Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-20
With our tariff would run up against

| with our tariff would run up agains
| our constitution.
Il offer an amendment TO eA
clude questions affecting immlgra
ton and the tariff from the pur.
view of the league as fourth con
| struetive criticism"
As another constructive criticism
he called for a provision permitting
withdrawal from the league to make
unnecessary denunciation or abro'
cation of the treaty.
In concluding his opening argu
| ment Senator Lodge referred to thu
provision for manufactures with it:
failure to state who will select
them" for the nations.
Want No More War.
Cries of mo" mo that nearly
drowned scattering shouts of yes,
arose when Senator Lodge, in EN-.
| phasizing the Importance of article
10 in the covenant. asked if the
American people would be willing
to send forth "our sons to fight the
battles of all the nations of the
world"
yet that is what is demanded.
he added, land the American PEG.
| pie should ponder this soberly be-
fore accepting a covenant contain
ing any such stipulation.
IF they are ready to accept it, al
right. If the American people are
not ready to, that article will have
to go out of the treaty. If tha
league with that article had existed
in the eighteenth century, France
could not have assisted this countr,
to win the revolution. If that league
has existed in 1893 we could no.
have interfered and rescued Cuba
from the clutches of SPAIN, W.
should have brought a war on with
all the other nations of the world.
Perhaps the time has come to dc
it. only wish tonight to call YOU
attention to the gravity of tina,
| promise, to what it means; tina,
it is morally binding; that there i:
no escape when guarantee of tina,
sort is invoked. Think over it we'll
that is all | ask. Consider it. Anc
remember that we must make nc
| promise, enter into no agreement
that we are not going to carry ou
in letter and in spirit without re.
striction."
Lowell Greeted With Applause.
Senator Lodge spoke not quite al
hour. As he concluded there wa:
demonstration which was renew
ed moment later when DR.. Lowell
was introduced. The latter's re-
marks drew frequent applause from
the audience.
DR.. Lowell laid the premises fol
his argument by asserting that te
| be effective a league of nations tc
prevent war must provide for com
pulsory arbitration with penaltie.
for the offender that no natior
would venture to incur. Punishment
should be melted out not by a coun
Gil of the league, but automatically
by the agreed and immediate atti
tude of the memberes of the league
who had bound themselves to resis
the aggressor. Then he analysed
the proposed covenant to establish
that though there were faults in thu
drafting, it offered the minimum
essentials of an effective anti-wal
league.
THE covenant of Paris" he said
SIS very defective in its drafting. |
is easily misunderstood, and has ir
fact been widely misunderstood. lie
us remember that in its presen
shape it is intended only as a draf
| subject to correction"
He summarized the provisions Of
the covenant and concluded that the
obligations assumed by the mem.
bers of the league were ito do, OF
abstain from, definite acts, either
continuously, or ON the happening Of
events described; never under the
orders, or by direction, of any organ
Of the league. The members agree
to preserve one another's integrity
and independence absolutely, not
because of or directed to do so by
the league"
"On the other hand" he continued
"the executive council is limited tc
consultation and recommendation
which the members of the league are
under no obligation to accept"
Sovereignty in no Danger.
"The fear OF a super-sovereigr
body, to which we are asked to sac
rifice our independence, is the crea
ton Of an overheated imagination
No organ of the league has any
authority to give commands to this
country that need give us a mo-
ment's anxiety. The only substan'
tial powers that any such body is te
possess, beyond making reeommen.
datons, are derived from a unani
nous decision in an internationa
dispute, contrary to which a nation
may not go to war; and from thu
right to forbid an increase in arma
ments or to direct the duties of q
mandate in case we first agree tc
the reduction of ornaments, or te
the assumption of the mandate"
Mr.. Lowell summed up his review
of the league in these words:
THE strength of such a league lies
in the obligations assumed directl,
by the several members of the
league; and this is both the mos