The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-09-13
Reasons Why the Peace Treaty
Should Receive Ratification
President Goprs Explains Labo Support League Nations
enant With Its Labor Provision Aims Preuen Future Wars
ndImproue World as Place for Human tabitation

the disarmament clauses and the Gre
of the league itself.
In the covenant the nations agree
to:
Submit disputes to arbitration.
Respect and preserve the political
independence and territorial integrity
Of each member. nation against ex-
ternal aggression.
Abstain from war against any men,
Der nation until the dispute has been
sent to arbitration or mediation and
until three months after the award or
recommendation. Even then the ma
tions agree not to war upon any ma
ton that accepts the award or COM
plies with the unanimous findings of
the council or assembly.
Exchange information about mill
larry and naval programs and indus
and
1t Is Not Paradise.
For stated periods, not exceeding 10
years, unless relieved of the obliga-
ton by the council, observe limita-
tons of armament when voluntarily
adopted by each of them on recon.
mendation of the council.
This is not paradise. 1t is not per-
lection. But it is the first good pave.
! ment on the road to perfection.
Moreover the league undertakes to:
Secure fair, Just and humane treat
| ment for labor
Secure just treatment for natives
under control of member states
And, hallmark of honest inten.
tons, the member nations agree to
Abrogate all treaties Inconsistent
with the covenant and make no new
ones, and
Register all new treaties, which
! shall not be binding until they are
registered
Secret diplomacy dies by virtue Of
| those paragraphs
The covenant of the League of Ma
! items, itself born in the open, rings
! down the curtain on secrecy.
Revolution In Diplomacy.
To have achieved that turnover in
! diplomatic practice is to have achieved
a revolution in diplomacy. This is by
no means one of the least of the ben.
efits of the League of Nations cove.
nant, visited upon the world even be.
! fore the covenant has been made the
official declaration of the nations.
The case for the League of Nations
is overwhelming.
! Through the covenant of the league
the heart and conscience of the worl6
are set firmly against wrong an6
against going backward.
1t has not yet been learned how tt
| make war impossible, but the cove.
nant of the League of Nations vii!
make it exceedingly difficult. Wa
can never be outlaWed except by ar
! agreement among nations, such az
! this.
! They Will Fall Backward.
! 1t has not yet been learned how tt
| keep men and women from fallin,
backward at times. and so it may be
! with nations, but under the covenan
they will find it hard to drag the
! world back with them
! The doors to progress are opened
wide. Inducement> to go forward j:
the spirit Of the covenant
Peace and progress are founded or
justice.
The covenant Of the League O
Nations is the most powerful ally jus
tice has ever found in the history o
man.
The democratic thought of the
world is determined that the new da,
shall dawn. Designing politicians wat
speak for personal ambition, partisan
advantage, or for special interest
should be advised to give heed to tn
voice of humanity, for it will not b.
( denied.
In the League of Nations is the onl,
safety we know of for the future an,
the only Spiritual recompense we hav
found for the anguish of the past.