Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-13
] GALLERY
 HEIRS LODGE ROOTS WILLIAMS
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se conferences "ith o
 and others.
 Lodges Attack: .s
 ng T inc league of nations as
 ng l asxnerjment sHo upon a noble
 tS Senator oat Lodge declared III
 speech today that ae,t snert
 ,res sps oi the league covenant
 an American" ne never
 mi q league of peace but
 3 embracing many "prov!!s- !s
 '.or" the covenant in its
 Mn,' ,.a he asserted, would kill
 'oe pa'' doctrine, nullify any
 o1 of withdrawal from mem-
 nnair J the sovereign power
 lm 'l, domestic questions, and
 ls he United States in every
 sy and conflict on the race
 lobe. ,,,
 beware" he said, "how we !
 ;+b our independence. We .
 ]. ,.n wav upward from the days [
 volution, through a world
 tile and always indifferent. !
 no s,' debt to any one except to
 " our revolution and those
 and I those rights on which 1
 er ~ has been founded should i,
 ioood ar weakened.
 as anxious as any human
 n be to have the United
 ender every possible service
 Utilization and the peace of
 hut am certain we can
 t by not putting ourselves
 pg strings or subjecting our
 and our sovereignty to oth-
 ns. !
 never be anything else but
 rican, and l must think of 1, ted States first, ard when l
 the United States first in an
 nert like this, I am thinking
 is best for the world, for if !, ted States fails, the best bf mankind fail with it. l lad but one allegiance-1 can de it now.
 United States is the worlds be, but if you letter her in Prests of other nations; if you her in the intrigues of Euro
 will destroy her power for nd endanger her existence.
 Ideals as Reasons.
 are told that we shall break rt of the world, if we do not lis league just as it stands. I lat the hearts of the vast ma- of mankind would beat on W and steadily and without bickening if the league were to altogether. If it should be Fely and beneficiently chang
 people who would lie awake low for a single night could be +gathered in one not very large but those who would draw long $ of relief would reach the als have been thrust upon us argumert for the league until talthy mind which rejects cant, from them. Are ideals con- / to this deformed experiment a noble purpose tainted as it is bargains and tied to a peace which might have been dis | of long ago to the great bene- the world if it had not been Plled to carry this rider on it's l doubt excellent and patriotic see coming fulfillment of ideals in the words league of ], We all respect and share these 'tlons and desires, but some of no hope, but rather defeat, for In this murky covenant.
 far as the question of isolation It IS impossible to isolate the d States. But there is a wide ence between taking a suitable md bearing a due responsibility ! l, rld I. affairs and plunging the ] States into every controversy T 'ntllct on the face of the globe" snlng the league to the ill-fam- ply alliance, MT. Lodge quoted Venant provision giving the as- authority to Ideal at it's meet t With any matter + * + af- the peace of the world," and Internal Complications.
 ere IS no such sweeping or far ng provision as that in the o1 Paris, and yet, able men pea p III! rom that treaty the Holy e, which for 35 years was an gated curse to the world. Eng 1okc T rom the Holy alliance be- Fl Ingilsh statesmen saw that it a.enaed U. to turn the alliance HIS league is an alliance-into a !. ol repressing internal revolu- lnsurrections. II revolutionary movement. no ai a;, conflict of any magnitude Ill to affect the peace of the | .. .Any matter affecting the T ,oa+ or the world is a very broad 'en1 u, Which could be made to :. almost m any interference on q ss f ol the league with the inter-. ialrs aalls Of other countries, t| artlcIe a. C; 10 the United States is II I,l laa, the appeal of any member i t'eague, not only to respect but Il ' Its independence and it's e'ies, and that pledge, if we ? must be fulfilled. There is to Il h halstlnction whatever in a fl ooe oeIween what some persons l! t;ase iasea to call legal and morals ro.4 s.o,S' A treaty rests andf| les lles', except where it is impos- \ 4ei duresS and securities end II