The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-03-12

and must be recognized, or there IS
no secure basis for the peace which
the scrap Of paper, as ineffective in
operation as the agreement between
Bel guarantee as matter Of in
contestable right the political indie
pendence and integrity of each Of its
members might be hardly more than
a futile whole world so longingly
desires and so desperately needs.
Be Guilty Of Bad Faith.
'If Article 10 is not adopted and
acted upon the governments which
reject it will, think, be guilty of
bad faith to their people, whom they
induced to make the sacrifices of the
war by pledge that they would be
fighting to redeem the world from
the old order of force and aggression.
They will be acting also in bad faith
to the opinion of the world at large
to which they appealed for support
in concerted stand against the ag-
gressions and pretensions Of Ger
many. If we were to reject Article
10, or so to weaken it as to take its
full force out of it, it would mark us
as desiring to return to the old world
of jealous rivalry and misunderstand-
ing. If America has awakened, as
the rest of the world has, to the
vision of new day in which the mis-
takes of the past are to be corrected,
it will welcome the opportunity to
share the responsibility of Article 10.
"Once or twice in meetings Of the
conference, when the treaty was un-
der consideration, reservations"
were madeto that effect by the repre-
sentatives of individual Powers, and
those reservations" were invariably
received, in the way in which men
who have met for business and not
for talk, always receive acts of
scrupulous Observation-Disclosures
to with Indifferent silence, as such
men listen to what is a matter Of
course and was not necessary to say.
Congress Controls Army.
There can be no objection to ex-
planning agail. What our constitutions
al method is and that our Congress
alone can declare war or determine
the causes or occasions for war, and
that it alone can authorize the use of
the armed forces of the United
States on land or on the sea. But to
make such declaration would GER
tainly be work of supererogation.
81 am sorry to say that the reser-
vcctt:ors that have come under my no
tice are, almost without exception,
not interpretations Of the articles to
which it is proposed to attach them,
but in effect virtual notifications of
those articles.
"Any reservation which seeks to de-
prive the league Of nations of the
force of Article 10 cuts at the very
heart and life of the covenant itself.
Any league of nations which does not
eft must not be forgotten, Sena-
tor, that this article constitutes re-
nunication of wrong ambition on the
part of powerful nations with whom
we were associated in the war. 1t is
by no means certain that without this
article any such remuneration will
take place. Militaristic ambitions
and imperialistic policies are by no
means dead even in the councils of
the nations whom we most trust and
with whom we most desire to be as
sociated in the tasks of peace.
Throughout the sessions of the con-
ference in Paris it was evident that a
militaristic party, under the most
influential leadership was seeking to
gain ascendency in the counsels Of
France. They were defeated then,
but are in control now. The chief
arguments advanced in Paris in sup
port of the Italian claims on the
Adriatic were strategic arguments,
that is to say, military arguments
which had at their backs the thought
of naval supremacy in that sea. For
my own part, am as intolerant of
imperialistic designs on the part Of
other nations as l was of such de-
signs on the part Of Germany.
Right of Free People.
'Tho choice is between the ideals
on the one hand, the ideal of democ-
racy, which represents the rights of
free peoples everywhere to govern
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