Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-08-29
United States Senate, Washington

ant, Utah..
Dear Friend Lund: received your
letter Of July Is, 1919, and must ask
your pardon for not answering the
letter before this. The only excuse
/ have to offer is that it has been
physical impossbility for me to attend
promptly to my personal correspond
ence, as is my usual custom, for the
reason that have been attending
meetings Of the Public Lands Com
mittee, the Appropriation Committee
and other committees of the Senate
every day for couple of months past
and have been busy nearly every ev-
ening with other pressing official mat
tiers. / want you to know that ! APP
preciate your letter, as | do letters
from any Of my constituents, express
sing their views on public questions.
think / understand the spirit and
meaning Of your letter and why it
was written. Your surroundings, and
no doubt your first impression that
the League Of Nations would insure
the future peace Of the world, have
convinced you that the League is all
that was first claimed for it, and as
a friend, you concluded that I was
letting political bias warp my better
judgment. hope to be able to con-
vince you otherwise.
From your letter I am quite sure
that you have not given careful study
to the provisions Of the Covenant Of
the League, or you would have reach
ed different conclusion. I have lived
with it for months past; have stud
led its every provision; | have tried
to learn, from every possible source,
of all actions taken at the Paris con-
ference while the Covenant was under
discussion; and assure you that the
conclusions have reached have not
been hasty, not based upon prejudice
or political bias.
Reservations to Covenant Necessary.
am confident that certain reserv-
atoms must be made to the Covenant
in order to maintain our present form
OF government and, as / believe, nee
cessary to enable America to fulfil
her destiny as God intended her to do.
want you to know that I am going
to vote for reservations to the
of Nations, and i 1eaeu e
IcS - Stated in your letter. As
your friend, am going to take a
little time to outline to you some of
my views in relation to this most
important document.
The League of Nations, or Coven-
ant, if adopted in its present form,
would create new authority to act
in the place of the United States it.
self, in determining what the United
States should do in all Of it's foreign
relations, in all parts of the world
at all times. The Covenant attempts
to transfer the souverign will Of the
United States from the people and
their government to Council and
Assembly Of nations. If we enter
the proposed League, we resign our
independence and only become n pro-
vince in the international body. We
lose our influential position, by mad
equate representation in said body
and really consent that alien influence
es shall govern the League, and we
agree to submit to their dictation
mequitablc Representation.
No one can successfully defend the
basis of representation as provided
for in the League. IL assumes that
any body of people not affiliated with
any other state shall be called ma
ton and entitled to vote, while any
body of people affiliated with any
state shall be considered as n province
and not entitled to representation
and vote in the League. The pro.
vision is narrow, technical concep.
ton, and assumes that a state in the
Union, like New York, with popula.
ton of 100000, is not entitled tC
representation, while Panama, with
population of $4,000, shall hav,
one vote, Hedjaz, with a population
of 100000 shall have one vote anC
even Liberia is entitled TO one vote
In effect this gives the majority Of
the votes and the control Of the AS
sembly into the hands of the small
countries that are indirectly con
trolled by few of the larger Europ
can powers. This basis of represent
alton, as applied to the League, is &
parody on justice, and some day, il
the League becomes a reality, will de,
feat the very purpose Of the League
admit that there will be no big
war just now, no matter how bitter
the world is, for the nations are toe
exhausted to fight. Bitterness will
subside as conditions improve, anC
as the wars effects wear off,
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