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ment such as the President has sought
! TO make us believe. Numerically stated,
Mr.. President, the number Of references
to these respective agencies under the
treaty to which have referred may be
summarized as follows:
The principal allied and associated
Powers figure 76 times; the allied and
associated Powers figure As times--a to-
tai of 121. Whereas the League Of Ma
tions figures altogether only 81 times,
and of these 81 refer to its nebulous
connection with the administration of
the Saar Valley; IS in connection with
the labor clauses of which the league Is
supposed to be the special champion,
and only 3 to Danzig, in relation to
which we have been told the league Is a
prime necessity-leaving only 10 refer
ences to general activity for the League
OF Nations In the entire 1858 pages which
constitute the treaty apart from the
covenant Of the league itself.
League Not Indispensable.
These figures should be sufficient
not only to refute the claim that the
League of Nations is an indispensable
lnstrumentality in carrying out the pro-
Visions OF this treaty, but they also
serve as an effective denial of the defiant
claim made in New York on March 4,
1919, that the League of Nations IL
we could but form 1t would be an in
valuable instrument through which to
secure the operation of the various
parts OF the treaty; and that when the
treaty comes back gentlemen on this
Side would find the covenant not only
In 1t but so many threads Of the treaty
TED to the covenant that you cannot
dlssect the covenant from the treaty
Wtnout destroying the whole vital
STRUCTURE 1t will be neither a delicate
nor difficult task OF dissection, Mr..
PRESIDENT, to remove from the treaty
the fifteen general provisions which il
contains In regard to the League Of Ma
ions, and l assume that France will be
aDle TO assimilate the Saar Valley and
'hat an International council OF labor
can be set up even IL the League of
Nations shall never come into being
hope an examination of the treaty.
VIII convince others, as 1t has convinced
me- that the instrument is infinitely
worse Tor us than even the League OF
Nations, bad as II is for whatever NAV
| De said OF the baleful consequences which
! VIII now to the United States from the
operation OF the League of Nations. they
are alter all, in futuro-whereas the
! provisions OF this treaty Immediately and
ana by authority into the endless snarls
or attempting to set new boundaries for
contentious races in Europe and impose
| upon us share in the task of holding
| Germany in leash of sitting her COM
| mercial and industrial development and
even OF framing and applying the most
essential OF her internal statutes.
| 'once drawn into these meshes of in
| ternational complications ii will be diff
| ta T
| would have the Senate and the country
realize fully. before We set our seal OF
| approval upon this instrument, that IL
| means complete departure from all the
traditions and principles which have gov
| erned us from the foundation of the
Republic; that it means our entrance
/ into and our active participation in all
of the numberless broils which now exist
In troubled Europe and which the next
few years will multiply and l hope that
| before any such irremediable course is
decided upon both the Senate and the
country will study carefully this treaty
| in all its bearings"
The whole address made a deep I'm
preston as contributing fresh and most
| important objection to hasty arp" oval
| OF a document whose real meaning is APP
parently little unders God as yet by the
body of the people. Along with Senator
| Fall On. NJ Senator Moses. mas made
| a closer study of the treaty than have
| any of the Foreign Relations Committee,
| the Republican members having confined
their attention principally to the League
OF Nations. After the speech to-day COM
ment referred to it as Indispensable for
reference. and /: will be widely dis
tributed over the country for public read
ing.