The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-01-09

fcation for our conflict with Mexico
and, had we been a member of tn
league of nations and had assaile,
Mexico for reasons which were no
satisfactory to the league. but wer,
satisfactory to us, We would hav,
found ourselves in the positions O
Europe here to fight us for having en-
gagged in war with Mexico. Indeed
who wifi set bounds to the growth O,
a nation?
MR.. REED: Mr.. President, if II
will not interrupt the Senator
MR. BORAH. Not at all.
MR.. REED. I should like to direct
his attention to this thought: We
have had some difficulty with Mexico
in recent years; but that difficulty is
far from settlement; it may at any
time spring into more aggravated
condition Would the senator be will
ing to submit any controversery we
might have with Mexico, involving
the treatment of our people of our
rights as a nation to tribunal COM
posed of European kings or bolshevik
or both?
MIR. BORAH. No, Mr. President;
and I would not care whether they
were kings or bolsheviki, or who or
what they were; if they did not owe
allegiance to this government they
could not certify to their character to
such an extent that would sumbit a
proposition to them which involved
the honor, the safety, or the vital in
terests of the United States All
these questions, for veal or woe, are
now determinable before tribunal
composed of the American people,
and there. for my part, I shall leave
them. i think their sense of justice,
their poise in the hour of threatened
danger, and their wisdom at all times
will be equal to that and indeed vast
ly greater than that of any superin-
ternatlonal court.
MIR. WALSH. Mr.. President
MR.. BORAH. l yield.
MIR. WALSH l should like to ask
the senator a question wish to know
whether he wants to leave this coun-
try at liberty to make another terri
torial grab, such as resulted from the
war with Mexico? That is what I
understand from the argument of the
senator.
MR. BORAH. The senator under
oh sor1t Tv, al nrIc
l am~ perfectly willing to leave the
policy of this country - be determin-
ed by the common sense Of the great
masses of the American people who
cast the ballot When the American
people decide to make a move l shall
content myself with the belief that
while the people are not always right, |
they are seldom wrong. / would inf
nitely rather trust their judgment,
their sense of right, and their sense of
propriety than to trust to a superin-
ternational court composed of people |
over whom they have no control what
ever.
MIR. WALSH. Mr. President, let me
remark that everybody who considers
this country alone will, of course |
agree with the Senator from Idaho; |
but we must allow every other coun-
try to exercise exactly the same lib
erty and those countries exercising
that liberty drew us into the present
world conflict. Now the question is.
How are we going to avoid that in the
future?
MIR. BORAH. I will only say that
at the time this world conflict began
we had two leagues to enforce peace.
We had the league composed of the
allied nations and we had the league |
composed Of the Teutonic nations; in
fact it is no trouble to organize
league of nations, because whenever |
you get two nations to agree that they
will not permit some other nation to
do something that it wants to do, you
have a league to enforce peace.
MR.. WALSH. That is just where
the trouble arises. Some talk was
had a while ago about the balance OF
power he nave tIicu loA Soi'"A ~" w |
preserve peace by balancing one ma
ton or group of nations against an
other nation or another group Of ma
tions and it ha<been dismal failure
MIR. BORAH. The Senator evident
ly believes that in order that the pro-
posed league may be a success at all,
all the nations of the earth must join
it.
MR.. WALSH Unquestionably.
MIR. BORAH. Very we'll Let us so
assume These league have no inher-
emit necromantic power. There seem
to be those, and the Senator is one OF
them, who believe If the league is sur
ficiently formidable in membership
and sufficiently exalted in declared
purpose that its power of incarnation
will be sufficient to Danish strife ana
discord from the earth. But suppose
in its membership 1t composed the
whole world and upon its glittering
dome Of purpose were inscribed the
creed which was given to the race
centuries ago from Sinai 1t would still
be this world, vexed with the Jealous