New-York tribune., 1920-08-18

o4SOllSt al ACdIldIl Dsti USl.
that every mandate must be carried
out, and it was
An organization was formed by
moneyed interests. Unable to gain
support of newspapers, which refused
to advocate the doctrine of resistance,
to express PUBLIC opinion it estab
lished an organ of it's own. 1t had no
mailed TO and distributed in the coun-
ties 1t was published by Mr.. Hard
ing and took the name Of his own
paper, The Ohio Star At every bend
of the road we found him aligned with
the opposition.
Spirit of Movement Mistaken
"To his credit it must be stated that
he believed he was right. He mistook
the spirit of the movement 1t was an
orderly process of evolution. He des g-
mated it as revolution The point. now
ever, is that he still believes in re-
action and l still believe in progress
He designated it as Socialism. The
truth of the matter is that it prevented
Socialism.
In every contest between progress
and reaction, whether state, national
or international, you will find the ele-
ments very much the same. The for
ward step is always surrounded by
asrticulased misgivings, sincere in some
instances, but ordinarily the evidence
of selfish desire or political design.
Turning from state to world affairs
the progressive would now bring an end
to international anarchy. He would re-
establish orderly government. He
facility to declare war overnig ight. He
would merge governmental entities into
righteous association.
The progressive has faith in the
awakened moral sense OF civilization
He answers captious objection with an
expressed confidence in humanity. He
would stop the flow Of resource to the
building of armaments. He would sub
stitute the governm agencies of
humanity and education for the vast
arsenals Of human destruction. He re-
jects the creed of seltishness, personal,
national or international, and believes
that Almighty God intended the inAu-
ence of moral righteousness should not
be fettered by boundary lines.
He believes that government should
be as human as humanity itself. He
learns by experience and it tells him
/ that evolution is the triumph to-day
over the mysteries of yesterday and
that the divine scheme of things will
work out only by our pressing forward
and not going backward"
Tosses Bouquet to Baker
Cox paid a tribute to Mr. Baker
whose clean record, he said, though
searched with miscroscope so large
as to make an elephant out of a fly''
made Ohioans, his friends, proud
Formal announcement of his purpose
to discuss during the Presidential cam
paign "some of the objections" which
have been urged against American par
ticipation in the League of Nations was
made by Secretary Baker in his ad-
dress
when the suggestions based on par
tisan feeling have been swept aside,
Mr. Baker said, there remain but two
or three points which really deserve
serious cons liberation. The most impor-
tant of these is that which is addressed
to Article X of the covenant, which
article, the President has said, is the
heart of the whole matter.
Since Senator Lodge and Senator
Harding have both repudiated the
Lodge reservations, for which they botf
voted, it does not seem likely that these
particular reservations will figure II
the campaign except as illustrations o.
the tactics used to defeat the ratltica
ton of the treaty"
Asserting that the whole question
hinged upon Article X, Mr. Baker de
voted himself to discussion of tha
section of the covenant, saying that hi
did not believe that there could be any
league or peace or disarmament with
out "the equivalent of Article X IN the
covenant accepted as common prln
ciple and obligation by all nations o
the earth"
Declare Article Misconstrued
"Those VINO criticize Article X h
said. "misread into it some sort o
fear that it places the military powe
of the United States at the dlsposa
of the Council of Nations and will re
quire American armies to be sent over
seas to enforce guarantees OF Artlcl'
X without consent of the American
people. But there is nothing whateve
in the covenant which seeks to chang
the power given by the Constitution
/ to Conrress alone to declare war.
"While it might we'll be that in th
| early stages of the operation of s
: great principle it might be neces
, sary for the great powers to show tn
: sincerity of their adherence to it b.
actually enforcing it, any such occa
sion. so far as the United States i
concerned, would have to be addresse
to the sound wisdom of Congress
Meanwhile, the league, without Ooli
pressional action, would be able in al
human likelihood to make the guaran
tee effective by mere weight of it
moral and economic power"
J. Without Article X, Mr.. Baker SAID
"the league is vain" while with it "th
League becomes great, modern
), civilized agency" working to bring tn
world into "just relationship"
This is the article of the covenan
/ which, it is said, needs to be Ameri
q canized," he added. at is American
! We invented it and applied it among
= ourselves, we fought for it as the car
t dinal principle at issue in the Worl
/ War. our President formulated it an