New Britain herald., 1919-03-26
Former Chairman of Foreign
Relations Committee is
Strong Advocate of Pro-
posed Constitution.
DOES NOT GIVE UP
MONROE DOCTRINE

Neither Docs Japan Secure Right to
Come Into This Country Without
Rcstrictions-No Country surrcn-
tlers Any of it's Sovereignty-Prom-
tscs Each Nation Make viii Act AS
Effective Barrier TO War.
Chicago, March 26.--Declaring that
there is only one league Of nations
constitution before the world and
that people must accept this or moth
ing, Senator G. M. Hitchcock of Ne
braska, formerly chairman of tho
committee on foreign relations,
paused mon ent in his speech to the
association of commerce today and
added:
Hitchcock Fayors League.
q am for it. We need not deceive
ourselves with foolish hopes that wars
will naturally cease" Senator Hitch
cock said. "Experience has shown
that they come whether rations are
barbarous or civilized. christian or
pagan, educated or illiterates.
"They will continue in the future
as they have i'll the past unless ma
tions unite in a plan to avoid them.
For the first time in history nations
are making an effort to. do this.
Question Vital to americans
will the efforts of the men at
Paris succeed or fail? The answer
is of tremendous iE,Ec rtance to fam
lilies who must furnish soldiers if
they do fail. It is of great import
.ance to taxpayers. if the lea que i3
not formed the peace signed at Paris
will pc only a truce and every nation
Will resume war preparations on Il
bigger scale than ever. Taxes in the
United States to cover these prepara-
tions would run into hundreds of
millions OF dollars a year. Most of
this burden will be in the form OF
taxes on income es and blIsir cHs profits
Revenue Must DrRar~Gl.asidcrcd.
"Prohibition has knocked out sew
eral hundred million dollars Ii year Of
government revenue and public SEN
timent probably will never again sub
nit to the old practice of raising the
bulk of revenue by taxes on the CON
sumer no matter how they are levied.
This may be u cold ,blooded way -
make it plain that the Paris confer
ence is not entirely academic but af-
fects us all trem endously. Perhaps
the establishment of league of ma
tionS never was possible before. A
great change, however, has come oven
the world. In the past the world has
been cursed by aUtocrutic govern
nlent bent on conquest. --. g..
L. S. leads Democratic Nations.
''NoW, however, the nations. of the
world have become or by our aid may
become largely demo cratic. 1t shoulC
lie comparatively simple for them to
make an agreement to establish inter.
national peace based on justice.
THAT is The effort now being made
at Paris. America leads. Her rep.
resentatives are devoting their ener.
gies TO securing for humanity the
great boon of a world free from fu
ture wars. In this historic effort The
leader is The American president
Woodrow Wilson.
First Objections Disappear.
''Shal we support this effort Or re
pudiate it? Already opposition il
strongly developed Considering thes
objections, 1t was first said the leagu
would be a sort of super-nation, will
able of destroying any particular ma
ton. Tho objart;on disappeared Il
soon as the lco g'le constitution WI
published.
Second, the objection was mad
that the United States surrendered
part of its sovereignty by entering
the league. 1t row has become evi
dent that neither the United State
nor any other nation surrenders any
thirg, a s the league is + OF govern
mcnt and has no sovereign powers.
Monroe Doctrine Effective.
Third objection has been mad
that the United States ahandons tn
Monrot Doctrine. How can this doc
trne be abandoned by joining
league which proposes to put q sto
to aggressions by force against ever
nation. including those in America
Fourth, objection has been mad
that British self-governing colonie!
like Canada and Australia may be ad
n1itted to the league, which it
claimed would give Great Brtai
five votes to our one. IT 1t were true
II would not matter because all i'm
portant questions must be decided b
unanimous vote. Also these colonie
nre almost completely independent c
Great Britain and Canada especial
has many interests in common Wit
the United States.
Japanese Menace IL Myth.
Fifth, 1t has been objected tbs
Japan might insist on having tn
league settle the immigrat ton quef
tion and through the league force L
10 admit Japanese. If she could sh