The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-08-28
LEAGUE FULFILS
AMERICAN ideal
Herbert Hoover Says Democra-
cies Replaced Autocracies
at Our Bidding.
FOOD ADMINISTRATION CHIEF.
Urges Ratification on Ground That
Peace Treaty VIII Collapse
Without League Of
Nations.

Herbert Hoover is SO deeply con-
cerned over the opposition to the
League of Nations In the United
States that he has let himself be in
terviewed at length on the League sit
uation. In talk with the New York
Times correspondent In Paris, the
Food Administration Chief asserts that
having caused the League idea to pre-
vail America cannot abandon 1t. We
cannot withdraw, he says, and leave
Europe to chaos. ITO abandon the
League Covenant now means that the
treaty itself will collapse"
MIR. Hoover's wide acquaintance
with conditions both here and abroad.
his reputation as an administrator, a
man Of great affairs who deals with
facts not theories, make his state
ment one Of the most important con-
xfbutions to the recent League discus
sions.
There are one or two points in con-
nection with the present treaty" said
Mr.. Hoover, that need careful consid-
Grafton by the American public. We
need to digest the fact that we have
for century and half been advo-
eating democracy not only as a
remedy for the internal ills of all So
ciety, but also as the only real safe
guard against war; We have believed
and proclaimed, In season and out.
That a world In which there was a
Tree expression and enforcement of
the will Of the majority was the real
OASIS OF government, was essential for
the advancement of civilization, and
tnat we have proved Its enormous hu-
man benefits In our country.
American Ideas Have Prevailed.
I'VE went into the war to destroy
autocracy as menace to our own and
all other democracies. If we had not
come into the war every inch of Euro
pean soil today would be under auto
cratic government. We have imposed
our will on the world Out of this
victory has come the destruction of
the four great autocracies in Ger
many, Russia, Turkey and Austria and
the little autocracy in Greece. New
democracies have sprung into being in
roland, Finland, Letvia, Lthuania,
Esthonia, Czechoslovakia, Greater
serbia, Greece, Siberia, and even Ger
many and Austria have established
democratic governments. Beyond
inese a. host of small republics, such
as Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and
Others, have sprung up. and again as
q fpSnlf Of fhtc al
the constitutions of Spain, Rumanla,
and even England, have made final
ascent to complete franchise and de-
moeracy, although they still maintain
symbol of royalty.
we have been the living spring for
'his last century and half from which
these IDEAS have sprung, and we have
lriumphed. The world today, except
Tor comparatively few reactionary
and communistic autocracles, is dem
ocratic, and we did it.
"A man who takes wife and
olesses the world with several infants
cannot go away and leave them on
'he claim that there was no legal mar
rage.
heSe infant democracies all have
poiitlcal, social and economic prob
iems involving their neighbors that
are fraught with the most intense
friction. There are no natural bound:
aries In Europe. Races are not COM
pact; they blend at every border They
need railway communication and sea
outlets through their neighbors' terri
tory.
Many of these states must for the
next few years struggle almost for
Dare bones to maintain their very
existence. Every one of them is go
mig to do its best; to protect its own
interests, even to the prejudice of ita
heiglibors.
Governments Lack Experience.
'.e ia AL4erica should realize that