The Raymer enterprise., 1919-09-25
ANOTHER FOUR
Teen POINTS

l. The Shantung provision is in
ternatoinal piracy, bringing dishon.
or to any nation party to it.
2. Great Britain is given six votes
to Americas one. without justifica-
ton in reason.
3. BY entering the league, Ameri-
ca would abandon her traditional
policy OF non-interference in Euro
pean affairs.
4. The Monroe Doctrine would be
subject to Interpretation by the
league council, as asserted by British
ofiieials without contradiction.
5. The United States would be
bound to maintain armies in Eu-
rope to regulate purely European
affairs.
g. Our constitutional provision
that congress shall have the power
to raise armies would be violated.
7. Domestic questions, such as
immigration, tariff, and coastwise
trade, will come within the juris-
diction of the league If the foreign
coucil so decides.
s. Insignificant nations, like Lii
beria, Hedjaz. would have voting
power In the assebly equal with the
United States.
.. The United States would be
bound to preserve the territorial
integrity and political independence
of every member of the league, many
of them monarchies.
10 BY bringing the charge that
IL involves threat OF war, any ma
tion could require the United States
to submit any question to the league
for decision.
II. Article % requiring free
transit and equitable treatment of
commerce could be construed to for
bid protective tariffs
II. America, industrially and f.
nancially strong, would become the
burden-bearer of the world.
49, The League covenant obl-
gates the United States to give full
and frank information concerning
industries adaptable TO warlike pur-
poses. thus putting American indus
try at disadvantage, since most I'M
portant industries are OF such a.
character
IA. America has nothing to gain
and much to lose by entering the
league.-Sandusky (ohio) Register.
We publish the above because il
seems to present the objections to
the league of nations in a way that
can be examined much better than
any other criticism OF the leagu com
pact that we have seen.
The first objection seems to be a
valid one, but Japan has given as
surances that remove much, II not
all valid objections. The assurances
having been given to the legue we
would not feel that Japan would
violate her pledge
The second appears to be so vital
an objection that IL demands more
than the scant consideration that
the President bestows upon it The
eighth is OF the same nature.
The Bird and 4th do not appeal to
us as especially vital. When we en-
tered the war, we were forced to
abandon our traditional policy and
II we can trust the council at all, 1t
is the serious matters that IL is most
important II should consider.
We do not believe that we would
be bound to maintain armies in Eu-
rope, any more than Denver is
bound to send policemen to Greeley
or New York. In either case when
disorder got beyond local control 10
an alarming and dangerous extent
aid would be extended. We did so
In the late war, we would probably
do the same again. league or no
league.
The 9Th Is very similar to the 5th
there would probably be no interest
in the size of any army that we are
likely to raise, more than Raymer
cares about the size of the Greeley
or Keota police force. Only in the
case OF excessive armaments that
become a menace to the balance of
the nations will the council care to
inquire into the military affairs of
| any nation.
The 7th and 18th seem to us to
contain elements that we would not
like. This country cannot allow
any outside influence to say that we
must amt any immigration that we
we do not deem 1t wise to admit, or
to grant naturalization privileges
except as we deem for our best In
terests, and our domestic affairs, as
strikes, ownership Of land by aliens,