Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-10-09
KINCNAN AUDIENCE PLEASED BY ADDRESS
 OF HON. RALPH COLE

The Hon. Ralph Cole, ex-Congress-
 man from Ohio, spoke to an enthusi-
 astic and interested audience last
 night at the Elks Hall in Kingman.
 In his six years experience in Uni
 ted States Congress, his work in the
 State Legislature of Ohio, and resi-
 dence in the state of Ohio, he came in
 contact with both Senator Harding
 and Governor Cox often.
 In the year 1914, he and Foraker
 were both opponents of Senator Hard
 ing for nomination to the United
 States Senate, and so he knew both
 of them. He spoke of the Senator as
 man who looked like a president.
 who was clean and who had no charge
 of improper conduct hanging over
 him; as a man who would seek and accept counsel and who would work
 in coordination with the Senate and the House for return to, and contIu- uance of, constitutional government.
 He stated that he also knew Cox very we'll, having served for many years with him in the State Legisla- ture of Ohio. He said that Cox was making mistake in centering his ar- tentions on minor matters, and avoid ing the greatest issues-the greatest of these, he said, was the foreign re- lations.
 He said Wilson is an international ist, and though he did not blame him for asserting his convictions, that he did not agree with him. He asserted that Wilson went to Europe with his mind thoroughly made up that the time had come to internationalize cap ital and labor.
 At the time the president came to Europe, MT. Cole then a major in the A. E. F. (Major Cole served two years with the A. E. F., and fought on five battle fronts), was billeted in a peasants home in Belgium. He said the country was flooded with pictures of the President and propaganda, a publicity program costing more than a million, to popularize the President, and that if the heads of the European governments had not agreed with the League of Nations act, that he intend ed to take it to the peoples of those countries.
 Later he was in Paris, where the delegation had rented hotel in which were lodged some 1900 attaches, and that the conference that followed was one where the world vas divided up, Clemenceau getting a strip for France, Lloyd George a strip for Britain, and Baron somebody, Shan tung, with its 3S million Chinese res idents, for Japan. In each case he said, the president asked nothing but their acceptance of the League in ex- change. He assailed the six votes of Britain to the one of the U. g., and says that one is not equal to six, no matter how you figure.
 He said that Article X placed the army and navy of the United States at the disposal of a council in Eur ope, and took away the war-miaking power of Congress, and that no one had the right to transfer the war power given to them by the American people; that this should be done only by a direct vote of the peo- pie. Article Ten called, he pointed out, for the preservation of the terri torial integrity of the nations in the League, and meant that the United States would be bound, under this arti- cle, to give its moral support to Eng and, in putting down revolts in Ire and, or with Japan in doing the same in Shantung, if those 3S million Chinamen should rebel, against the rule of the Japs.
 He called attention to a clause in Article 23, which, he says, he had not noticed until a couple of weeks ago. This clause was brought to his atten- ion by New York woman. It says hat the traffic in opium and other lrugs, as well as the traffic in women md children, should be submitted to he council for action. He says the United States could never agree to wen consider such questions and that he Covenant was poorly constructed md should be reconsidered and re- written.
 He appealed to the voters to elect a Senator in support of the president, and said that laving been in Congress with Ralph Cameron, he knew he could fill the jill.
 The speech of MT. Cole was we'll re- eived by the people of Kingman who were present.