Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-11-14
SENATOR SMOOT REITERATES
STAND ON LEAGUE PACT


and as unconquerable as she cannon
in Victor Hugo's tale of 90. 1
would give us a war abroad eacl
time the fighting cock of the Europ
can weather vane shifted with tn
, breeze. IL would make America tn,
! cockpit of the world. II would meai
the reversal of our traditional policy
of government. II would max,
all the other nations the wards of tn,
United States and the United States
the keeper of the world What
would become Of the Monroe doctrine
under such a policy? How long dc
our opponents suppose we would be
allowed to NEEDLE in European af.
fairs while denying Europe the right
to NEEDLE in American affairs? The
policy of our opponents is dream
1t never could be possibility. It is
not even advanced in good faith.
In word this policy of
cur opponents would make the United
States the policeman of Europe. Rome
tried to be policeman Of the world and
went down. Portugal tried to be DO
liceman of the world and went down.
Spain tried and went down, and the
United States proposed to profit by
the experience of the ages and avoid
ambitions whose reward is sorrow and
whose crown is death.
Dangers of Sore
Frontier" Pointed Out
"At the close of the Franco Ger
man war, when Germany took from
France Alsace-Lorra.ne, Bismark
warned the Kaiser against the danger
of sore frontier. One sore from
tier was enough, for after a lapse of
fifty years it was one OF the causes
that brought war and ruin upon Ger
many.
"This so-called guarantee to per-
petual peace, this wonderful settle
ment evolved in secret chambers of
Paris, gives every first class power in
Europe, with the four exceptions of
Switzerland, Norway, Spain and Por-
tugal sore frontier France, Ger
many, Italy, Russia, Austria, Bohe-
mia, Hungary, Serbia, Rumania, Bull
garia. Greece, Poland, Turkey, Fin
land, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and
Belgium have either had an unwilling
and hostile population added to their
territory or friendly population
taken away from their territory.
"The land titles of more than half
of Europe are in dispute, and are be-
ing disputed by show of arms and by
actual war. Bulgaria and Greek
troops are now under arms on dis
puted boundary. The same with It.
allan AMI Jugo-Slav troops. The same
with Rumanian and Hungarian
troops. The same with Greek and
Turkish troops. The same with AL |
bantam and Italian troops. The same
with Polish and Ruthenian troops.
The same with Finnish and Russian !
troops. The same with Belgian and
Holland troops. Japan and China are
at dagers points over another disput-
ed territory. Sweden protests the
British claim to the Aland islands.
Peoples that have been moved about
like pawns from one government to
another will resent it, as has been in
the past, and all these changes of
boundaries and transfers of peoples
are but breeders of future wars: and
article ten of the covenant in its pres
ent form binds us to respect and pre-
serve the territorial integrity and eX-
isting political independence of all
these dissatisfied peopIes and sore
frontiers
Americans Want
Only America
81 cannot agree with President Will h
son when he says t.lac the league of
nations is greater than this govern
ment. | do not believe that any COM
on earth, formed for the pur-
pose of binding America to other
countries, will be greater than our
government unhampered. AS | have
so often said, | believe that the Crea-
tor of this world set us apart as a
separate nation to influence by our
form of government and our moral
force the nations of the world, with
out entangling alliances which would
bind us to all the rotten policies and
politics of monarchies and of heather
lands.
"rhe millions of Americans who !
1istrust and oppose alliances with the
European powers ask nothing and
want nothing but their good old Am
erica, with all its traditions of free {
free people and right ,
dealing with other peoples. They .
want the America they have always
lived in, they and their fathers faith
ers before them. The America of
of jefferson, of Monroe,
Of Jackson, of Lincoln, of Cleveland
and Of Roosevelt.
IF all our greatest statesmen of the
past have been wrong, by what mira
Gle has this nation attained its po-
sition of proud and imperishable
glory and independence?
America has never failed the
world in any crisis in the past, and
she never will in the future. She can
defend democracy, defend the weak
and the oppressed much better I'M
hampered than bound to the warning
factions of Europe and Asia.
81 am going to vote for reserva-
tons TO the league of nations that
will make it free from public perils
which would endanger our independ-
ence. Far better to reject it alto
gether that to ratify It IN It's present
form, which to a degree would des-
troy the sovereignty Of our country.
81 love TO contemplate that, out of
the Revealed soul Of America, and
the accredited representa-
tiyes of the people in this supreme
moment Of human progress, we shall
hold the word America the proudest
boast Of citizenship in all the world
"Allow me to anticipate time a lit
tie by asking Gods choicest blessings