The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-12-14
An Audience Estimated at One
Thousand People Hear the
Message of Former Presi-
dent Last Night
COUNTRY'S DEVELOPMENT
DEMANDS BERTH, HE SAYS
Would Eliminate Article Ten, Ar
range for Safeguarding Of Mon
roe Doctrine and Estab-
lish Impartial Court

That amendments to the present
league will be accepted and that a
rev legue or associauon OF nations
viii he formed was the hope ex-
pressed last night by William How
ard Taft, ex-president Of the United
States, in his address at the Okla
homa College for Women.
An audience estimated at one
thousand people heard the ex-pres-
dents message, delivered in the Ok
lahoma College for Women audi
torium
Many glowing tributes were paid
the ex-president and republican lead
er by G. w Austin, president of the
college, who introduced the speaker
my judgement is Mr. Taft said
last night, That the development
ii the United States to its present
place among the nations, as well as
Its traditions and its selfish inter-
ests too, require us to enter the
present league. But in view of the
attitude of the republicans toward
the existing league this can only
be brought about by the Willingness
of the forty nations now in the
league to amend and make over, so
to speak, the existing league.
Eliminate Article Ten
"The chief changes which would
square with the republican platform
and Nj Harding's speeches would
be the elimination of article ten, the
complete safeguarding Of the Monroe
Doctrine, the establishment of an
impartial court Of judges and jurists
instead of representative statesmen
and politicians to decide iusticiable
disputes, with a provision for a
regular conference Of nations to rec
ommend and arrange settlement
of every difficulty between nations
threatening war.
bOubblJAoy wv StiRhoCo MOhih
have to be made to satisfy the re-
quirements OF the other reservations
made by the republicans, but these
three things are the chief.
'If by sending abroad commits
sion to deal with the leading nations
on the other side an agreement
could be secured thus to make over
the existing league, I see no reason
why Mr.. Harding and the republican
senators should not ratify the Yer
sailles treaty with this amended
league and carry out the purposes
declared in the platform and in Mr.
Harding's speeches.
IF Mr.. Wilson had accepted the
republican reservations and put
through the treaty, as he could have
done in November, 1919, we should
have been functioning VITA the other
forty nations in the league today
and our presence there would have
given the investing world much
greater confidence in the recuper-
ative power of the European nations,
and thus given them credit enab-
ling them to buy much more from
US than they now do.
at is their lack of credit and fail
ure to buy which have made such
startling reductions in the prices O.
cotton, wheat and other cereals, and
cattle, and the sooner we now get
into the league the more generally it
will help to increase the foreign de-
mand for our products, and to. raise
and steady the price"
Mr.. Taft outlined the history OF
many peace treaties involving the
United States, pointing out where
lack of arbitration had caused sew
eral wars.
Mcdify Present League.
Modification OF the present league
is advisable, forty-one nations al
ready being represented, the ex
president said.
If this nation enters into the
league it will have tde advantage
of making peace, Mr.. Taft said. The
war will not be settled by passage
Of resolution by congress, ht
stated, as there are too many nat
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