-which lasted
was established. That league caused
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Teachings of Washington.

America became the hope OF the
world by following persistently the
teachings OF Washington and the fathers
with reference to Communicating alli-
| ances, and In my Judgment she will con-
tinue to be the hope OF the world just
in accordance with her faith in those
policies.
why was II that we were permitted
In this great conflict to have such a
tremendous influence? 1t was because
we have pursued an even and untroubled
course with Justice, sympathy and con-
sideration for all nations of the earth.
but with alliances and obligations to
| none. SO that when we entered the great
arena OF racial hate. turmoil, war and
strife we entered under such conditions
that 1t was not possible for any nation
on earth to charge us with a selfish or
mean motive or purpose
"Mr. Taft said few nights ago that
the policy of Washington served only
for the time in which he lived A voice :
Hes a traitor and that it was
adopted under conditions wholly differ
eut from those Of the present I main
ia in that the conditions we're remarkably
similar In his time to those in which We
found ourselves at the close OF this great
war, for In Washington's time there had
been twenty years OF strife in Europe.
What Washington said was that We
could never have a national ideal and
existence until We divorced ourselves
from the European interests, under
standing that Europe had a set of pri-
mary interests altogether different from
our own. Has not Europe now a set OF
primary interests as distinctly different
from ours as was the case in his day."
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Easy ways TO Vote on u.

Although the league will bind and
burden us and our children and chill
dren's children We are not to be allowed
to vote upon it. They say we must not
vote upon Il because 10 do SO will take
time and be difficult 1t will not take
hundredth part Of the time nor a thou
sandth part OF the difficulty. nor
mill!oneth part OF the expense to vote
upon It that 1t will take to carry out
the scheme II we get into it,
And it will not be hard to vote upon
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important to the American people, and
taat is the ideal OF independence and lib
erty and II did not believe that this
League Of Peace or League of Nations
wan an impa irment of that independence.
that untrammclled sovereignty. I would
rot be here tonight speaking in opposi-
tlon to It,"
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BEVERIDGE URGES
PEACE LEAGUE VOTE


peace enter without further delay; for
we Americans refuse to be inveigled
into a partnership where Europe and
Asia furnish the liabilities and the
United States supplies the assets. That
IL Just what the League OF Nations
amounts to.
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Is u Constructive Critic.

~ shall support a substitute; so that
my criticisms will be constructive in
character. ! believe the proposed league
Will be overwhelmingly defeated in the
Senate. doubt whether it can COM
man devon a majority. In spite OF a
censored press restrictions upon free
speech, the tremendous influence OF gov
ernmental powers swayed by an in
tolerant administration, people will learn
what this league containB 1t cannot
command public sentiment when II Is
known. No fears need be entertained
Of what the American people will do
when they understand what 1t will do
with them"
Mr.. Sherman then made the positive
statement that fifty-two members of the
Senate are against the present plan. The
ffty-two include not only the thirty
seven Republicans that signed the resse
luton presented by Senator Lodge, but
eight other RepublicaNs who feel az the
thirty-seven do, but feel that they must
defer committing themselves until there
has been a free and frank discussion of
the project In their home States, and at
least seven Democratic.
THE covenant we are asked to APP
prove will never 90 through the Senate"
predicted Mr.. Sherman. IT don't believe
IL can get even majority vote. Two
thirds in favor OF It Is unthinkabie."
He distressed for a moment in sar
donic criticism of the despotic character
of the Wilson Administration, especially
as regards its disposition to restrain
free speech
Even the Pres. Re.trained.
Even the press Of the country is
under some restraint" said Senator
Sherman There is still a censorship
which operates on the news we get from
abroad. Restriction Of free speech is
undeniable in this country. I am not
Socialist, the Lord knows, but I don't
believe in fighting Socialism the way
some people do. Truth will always
strangle lie IL you permit a fair
aght Now there are Socialists in Chi
cago that have been sent TO Jail for
airing their opinions. but there are worse
Socialists who occupy positions OF high
place under the Administration. Why?
Because they support the Administra-
ton. am not talking about Wilson be-
cause he Is Wilson. / would say the
same about Taft II he did this thing
Then Senator Sherman dissected the
league constitution. taking II UP article
by article and pointing out the weak
nesses and perils exposed by Senators
and by other students of fact. He made
this prediction: The present scheme
will not stop war. 1t would be n signal
fire for warfare in Europe
Others who spoke at the luncheon
we're Pomeroy Burton OF the London
Daily Mail, who talked about "Antidotes
for Bolshevism." and Representative
John p. Miller OF Washington (the
Seattle district), who spoke about Re
construction"
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On Plane With Liberia.

