The Mena weekly star., 1919-07-10
NJ ADOO FAVORS
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Former Secretary of Treasury Tells
Methodists We Are Facing Crit
cal Situation, the Disposition of
Our Victory"

Columbus, Ohio, July 4.-Upholding
the League of Nation covenant in the
peace treaty, William G. McAdoo, for
mer secretary of the United States
treasury, in an address at the Metho-
dist centenary celebration here today,
declared, eve are now facing the most
critical situation in which the world
has ever found itself the disposition
Of our victory"
In making this statement, Mr.. Nc
Adoo asked:
"Shall we dispose of it as narrow
and heartless politicians would have
us do, so that human slaughter thru
war must still be the arbiter of the
destiny of nations, or shall we so dis
pose of it that the glorious goal for
which humanity has striven thru
thousands of years of unspeakable
misery, torture and sacrifice, shall be
realized-the consolidation and or
ganization of our victory so that judi
cial progress shall be substituted for
the legalized murder of war in the set
Ting of international disputes and
the peace of the world secuted thru
the cooperative effort of the great ma
tions of the world ?"
He declared a league of nations to
prevent war, would consolidate and
organize our victory and make prac-
tically certain the peace of the world
in the future"
eve must not permit any man or
set of men to destroy the League of
Nations; we must not permit any man
or set of men to emasculate it; we
must not permit any man or set of
men to put the peace of the world
again in peril The issue is so mo-
mentous that the very future of civil
lization is at stake and humanity from
every stricken quarter of the suffer
ing world cries out in agony To CHRIS
tianity to save it. We are face to
face with prodigious events when
blind men must not be permitted to
lead"
The opposition to the League of Ma
tions, Mr.. McAdoo said, is analogous
to that against the federal constitu-
ton when it was in the making and
up for ratification by the states. "They
denounce the League of Nations just
as the opponents of the federal con-
stitution denounced it, as the most
dastardly attempt made against the
liberties of free people"
Regarding the elimination of the
much discussed article ten from the
covenant, as urged by Former Sena-
tor Root and others, Mr.. McAdoo said:
"To eliminate this guarantee is to
extract the red corpuscles from the
red blood of the League of Nations,
and render it a weak institution in
capable of fulfilling the purpose of its
creation"
Most of the objections to the COW
enaht, he said, are based upon miscon-
ceptions or Misrepresentation of its
provisions, or upon exaggerated and
unfounded fears as to it's operations.
"No amendment of the League of
Nations, no reservations in the rati-
fication of the league by the senate of
the United States can be effected
without imminent peril to the future
of the world and without prolonging
the state of war. We cannot risk the
undoing of all that has been accom-
plished by forcing another peace con-
ference at Paris. Let us ratify the
League of Nations covenant first and
then amend it afterwards if neces-
sary This is the safest plan"
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