Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05

| league are ffty-seven million NOR
white men than there are in it. Their
are two more dark-skinned races
than there are of the white races, s.
that if any question ever comes up
for instance, if Japan demands Ger
tain rights here in California, you cal
count on every black skinned represen
tative of the council standing besid
| Japan. (Applause) And she vii
| demand it, and in esoAs-- tcg :. Isn
and the President of the United State
| voted to give it to her. / have charg
| ed that on the floor of the senate, an'
! no man has ever risen to deny it, ant
have fortified it by the statemen
of French statesman. These arr
our partners. They are TO sit dowi
at the table with US. And the theor!
is this-that if you add. together the
treachery of Japan, the cannibolism q
Haiti, the barbarism of Hejaz, the in
tellectual slothfulness of the Cuban
the degradation of the Chinese, the
selfishness Of Great Britian,--if you
will add it all together and stir it ur
with stick you will have a sum total
of human love and human advance
ment! (Lughter and applause.)
Great Powers Met
Truly this is the new magic. The
truth is that each of these men sits
down at this table; they sit down to
| help their governments to fight for
and contend for the things their peo-
pie and their governments want, and
to combine together for the purpose
each of them, of helping the other in
order to get help in return, to do ex-
actly what has ALREADY been done, for
you have already had fir sample of
OF. The five great powers met over
there; they met, backed by armies and
navies that were irresistible: ana they
met, also, in conjunction with the rep
resentatives of these minor powers,
and what happened? England stooo
there demanding nearly all that there
was left of the African continent. She
got it because she demanded it.
France demanded AlSace and Lorraine
and heavy indemnities and lot Of
the continent Of Africa that England
did not take, and she got it. Italy
stood there demanding that she
should be given large slices of terri
tory, and she got it all but Fiume, ana
then it came out that there had been
an agreement made during the pro
gress of this war by which Italy was
to have this territory, that it had been
assigned to her, and the only one that
stood in the way Of it was the Presi
dent himself. And mark what | tell
you, Italy is going TO get Fiume. And
Japan stood there, the Japanese rep
resentative, looking out of his little
Sits Of eyes and rafting his sword
and declaring that 1--WE made an agree
ment with you for Shantung and Jap
an propose to have Shantung," and
she got it. Just as these nations sat
there and voted for themselves and
dealt with each other and divided the
spoils, so nations in the future, sitting
around this table. will do the sam,
thing.
Britain More Powerful
No wonder British statesman said
when they closed these negotiations.
Great Britain comes out of this war
more powerful than ever in her his
tory Why, Great Britain today con-
trolls one-third of the earth's surface.
She can build her railroad beneath the
British nag from the Cape 10 Cairo
Diit ioOh tNSi y pL III FIOlettiOll VI
the pledge that Gladstone had made;
she reached out her hands and gath
cred in Persia. At the very time they
were talking about the love of men
and self determination, Eng and took
alf-determination from Egypa, and
Japan took elf-determination from
thirty-six million Cinnamon. These
are your brothers. Laughter) Now
they meet in this body called an as
sembly-and have already spoken to
you Of the council The President and
others have gone over this country tell
ing you that the assembly has no pow
er, that it is cort of debating society.
You have heard that expression. Now
let us pause minute, and put our
hard sense to work on that. If it is
only a debating society, then it is an i'm
potent thing and there was no sense in
ever creating it,
Democracy Last
More than that, if it is only debat
ing society. and if the world is to be con-
trolled by the nine nations that are on
the council, then what becomes of the
rights and liberties of the twentythree
other nations that are only represented
on the assembly? What becomes of the
doctrine of world democracy? We pro
ceed to democratize the world by setting
up q world government and then abso-
lutely, according to this theory that
am now discussing, deny TO twenty
three of the members any representa-
ton upon the body which these gentle
men assert is to control the whole thing.
What monstrous proposition that is!
And it is not true
Leagues Authority
| have not time to read to you (at
length, but just one sentence or two
will do these judges, for they know the
Importance of genreal clauses. This
is official print
1.-THE assembly may deal at its meet
ngs with any matter within the sphere
of action of the league or affecting the
peace of the world"
Unlimited Power
More than that, when you come to the
council the same recitation IS u27e re-
garding the council, in exact words--in
haec verba. And yet men have been
over this country telling the American
ppoDla This is only a debating society