The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-31
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Continues Fight On
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KES TT AgK ON
LEAGUE OF ATIONs
Can See thing Good IN Any
hing that is Done OF Adyo-
Gated by President

Washington, May 26.The leagse
a5of nations was debated in the senate 1iilss
+ again today with an increasing SNOW
efhitterness.
Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri,
attacked the proposal in such Vigolz
Gus terms that he aroused repeatsu
OBJECTIONS from senators supportlns -, :,
ana developed a ranning debate OF
tirsuatic accusations and heated -re-7
fortss The Missouri senator declared
1a1e league would place the destln1es
5ofs the white race in the hands OF ls-,
naranf ana superstitious nations OF.
shlack and yellow people and charged
that many Democrats support 1t tor
partisan reason.
IA frequent interruptions Of the
Missouri senator's speech Senator
Hifshceck~ Of Nebraska, ranking Dem
oerat on the foreign relations commit
Tee insisted that the premises for
these charges were false and that the
inferences drawn were unfair ana
dangerous He drew in turn reply
J from Senator Knox, Republican. Penn
yfuania who suggested that sup
perfers of the league covenant should
read it before they discussed 1t.
So heated did the exchanges be-
come at one point that the chair rap
ped for order and Senator Reed de-
clared that Senator Hitchcock had
lost his temper"
The measure which brought the
3 league issue before the senate was
5 fhe resolution of Sc 1ator Johnson,
Republican, of California, requesting
from the State department the full
text OF the peace treaty. There was
nc. attempt to reach vote on the res
olntion on which debate began last
Friday and the measure went over
again as unfinished business TO come
uplwhen the senate reccnvenes We'd
nesday.
athout speaking directly ON the
Johnson resolution Senator Reed
made general attack upon the
league covenant itself as proposal
soshand over control of the white
race and the civilized world to an as
sembiy Of nations where a majority
could be brought together on any
.qnestionss in opposition to white SUI
premacy. He declared support OF the
league plan never cvu1d be explained
at home by senators from the South,
srith its negro population or from the
West from its Chinese and japanese
problems. Turning dramatically to
his Democratic colleague, he con-
tinHed:
ssesH Republican president had
brought il here-f Roosevelt had
brought it here-there is not a DEM
eacrat that would not have been stand
ing by my side fighting to the last
Estch to rescue the country from so
uaonstrous and so cruel thing
~ Southern Democrats particularly
.wa8e ehided for refusing to recognize
The negro as an equal at the ballot
bon. but at the same time accepting
south African and other nations where
the black race predoninates as mem
bers of the league assembly, on an
equality with the United States.
s...Y on think you can control the vote
ofsthec black race" he asserted, but
0nsany Question Of race equality you
never viii be able to do it.
10 support his prediction that the
black, yellow, red and brown races
wnnld combine to eubarrass the white
race, Senator Reed cited the amend
uent offered by japanese delegates at
Paris to the league covenant guaran-
teeing race equality. Although the
Sagendment failed, he said, the Japa-
nese: delegates reserved the right to
bring it later before the league for
detetnination.
Senator Reed also quoted from a
periodical published by negroes in
this country passage declaring a
league Of nations or some other i'm
teraational power" 10 be absolutely
necessary for the salvation Of the
negro race" in view Of treatment OF
the negroes in the United States and
Sonth Africa.
Ia his speech Of nearly three hours,
Senator Reed presented a mass Of
statistics and other information re-
gafdfng the smaller members Of the
reague The member nations in which
The white race was predominant, he
said. totaled in population only 2S9,-
43s,389, while those, Of other races
are in the majority has Sal .424, 060
He said white nations would have Is
votes in the league and other nations
II.
As the nations where whitesSblood
does not predominant the senator
snamed Liberia, Haiti, Hejas, Panama,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala.
Ecuador. Cuba, Bolivia, Peru Brazil.
South africa, Siam. India, CHINA and
japan. In these countries. he as
serted, the average Of iElteracy@is S5
per cent and he quoted extensively
from reference from works to show
that mary of them are overrnn with
superstitution-
While the Missouri senator was as.
sailing the league in the senate. Rep |
fesentative Madden, of Illinois. made !
a speech criticising it in the house !
and declaring the American people
never could mingle on equal terms |
with the peoples Of Europe. No gen
eral debate developed, however. at
that end OF the capitol.