The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-09-18
THEN

When our men were ngnClnS IN Eur
ope, and the Fourth Liberty Loan was
being foated. President Wilson, speak
ing in New York asked: "shall the
military power of any nation or group
of nations be suffered to determine the
fortunes Of peoples over whom they
have no right to rule except the right
of force? Shall strong nations be
free to wrong weak nations and make
them subject to their purpose and in
terest ?"sAnd said: '"No man, no group
of men, chose these to be the issue Of
the struggle. They are the issues of
it; and they must be settled by no
arrangement or compromise or adjust
ment of interests, but definitely and
once for all and with a full uneQuivo-
cal acceptance of the principle that
the interest Of the weakest is as sacred
as the interests of the strongest"
Wilson, New York, September 28,
1918. wi &. ", &
- NOW
When the war was over, and the
peace treaty with it's intertwined
"League of Nations" was presented
to the United States Senate for ac-
ceptance or rejection, President Will
son said: Engagements which con-
template any disposition OF territory,
any extension of sovereignty that
might seem to be of interest Of those
who had the power to insist upon
them, had been entered into without
thoughts of what the peoples concerned
might wish or profit by. And these
could not always be honorahly brush
ed aside. It was not easy to graft the
new order Of ideas on the old, and
some of the fruits of the grating
may, fear, for a time be bitter"
Have the fundamental principles of
right changed since 1918? Has the
continuance Of the United States as
republic become contingent upon the
proposed league of nations, so that
compromise with principle is essential
for self-preservation sake? Or is it
that to protect the far-fung posses
sioris of one of our associates in the
lates war, wei are to accept a BRITISH
| DRAWN league Of nations, throw
!; WashinSon's advice against entang-
| ling alliances in the discard; endanger
or abandon the Monroe doctrine, and
i pledge our children and their child.
| rens' children to the maintenance OF
that seething mass Of European in
! trigue which drove our forefathers to
this continent.
These are the questions that are
confronting the people today and IN
standing up for principles that rep
resent Americanism against British
astuteness we feel that the league OF
nations pact is not the right thing for
/ this country in its present form
President Wilson has brought home
peace treaty that is British made
favors British possessions and control
and peace treaty that gives the
United States only one vote against
4 five for Great Britain. That is what
I've are up against if this treaty is
ratified in it's present form and Mr.
/ Wilson knows it. Senators Borah
johnson and cCormick, together
with other republican and democratic
senators are fighting this kind OF
one-sided deal and are standing up fo1
Americanism in it's best and purest
z form. We are with them in this fight
and if we read the temper OF the
American people right, when they gel
the American side of this pact as wei
as the side of Great Britain which
President Wilson has bt,n giving
them, they will not stand for ratifi.
cation Of the peace pact IN its pres.
ent form. We hope some ct these rea