Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-08-24

pers of the east had declared the
league unsafe for America. He told
that Wall street organized and spent
thousands of dollars to finance pub
licity movements-bu buying space and
hiring speakers-to bring about public
opinion favorable to the league be-
cause financial interests wanted the
treaty adopted for the sole purpose of
protecting their European loans.
Another prerequisite of the league
was to be cessation of European land
grabbing and Senator Borah spent
some time in showing that under the
provisions of the treaty and since the
Great War Great Britain alone had
acquired 100000 square miles of new
territory not counting Persia and that
France had taken over the protector
ate of Syria with it's 100000 square
miles of territory. Three nations
now control two-thirds of the land
surface of the earth and one-half of
the population of the world under the
provisions of this league which was
to do away with land grabbing"
The discussion of Articles 10 and II
of the league of nations was next TAX
en- up and Senator Borah declared that
under them the United States was
bound to.defend England, France and
Japan in determining the fate of de-
pendent nations. The senator said
that today England is in Egypt and
that under the terms of the treaty,
England could call upon the United
States to help to force Egypt under
the yoke of English subjugation.
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ah, I'VE had no declaration of war
against Russia, yet our boys went ov-
er there to police that county and we
have been virtually at war with Rus
sia, with no declaration of war by the
congress of the United States. Still,
Mr.. Cox and the candidate for the
vice presidency on the democratic
ticket tell us that every schoolboy
knows we can't go to war without a
declaration of war by our congress"
The senator stated that under the
terms of the covenant the United
States would have to do its share of
the policing" of the earth and that
congress need not be asked for per-
mission to send our boys to foreign
countries.
The senator gave several apt and
striking illustrations of how the army
of the United States might be used
if need be under the provisions of the
covenant. .
Wilson had declared that the rights
of small nations" must be protected
and Senator Borah declared that
Egypt had sent emmissaries to the
peace conference but that they were
not allowed to take part or to be even
heard but were imprisoned and were
denied passports to the United States
where they wished to go to tell their
story. Korea, seeking to throw off
the yoke of Japans subjugation, was
treated likewise. He stated that ii
is absolutely true that more brutah-
ties have been practiced upon the
Korean people in the past few years
by Japan than was practiced during
the late war and he told that his in
formation along this line had been
partly firsthand and party from re-
ports of Presbyterian church mission
aries.
Senator Borah explained the voting
power of the nations included in the
league, claiming that of the nine men,
bers of the council, five were now
permanent and four were to be elected
by the five. In the assembly Great
Britain had six votes for her depend
encies and the United States one and