Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-18
SENATOR M'LEAN ePEAkS
ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Special to The Bulletin.)

w dSLiIiSlOu, Marcn lb.-ln d state
ment made by Senator George P. Nc
Lean upon the League of Nations, thel
Connecticut senator shows that he
views the proposed league as commit
ting the United States to some things
that we know we cannot and will not
do; in fact. would fight to undo. if
necessary. Senator McLean's state
ment follows:
l once read somewhere that for two
or three centuries after the flood, arks
were deemed to be the prime social
and economic necessity, rainbows to
the contrary notwithstanding. Every
body who could afford it had an ark
OF his own and:the state provided am
|ple arking accommodations for the
poor in case of need; but after many
years, as | reH ember the narrative
ali the arkS were diSmembered and
manufactured into pump handles.
Seriously, it is not strange, indeed,
it is extremely natural that men and
women in this way and generation, a
few weeks after the war Of the ages
has come and gone should desire to
prevent its reoccurance. The people
of the world want peace: the Ameri-
can people are in favor of an inter
national political league that will
wisely and safely invite and promote
international peace. But when we
look with candor and clear vision up
on the actual social, material and po-
lucal conditions in the world today;
when We study the causes and count
the case of the insane and horrible
| war that has just come 10 an end, we
| know that another international war
| of consequence will be moral finan-
cial. political and physical improba-
b.lity for many years to come. What
| the world really needs today is intra-
| national rather than international
| peace. It League of Nations had
existed in 1914 and it had prevented
war it would have been priceless
Blessing: but that opportunity is lost
| forever that horse is stolen. and While
it may be we'll to lock the stable door
there would seem to be no need for
undue haste.
But no time should be lost IN search
Ing and, finding ways and means to
insure domestic tranquility through
cut the world. international wars arc
bad but civil wars are lust as bad
and it is easy to see that internal
revolutions and all manner of social
convulsions and upheavaIs are to be
tie order OF the day in the immediate
future.
We have made the world safe for
democracy and now the world mus.
i-1lii "ildl uHIilOCIdCN means. SlN1II-
zation if it is to be self governed
must learn that democracy is a GOV
ornamental mill and nothing more: z
mill that will faithfully grind the
Srist that is brought 10 it and moth
ing else: if ignorance ana anarchy
are put into the hopper, Ignorance
and anarchy will be found in the bae
that is carried home The Russian
word Bolshevism is the precise equi
: Yalent of our word democracy. A Boil
shevist is a simon pure democrat fr
Russia. In Europe outside of France
and possible Switzerland. from the
Adriatic to the Arctic sea. denecrocy
means materialiStiC socialism or an
archy, and the former always pro
duces the latter in due time. The
| prospect is not encouraging. The
proposed League of Nations will nave
nothing to do with the internal do
nestle affairs of any nation. The ereat
nations must scrupulously avoid any
!, and all attempts to keep the peace
and protect civil liberty in anyone O.
the new demoRacias that are to be
formed in Central Europe or in Rus-
STA. It is safe to say that it will L.,
, riany years before these poly Clio
] peoples utterly untutored in the az
of government will be able /,
/ maintain domestic tranquility found.
} | Cd upon just social regulations Ger
/ many and Austria are likely to chargt
from one form OF insanity to another
from imperial to communal frenzv
The proposed League of Nations viii
have no power or right 10 maintain
domestic order in Germany or Aus
: tr:a once the terms of peace witt
those nations are agreed upon
The one hundred and eighty mil
[ linn of Due IL,
others Threats need to be laugh
sound economics and seIf-control
! Nothing else will bring peace to them
The proposed League of Nations put
ring around Russia and says to til
, assassin the highwayman and tn,
, burglar go to it," We will see tina
you are protected against outside in
reference"
, repeat, what the world REAL,
needs today is a League of Peace be
, tween employer and employed to b
enforced by the rule of reason an,
f@ir play. The men Who help 9rin;
mutual understanding and good 5ril
, to capital and labor Will be the rea
! peacemakers of the world. The inter
national League of Nations when j
!comes will be little more than
Whtted sepulcher as long as socialism
and Bolshevism continue to attacI
= and destroy civil liberty and the IA
4 tional rights of men. And If I al
V right about this. it viii be the exam
1 pie we Americans set the rest of III
Il world; it will he what we do he.
t and not what we say or sign j
n France that will make for the pcac
= Of the world.
The international Constitution pro
= posed to the Conference at Paris an
c supported by the president is the En-
= glish plan, so he told the senator
5 who dined with him shortly after hi
S return to this country. Frame, ItaI,
It ard the United States formulated an
s presented ""7"-~-0 !tio0s; bl
d they were all set aside for the
: proposed by Ma. Iwe. 1t
d Claimed by those whose opinions al
e entitled to great weiglit that in tn
: English plan We abandon the Monrc
Doctrine; we surrender our right
control immigration: we obligate our
selves to raise armies at the behcst
il an autocratic council in which "
v have but one vote these armies
: make war without authority frol
q | congress. viii not such obligations
n entered into by US invite rather tina
ID allav trouble? The sole right ar
IS power to send American boys to f;
is distant lands to fight should rcCra
) with the American congress and no
.. IL the time to say so in unequivoc
terms. Not to do this may we'll Les
to grave consequences at home.
The president is a great lay preaCl