Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

bt COnE4ltN AO ltle llN Q IIStiL IElIttIlt9 Powers Is to say the British empire France, Italy, Japan and the United States.
 Second, states not signatory but named In the protocol. No informa- ton is given as to who these states are, though surely they will Include such Entente Powers, if any, as are not signatories as well as certain oth~ CT states neutral in the conflict now closing; and.
 Third. those states which are neither signatories nor protocol states and which must, to be admitted 10 the League be prepared to give cer- tain effective guarantees as to their intention to be bound by their in ternauonaI obligations. These latter are outcast states and presumably Include the Central Powers and their Allies in the war.
 Thus a League of Nations in the sense of all the nations is not created by this document, nor are the states members of the league treated as equals.
 "The term league is a rnisnomer in another and really vital matter. For a league connotes a confederation and a confederation implies a right in the several parties to withdraw at their will But, there is no right of se- cessiou within the four corners of this covenant. On the other hand, the association here provided for is a union in the full sense of that term a. applied to our own political in stitutions. Once fin this union we re- main there no matter how onerou5 it's gigantic burdens may become.
 
 and revuIsion our people may have for it, we must remain members un- til either we persuade all the states represented in the executive council and three-fourths of these represent ed in the body of delegates to bid US depart in peace, or until the league Crumbles of its own weight or is de- stroyed by its enemies, or until we fight our way out against the British empire, France, Italy, Japan and all the lesser states they are able to per suade to join the league"
 Senator Knox took up the six oper- ative bodies of the league and criti- cised them one by one.
 As to the body of delegates his chief criticism was that the consti- tuition contained no provisions for their appointment, removal, compen- sation or tenure
 He objected to the formation of the executive council because it would be composed of only nine of half 8 hundred states and practically would be given the power to declare war, make it's own laws sit as a court and pass judgment and then deter mine the means of enforcing it's 5udg- ments.
 Abody clothed with powers, such as given to this council is an anach- ronism," he said. Ut belongs to the days of the Medes and the Persians 4 union more abhorrent to our trzdi- tons, free institutions and the trend of all civilized government could not be devised.''
 Provisions for the mandatory com- mission, the Senator thought, were indefinite as to organization and op- eration. Of the bureau of labor he asked whether 1t was the intent to put labor of all countries upon an equality.
 If this be the intent, labor of, this country may consider, inasmuch as France already has given notice t will be impossible to put French la bor on an equality with American,
 
 ican labor to the level of French labor, in order that there may be equitable treatment of the commerce of the two countries" Senator Knox assaiIed many of the i other articles, adding that to his mind | they held out assurances of future world war, greater than any before. Tn this alleged instrument of 1 70 ha ai i ized in seven cases and made com 1 pulsory in three"
 1 He said the provisions of the pro- posed League took away the right of | congress to declare war, to raise armies and support a navy. and he i declared that with war legalized by 1 the League, this may spell over l whelming disaster
 Pause and consider that it is pro- posed,' said the senator, Ito take | from the social organism not alone
 the right but the power of self-de- ! fense- We shall stand not only naked, but bound and helpless"