The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1920-10-21
Senator Pittman Tells of Demo-
cratic Accomplishment
By Key Pittnan

T TRUST that the people of Nevada will
Il not consider me presumptuous in giving
a few intimate facts with regard to the
League of Nations and the failure of the
United States Senate to ratify it either
with or without reservations. | was a
member of the foreign relations commit
tee oil the senate during all the time that
the committee considered the treaty with
Germany, including the Covenant of the
League of Nations. / heard the confiden-
tial debates upon each article of the cove
nant. | participated in the effort to reach
an agreement by compromise on reserva-
tions and for such reasons | feel that pos
sibly | can give some information that has
not yet been made public. | know that out
of the ninety-six United States Senator'S
eighty-one of them were in favor of the
League of Nations and spoke and voted for
it. Some of these eighty-one senator's
wanted some kind of reservation and 9TH
ers wanted another kind of a reservation
and some did not want any reservations at
all. The fact is that only fifteen United
States senator's were opposed to the League
of Nations. Why did the eighty-one sena-
tors favor the League of Nations? They
told the country and the world in their
speeches. Those speeches are printed in
the Congressional Record.
This is the reason that they favored the
League of Nations-From the beginning of
history war has been the curse of civiliza-
ton. 1t is the only relic of barbarism that
the world has ever attempted to get rid OF.
1t has been the cause of more misery, muir
der, devastation and crime than all the
other causes combined. No man or woman
with heart or soul could witness the hope
less tears of the mothers of this country
whose sons have been torn from their
arms by the necessities of war and who
never again will be returned, no one who
holds the life of human being above
property, ambition and personal glory
could look upon the blind, the armless, the
legless shattered wrecks of humanity that
were returned to their waiting fathers and
mothers without determining that this ma
tion would register its protest against the
old order under which such things were
possible and would try without hesitation
a plan that had for its purpose the reduc-
tion of armament the disbanding OF arm
les. the abolition of militarism and the de-
Termination of internationl disputes by the
rule of Justice instead of by the dictates of
force.
To accomplish this required the agree
ment upon a plan and the active coopera-
ton of all of the great nations of the world
i'm support of such plan. That plan has
been worked out and the present League OF
Nations is the result. 1t Is undoubtedly
not perfect The constitution of the Unit
ed States when adopted was not perfect,
for since that time we have adopted eigh-
teen amendments, but it was all that our
statesmen could agree on at that time. Inc
League of Nations is all that the great ma
tions of the world could agree on at the
time it was adopted. 1t is useless for Sem
ator Harding or anyone else to talk about
organizing new League OF Nations. "A
League of Nations has been organized ana
is in operation and forty-one nations are
members of that League. 1t is In actual
operation. 1t has already accomplished
good, great good. 1t has recently settled
three disputes that would have led to war.
Mr. Harding should know that you can
not have two Leagues of Nations operating
at the same time and that you cannot nave
another League of Nations until you aban-
don the present one. Why is it Impossible
to obtain an abandonment of the present
League of Nations? Because it is part OF
the treaty of peace which has been enter,
ed into and signed between the allied ana
associated powers and Germany Why was
the Ieaoue of Nations a necessary part OF
the treaty? Not solely because IL iaio
down plan for the arbitration OF future
disputes for the delay of war while the ma
tons of the world considered the facts 1or
the boycotting of nations who violated the