The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
Says Earliest Ratification of
Treaty With Article Ten
Eliminated, Should
be Made. -
ADVICE To REPUBLICANS
Party Can Strengthen Its Position by
Adopting Definite
. Constructive
Policy.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, June 25.-Earliest
possible ratification of the German
peace treaty, after elimination OF
article ten, and adherence to the
league of nations, as the Platform
upon which the republican party
should stand in the presidential cam
paign was urged by Herbert Hoover
in a statement published by the New
York Evening Post today.
Hoover advocated the league as
"a product of the liberal class of the
world" declaring that in such an
organization there was no place for
ANY threat of military force such as
rs implied, in the present article ten.
Hoover urged the republican party
to take a definite stand for ratifica-
ton Of the treaty without article ten.
in order to force the democratic
party into the position Of defending
"a practical military alliance-upon
which their safety devices only fur
ther endanger the real value of the
league"
. Article ten, which Hoover would
eliminate, states that members OF
the league will undertake to preserve
the territorial integrity of member
nations. e..
Hoover said there was nothing in
the phraseology of article ten consti-
tuting a binding obligation, but de-
clared there is an implication that
part has generally come to be re-
garded as constituting strong moral
responsibility." D..
He said the real cause Of dissen-
sion regarding the league was wheth-
er the United States should commit
itself to guarantee the territorial in
tegrity of foreign states and to use
its military resources to carry out
the leagues decisions. This, he said,
was the fundamental question around
which the forthcoming election would
be fought.
"The essential things about the
league covenant that commend it to
me-" he said, ARE, first, its recogni-
ton that wars have their springs
chiefly in misunderstanding and It's
provision for an organization de-
signed to minimize occasions for dis
trust by continuous common counsel,
and, second, its creation of facilities
for converging upon any controversy
wide publicity and the force of the
public opinion of the world The de-
STABILITY Of organizing these activi-
ties by international cooperation is
supported by both our political par
ties.
Through article ten and some ref
erences to It, the league covenant is
to degree a military alliance. With
out this power, it might not perhaps
be as immediate in its effectiveness
against some international crook, but
I am certain that no country can long
continue in wayward action against
such moral and economic disapproval
of the whole Of civilization"
Hoover declared that nation
would look with suspicion upon a
human life, that the league council
was hesitating at the present mo-
ment to curb aggressiveness in vari
GUS parts of the world because of the
that in the present temper
of the worlds peoples not single
soldier would be furnished by a ma
ton aside from those with immediate
and material interests at stake.
"The basic need for threatening
military alliance against aggression
is to control states which persist in
which renders them capa-
BILE of aggressive action Hoover con-
tinued "If armament were limited
to police purposes and to restrain
the half-civilized countries, the other
pressures Of the league would be
final, although it is my belief that
they are in the end effective even
against aggressively armed states.
The first and foremost duty of the
league is, therefore. the reduction OF
an armament that is now on greater
scale than in 1914.
Hoover suggested that time limit
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