Arizona republican., 1919-03-28
HELPFUL HINTS
 FROM SUBSCRIBERS

Every now and then almost daily, in fact, the editor of this paper receives | hints and instructions as to the man. her in which the paper should be run, for all of which he is duly thankful. It keeps him from too long travelling in ] a rut
 l Now comes the following communi- 1 cation:
 1 T notice in your valuable paper you 1 have several times stated that you did 1 not have room for certain news. I presume that is the reason you did not 1 publish all of the article from Topeka under date of March 22 rgarding Mir | Cappers idea of the League of Ma | tions"
 The big type heading about the new garage at Tempe is far more interest | ing to your readers than press news and 1 notice that most of your paper is filled with this latter class of news.
 The leading paper in the state. pub Hshed in the state capital. should get l out of the 30-year ago country style of paper.
 "A TEMPORARY READER" The article relating to Governor Cap ! per was a small Associated Press dis patch of last Saturday stating that the 1 governor, the United States senator elect, was for the League of Nations. ! The Republican printed all there was to print and would gladly have printed everything Governor Capper might have said on that subject. But that ! was all the Associated Press sent, and in as much as the papers of the As l sociated Press of the same date any l where in the western division carried 1 The dispatch was received very late at | night. Otherwise, on account of the 1 great interest that must everywhere | in the country at this time have been felt in it, The Republican would have ordered a special report on the govern 1 or's statement.
 "A Temporary Reader" however fur nishes us with a special dispatch of the same date to the Kansas City Star | which we have already seen and it is here reproduced:
 Topeka, March 22.-"I believe Kansas l is overwhelm lingly for a League of Nations. I am emphatically for it, be- cause I believe it to be great step toward an eduring peace which is the hope of the world and which the world must and will have"
 This declaration is made by Senator Arthur Capper in a signed statement, which will appear in the Sunday morn ing issue of his paper. the Capital Senator Capper. while indorsing the league principle declared that certain amendments were necessary. among | them one safeguarding the Monroe doctrine and another assuring to the United States absolute control over the question of immigration. He said the covenant should be revised to make the meaning in these respects thor oghly explicit.
 Agrees With the Critics
 Amendments proposed by Senators Lodge and Knox, and suggested by former President Taft and Doctor Lowell of Harvard, Senator Capper said, he approved in the main. He de- clared that the league could not come as an ultimatum from the president. He says:
 "The suggestions of Senator Lodge and Senator Knox have been construc- tive and in good faith. In the main I approve the amendments, proposed by them, as well as by President Taft and Doctor Lowell There can be no league by ultimatum of the president, however much we may respect and approve his self f-confidence and trust his zeal. There is too much at stake. But 1t should be understood the people will show scant mercy to the mere political obStructionist.
 Is Fundamentally Faulty
 Tt is generally conceded that the covenant as proposed by President Wilson is fundamentally faulty. as might be expected of first draft oi as tremendous and eochal a document It is ambiguous in it's terms, incom- plete in it's machinery for peacably set ting differences between nations, ano this lack of definite statement shows it's need of revision.
 T think we should insist upon spe- cific phraseology which shall leave this nation with it's Monroe Doctrine intact with the exclusive command of it's owr policy of war or peace and with the right to withdraw from the league after due notice in the event of the necessity or desirability of such action The covenant must have more defI- nite reservation for preserving the Monroe Doctrine and such stipulation: as will guarantee it's perpetuahon. favor a strong and express stipulation that no foreign power shall acquire any possession on the American con | tinent'
 Wants No Military Obligation
 The senator also said that he favored an amendment to the league constltu tion providing that no other nation 1 should have the right to say whethel Americans should fight on foreign bat tie fields.
 It will be seen from the foregoing that the attitude of Senator Capper t the league is precisely that of Senate Lodge and probably that of yer! large majority of the American people