The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-28
HITCHCOCK SAYS WAR N'ILL
 COME IF LEAGUE FAILS

Washington, Feb. 27-Peace with the League of Nations or war and preparations for war without it; the internationaHsn of peace and justice or the internationalism Of the So cialist, the anarchist and the Bolshe- vist' are thetaIternatives before the world, declared Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska. chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in an address late today to the Senate.
 The proposed League, Senator Hitchcock asserted, would render war between members as nearly inn possible as human agencies can de- vist" are the alternatives before the socialism and the popular demand for relief from war and it's sacrifices, and said that peoples throughout the world if denied measures for peace, would violently protest and seize pow
 CT.
 Says Foes 'split Hairs
 Senators who have opposed the
 league draft, the Nebraska member
 asserted, would be opposed to any league. He charged that in their attacks these Senators had magnifed its dangers and that they "quibble and split hairs.'
 Replying to a reference to ''Amerl- l canism as opposed to international isn'' in a recent speech of Senator Borah, of Idaho, who quoted Colonel | Roosevelt, Senator Hitchcock said the former President had favored a | league of nations to enforce peace,
 not only by moral force, but by mill | tary strength, and expressed the be- | lief that if he were alive Colonel | Roosevelt would be found supporting | the league as ardently as President | Wilson.
 Suggestions that Mexico might join 1 in imposing conditions on this coun- try were ridiculed by the Senator, 1 who said Mexico was not eligible for 1 membership because she could not i give the requisite guarantees of her | intention and ability to comply with l international obligations.
 1 Replies to Borah. l Senator Hitchcock answered in de-
 tail the recent criticisms of Senators l Borah and Cummins (RepubIicans) ! and Reed CDemocrat). Some of | their contentious he characterized as | ridiculous and absurd"
 1 The disarmament provision, Senator | Hitchcock said, did not arbitrarily fix | the limit of armament, but was mere I | tons in agreeing to arbitration sub 1 init their national life" to the league he declared, was absurd, when the
 league guaranteed political indepen- | dence and territorial integrity to ev- cry member. In discussing the Mon
 roe Doctrine, Senator Hitchcock 1 said:
 Instead of being compelled to de-
 fend the Western Hemisphere alone. [ we would have the sympathy and
 help of the league of nations in car
 rying out the spirit of it's organiza- tion"
 To the suggestion that Japan migh. | impose the immigration question on America the senator said Japanese | efforts for race equality declarati ti ons
 at Paris already had failed and that, Iconfronted in the league by seven great | Caucasian races, Japan could not even get hearing if she attempted to | bring up the immigration question. | "Our experiences in the war from
 which we are just emerging" said the | senator, "have convinced us that we !! are part of the world and that when ever the world becomes convulsed d with war in the future we are likely \ to become involved in it.''