The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-09
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Makes League of Nations
an Issue of Campaign
NOMINATION WAS
ACCEPTED TO-DAY
Democratic Nominee for
Vice : President Says
League is Solution

Hyde Park, N L., aug. b,-Franklln
D. Roosevelt, in formal address ac,
cepting the Democratic vice presiden
tial nomination at his home here to.
day, joined with his chief, James NJ
Cox, in accepting the challenge of the
Republicans to make the league Of ma
tions one of the principal issues of the
national campaign.
"The Democratic party" he said
has offered to this nation a treaty
o: peace which, to make it real
peace, must include a league of ma.
tions.
To-day" he continued, I'VE are of
fered a seat at the table of the fami.
ly of nations to the end that the small.
Ter peoples may be truly safe to work
out their own destiny. We shall take
that place / say so because | have
faith faith that this nation has no
selfish destiny. faith that our people
are looking into the years for better
things, and that they are not afraid to
do their part.
Even as this nation entered the war
for an ideal so it has emerged from
The war with the determination that
the ideal shall not die 1t is idle to
pretend that the war declaration OF
April 8, 1917 was a mere act of self
defense, or that the object Of our
participation was solely TO defeat the
military power of the central nations
of Europe. We knew then as a ma.
tion, even as we know to-day, that
success on land and sea would be but
half a victory. TO the cry Of the
French at Verdun, They Shall Not
Pass, and the cheer of our men in the
Argonne. We Shall Go Through we
must add this positive declaration Of
our own wills; that the world shall
be saved from the repetition of this
crime.
"rhe league Of nations is a practical
solution of practical situation. 1t is
no more perfect than the original con
stitution which has been amended Is
times and. will soon, we hope. be
amended the 10Th. was perfect. Ii is
not anti-nation, it is snti-war"
Two great problems. he declared, will
confront the next administration our
relation with the world and the press
ing need OF organized progress at
home Among the most pressing of cur
national needs he placed "the better
ing of our citizenship the extension Of
teaching to over five million of our
population above the age Of 10 who
are illterste, the strengthening Of i'm
migration, laws TO exclude the physi-
cally and morally unfit, the improve
ment in working conditions especially
the congested centers of the extension
o. communications TO make rural life
more attractive and further protec-
tion Of women and child life in indus
try"
Re organization of governmental
machinery, which he said has become
antiquated especially since the war.
also was urged by Mr. Roosevelt
Homer Cummings, former chairman
Of the Democratic national commit
tee, declared in formally notifying MIR.
Roosevelt Of his nomination that the
American people have paid a "stsgger
ing penalty" for the Republican vic
tory at the polls in 1918. Undisputed
in the material and moral leadership
Of the world when the armistice was
signed, he said. who will deny that
our title to that leadership has been
Tievously impaired if not completely
lost 3"