Connecticut western news., 1920-10-28
WHAT THE LEAGUE
 OF NATIONS MEANS
Simple Explanations by a Pennsylvania
 Lawyer

| whose stirring address on American ism two years ago at Trinity College when that institution conferred upon him an honorary degree will long be remembered by all who heard it, in an article entitled "A League of Ma tions Primer" appearing in the "Bos- ton Transcript" of Saturday gives an explanation of that document so clear, so lucid that it is unfortunate kthat every voter cannot read it be- fore he casts his ballot in the "great and solemn referendum" of Novem- Der 2.
 His first question in the catechism for those who would learn the dang CTS of the entangling alliances of the ! Wilson league is:- .. .r
 What is the real trouble with the league of nations?
 His answer says:-The trouble Is that it places the control of the peo- ple's business in the hands of small group of diplomats and takes no ac- count of the will of those who have to pay the taxes and do the fighting. | It is impossible to include all of his questions and his answers but to the question as to what is the remedy , for such an evil, the evil of war, he says that it is to give the people of 8 nation a fair chance to decide whether the dispute is worth fight 1 ing about and that the Wilson league most certainly does not do this for under it the people would have about as much influence on the policy of ', the league as minority stockholders . in an industrial trust. This leads to an explanation of what the league is, anyway.
 A. On paper and in sermons it is peace partnership between many nations. Actually it is a scheme to insure the territories and govern ments of European nations at the expense of the United States and to lodge the control of the peoples bus mess in the hands of little group of international politicians.
 ; Q. How is the scheme worked A. By having each nation under write the policy of insurance con- tafned in Article x of the league covenanet and by creating an exc eutive council of nine men represent ing nine nations and by attempting to put it in the power of these nine to decide in all great emergencies ! just what everybody shall do. Q. Who are the nine to be?
 A. A Belgian, Brazilian, an .Englishman, Frenchman, a Greek, an Italian, Japanese, a Spanaird and citizen of the United States.
 0. Where are they to sit?
 A. In Geneva, Switzerland.
 |. o. How will the representative of the United States be chosenf
 A. Nobody knows. 1t does not make much differences, however, how he is chosen because it is not possible for one man really to repre- sent one hundred million. The vote that he casts in the name of the Uni ted States might very we'll cause such a storm of protest from the people of the United States as would dis credit our so-called representatives and crack the league wide open.
 When a dispute arises between governments which their govern ments do not settle by arbitration or otherwise the council of nine will pass upon the dispute unless the council itself or one of the disputants refers the case to the so-called As sembly of Nations, and what the council may do with the dispute is shown by MT. Pepper by supposiRg a case.
 If, for example, Japan were to claim the right of free admission to the United States for Japanese sub jects and we were to object, Japan would refer the case to the Council We would claim, under Article XV, that this was a domestic and not an international question. The Council would have power to decide against us on this point. The question would then be before the Council whether our restrictions upon immigration should or should not hold. If seven of the Council voted against us and if we then attempted to prevent by force a shipload of Japs from land ing at San Francisco, we should be l, committing an act of war against every member of the league.
 The same course of events might follow if the dispute related to our protective tariff policy or to our coastwise trade or to the status of the Panama Canal or to any other matter vital to our national interest. By the vote of seven foreigners we ' should be put in a position where we would have to surrender our inde- pendence of action or else fight the world.
 { Taking up Article X Mir. Pepper shows the fallacy of the arguments that are advanced to show that it does not bind us to go to war to pre- serve the territory and governments