The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-11

tariff. It would help much to meet and remove objections and cut the ground under senatorial obstruction.
 Regarding the Monroe Doctrines protection, MT. Taft was quoted as fellows:
 ''My impression is that if the one
 article already sent, on the Monroe
 Doctrine, be inserted in the treaty,
 sufficient republicans who signed
 the Round Robin would probably
 retreat from their position and
 vote for ratification that 1t
 would carry.
 "If the other suggestions were
 adopted, feel confident that all
 but a few who oppose the league at
 all would be driven to accept them
 and to stand for the league,
 Another message by MT Taft on March 2S. 1919, upon the same sub ject, said:
 Venture to suggest to Presi- dent that failure to reserve Monroe Doctrine more specifically in face of opposition in conference will give great weight to objection that league is as first reported endangers doctrine. It will seriously embarrass advocates of league: it will certainly lead to Sen ate embodying doctrine and other pro- visions in form less likely to secure subsequent acquiescence of other na- ticns than proper reservation now Deem some kind of Monroe Doctrine amendment now to Article X vital to acceptance of league in this country. 1 say this with full realization that complications in conference are many ard not clearly understood here. A strong and successful stand now will carry the league
 MONROE DOCTRINE
 Another on April 13, signed by MT. Taft and A. Lawrence Lowell. read:
 Friends of the covenant are seri- ously alarmed over report that no amendment will be made more specifi- cally safeguarding Monroe Doctrine At full meeting of executive commit tee of League to Enforce Peace, with thirty members from eighteen states present, unanimous opinion that with out such amendment, republican sena- tors will certainly defeat ratification of treaty because public opinion will sustain them. With such amendment, treaty will be promptly ratified"
 The White House memornndum,
 made public by Governor Cor, snid
 that the leagues reservation of
 domestic questions was made "ns
 suggested by MT. Taft, and almost
 in his own wOrds.c All of the Oth-
 CT suggestions from MT. Taft, it
 stated, were followed shown by
 quotations from the league cove nant.
 In making public the correspond erce, Governor Cox's statement said that the time had arrived to "bring before the American jury the recorded evidence. that the league is the composite thought of the leading statesmen of the world' and that l, Incorporated all the suggestions that 1 were honestly offered by leading Unit ed States citizens"
 PARTISAN CONSPIRACY l Citing suggestions by Elihu Root l Charles E. Hughes and others, Gov. ernor Cox reiterated that it's opposi | ton was partisan conspiracy. 1 'It seems but yesterday" said thu governor. that all the leaders O l American thought were for the league | The past eighteen months of plot ant l conspiracy, holding up the ciyiliza ton of the world and tearing at tn hcartstrings of humanity. for poltica | purposes are as a nigh tmare ' r Governor Cox referred to the Whit House dinner in February. 1919. a i wEich President Wilson, he said, cor ferred upon the league covenant witt 'l the Senate foreign relations and Hous
 foreign affairs committees. and added
 But before this meeting. Herr
 Cabot Lodge. as the subconspirator Q
 the ages, had uttered his defiance an
 issued the mandate that peace shoui
 Lot be- if it came as the result of ef
 fort in which the President had ii lrect hand. The party victory born l hatred and dscontent, was his goa let the cost to civilization be what might. In sequence, a few days afte the conference. Senator Lodge produce his infamous Round Robin, signed D tbirty-seven republican senators wh l ,1p. l.. nt n q ceptable in the form presented, bu who. under partisan leadership. mad ur suggestions of any kind for its i'm provement as a means of preservin the peace of the world.
 3In this connection. let 1t be em- phasixed that not one single sug- gested amendment. received from any responsible source, went un- III needed; instead, the majority of suEgestions were requested by the President to he put into writing and were Incorporated In the re- vised draft. virtually verbatim. Then, after the President returne in July, 1919. with the treaty and II | final draft of the covenant. he aga conferred with all the members of tf Senate committee on foreign relation The conference was public in the sens
 that official stenographers were pre-
 Ant and the questions and answel were given to the newspapers as rapt' ly as transcripts could be made, ltiis meeting there developed Wis flle evidence that the senatorial r!n
 of the reactionarX forces had perfec ea their conspiracy. that they had l desire to understand the covenant ar that they proposed to becloud and col H fuse the public mind Their attiiu' was one of evident and implacable ho tility.
 ''Previous to this development, t' President had appeared in person D T. fore the Senate and had discussed Il | treaty in submitting it-something other President has done in more ths II one hundred years"