The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-09-05

suffering people
| Upholds Article 10.
| "You have heard great deal
about article 10 of the covenant OF
the league of nations. Article 10
speaks the conscience of the world
! Article 10 is the article which goes
to the heart of this whole bad bus
mess. for that article says that the
members OF this league-and that is
intended TO be all the great nations
OF the world-engage to resist and
to preserve against all external az
gression the territorial integrity and
political independence OF the nations
concerned That promise is neces
sary in order to prevent this sort OF
war recurring. and we are absolute
| ly dscredited il we fight this war
and then neglect the essential safe
guard against it.
you have heard il said, my fel-
low citizens, that we are robbed Of
some degree OF our sovereign.
independent choice OF articles of that
sort. Every man who makes a
choice to respect the rights OF his
neighborS depriyes himself OF abso-
lutte sovereignty, but he does il by
promising never to do wrong, and ]
cannot. for one, see anything that
robs me of any inherent rights that |
ought to retain when ! promise that
will do right.
What People Asked For
I'VE engage in the sentence OF ar
ticle 10 to respect and preserve from
external oppression the territorial in
tegrity and the existing political in
dependence, not only Of the other
member states. but OF all states, and
IL any member Of the league Of ma
tions disregards that promise, then
what happens? The council OF the
league advises what should be done
to enforce the respect for tina, cove
nant on the part of the nation al
tempting 10 vi0late it, And there is
no compulson upon us TO take that
advice, except the compulsion of our
good conscience and Judgment. Sc
that il is perfectly evident that il, in
the Judgment of the people OF the
United States. the council Judged
wrongly and that this was not an oc-
casion for the use of force, there
would be no necessity on the part OF
congress of the United States to
vote the use OF force. But there
, could be no advice of the council on
any such subject without a unani.
nous vote and the unanimous vote
would include our own. And IL we
accepted the advice we would he &C.
ceptng our own advice For
I need not tell you that the rep
rcsen,a,ves Of 'the government o.
IN United States would not vo,,
without instructions from their gov
c crnment at home. and tina, what ",
u united in advertising we could b,
+ certain that our people would desir,
! to do
There II in that covenant not one
vote OF surrender OF the Independent
Judgment OF the government OF the
United States, but an expression OF
ii, because that independent judg
!, ment would have to join 9with the
, judgment of the rest.
Hermetically Sealed
"But when is that judgement going
TO be expressed, my fellow citizens
, Only after i, is evident that evcp
, other resource has failed. And
{ want to call your attention TO the cen,
/ trail machinery Of the league of ma
, tons. II any menibe- of that league
or any nations not member, re
, fuse to submit the question at issue
either to arbitration or to discussion
by the council, there ensues. auto
niatically, by the engagements o
!, this covenant, an absolute economi
o boycott. There will be no trad
S with that nation by any member o
c the league; there will be no inter
I change OF communication by post o
5 telegraph; there will he no trafii
i to or from that nation its border
;, will be closed; no citizen or an
j other state will be allowed to ente
+. it and not one of its citizens vii
i be allowed to leave il. II will b
= dramatically sealed by the united &C
tion of the most powerful nations i
= the world, and ii this economic boy
{ colt bears with unequal weight, tn
members Of the league agree to sup
r port one another and to relieve on
: another in any exceptional disadyan
!, tagcs that may arise out Of il.
want you to realize that this war wa
won not only by the armies OF tn
world. but it was wor by econom
means as well. Without the eco
nomlc means the war would hav
been much longer continued. Wha
happened was that Germany wa
shut off from the economic
resources of the rest OF th,
globe and she could not stand il; ant
nation that is boycotted is a ma
ton that is in sight Of surrender
Apply this economic, peaceful, silent
deadly remedy and there will be M
need for force.
Il 1T is a terrible remedy. I, doe.
not cost lie outside the natior
boyco,ted but it brings a pressur,
upon that nation, which, in my udg
ment no modern nation could re.
SiSt.
dare say that some of those
ideas are new IN VIZ, h.c.u. 1. :,