"In this body OF delegates New Zea-
land has the same vote as the United
States. Australia has the same vote and
II Liberia comes in she will have the
same vote.
The President says that We must go
into Europe and rehabilitate and restore
conditions that We must furnish the
man power to underwrite their terri
tory for all time TO come. That is a
stupendous task, yet they ask us to do
that and leave control OF the entire sit
uation in the hands OF the men who have
wrecked Europe.
THE power to make war or peace will
rest with five men. Did you ever know
in the history o. the world of such stu
pendous power given to i've men with
out any control over them" 1t may he
that the American people may want to
do this thing, but in the name OF the
just God, who watched over the orRani-
cation and creation OF this republic, let
us not undertake to do it until those
who must pay the taxes and fight the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
saved the Monroe Doctrine.

While Washington divorced us from
the European system it would have been
worth little to the American people IL
being divorced we had permitted a
European system to come to the Western
Continent Since this discussion began
We have at least saved the Monroe Doc
trine, because Mr.. Taft now says he
thinks It necessary, to put in a clause
absolutely reservinE the Monroe Doc
trine.
"If we have accomplished that in ten
days We may yet be able to write in
George Washington's Farewell Address
ence at Paris that II they do not write
into the constitution an absolute reser-
walton OF Washington's policy and the
Monroe Doctrine it will never be rati-
fed by the American people.
IF you write into this constitution at
the beginning that no war except a war
Of defence shall ever be begun without
having II ratified by the people. then you
will have a constitution that Is respecta-
BILE. Article 10 is definite enough and
reminds us that when you sit down at
the diplomatic table with Great Britain
you have to look Out for your interests.
The constitution shows an executive
council OF five nations. three European.
one Asiatic and one American, so that
II a difficulty arose developing conflict
between the European system and the
American system. America has one vote.
the Europeans have three and the
Asiatics one.
The Little River news., 1919-10-15
Just about the time we get to feeling

Just about the time we get to feeling cock sure of ourselves, when every thing seems to be going our way and we begin to pat ourselves on the back and congratulate ourselves on being entirely beyond our control has been known to take a fall out of our ego. It takes plumb good one to stand too much prosperity, and a better one to remain undismayed by misfortune.
The Little River news., 1919-10-15

meeting and a constant reader or the bible over half century, adding from year to year new Christian graces to her already model life, and thus be- coming one of the nearest perfect Christian characters, probably the best informed scholar of the bible, and one of the wisest councelors the Methodist church of Ashdown has ever had;
 Whereas. she was one of the great est citizens our town and county has ever had, possessing wide knowledge of, and a keen interest in the civic and social problems of our great com mon country and always welding powerful influence for the right;
 Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Methodist church and Sunday school of
The Little River news., 1919-10-15
Shower for Miss Johnston.

Mrs. A. R. Fleniken entertained Sat urday afternoon at china and silver shower in honor of Miss Lena John ston. The house was beautifully de- corated in pink and white Tn spite of rain and mud, Miss Johnston's friendt gathered. Master E. B. Mobley Jn acted as express boy and delivered the treasure chest" After admiring the beautiful gifts and congratulating and advising the bride-to-be, the hostess assisted by Mesdames Marr and Mob ley served tutti frutti cream and cake. Everyone voted Mrs Fleniken a de- iightful little hostess and wished for the bride to be much happiness.
The Little River news., 1919-10-15
IN MEMORY. OF MRS. \. c. JONES.

Whereas, God in his province has given to our section of the country a long life in the person of Mrs. N. c. Jones, and on Sunday October 5, 1919, saw fit to take her away from her relatives, our church and Sunday school and from our citizenship;
 Whereas, she was one of the great est mothers our town and state has ever had and she has left to our coun- try as one of her greatest legacies a family of children whose manhood and Womanhood are patterned after her own great ideals;
 Whereas, she has been faithful follower of Jesus, regular attendant at church, Sunday school, and prayer
The Little River news., 1919-10-15

It is reported that some 150 men visited the road engineers while at work on road last week near Mineral Springs and told them to take out as roads were not wanted. Rather than be contrary, the engineers are said to have done as requested We kick over here if engineers don't get on the job as soon as we think they ought. It's all in the point of view.
The Little River news., 1919-10-15

The revival of sheep growing in this county will mean the banishment of the worthless dog. The sheep grower has no fear of the good dog, but the worthless dog is liability at any and all times Sheep is one of the most inexpensive animals that can be grown on the farm as he can make his way most of the year.
The Little River news., 1919-10-15

A mighty good time to look over the town to find where more draina ge would do the most good. We still have some places which should not be allowed to exist. We have taken too long step toward sanitation to not go further and drain the areas where water accumulates and stands to breed and disease