The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-09-13
LEAGUE FULFILS
AMERICAN ideal
Herbert Hoover Says Demoora-
CieS Replaced AutoCraCieS
at-0ur Bidding.
FOOD ADMINISTRATION CHIEF.
Urges Ratification on Ground That
Peace Treaty Will Collapse
Without League of
Nations.

Herbert Hoover is so deeply con
cerned over the opposition to the
League of Nations in the United
States that he has let himself be in.
terviewed at length on the League sit
nation. In talk with the New York
Times correspondent in Paris, the
Food Administration Chief asserts that
having caused the League idea to pre-
vail America cannot abandon It, We
cannot withdraw, he says, and leave
Europe to chaos. 'To abandon the
League Covenant now means that the
treaty itself win collapse"
Mr.. Hooyer's wide acquaintance
with conditions both here and abroad,
his reputation as an administrator, a
man of great affairs who deals with
facts, not theories, make his state
ment one of the most important con
tributions to the recent League discus
slons.
There are one or two points in con-
nection with the present treaty." said
Mr.. Hoover, "that need careful consid-
GRAFTON by the American public. We
need to digest the fact that we have
for century and a half been adyo-
eating democracy not only as
remedy for the internal ills of all So
ciety, but also as the only real safe
guard against war. We h9ve believed
and proclaimed, in season and out,
that a world in which there was a
free expression and enforcement of
the will Of the majority was the real
basis of government, was essential for
the advancement Of civilization, and
that we have proved its enormous hui
man benefits in our country.
American Ideas Have Prevailed.
"We went into the war to destroy
autocracy as a menace to our own and
all other democracies IL we had not
come into the war every inch Of Euro
pean soil today would be under auto
cratic government. We have imposed
our will on the world. ORt of this
victory has come the destruction of
the four great autocracies in Ger
many, Russia, Turkey and Austria and
the little autocracy in Greece. New
democracies have sprung into being in
Poland, Finland, Letvia, Lithuania,
Esthonia, Czechoslovakia, Greater
Serbia, Greece, Siberia, and even Ger
many and Austria have established
democratic governments. Beyond
these a host of small republics, such
as Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaiian and
others, have sprung up, and again as
a result of this great world movement
the constitutions of Spain, Rumania,
and even England, have made aefinal
ascent to complete franchise and de-
mOcracy, although they still maintain
4 symbol Of royalty.
I'VE have been the living spring for
his last century and half from which
hese ideas have sprung, and we have
The world today, except
or a comparatively few reactionary
md communistic autocracies, is dem
'cratic, and we did it.
"A man who takes wife and
'lesses the world with several infants
annot go away and leave them on
he claim that there was no legal mar
iage.
''These infant democracies all have
social and economic prob.
ems involving their neighbors that
re fraught with the most intense
riction. There are no natural bound
ries in Europe Races are not COM
act; they blend at every border. They
eed railway communication and sea
ltlets through their neighbors' terri
Try.
"Many Of these states must for the
ext few years struggle almost for
are bones to maintain their very
lstence. Every one of them is 60
g 10 do its best; 10 protect its own {
terests, even to the prejudice Of iu J
,ighbors.
governments Lack Experience.
"We in America should realize that