Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-13
U. 5, APPROVAL OF LEAGUE WOULD HAVE SAVED THE POLES So Declares Roosevelt in An
 Address at Mill
 waukee SAYS HISTORY WILL
 BLAME SENATE FEW But or Senate Obstructionists' Desire to Crafty Spite, Reds Would Not Now be at Warsaw's
 Gates

Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 12.-Indorse, ment of the league of nations by the United States would have saved Pol and, Franklin D. Roosevelt, demo. cratic nominee for vice-president declared here tonight in the closing speech of the first day of his west ern speaking trip.
 The moral effect of American membership in the league would have halted the Russian armies with. out single American soldier cross ing the seas, he said.
 History will lay a great share of the responsibility for the plight of tine splendid people of Poland upon those little narrow men in the Unit. ed States senate, those little mar row men who today control the ma chinery of the republican party" MT Roosevelt declared.
 "But for their desire to satisfy personal spite, the bolshevists would not be knocking at the gates of War. saw.
 "The heart of America goes out to the Polish nation. Our hands are tied. Because of the obstructionist methods of Senator Harding's group of senators, the United States is still technically at war"
 MT. Roosevelt's league of nations speech came as an answer to criticism that he avoided the issue in his Chi cago speech last night. q am not afraid of the league of nations," he told his audience here, and describ- ed the covenant at length as an ap- plication of moral law to internation- al relations.
 Closing strenuous first day on his trip through the west, the vice. presidential nominee attended two receptions and a dinner here and top ped off the evening with the main speech at downtown theater. The evening address and the three i'm promptu speeches that preceded f brought this days speaking total to nine, just six more than his official itinerary called for.
 Arriving in Milwaukee late thi: evening, MT. Roosevelt was whisked to the University club where he ad- dresses the Milwaukee Harvard club and from there to the Press club where he met the newspaper men.
 MT. Roosevelt spoke in part as follows:
 q am not afraid of the league of nations issue. I believe it i. the old guard reactionary republican leaders who are trying to befuddlt this issue. It is natural for them as reactionaries in home affairs, to be reactionary in international af- fairs. In the same way progressives whether they are republicans or dem- crats will, if truly progressive, wish to see international affairs continue to reach higher levels instead of go ing back to the methods of old fash toned diplomacy.
 "The league of nations is but an expression of the new law of nations
 "Under the league of nations the presumption of neutrality is com. pletely reversed, and the nation which plans to attack another may assume with fair probability that all the other nations will be against it-not neutral as in the old days but on the contrary, hostile.
 "There can be no neutrality as be tween right and wrong, we in ths United States, honestly tried to wall the path of neutrality because ]: then was the law of nations, bu finally, and at enormous cost, thu whole American nation joined il condemning that law.
 eff America had been member O the league of nations the Polish na tion would not be today fighting bol sheviki with it's back to the wall. I would not have been necessary for single American soldier to cross tn ksea. It would not have been neces sary for America to become entang led in any way in European politics Ours would have been the quietin and steadying hand in a leagu which without America is incom plete.
 eve pray it is not too late. w pray that the United States ma do it's full share in helping to bull up again in the future that indeper dent nation of Poland which ha always been our friend and to pa back in some slight measure tn splendid help given us at the tim
 of our own war for independenc
 bv the Polish patriots and love' of world wide liberty. Kosciussk :. and Pulaski"