New-York tribune., 1919-03-18
Harvey Calls
PeaceLeague
British Coup
Plan Devised to Saddle
Burdens of Allies on
America, He Declares
''Betrayal of Republic
Wilson Methods Assailed
as ssSecretive'' and Com
pared to Washington's

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March IT,
Colonel George Harvey, in speech be-
fore the Columbia Club here tonight,
assailed the league of nations as strik-
ing at the foundations of American in
dependence and at the principle of the
Monroe Dostrine.
In his address, which was on the sub
ject of "Washington or Wilson ?" Colo
mel Harvery contended the league cove
nant wipes out the traditional policy
ugred by George Washington of Amer
ments, and asserted that the covenant,
product of British diplomacy, was in
tended to saddle upon the United
States the financial and economic bur-
terly assailed what he called the Sc
cretve methods of President Wilson
and characterized them as those of the
politician" as contrasted with those
of Washington, the statesman.
Colonel Harvey said, in part:
"We all know what Washington stood
for. 1t is not necessary for me to re-
call the solemn admonition to his
countrymen in his farewell address to
beware of entangling alliances with
foreign powers and his earnest injunc-
ton to safeguard above all other
things the complete independence of
the new republic. We have had greater
difficulty in comprehendng the pre-
else attitude of our present President
because of the peculiar reticence with
which he has seen fit to veil his inner
most thoughts. Recently, however, we
have been able to reach, less perhaps
from what he has said than from his
manner Of saying, an approximate un-
derstanding. Indeed there now remains
no question that, contrary to the pro-
nouncement of Washington reiterated
by every President at least to Roose-
velt, Mr.. Wilson has become convinced
that the rghtful destiny of America
cannot be fulfilled through independ-
ent action, but can only be attained
through species of partnership with
foreign powers. This must be reck-
oned as wholly novel proposition.
League Declared British Bonn
$50, too, is the league of nations.
There is not thing American about
it. Four plans were submitted, one
by America, one by England, one by
France and one by Italy; and the Brit
ish plan was adopted. We know what
that is, we have been permitted to read
that The President himself presented
it to the committee in Paris and not
only gave it his unqualified approval
then, but after his arrival in this
country declared that it was not sub
ject to amendment, that it must stand,
this scheme shrewdly devised by Eng
lish statesmen for the avowed purpose
of unloading many of their burdens
upon the United States, precisely as
drawn"
1--WE fought one war of independence
Do you want to fight another? Do you
wish to resume our original subject
condition as a British colony? Do you
want our country to forfeit the in
dependence won by Washington and
the Continental army and again be-
come in effect vassal state? If so,
all that you and the majority Of your
fellow countrymen have to do is to
indorse this Infamous proposition,
which ! say to you constitutes nothing
less than a betrayal Of our great Re-
public!
Alien Control Predicted
"Who would constitute this board
of governors Of the world? Would
they be named by the people of the
respective commemorative? Not at all.
They are virtually to designate them
selves or be designated by the gov
ernments now holding secret sessions
in Paris. We know already who would
be the nominal representative of Amer
lea. Our present Presidens, who 1t
is we'll understood would, by the grace
of Great Britain, become the presiding
officer Of the oligarchy.
II say the normal representative,
because no longer does Mr.. Wilson
even pretend to speak exclusively for
America He represents humanity or
IN his own favorite phrase men every
where He has outgrown the United
States. He asks nothing whatever for
her, but he asks of her not only her
sovereignty, but all of her resources,
to be used as a club or as bribes in
obtaining the acquiescence of the
other powers, and, of course, in ad-
dition an occasional appropriation of
five million dollars to pay the ex-
penses of the so-called commission.
None of us, of course, resents such
payments. We want our country to
keep it's end up when our President
VoisoItS WIN royalty. we want to
make full requital for the courtesies
and the presents bestowed upon him.
Nevertheless, as the demand for five
million dollars upon Congress clearly
indicates, this sleeping upon feather
beds in royal palaces is an expensive
business not to be ignored at a time
when the burden of taxation has al
ready passed the mark of one thou
sand dollars a year for every family
in the United States.
A Delegate Self-Named
"Talk about democracy Why, gen
tlemen, do you realize that under this
arrangement the American people are
not to have even the privilege of elect
ing their one representative who is to
sit at the board with eight Europeans
and Asiatics? He is to be seif-ap
pointed precisely as he was self-ap-
pointed to head the peace commission
"Why is that? Can it be possible
that the result of last falls election
may have something to do with it?
Has it occurred to you that somebody
may have foreseen that even if the
thing goes through, somebody else
might be chosen to speak for America?
Would Washington have had the
audacity and insolence to attempt a
subterfuge like that? And if the
thought had ever crossed his mind,