The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-23
Article Doctrine of
Eighth Commandment

bfaIii. Inc council mas 10 act unhnl :
mously on all questions. II Is the real
league.
There is an assembly, with one rep
resentative from all nations. This has
been DEFINED as debating society, but
/ think rather Its function Ia that OF
body OF councillors. or perhaps OF
"The council has but Ave points OF
Jurisdiction. They are
II. All controversy that might lead to
war. That Is certainly Jurisdiction
that well belongs TO the council. There
never was a more outrageous falsehood
than the a. o. T.. contention that the
league interferes with American sover-
eighty OF the American Constitution.
-. The section that Elihu Root put
In the league-when ! read in the news
papers that Root said that, Wilson de.
without the dotting OF an II or the
crossing OF a T. ! knew that none
knew better than Root the utter false
hood OF this statement. For after Mr..
Wilson came back from Paris, he put I'm
the league. In Roots exact words. the
over questions OF a 'justiciabe' nature;
that IL 10 say. the Interpretation OF a
treaty. or kindred matters,
20. AL territory conquered In the late
war Is put under the control OF the coun-
ell for the beneflt and uplift OF the peo-
pie. This is a marvellous part Of the
league. as Il eliminates oppression from
the lives OF conquered citizens.
-, That all treaties shall be open,
shall be left with the council and shall
be by 4 published to the world.
sign this treaty agree 20 respect and
preserve the territorial integrity and
political independence OF all nations that
sign the treaty against extern3 sggres-
sion.' ~ 49,
The Eighth Commandment ofNatIons.
THE eighth commandment. handed
down from Mount Sinai, was; Thou
shalt not steal. Article x IL the eighth
eays 20 them thou shalt not steal.
Every international war In history has
been caused by the taking OF territory
~-Bave one, and that was when Greece
went 70 war with Troy over the taking
OF a red headed woman.
"Article x will remove the chief In
centiye OF war. We will put Article X
In the treaty and secure tho peace of
the world" There was responding APP
plause at this point. -.
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treaty has received In the senhte, y which
proved 10 be scathing Indictment OF
one republican senator, Henry Cabot
Lodge. After senate OF democrats
and republicans had directed the pres
ident TO negotiate such n treaty. he
went to Paris and began TO do So" said
the senator. "Ihen the republicans be-
said he wanted TO be president OF a
world republic; Il was charged In the
senate that the league would have a
right 10 tax; there would be but one
army and navy. Well, the president
came back to America with the first
draft Of the treaty.
''But. meanwhile, J. p, Morgan q
Co.. has secured a copy Of the iirst
draft; they turned II over9tc their at
torney, Elihu Koot, for examination.
and he sent II to Senator Lodge The
senator's at once got on their ears and
raised 80 many objections that they
couldn't agree among themselves about
ilihu Root TO codlfy their objections,
and under his leadership submitted
seven objections These were:
II. THAT there was no power 20
amend the covenant. in it, trst draft.
~. That there was no power 70 with
draw from the league.
~. That there was no provision Of
justifiable matter subject TO league
jurisdiction. a
y. THAT there was no recognition OF
the Monroe doctrine.
20. That purely domestic questions
were not taken from thu, jurisdiction OF
tho council OF the ieagie.
20. That 10 haveR mandatory I'm
posed on nation against It's will would
be permitted under the frat draft.
~. That the council ought to vote
unanimously on all questions, and not
by a simple majority.
"ihe president took these seven OBJ
jections back to Paris with him, ana he
put every one OF them In the peace
nj nl Iana s.f
natlonsi
Eat this time I predicted that the
treaty would be ratified In short time,
with but five votes against II. We knew
that Borah. johnson, Jim Reed. and
Gore would object. Hut that was nil we
election was coming, ana that the re-
pnblicans were hunting a campaign
Issue. s.
Az soon az one objection was an
swered, the Lodge coterie raised an
other. On one occasion they wanted n
reservation 70 the article about the JUS
ticiable queations, when we told them
ing, Lodge hufriodiy withdrew his res-
ervation. We were willing 10 SO any
reasonable extent 60 get a treaty; the
Lodge republicans said that the ian-
Euage wasn't clear. 80 we said, clarity
Il. And we adopted those reservations.
kAAh We EVutUut UutiNtN AnuKts A.
fast AZ one was clarified no searched
and found another. The republicans
didn't want the treaty, they wanted
new objections 30 they could have a
campaign ISSUE
Take Shantung You haven't heard
anything about Shantung for many
months. because II was q, false ,lsalie.s.
+ oult.cialm Deeds.
"Chlna had given two quit .ciaim
deeds, at her own request, 70 Japan
for the Hhantung peninsula. At the
time the republicans were talking
Shantung, China was entering the
league Of nationa--without any reser-
walton. Then they objected 20 Britain
and her possessions having six votes
In the assembly while America had but
one, The assembly IL the leagues de-
batting society, and II takes unani-
nous vote for u 60 do anything. And
In any case the United States has more
than one vote---in fact, Il has more
than Great Britain and all her de-
pendencicH The votes OF Cuba, Hayti,
Guatemala, Honduras and Liberia will
be controlled by the United States, But
even then, We adopted the g. %. T..
reservations. as they made little mat
ter. II was treaty we wanted.
"Tho republicans. finding all their
attempts vain, then attacked Article X
the heart OF the treaty. They wanted
TO throw out the ono fundamental
thing that had been done 10 prevent
/ future wars. They made reservation
after reservation that would emasou-
late this article.
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