The Springdale news., 1919-03-28

sary recourse to war This principle has made America what it is; it's ap- plication can alone save Europe from an indefinite vista of conflict.
 j. The pivot upon which the League of Nations must mainly revolve Is tho solidarity of the English-speaking commonwealths. With France we will always have close sympathetic, cooperative relations. No greater task devolves upon the American citi- zen today than to strive for good fel- lowship with those who have the same language, the same common law, kin dred institutions, common conscience Of right an wrong, and whose com bined power in men and resources could defy militant aggression from almost any combination of powers seeking world domination by force.
 5. The United States cannot, and in fact never has, lived in isolation. The Seven Years War, as we'll as those wars incident to the French Revolu- tion and Napoleon, involved the American colonies and the American nation. That we can be indifferent to nothing which threatens world strife the wal has proved. Our un- divided duty is to work for the Fed eral principle and its practical appli- cation through methods which will ever grow by practice and experience more efficient.
 6. Thus the success of the League of Nations, already existent, will de pend most largely upon American opinion It-is the duty of all inter ested in bringing about better world system to educate the opinion and to create a state eff mind" favorable to international cooperation In or der that this may be effected partisan ship must be eliminated superficial ob- jections answered, erroneous ideas of national sovereignty, mostly made in Germany, put aside, and a moral and intellectual approval of the nation marshalled behind it's president spokesman in the superb and inspiring attempt in applying the federative principle on world scale to bring about a better system and a firmer foundation for international law and morality.
 '. The draft just approved by the conference at Versailles for the con stitution of League of Nations em- bodies the best obtainable in the pres ent condition of opinion.
 l. It provides for permanent or ganization always ready to function
 2. It makes provision for taboo or "outlawry" of any nation refusing to abide by its decision
 3. It furnishes machinery for solv- ing one of the worlds fundamental difficulties to wit, the exploitation of undeveloped peoples.
 4. Above all, it places preponderant power in the hands of the worlds great democracies and gives to France United States, Great Britian and Italy an influence which can always be de cisive against predatory power under whatever forms disguised. The agreed plan marks a capital event in history and furnishes a basis for in ternational cooperation and the mar shaling of material and moral force behind law. World opinion is at last given an organ of expression. The part of America in bringing about this result is one for just patriotic con graduation.
 ,. The Monroe doctrine announced to the world that the United States would protect the integrity of South American states against foreign az gression. The league extends that principle of protection to all nations. The rights of the United States are not impaired; the guarantees of the states of South America are strength ened. 1t is a misapprehension of the meaning of the Monroe doctrine to believe it impaired by the proposed plan To avoid possible misunder- standing, clause should be inserted to the. effect that the traditional pol icy of the United States requires that