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.M'AD00 DEFENDS
PEACE TREATY
TO METH0D|STS
Former Secretary of Treasury
Takes Part in NJ. E. Cele-
bratiOn.
MAKES WORLD PEACE
PRACTICALLY CERTAIN
Opposition to League of Nations
Analogous to That to Declara-
ton of independence, He
Says.

Columbus, O., July 4-Unholding
the league of nations covenant in
the peace treaty, William G. McAdoo,
former secretary of the United
States treasury, in an address at the
Methodist centenary celebration here
today, declared 1--WE are now facing
the most critical situation In which
the world has ever found itself-the
disposition of our victory"
In making this statement Mr..
McAdoo asked:
"Shall we dispose of it as narrow
and heartless politicians would have
us do SO that human slaughter
through war must still be the arbiter
of the destiny of nations, or shall
we so dispose of it that the glorious
goal for which humanity has striv-
en- through thousands of years of I'M
speakable misery, torture and sacri-
flee shall be realizeG-the consolida-
ton and organization of our victory
SO that judicial progress shall be
substituted for the legalized murder
of war in the settlement of interna-
tional disputes, and the peace of the
world secured through the coopera-
7 tive effort Of the great nations Of
the world?"
Makes Peace Practically Certain
He declared a league of nations to
prevent war "woud consolidate and
organize our victory and make prac-
tically certain the peace Of the world
in the future"
eve must not permit any man or
set of men to destroy the league of
nations; we must not permit any man
or set of men to emasculate it; we
must not permit any man or set
of men to put the peace of the
world again in peril The issue is
so momentous that the very future
of civilization is at stake and hui
| mainly from every stricken quarter
of the suffering world cries out in
| agony to Christianity to save it. We
are face to face with prodigious
events when blind men must not be
permitted to lead"
| The opposition to the league of ma
| tions, Mr.. McAdoo said, is an anolog-
Gus to that against federal constitu-
ton, when it was in the making and
up for ratification by the states.
"They denounce the league of ma
lions just as the opponents of the
| federal constitution denounced, as
the most dastardly attempt made
against the liberties of free people. "
Upholds Article Ten.
Regarding the elimination of the
much discussed article ten from the
! covenant, as urged by Former Sena-
tor Root and others, Mr.. McAdoo
: said:
"To eliminate this guarantee is to
extract the red corpusoles from the
red blood of the league of nations
and render it weak institution in
capable of fulfilling the purpose of
its creation"
Most of the objections to the COW
enant he said, are based upon mis-
conceptions or neutrality-suspicious. of
its provisions, or upon exaggerated
and unfunded fears as to it's opera
tons.
"No amendments of the league of
nations, no reservations in the rati-
fication of the league by the senate
OF the United States can be effected
without imminent peril to the future
of the world and without prolonging
the state of war. We cannot risk the
undoing of all that has been accom-
plished by forcing another peace con-
ference at Paris. Let US ratify the
league of nations covenant first
and then amend it afterwards if
necessary, this is the safest plan"
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