Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-18
SECRETARY BAKER SAYS U. 5. NEEDS
 PEACE LEAGUE
More Than 600 Register to Attend Short Farming
 Course Defends Article 10 of Agreement As Necessary to Make League
 Effective

Columbus, O., Aug. IT, The dem ocratic campaign purposing to car ry Ohio for Cox and Roosevelt and elect the democratic state ticket was formally launched here today at the party's state convention.
 The convention adopted Il platform pledging the party, if returned to power in the state, to rigid economy, enactment of debt limitation law, d more equitable distribution of taxes. It also heard addresses by Governor Cox, Secretary of War Baker, Senator P0merene and M. A. l Donahey, gubernatorial candidate, in addition to the keynote speech by M. A. Daugherty of Lancaster, and selected 24 candidates for presiden- tial electors.
 Secretary Baker was praised by Governor Cox as "our great war min ister" and drew an ovation from the convention. Secretary Baker was given tremendous ovation as he stepped to the platform. He drew repeated applause in a militant championing of the league of na tions.
 The greatest applause of his speech came when he declared "I am for article 10, and l don't believe there can be a league of nations of any effectiveness without article 10 or some equivalent of it, solely signed by the nations of the world"
 In addressing the convention, Gov ernor Cox flayed Senator Harding, the republican nominee, as reaction ary," denounced what he termed MT. Harding's plan for separate peace with Germany, but said that the dem ocratic position on the league of na- tions reservations was not "un- bending"
 "Our position is not unbending. We claim that we can accept anything in reservations that interprets, that calls attention to the limitation of our constitution, that calls attention of the other nations that we will go thus far and no further"
 "When the suggestions based on partisan feeling have been swept aside," said MT Baker, "there re- mains but two or three points which really deserve serious consideration which is addressed to article 10 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 both voted, it does not seem likely that these particular reservations will figure in the campaign except illustrations of the tactics used to defeat the ratification of the treaty."
 Asserting that the whole question hinged upon article 10, MT. Baker devoted himself to the discussion of that section of the covenant, saying that he did not believe that there could be any league or peace or dis armament without the "equivalent of article 10 in the covenant accepted as common principle and obliga- ton by all nations of the earth"
 Article Ten Backbone of League,
 "Those who criticize article 1O," he said, "msread into it some sort of fear that it places the military power of the United States at the disposal of the council of nations and will require American armies to be sent overseas to enforce guarantees of article 10 without consent of the American people; but there is noth- Ing whatever in the covenant which seeks to change the power given bvI the constitution to congress alone to declare war.
 While it might we'll be that in the early stages of the operation of so great principle, it might be neces- sary for the great powers to show the sincerity of their adherence to it by actually enforcing it, any such occasion, so far as the United States IS concerned, would have to be ad- dressed to the sound wisdom of con gress. Meanwhile the league. with out congressional action, would be able in all human likelihood to make the guarantee effective by mere weight of the moral and economic power
 Without article 10 the league is valn, while with it, the league be- comes a great, modern, civilized a. gency working to bring the world into just relationship.
 This is the article of the cove nant, which, it is said, needs to be Amerlcanizzed. It is American. Wei invented it and applied it amone| ourselves; we fought for it as thel cardinal principle at issue in the world war; our president formulated It and forced it's acceptance. it's prin- clple and its purpose are thoroughly American" s"''
 Thirty-Seven Years of War.
 If America is to participate in i'm ternational affairs, the beginning must be made before the cement is set, which bindes the rest of the world into family in which she is not member. National interest ~>->>~>~~~~-~~~>>- ~>>--~>~~~>>>~
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