The Penn's Grove record., 1920-09-24
Peace Treaty
Clearly Explained
Attorney Geran Made Eloquent
Plea For Permanent Peace

Elmer Geran, U. S. District Attor-
ney General, at Trenton, and former
Sheriff of Monmouth County, gave a
clear, concise and convincing explain
alton of the Peace Treaty and League
of Nations in the Y auditorium, Car
neys Point, last Friday evening. He
said in part.
In other countries elections are held
when an issue arises and the admins
traitors of the government want a de-
cision on the question. In this country
elections are fixed by laws to be held
for the election of officers whether
there be any issue or not. Never in
the history of this nation were more
false issues made to catch votes than
in the present campaign. The Repub-
lican party having fulfilled the mis-
sion for which it was created is now
creating many false issues to regain
political power.
For forty years the Democratic par
ty was called a party of protest with
no constructive principles. But during
the past seven years history has prov
en- otherwise. More constructive, pro-
gressive legislation has been enacted
by Democratic Congress under the
leadership of Woodrow Wilson, Presi-
dent, than during any period of 80
years in the history of our Nation.
The cry for a protective tariff and a
full dinner pail is a thing. of the past.
The enactment of the Federal Reserve
whereby money is made plentiful so
that every business man can coin his
commercial credit into currency to
keep the wheels of commerce going
and never be stopped by panics caused
by shortage of money. No criticisms
are made of these laws nor of the par
eel post and postal savings banks.
So the Republican leaders had to
force an issue of protest against what
they call "Wilsonism" without defining
it. They are not sincere in forming a
false issue, because their old leaders,
Roosevelt, Root, Taft and even Sena-
tor Lodge himself had advocated in the
past an international compact In some
form which was materialized and made
concrete by those who made the Treaty
at Versailles in which is provided the
League of Nations.
Ever since the human race began
there has been blood shed, struggles
of tribe against tribe to gain suprem-
acy for and religions. There
have been treaties of peace which ap-
pealed to the highest ideals, but old
diplomacy has failed. The Hague
tribunal has failed. Religion has fail
ed. Then let us try something else, a
League of Nations. The purpose is
in
The Preamble
In order to promote international
cooperation and to achieve interna-
tional peace and security, by the &C
ceptance of obligations not to resort
to war, by the prescription OF open,
lust and honorable relations between
nations, by the firm establishment OF
the understandings of international
law as to actual rule of conduct
among Governments, and by the main
tenance of justice and a scrupulous re-
spect for all treaty obligations in the
dealings of organized peoples with n
another, the high contracting parties
agree to this Covenant of the League
of Nations.
The League is an association of self
governing nations with representa-
tons in the Council and Assembly.
Like the governments Of the United
States and Great Britain, this interna-
tional League provides for two houses,
a Council and Assembly, and these
made provision for an international
court whose findings the Council shall
advise and recommend. -
Each member of the League shall
have a representative, but not more
than three representatives. Each
member of the league shall have N
vote" The three representatives sha
have one vote, or each representative
one-third of a vote if there be three,
one-half if there be two. See article
8.
"The Council shall consist of repre-
sentatives of the United States OF
America, of the British Empire, of
France, of Italy and of Japan, together
with representatives OF tour o6her
members of the League, Belgium, Bra
zil, Greece and Spain. AT meetings.
of the Council each member OF the
League represented on the Council
shall have ONE vote, and may not have
more than one representative. Ihese
are elected by the Assembly. m
Council shall meet at least once a
year." See article a.
The League is practlcalIy epuoii
of Nations with one vote each in the
Assembly and Council. The decisions
in the Council are to be unanimous TX
a petit jury in u courts. The de-
cision on any dispute shall be given IN
six months and the disputing nations
agree not to go to war until three
months after the award or report OF
the Council"
Article Ten
Territorial and Political Guarantees)
The members of the League under
take to respect and preserve as
against external aggression the ter,
ritorial integrity and existing political
independence of all members OF the
League. In case of any such aggres-
sion or in case of any threat or danger
of such aggression, the Council shall
advise upon the means by which this
obligation shall be fulfilled.
That provides for stopping lnterna-
tional disputes. There may be a pc,
I;+;caI revolution in a nation, "a civil