The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-09-24


world program: w4tholt the League
there must be eternal eut-threat Com
petition.
s. Much has been made of the bag
ahoo that IL we join the League Amer
lean boys may hsye TO be sent TO Ar
menia- China or Africa 10 fight battles
in which we have no concern.
They mas. it is true
But without the League four million
American boys had TO take up arms TO
fight in Europel
And without tfe League similar
crisis is likely TO arise any day.
Would II not be better to have a few
Americans in an army to help police
the world, than TO have the great body
Of American manhood called on any
minute to help put out universal
confiagratioR?
IL. The whcls dispute between the
political parties about reservations"
to the League, and as to which FOOT we
shall first put forward as we enter. and
as to whetker we snail go in under
Democratic or Republican leadership,
is the veriest political piffle. II stiDks
in the nostrils OF every intelligent pa
triot
1s The League Of Nations means
Progress. Courage, Humanity oppo-
sition TO 1t means Reaction, Coward
ice and Provincialism
10. This is the real battle OF Arrna-
geddof. II is of much more value to
the future of humanity that a League
OF Nations be successfully launched
than that Germany be defeated. Men.
who move heaven and earth 10 keep
America out of tine league are lar
worse enemies TO the race than the
Kaiser ever was
20, The League is favored by the
great majority OF Thinkers, by Philos-
ophers men in Universities ami
Churches, by the American Federation
Of Labor, by Writers and by all who
are concerned in Public Welfare Ii is
opposed by one class onlyT-the parti-
san politicians and those influenced by
them.
u, Every danger incurred by joins
ing the League, and of course thereire
dangers. will be multiplied hundred |
fold by staying out.
p, Every Religion, except thu hercs |
heathenisms Of national propaganda |
has dreamed OF some sort OF universal |
peace to stop war, the most monstrous
curse of mankind Christianity Ju-
daism, Buddhism, Confucianism. Ba
haism, all have had the dream. The
League of Nations moves with the /
great spiritual current of humanity.
g. The fear that the League is
deep plot of Great Britain 10 further
her own interests is utterly silly. |.
Would not France Italy and the other !.
nations who have Joined have more 4
reason to fear Great Britain than we
have?
81 The League Of Nations ~ not 2
far of question. one of Toiisics and
diplomacy that does not concern you
and me.
Il is of most vital, individual i'm
TO every man, woman and
child in the United States.
Does it mean nothing to you. mother,
that your boy may be called out wnen
manhood TO take his post
ir the next world war?
Does 1t mean nothing TO you, busi-
ness man. that gigantic taxes be en-
for,-d on you to keep up huge army
iid navy!
Does 1t mean nothing TO you, work
ngmdn, that you may be used as a
Dawn in the next game OF bloody in
ernattonal chess2
Does 1t mean nothing to you, o lover
" your race, when you pray daily
hat wars may cease and brotherhood
Prevail, that at ast the nations Of
'arth are honestly trying to answer ,
our prayer?
20 But the final conclusive and 4
absolutely unanswerable argument for
he League of Nations is simply this:
If NOT THlS--T HEN WHAT?
What is the alternative?
For If there is 70 be no League, then
We must clump back into the Old Or
Ter, every nation must go on arming to
he teeth, tax burdens increase, and 2
vars occur with the regularity Of /
ellis clock strokes.
rs And. IL we succeed in our noble
experiment., II. we establish League l
f Nations and II we disarm, think OF
hat we can do with the enormous
urplus OF wealth wiIich the race is !
piling up, and which heretor
pc has been burnt up in powder! !:
What enormous public works we can !
ndertakel What magnificent pro-
rams of education we can set forward \
rnoDs lie earth's backward popula !
onsl What highways and bridges, /
hat parks apd plaisances, what uni \
ersities and temples. what vast com !
Iercial enterprises, what grandioss Z
orks for the brtterment of mankind !;