Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1920-09-08
IS UNITED STATES A COWARD?


No great paper has been subjected to more
downright cndactv than the OF the league OF
nations and no provision OF that has been
the object OF much deliberate fasehood Article X
The language article plain and the meaning OF it
SO clear to anybody who is trying to prevent it:
THE members OF the league undertake to respect and
preserve against aggression the territorial integrity and
existing political independence of all members OF the league
In case such aggression in OF threat OF
danger such aggression the council shall advise the
means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled
The republicans who opposed to the league and III
particular the republican declares the New York
World insist that under the OF this article the council
OF the league order the United States into and send
troops wherever pleases They the only people
in the world who consrue it.
Senator Harding continues talk about foreign
Gil" commanding The Unit>, states to 60 to war
srcss being obliged submit Thai is only demagogic
but Senator Harding knows is deagosic Even
ilerate a candidate he be hcN
appears.
Lloyd George defining in speech in the house OF
few days ago the responsibilities OF Great Britain
said
I'VE have entered into acovenant with the nations who
signed the treaty have other methods
than the brutal methods OF for the purpose OF setting
disputes and the whole governing and root idea OF the
understand it does contemplate necessarily
military action in support OF mpered nation conten
plates economic action and PRESSURE 1t contemplates
give support all Poland involves great
with Consumption and all the mechanism of with which
have been painfully acquainted during the last few
years. that it is inconsistent with the whole theory of the
covenant into which have entered 1t contemplates
other methods OF bringing pressure bear upon recall
ctrant nations which guilty OF aggression against
their neghbors and endanger their independence.
That is substantially President Wilson's Interpretation
OF it. 1t the Interpretation OF all the who
framed the covenant, all OF them representing consttu
tonal governments in which the war-naking power is
solely i'll the hands OF the legislative department. Art
Gle X gives the council authority whatever. 1t can
only advise and that advice be unanimous in order
to be official The whole machinery OF the league de-
signed to- prevent and Article S the Magma Charta
OF the small nations 1t inserted for the benfit OF
Great Britain and the Uned States which can protect
their own territorial and political integrity from foreign
aggression but for the security OF the little countries 1t
is the pledge OF the civilized world that the rights OF the
weak are not to be overridden by the strong
There little opposition this article in republican
circles until the discovered that President Wilson
was the author of it. Since that time they centered
their attacks upon it, regardless of the truth or even
decency
Twenty-nne other nations have accented Article X
without question twenty other nations are as anxious
TO preserve their nationality mmpared as the United
states and quite scrupuos keeping their treaty obi
cations None of them is afraid that foreign council"
do Senator Harding calls it. order make against
It's VIII or send its troops to fight on alien soil
~ u'e uirty nations Immediately concerned with the
league only the lnited States acting the part Of the
coward and the responsibility for that cowadice rests en-
tlrey upon the republican senator's including Warren G
Harding
on account OF the high price OF coal there will Drobab1v
oe ialse amount OF wood used fuel next winter Use
" e waste timber dead and dying for this purpose
Th s"'e ana conserve the ashes for garden fertilizer