Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-10
QUESTION OF
WAR OR PEACE,
SAYS. l.
CONTINUED, from Page 81
Article Ten.

4SOW 4l1C1C Lei has 11O OpOIdLANC
force in it unless we vote that it
shall operate. I will tell you what
article ten is. I think I a repeat
it almost verbatim. Under article ten,
every member of the league under
takes to respect and preserve the ter
.ritorial integrity-to protect and pre-
serve against external aggression and
sustain the political independence Of
the other members Of the league. So
far so good. @
"The second sentence provides that
in case of necessity the council shall
take such steps as are necessary to
carry out the obligations Of that con-
ference, that is say what force is
necessary there. Now the council
cannot give that advice without a
unanimous vote. 1t can't give the ad-
vice without the Affirmative vote of
the United States unless the United
in question. Let us see what that
means. Do 0 think that the Unit
ed States is likely to seize somebody
else's territory? Do you think that
the United States is likely to disre-
gard the first sentence of the article?
And If she is not likely to begin an
aggression of that sort who is likely
to begin it against her?
rs Mexico going to evade us and
opp4O pA 16tO N40AdS Id ~d11dUd KOl18
to come down with; her nine or ten
million and overwhelm the hundred
millions in the United States? Who is
going to grab our territory? And
above all things else, who is going to
propose, h is going to entertain the
idea after the rest of the world has
said no? But suppose that somebody
does attempt to grab our territory,
or we do attempt to grab somebody
A1rass k@~~iko-~y. %he~ kh>
anyhow, so what difference does it
make what advice the council gives?
So that unless it is our war we can't
be dragged into a war without our
own consent. If that Is not an open
and shut security I don't know Of any.
And yet that is article ten.
Speaks on Food Question.
President Wilson spoke for some
time on food problems. He said:
"Men in despair do not construct
governments, men in despair destroy
governments. Men who whole affairs
r so upset, whose whole system Of
not get food, that they cannot get
clothing, that they cannot turn to any
authority that can give them anything
certain. they cannot construct gov
ernments.
II believe that with the exception
Of the United States there is not q
country in the world that could live
without imports. There are only one
or two countries that a live with
out importing ~foodstufs; there are no
countries that I know Of that can live
in their ordinary way without import
ing manufactured goods and raw ma
terials-raw materials of many kinds.
Take that great kingdom, for exam-
pie. for which I have the greatest adj
miratton-the great kingdom of Italy.
There are great factories there, but
they have to get all the raw materials
from which they manufacture from
outside. There Is no coal in Italy, no
fuel, they have to get all their coal
from outside. and at the present mo-
ment, because the world il holding its
breath and waiting. the great coal
fields Of central Europe are not pro-
ducing, except to about forty per cent
Of their capacity.
Now while we doubt, the rest Of
the world is saying, why does Ameri-
ca. hesitate, We want to follow her?
We shall not know which way to go
unless h leads; we want the direc-
ton Of her business genius. We want
the suggestion of her experience. but
she hesttates; she does not know
whether she wants to go in, or pot,
and while she does, my fellow citizens,
some among u8 do not know whether
we must 30 in or not.
There IL no more danger Of the
American people staying out Of this
great thing than there u Of our re-
versing all the presidents OF BUR his
tory, forgetting all the blood that has
the state. But in the meantime the de-
lay Is endangertng the whole world
and ours, OF course, along with the
[reet, because Ne ara, from the begin