The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-09-17
SENATOR b0RAH A SSA|LS COX'S
STAND ON LEAGUE Of NATIONS
On Same Night That Cox Speaks in Boise, Idaho
Senator Tears Democratic Stand on Greatest
Issue of Campaign to Shreds at Home of
Bourbon Nominee to Large Crowd.

see to it that the contract when made
is executed. As Commander in Chief
of the army and navy he will be very
powerful to that end. If necessary
to send our boys to Europe, in so
far as he can under the powers rrant-
ed him by the Constitution, he will
send them. If he needs the assist
ance of Congress to carry out this
contract he will urge that Congress
stand by the contract and assist him.
If the sending of the men to Europe
is ostensibly for peace he can send
them without any declaration of war
AS was the case when we sent our
boys to Russia. He would need no
declaration of war to send our army
to Europe or Asia to police boundar-
les. In case a declaration of war
seems necessary he will demand as
your President that Congress act at
once. Congress will either shave to
act with him and declare war or it
will violate the nations contract, pros
titute the nations honor and defy the
Commander-in- Chief of the army and
the navy. No Congress has ever yet
refused to declare war when the
Commander-in-Ckief urged it. 1t will
hardly refuse to do so in the future
when behind the Presidents command
is solemn contract. the violation Of
which would brand the nation with
moral turpitude. Under such cir
cumstances the people would be told
should they object that they them
selves had authorized these thinps to
be done.
War Brutal Formally.
My friends, declaration of war
under Article X will be nothing but
brutal formality. Everyone knows
that If we make that contract, while
Congress may or may not be called
upon to go through the formalit-. it
will have to uphold the contract OF
the nation. The man who would ask
the American people to sign such A
contract as is contained in Article x
and then suggest that the American
Congress might Disregard it or openly
violate It would have reached a depth
OF moral depravity which would make
the name Metternich and Talleyrand
respectable. Lennin and his Bolshe-
vik government have been assailed III
these days because it is said they
are willing to make treaties with a
view to breaking them when the in
terest OF the Bolshevik requires it.
But Lennin may yet become a moral
leader, worthy of all emulation. If
men in this Republic are to advocate
the making of this contract in Article
X and then throw. out the sinister
suggestion that if our interest should
seem to justify the American Con-
gress could disregard it. And re-
member that neither Congress nor the
American people will have any right
to inquire when called upon to act
whether the war in which we are ask
ed to enter is just or unjust, righteous
or unrighteous. All we can inquire
about under Article X is has some
boundary line been attacked or as
sailed. If SO, it will be our duty to
act either by economic blockade,
which always means war, or by send
ing the army and the navy.
The fact is that if this contract is
made, all the department of the Gov
ernment will be bound to execute it.
National morality rests upon a strict
regard tor national contracts. Besides
what difference would it make to the
mothers OF this country whether their
boys were sent to Europe as police
dogs tor European boundaries under
2 contract which the COMMANDMENT
Chief may execute or under a con-
!ract which Congress must execute
Does anyone suppose that it either
1eepened the anguish Or assauged the
sorrows OF the mothers of Michigan
because their boys who died fighting
n Russia were sent there without a
declaration of war by Congress?
Harding Opposes Pledge.
On the other hand, Senator Hard
ng. declares that if he is elected he
will exercise all his power to see that
10 pledge such as is contained in Ar
icie x to preserve the real estate
holdings of Europe is made. He
make 1t clear that he will never ex-
'ressiy not implicitly agree to pre-
erve the territorial integrity of the
lations of the world. He declares.
furthermore, that no American soldier
hall be sent to Europe for any such
'urpose-and not until the interest
no security of this Republic REQUIRES
and not until our own people under
ne orderly and established processes
! the Constitution have demanded
nat they shall be sent. No foreign
shall bind us either legally
u morally. We shall stand free and
Independent to decide for ourselves
4 every crisis and in the face of
very. confronting situation what it is
ur duty to do, and what it is in the
herest OF humanity and civilization TO
o.
IN other words. the American peo-
lie shall continue to be a self-gov-
rning people, determining unembar-
issed and uncontrolled all matters of
lpreme concern whether domestic or
'reign. And here let me say that
lere is no tribunal which can be
ontrived or erected by the wit OF
ian tor the determination of the
lestion of peace or war, eouaS in
'teiiigence and patriotism to the hun
lea and ten million people into
hose keeping has been intrusted the
elfare Of this Republic
Is Old Greed, ,.s
What is this principle which we find
nbodied in Article X? Whose creed