New Britain herald., 1919-08-19

a single important fOOdStuH or d sin gle class OfsmanufaCtured goods which is not in the same case. Our full, nor nal profitable production waits on peace.
 Delays Military Plans. Our military plans on the other hand wait upon it. We cannot intel Iigently CT wisely decide how largo q naval or military force we shall maintain O. what OUT policy with re- gard 10 military training is to be un- less we have peace, not only. but also until we know how peace is to be ;sus- tained, whether by the arms of single nations or by the concert of all the great peoples. And there is more than that difficulty involved, The vast surplus properties of the army in olude, not food and clothing merely, whose sale will affect normal produc- ton, but great manufacturing estab- lishments also winch should be re- storeCNtO their former uses, great stores of machine tools and all sorts of merchandise. which must lie idle until peace and military policy are definitely determined. By the same token there can be no properly stud jed national budget until then.
 Nations Ratifying Havc Advantage.
  such as Great Britain, Belgium and France, will be in a position to, lay their plans for controlling the markets of Central Europe without COmpoti- ton from us if we do not presently act. We have no consular agents, no trade representative there to look aft CT our interests.
 There-are large areas of Europe who's future will lie uncertain and questionable until their people know the final settlements of peace and the forces which are 10 administer and sustain it.
 Affect Labor Conditions.
 Without determnate markets our Froductlon cannot proceed with in & tellieence or confidence. There can 8 be no stabiIizatOr of wages because "a there can he no settled conditions of Employment There can be no easy ir normal industrial credits because 8a lere can be no confident or perma- ent revival of business.
 But l will net weary you with Ob- 9us examples. I will ony venture to Noat that every element of normal ), amongst us del.ends upon and
 aits the ratification of the treaty of
 zee; and also that we cannot afford
 tpse a single summers day by sOt
 dig all that we can 10 mitigate the
 Wer's suffering, which unless we
 fitmeans to prevent it, may prove d}trous tC q large portion of the
 Wd, and may. at it's worst, bring
 uI Europe ConditicNs even more
 teble than those wrought by the
 witself.
 othins in Way of Ratification.
 ,thing, Tam led to believe, stands
 inne way of the ratification of the try except certain doubts with re- ga to the meaning and implication
 ofertain articles of the covenant of thleague of nations; and I must frs1ly say that I am unable to un- g detand why such doubts should be enrtained. You will recall that win | had the pleasure of a confer enc with your committee and with the committee of the house of rep resntatiVes on foreign affairs at the WEto House in March last the Ques- lttoE now most frequently asked about the League of Nations were all caKdssed with a view to their i'm mediate clarfiCatiOn. The covenant of the league was then in it's first draft and subject to revision. It was pointed out that no express recogni- ton was given to the Monroe Doc TTfne, that it was not oXpl cSsly pro- cided that the league should have no Authority to act or to express d judge ment on matters of domestic policy, that the right to withdraw from the league was not expressly recoGnized, and that the COnstitutiOnUl right of the congress to determine all qucs- tions of peace and var was not sutfi- cent}y safeguardcd. on my return to all fhaSa taken agam by the commission on the League of Natiors and every Sl!ggcs- tion Of the United States was accept cd.
 Accepted By Commission.
 The view of the United States with regard to the questions I nave mcn- } toned, had, in fact, already been ac- cepted hy the comission and there was supposed, to be ncthng inconsistent with them in the draft of the cove nant of the first adOptel--;ho draft which was the subject of our discuss sion in March--hut no objection was made to saying explicitly in the text what all had supposed to be implicit in it. There was absolutely no doubt as to tic meaning of any one of the resulting provisions Of the covenant in the minds of those who participat- ed in drafting them, and I respect fully submit that there is nothing vague or doubtful in their wording. Will Not Impair Monroe Doctrine
 The Monroe Doctrine is expressly mentioned as an understanding which is in no way to be impaired or in terfered with by anything contained In the covenant and the expression ''regional understandings like the