The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-29
WALSH OF MON TANA
DENIES LEA CUE WILL
Be IRIS \ HANDICAP P

Washington, July 2S.-Denial that
article 10 of the league of nations cove
nant would handicap the cause of
Irish freedom or fix externally the
boundaries of nations was made in the
senate today by Senator Walsh, demo-
crat,, Montana, who said no language
could be clearer than the articles stipu-
lation that members are to protect
one another from external aggres-
sion."
Beyond cavil and beyond contro-
versy," he said, this limits our obliga
ton to the case of war by one nation
against another. 1t is a perfectly
gratuitous assumption that the political
map of the world could never under
go any change unless nations are per
mitted to wage aggreSsIve warfare
against one another.
"All South and Central America re-
volted and the Independent govern
ments thereof established themselves
within the domain belonging to Spain
and Portugal Article 10 would have
offered no obstacle to the transforma-
ton Florida passed, by peaceful pur
chase. from Spain TO the United States.
Louisiana, out of which have been
carved 10 great states of the Union
was not acquired by conquest, but
by purchase.
After centuries of vain effort by
England to subjugate Scotland, the
two countries coalesced. Sweden ana
Norway, becoming united through the
Napoleonic wars, peacefully separated
in 1905.
Changes will continue to be wrought
by peaceful negotiations and internal
commotion and revolution. Siberia
may separate itself from Russia. Ire
land or Egypt may revolt.
The twentieth century is not the
eighteenth. If present-day notions
prevalent in England had been doml'
nant in the eighteenth century, there
probably would never have been any
American revolution. But l deny that
but for the aid of France we would
never have achieved independence. Un'
der the league it would have been i'm
possible for England to have employed
so 900 mercenary Hessians to reduce
the colonies"
Reviewing Irelands struggle for free
dom, including her successive ana
from Spain. France and Germany, the
Montana senator said:
NO single nation save the United
States is today in the same class as
a military power with the British EN-
pire. There must be n union of pow
ers against her to afford the oppor-
tunity which it is said article 10 denies
to Ireland. Are senator's prepared 10
leave open for fermentation another
world war on the chance of change
of government for Ireland? | pre-
fer to hope that the end may be at
tained some other way. If it is said
the hope is vain. l reply that the his
tory of 700 years establishes that the
one we are said to close is no less so.
Under article TO- on the other hand,
an Independent Ireland would be guar
anteed by all the world against at
tack from the outside"
Senator Walsh said the sentiment in
the United States for Irish freedom
was almost unanimous, but that the
same senators who said article ~
closed the way to American aid in an
Irish revolution always added in the
same breath that we must keep out
of the quarrels of Europe" Taking up
the Shantung provision, he continued:
president Wilson eventually yield
ed. that Japan might be induced 10
come into the league. But If the
treaty is rejected. Shantung remains
without Japan and will remain with
Japan until she restores it to China OF
her own free will or until she is com
PEELED to do so by force of arms. Are
senators prepared to make war upon
Japan 10 compel the evacuation OF
Shantung? China loses no territory by
the treaty: she simply does not get
back what she lost to Germany. 2l
years ago."