Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-05

tilcm hIone, mas become cltlZcn OF
the world and has broadened the con
cetion of his oath OF Office to include
men everywhere. Under this conccp.
tion we have already become the po
licemen Of Europe,
"On July 18th caDlc to the Chit
cagO Tribune announced that 5000
American troops were en- route for
| Danzig, for service on the German.
Polish border. to prevent further fight
ing between the Germans and Poles
over the new boundaries.
Are any of your sons among that
| 5000 American troops? If not, they
are just the same the sons of Amcri
can fathers and mothers, whose hearts
! are aching and whose eyes are weep.
ing while they silently pray God for
their safe return,
"The proper question to put to the
| American people especially TO those
who favor the league Is this; Are you
personally willing to serve or to send
your sons and brothers to serve, In
! foreign lands, to settle racial quar-
rcs, to guarantee their frontiers and
to preserve and protect the posses
sions of the surviving empires of Flu.
rope, Asia and Africa? II you are,
you should be in favor of this league,
for that Is exactly what we promise to
10 if we accept this covenant as pre-.
scented to the senate b~ President WI.
! son
mo man personally unwilling or I'M
able to perform this duty should at.
tempt by word or action to bind others
to it.
LET the returning soldiers who OF.
fcred their lives on the bloody fields
of France decide this question. II
they are for it, I shall abide by thcic
verdict We are told there is to be a
| plebiscite in the Saar Valley and other
territories in Europe. Why not have
one in America? Why not submit this
covenant 10 vote Of the people? it
is not properly any part of the peace
treaty.
The Shantung Settlement.
we have heard much about the
self-determination OF peoples. 1t was
one of President Wilson's fourteen
! roints until the big four gave the
Shantung Peninsula, with its 40,o00,.
eco of people, to Japan. The action OF
| the conference in giving this bride to
/ Japan violates every principle of jus.
! tce and honesty. It turns over limo
cent millions of people to the control
and rule of their worst enemy. Even
Senator Hitchcock, the mOuthpiece Of
! the Presi dent in the United States
senate. admits the crime, and recently
/ said in a speech which he delivered
| in the senate that under Article X. Of
/ the covenant no further spoilation can
occur. He comedies the spoilation;
don't you. sir?
/ Surely this great American repub
| lie will never consent to put it's ap-
/ roval az the bottom of treaty that
provides for the robbing of China and
| handing over this great province to
Japan.
China was one of our allies in the
/ late war. More than 900 900 Chinese
soldiers were in the trenches in
France.
Il think both senators were wrong.
We got something out of the pear"
conference. all right, Oh yes, we got
everything we wanted with the ex-
Ception of the fourteen points. We
got an excellent opportunity to pit our
idealist. soft hearted statesmen
against the hard headed, practical
Englishmen, French, Italian and Jap
ancse. We got our Monroe doctrine
Transformed into a regional under
standing We got the right to inter
fore in all the racial quarrols of Eu
rope and the opportunity to act as po
licemcn for all the world
IL we do not accept these rights
and privileges which our President
has secured for MS at the peace con-
ference he tells lis that we will break
the heart of the world
IN tO0 name, let us not forget
our history. Let us remember that
there was time when we declared
our Independence of old world despot-
inns, intrigues and explorations that
our fathers fought to make that decla.
ration Cf reality Every Fourth Of July
We Americans celebrate in some way
that original declaration of our I'M.
Harvesting from the European collars
and hanes."
The assembly program this week is
full of good things. This afternoon
and evening the Vissochi Florentine
Musicians perform. On Wednesday
'hcre will be a grand concert in the
afternoon by local talent. the Arnold
Wilson company, Vera Belle Ham,
Helen T.. lIoff and Dorothy Rehor.
They will also give the prelude to the
evenings program. At $50 Hon. G.
f.. Woodward will talk on Govern
menatl Tendencies"
Thursday Is band day, TTcntrich's
Military Band will give concerts aft
crnoon and evening Following the
evening prelude Charles GOrSt, the bird