The sun., 1919-06-12
HARVEY URGES
YOUNG MEN TO
BLOCK LEAGUE
Tells Syracuse University
Graduates to Stand Firm
for Old Ideals.
HE ANSWERS DIR. LOWELL
Demonstrates That Control
Rests With Britain and
Makes U. s. O Colony.
HE ANSWERS DIR. LOWELL

SYRACUSE. n. Y, June 11.-Hammer
blows were struck at the League of
Nations covenant by Col. George b.
Harvey of New York to-day in the
commencement address he delivered
at Syracuse University. Denouncing
the pact as destructive OF the SOW
ereignty of the United States, the edi-
tor Of the North American ReUiet1 and
Of Hdruey's Weekly called upon the
Young men of the nation to stand firm
in the coming struggle to preserve free
Government and the great national
ideals that Washington and Lincoln
and Roosevelt defended, and to defeat
the socialism and internationalism
which is the deliberate purpose Of the
league idea.
Probably no public address by a man
Of the first quality has contained a
sterner rebuke for the courses pursued
by the President of the United States, as
witness Col. Harvey's allusion to the
Presidents signature to the proposed
peace treaty:
dent Of the United States acting in his
own name and by his own proper
authority"
However this be regarded" said Col.
Harvey. whether as an unconscious as
sumption of divine authority as by the
kings of old or as a more symbol OF
developed egomania, its strangeness as
tho self-desgnation of a servant OF de-
mccracy is only too apparent Nothing
could evidence more significantly the
personal conviction that nationality Is in
deed played out"
Cities Roosevelt's Loyalty Test.
In another part of the address. heard
with intense interest, he quoted those
words of Col Roosevelt's, among the last
written by the late ex-President: "Our
loyalty is due only to America, and that
il is not diluted by loyalty for any other
nation or all other nations on the face
OF the earth,'' and added:
Can you wonder that, in the face of
this sturdy declaration. worthy of your
own Chancellor. one Of the foremost ad-
vccates of the league propounded this
shocking inquiry: Was II the power
called God. working through laws that
go wider and deeper than our imagina-
lions can. or was 1t chance that, while
discussion, removed to higher spheres.
We trust, the one man most likely and
most able to obstruct itr
This ghoul-like chortlinR at the
death of Theodore Roosevelt Is extreme.
! admit" continued Col. Harvey, but
it is none the less typical. Daily those
Of US who deplore and dread what we
honestly regard as a betrayal Of our
country are subjected to like insults
Our motives are pronounced unworthy
partisan, personal and base. Our 'pygmy
minds are 'loathed.' Our Senators are
derided by our former President as men
whom he would not trust around a
corner. We are all ignorant. narrow
and, most terrifying OF all, little Ameri-
cans. But In the midst of this virulence
and abuse, you may have noticed that
mentioned. One is patriot. The other is
American. They are taboo in the lexicon
o. the disciples of humanity. They, too,
are played out and SO cast aside"
Col. Harvey began his address by
turning the minds Of his hearers to
the tremendous gravity of the times now
that we are at grips with the world
and with ourselves" Never before in the
history of the republic, he thought
has so deep an obligation been thrust
50 sharply and so Unexpectedly upon an
untried generation. He asked II the
people are ready to consent to change
our form of Government In the name OF
service to humanity, for that, he con-
tended, was what the League of Nations
proposes, a fact no sophistries can alter
Would Make z. s. British Colony
He took up the tenth article OF the
covenant, the one binding member ma
tons to preserve as against external az
erosion the territorial integrity and ex,
istins political independence OF the
members. and he said fatty that IL this
is adopted II will mean that the United
States OF America must resume her for
n'er position as a British colony. Where
does the covenant leave Ireland? h
asked
"One may or may not sympathlz,
with 1reland's ambition to achieve indie
pendence." he continued, but ii Is diff
hcult to conceive of any lover of free
dom contemplating with qualification hel
perpetual enchainmenL by England with
the acquescence and, II the need SHOULD
arise, the forceful assistance OF tn,
United States. True, it Is claimed tina
the league leaves to each member the
privilege OF dealing with internal re
volts as 1t may see ft. but this mer,
fact, taken in conjunction with Ireland'
probable inability to achieve independ
ence without foreign aid, leaves hel
forever at the mercy OF England.
Helpless though the people of IRELAND
now are. confronted upon all sides b.
British bayonets, the time may conn
when they will be able to set up
Government of their own. as our fore
fathers did, and even to attack Eng
land. That would make for 'externa
aggression and Great Britain would
have the right to call upon the Unite,
States to join in her war against Ire
land And the United States would b.
bound to respond"
In support of this point Col. Harve.
quoted the Presidents declaration O
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