The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-18

agreement? Not much! The League is the only process by which the na- tions can disarn1 and thereby remove these colossal burdens of taxation that have more to do with the high cost of living than everything else put together.
 .'15. They will exchange full infor- nation in regard to their military and naval programs.
 "16. They agree that the manufac- ture of munitions by private enter- prise is open to grave objections.
 You remember how the great rnu- nition manufacturers everywhere subsidized newspapers and spread ad- yertising for war.
 "Ah, here is one! No wonder Sena- tor Brandegee voted against the League! Think of the enormity of this thing in his eyes!
 "17. They will make all offices un- der the League open equally to men and to women.
 "1S. They agree that each member of the League shall pay its expenses.
 "One of the Lodge reservations was that we won't agree in advance to pay our expenses. The greatest, the richest nation in the world placed in the position of refusing beforehand to agree to pay it's expenses.
 When we had the international labor meeting in Washington. Con- gress passed a. resolution forbidding
 
 officially. The delegates had to cable back home to get money to pay the expenses of convention to which this country had invited them. Some of the delegates told me themselves they had to do this. The Senators who did that thing, whether for or against the League, might have shown enough regard for the good name of the United States to have shown a little hospitality to these invited
 
 "19. They shall register all treaties with the Secretariat and none shall be binding unless so registered.
 Senator Brandegee says the treaty is already scrapped. They have call ed upon England and Japan to mod ify their agreement as to the Far East so as to conform to the Cove nant"
 20. Those territories which have ceased as a consequence Of the late war to be under the sovereignty Of states which formerly governed them. they will only hold as trustees for CIV ilization under mandatories.
 Now they will take the backward parts of the world and put them un- der the League. Think what that will conditions there are too horrible al most to speak of, yet they made res erva,tion on that.
 21. They will endeavor to secure
  women and children, will entrust the League with general supervision over the execution of agreements with re- gard to the traffic in women and ch1l- Gren, and the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs.
 There are separate treaties now in existence with regard to all these and this promise merely places that con- trol in one place. The labor clauses of the treaty are the Magma Charta of labor. They have 150 people now working on that in Geneva. They are going to have the third annual labor conference in April. Bureaus under the control of the League.
 Just like the International Postal Convention, assuring uniformity.
 23. They will maintain freedom of transit.
 That means removal of burdensome restrictions.
 24. They will cooperate in the work of the Red Cross.
 I have read every promise. There are no more and no less.
 MT. Cox has promised to accept the MT. Harding has stated he stands for rejection, not interpretation. The is- sue is clear. Senator Harding is at heart an irreconciliable. Forty-one nations are not going to scrap the ex- iSting League at the whim of a fac ton of the American people. You can't scrap a going concern. The only thing you can scrap by voting for MT. Harding is the prestige of the United States of America I want my country to take it's proper part in the concerns of the world I do not want Senator Hardings policy of America Last"