The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-10-23

national engagements such as treaties
OF arbitration or regional understand
ings like the Monroe Doctrine for Sc
curing the maintenance OF peace.
ARTICLE TWENTY-FIVE
(Mandatory Tutelage Of Colonies and
Backward Races)
To those colonies and territories
which as consequence OF the late
war have ceased to be under the SOW
ereignty of the States which formerly
governed them and which are inhab
tied by peoples not yet able to stand
by themselves under the strenuous
conditions OF the modern world, there
should be applied the principle that
the well being and development such
peoples form a sacred trust of civil
ization and that securities for the per
formance OF this trust should be eI-
bodied in this Covenant
The best method of giving prac-
ticable effect to this principle is that
the tutelage Of such peoples be en-
trusted to advanced nations who by
reasons of their resources, their ex-
perience, or their geographical posi-
tion can best undertake this RESPONSE
hility and who are willing TO accept
It,, and that this tutelage should be
exercised by them as manufactures on
behalf of the League.
The character Of the mandate must
differ according to the stage OF the
development of the people, the geo
graphical situation of the territory.
IT'S economic condition and other simi-
lar circumstances.
Certain communities formerly be-
longing to the Turkish Empire have
reached a stage of development where
their existence as Independent nations
can be Professionally recognized sub
ject to the rendering of administra-
tive advice and assistance by man
datory until such time as they are
able to stand alone. The wishes Of
these communities must be princi-
pal consideration in the selection of
the mandatory.
Other peoples, especially those of
Central Africa, are at such stage
that the mandatory must be responsi-
BILE for the administration of the ter
ritory under conditions which will
guarantee freedom of conscience or
religion subject only to the mainte-
nance Of public order and morals, the
prohibition of abuses such as the slave
trade the arms traffic and the liquor
traffic and the prevention of the estab-
lishment of Notifications or military
and naval bases and of military train
ing of the natives for other than po-
lice purposes and the defense of ter
ritory and will also secure equal op-
portunities for the trade and COM
merce of other members of the
League.
The degree of authority control or
administration to be exercised by the
mandatory shall, if not previously
agreed upon by the members of the
League, be explicitly defined in each
case by the council,
a pei lhohOuJ tOllullShlOn Sldll Dt
constituted to receive and examine the
annual reports OF the mandatories and
TO advise the council on all matters
relating to the observance of the man
dates.
ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE
Humanitarian Provisions; Freedom
of TransD
Subject to and in accordance with
the provisions of International con-
ventions existing or hereafter to be
agreed upon, the members of the
League (a) will endeavor to secure
and maintain fair and humane condt
tions of labor for men, women and
children both in their own countries
and in all countries to which their
commercial and Industrial relations
extend and for that purpose will estab-
lish and maintain the necessary inter
national organizations; (b) undertake
to secure just treatment of the native
inhabitants of territories under their
control; (c) will entrust the League
with the general supervision over the
execution of agreements with regard
to the traffic in women and children,
and the traffic in opium and other
dangerous drugs; (d) will entrust the
League with the general supervision