The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-09-24
THE LEAGUE
OF NATIONS
A SUMMING UP OF THE AReu,
MENTs BY DR.. FRANK CRANE.

, tDr. Crane is the most widely read
, writer in America today. Nearly all
the leading newspapers bEy his daily
article on subjects of every kind)
Thus would sum up the points in
re the League Of Nations TO dale:
l, II is the most Important issue in
the world.
II is more important than any issue
THAT has ever occurred in the history
of mankind
Compared with it. ali economic and
Industrial questions are small because.
II we cannot stop war, industry will
ALWAYS be subject TO periodic lcstruc
ltion
| Compared with it all subjects OF d,s-
pute between churches and crseds are
insignificant. for war is the triumph
of materialism and heathenisn.
| 2. IL you are going to oppose the
League OF Nations to me, YOU must
propose some other~wa TO stop war,
or / will not listen.
8. II took the most fearful war OF
history 10 induce the nations 10 get
together and consider the League OF
Nations. Must We wait for another?
4 | have been lifelong RepubIi-
can, and my father was a Republican
before me. Politicians who are peeved
because the League was proposed by
the opposite political PARTY, or by a
President they do not like. should be
willing 10 swallow their pride and
faFcr the league in spite OF objections.
II they cannot do this they put par
tizanship above humanity and are
enemies 10 the human rate
5. Al IS vastly more needful that
some sort Of League be formed, any
sort, than that il be formed perfectly.
8 We must remember this is a new
step for The nations, We must expect
mperfections All beginnings are diff
hcult But il is of such overwhelming
importance 10 mankind that we ought
10 De very patient
I. America started the League II
is our Leseue. II means the Ameri-
caniztion OF the world For American
izaticn means the principle of Fedora
tion. IL is the beginnings of a Gov
eminent Of the World, on the model of
the Government of the United States.
Lord BiTkenhead the other day said:
The Americans created the League
OF Nations. II is their child. AT the
moment when Americas power was the
strongest, that trumpet note was her
aided 70 world broken and stricken
with the sacrifice of war-an unfor-
gettable message of idealistic hope.
and for IL full responsibility must be
borne by the American nation
There is no doubt that this is the
Deliefa Of all Europe and Asia. Having
begun this magnificent scheme, shall
We seuttle it, just because of partisan
quarrels at home?
+ d The League is now in operation.
II is not a mere proposal Thirty !
four nations rasnondad tn the anneal Of {
Americas President Great Britain,
France, italy, Japan and thirty others !
now belong. The thing has gone too !
far; we cannot stop it now. !
9. If we do not join, WHAT else can
we do? Can we stay out, and remain J
forever Isolated from the rest OF the I
sgrld?
10. We have TO do business with,
,ther nations some way. If they are !
III in a League, shall we stay out as y
suspicious enemy, or an arrogant. ego =
istic stranger?
IL. Let US look to the company we 0
,eep. These nations that have formed Z
he LEAGUE are our Allies. A little p
While ago we were fighting by their
ide for the salvation of the world. y
french, British and Italian. blood
mingled with American blood to soak q
he plains OF Europe. Are we going TO Y
tand by our pals, or go over to the
ther crowd?
For IL not this League, we must line
p with the other. The other fellows "
re Germany, Austria, Russia, Turkey d
nd Mexico. They are not in the U
league. "
Good Lord, deliver US. NJ
H. We talk OF the Monroe Doctrine
We fear for our independence. We 81
read Superstate that shall boss US ol
We denounce the Leaguers as plotting I"
} sacrifice our nationality. 81
Can't we stop to think about the C
ther nations? Don't we realize that 70
very one of them is more Jealous of "
s own national sovereignty than we VI
re OF ours? They have been trained q
,r centuries in national pride. And if a.
,ey are willing to give UP a part of ~
leir independence, for the sake of the "
mitless advantages Of cooperation, vs.
In not we? IN
Not even family life is possible with w
III MUTUAL COHcebblOIl5s compromise
I'd seff- sacrifice: how much less is vi
orld life, the life of the Human Fam we
n w
10. If the United States heartily en- 20
RS the League, one of the very first
suits will be the decrease of national
maments. o.
1t is the huge armies and nayies pc
at keep the world poor and cause ~
ost Of its suffering Says the Bank
s. Trust Company: War creates the H'
Xix of taxation. Outside of the main &c
nance of military establishment, the IN
her expenses of government are rel
lively small. II way could be found Gu
stop war, the people would be pre- 80
red to take up enlarged plans for ne
cial betterment." nc
H. II is the workinpmen, the poorer "a
ople, who suffer most from militar- no
n, and would be most benefited by a re
ague of Nations, which would relieve li'
9 world of its intolerable burden of y"
structlon. 1t is they who fight in as
9 armies. suffer death and wounds, ~
is they who eventually must pay the an
xes of war by their labor. ~
Nobody profits by war except prof &c
ers. VI
Is. The kind of Feelings that prompt Us
to enter the League should be look .hit
at and compared with the kind of COZ
elings that oppose. COZ
The League liz Idealistic: its Opposi- MI