South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-09
URGES ADOPTION
Of PEACE TREATY
Former Republican Governor
of Missouri Sends Mes
sage to Senate.

WASHINGTON. ID. c. oct 81
Declaring that the splendid idealism
which has characterized the repub- I
lican leadership since the organiza- F,
ton Of the party will now Doe repu-
dated II the republican senators
oppose the principle OF international
cooperation and an arbitration in
the peace treaty and League OF Ma
tions. Herbert s. Hadlcy. former
governor OF Missouri. issued state
ment % the country urging prompt
ratification OF the treaty
The statement which was wired
10 H. y. Hickey. general director Of
the Washington bufeau ~ the Lea
que 20 Enforce Peace. from Boulder
Colo. where Hadley Is now "a mem
Der OF the faculty Of the University
Of Colorado is as follows:
Fayors Ratification.
AS a republican ] favor the rati-
fcation OF the peace treaty with
such reservations as viii prevent fu-
ture embarrassments and misunder-
standings i'm our relations with other
nations Such reservations include
our unrestricted right 10 decide on
withdrawal. on domestic relations,
on the meaning and enforcement Of
the Monroe doctrine. economic boy
cots and war.
feel that republican senators
who oppose the principles Of inter
national cooperation and arbitration
as evidenced i'm this treaty repudiste
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the republican party.
II was under the leadership Of the
republican party that the nation
abandoned the policy Of isolation,
drove Spain from the map Of the
western hemisphere carried civiliza-
ton and just government 20 the
seven millions of people living on
the island Of China sea. and became
a leader among the nations of the
world. il was under the leadership
OF the republican party that the
principal international arbitration
and cooperation was developed by
the Hague conferences it was under
the leadership Of Theodore Roose-
welt that the republican party
aroused the nation to its duty to
participate in the world war and
save civilization and the world from
German domination.
Leaders for Principle.
All the great leaders of the re-
publican party from Lincoln and
Gram 20 Roosevelt and Hughes
have favored the principle of i'm
teTnational cooperation and arbitra-
ticn and its representative i'm the
United States senate should courage
ously advocate it today The splen-
did ideals which have characterized
republican leadership since the or
ganization OF the party viii now be
repudiated II you Representatives in
the United States senate oppose the
principle OF international coopera-
ton and arbitration and decline TO
join with England and France to
maintain the peace and order of the
world
The three most aggressive and
potent influences opposing the rat-
fcation Of the covenant OF the
League Of Nations are the organiza-
tions supporting the Irish Sein Fem
ers the pro-Germaus and the
Hearst newspapers. IL was the Sein
Feiners who sought 20 land "a Ger
man army in England and organize
a rebellion at a time when the for
tunes OF the allies We're AT the low
est ebb.
Pact Expresses Principle
With such influences the repub-
lican party has rad and should have
no common cause. While the CO.
venant for the League OF Nations is
by no means free from inperf ctions
is expresses the principle OF inter
national cooperation and arbitration
and provides the machinery FOR the
development and enforcement Of
international law. It's prompt rati-
dcation is needed TO stabilize a
world which is still I'M turmoil and
10 make effective the combined in
7uence Of the conservative leaders
u the self governing nations of the
world.