The sun., 1919-09-24
ARTICLE X. is NOT
NEW, LEWIS SAYS
Former Senator Declares Will
@ son Wrote It to Defend
Ri South America.
REPEALED 1T IN 1916
Policy Was Originated by
James G. Blaine, League
Defender Insists.

PEORIA, H.. Sept. 2s.-That Article x.
Of the League of Nations covenant was
not originated at the Paris Peace Con-
ference was asserted by former Senator
james Hamilton Lewis, speaking to-
night under the auspices Of the Amer
lean Legion of European War Veterans,
In reply to statements by Senators
Borah and johnson at Chicago and in
the middle West.
The expression providing for the pre-
vention of external aggression" Mr..
Lewis declared. was written by Wood
row Wilson years before the European
peace meeting to fit the needs of the
South American States, carry out the
general Monroe Doctrine and 'particu-
larry to prevent the invasions of certain
large countries in South America over
certain smaller ones which were then
under threat of external aggression"
Referred to 1t In 1915.
Later" conrnued the speaker. the
President referred to this very spirit Of
Clause X. In his speech at Mobile, Ala,
In 1915, long before America was In the
war. He there explained the spirit Of
his then proposed INTERCHANGEABLE en-
forcement of peaceful American union.
embodied part of the theme in my ad-
dress at New Orleans to the Louisiana
State Bar Association after having con-
suited with the President that he might
authorize my quotation Of him."
The phraseology "as Is now SEEM
Mr.. Lewis said, was not addressed at
its origin to the Irish situation or to any
I.,N 1NA1 IN
Europe as fitting the new situations. He
asserted it was practically an adop-
ton" of that previously used as to South
and Central American protection and
"employed in the proposition of James
q. Blaine when Secretary OF State I'M
der President Harrison, under the title
Of 'Pan-Americanism.'
"The only addition to the clause as
then prepared was that suggested In
Paris by Gen. SHUTS of South Africa"
Mr.. Lewis added, expressed in tho
phase political independence This
suggestion of Gen. SHUTS was to execute
pendence of The South african States in
line with what he publicly wrote should
be the freedom of Ireland.
'In actual practice little or no atten-
ton is paid to them. They are for
foreign consumption. Their purpose is
to deceive and dsarm the opposition.
This form of deception, which Is usually
unconscious, Is used by all aggressive
social movements.
But, however this may be. one thing
10 certain. In their everyday war the
trade unions seize upon every better
inent they have the strength to take.
The degree of their conQuests is limited
only by their power. What they have
t.l. InN1 fNNNWN NsN avNN
though 1t may be. is only a hint of what
Is yet to come"
Then he traces the successes OF the
transport, railroad and coal workers of
Great Britain and asks that IL this triple
alliance can force the British Govern
flent to its knees before 1t, what will
not be the possibility when the great
power latent in all labor is organized?
With the triumph of labor thus as
sured he sketches the future in colors
whose glow pales the portrayals of the
most rabid of all other dreamers. 1t
all works out into the communistic pos
session of everything and every ones
liberty to help him or herself to the
necessities of life. OF the necessities in
his perfect State he says:
Profit System Denounced.
ITO these all workers in good standing
would be FREQ to help themselves. The
plan would operate something like our
public library system of to-day. The
public libraries allow practically free
access to their treasures. Yet even in
our depraved times few abuse the privi-
lege. The very freedom of the books
and their abundance defeat all crooked
ness. 1t is private ownership and the
profit system that make men hogs and
thieves. With these abolished and an
abundance at hand for all there could be
no incentive 10 take more than one could
use, and this would be ones recognized
share as a worker.
But, as we say, this would apply
only to necessities. On luXuries restric.
tons would be laid This is because
mans power to consume necessities Is
strictly limited and 1t is possible to
fully satisfy his needs; whereas his
power to consume Injuries is practically
unlimited. So luxuries would be doled
out. Those getting them would have
to render special service accordingly
The pamphlet might be read as a
pretty dream were II not for that very
Bhrewd Yankee makeup OF the dreamer.
His organization of the steel strike
removes him from the realm of the i'm
practicable. Here is the way he works
afternoon when Z was talking TO HIM,
and this is what he said into the instru-
ment almost verbatim: Yes, hello,
John. State police, hey, hit him with a
club, hey? o he hit the policeman
oackW Then in a quiet, easy voice,
''That's good"
well, get the men out of the mills
John. Yes, get them out and get them
away. No, they had no order to go bach
TO work Get busy and see they under.
stand that, John. Tell 'em to go home
and go fish for somethin'. Yes, that.
right, and, John, them State police art
bad people to argue with. Tell 'em moi
TO argue with State police.
"Three arrested, hey? Haven't got
cash for bail? Well. scurry round and
get some of their Liberty bonds for bail
They've got lots of Liberty bonds and
that's what they're for-to get these men
their liberty"