New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-26
American Bar
TOClash Over
League Issue
Majority Report Indorsing
Unamended Treaty and
Minority Report Opposing
Ito Be Presented To-day
Annual Conclave Opens
Move for Seating President
Earlier in Year Made;
Ceddes Denounces Reds

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 25.-The way for a
fight over Endorsement of the League
OF Nations covenant on the floor of the
annual convention Of the American Bar
NAssociation here will be paved by the
presentation tomorrow of maj ority and
minority reports by n special COM
mittee which considered the issue. The
majority report indorscs the treaty
without amendments and tho minority
report dissents.
Another report from a special COM
mittee will declare that the interval
between the election and Inauguration
of a President iss serious evil
fraught with much danger, because, If
an administration is discredited by a
popular vote of want of confidence, the
prestige of the government at home
and abroad is weakened and there IS
danger of humiliation and disaster to
the republic"
This report will urge that the dates
be brought closer together, but makes
1t also will advise abandonment of the
short session of the retiring Congress.
Reds Enemies of Democracy
The Bolshcviki were pictured as
enemies of democracy, of Lincoln's
ideal of government Of the people, by
the people, in an address by Sir Auck-
land Geddes, British Ambassador to
the United States, at the opening ses-
sion to-day. The Ambassador de-
clared that the BoIsheviki were the
nj ria DO
tablish privileged class called the
proletaAiat; to force on society a great
idea, regardless of whether society
wanted it.
Sir Auckland declared that Great
Britain and the United States "are CO.
trustees for humanity, that the theory
and practice of democracy shall not
suffer distortion or diminution in
spite of avalanches OF assault loosed
upon it by it's enemies"
Sir Auckland said that Lincoln best
epltomized the best form of govern
ment the human race had been able to
devise as "by the people, for the peo-
p1e," but, he added, II wonder how
many realize what q tremendous revo-
luton this relatively new idea is pro-
duclng in all human relationships, or
even how new tho idea itself is and
how little it has been tested. ONLY a
trifing minority of the peoples of the
world understand it, | doubt if even
in Europe there is a majority which
supports 1t, certainly there is not a
majority which understands it.
would like to be convinced that there
was majority really unders tandingly
in favor of it in the British Isles.
Theocracy in Bolshevism
IF the idea is to continue without a
serious setback, we people who believe
IN 1t VIII have to stand firmly together,
Tor there are powerful forces opposed
to 1t. SO far as we know. the millions
OF ASIA have opposed the idea through
out all their history, although a small
number OF Asiatics are now loud in its
support. Islam necessarily is opposed
to it. The Bolshevlki are naturally
violently opposed to it. SO too is every
one who has what he regards as big
Idea or great principle of incalculable
good which he or she wishes to force
upon the people whether they wish it
or no.
"Theocracy and autocracy forceful
application of the big idea. inevitably
lead to inequality before the law and
SO to tyranny, revolution and chaos or
to decadence, conquest and chaos. That
way lies no hope. Let the Bolsheviki
and their supporters in all lands pirate
as they will OF reactionaries and i'm
perialists. They are the reactionaries
Their admitted doctrine is to establish
a privileged class which thew call the
proletariat, but they mean by that term
a select body of their own supporters.
Their whole creed is to force on society
a great idea which has been revealed to
Them and to them alone; and, like it or
io+, is
and that is nothing but pure theoc-
racy."
Pleads for World Court
A plea for an international tribunal
or justice to secure world order, free
dom and peace was made by'Viscount
Cave in an address tonight.
He He is Lord of Appeal of England.
ut is surely time,3 the Viscount
asserted, that all civilized nations
should combine to set up court of
international law. There can be no
effective international law until there
is some standing tribunal composed
of men Of outstanding ability and Judi
cial temper who have the confidence
of the civilized world and are author
lied, on the application of any nation
aggrleved, to interpret and administer
the law"
reservation or the Constitution and
stanch adherence to its doctrines were
demanded by Hampton L. Carson, of
president of the associa-
ton.
The authors of the Constitution,
PRESIDENT Carson said, did not enact
political or social economy or mistake
nervous twitchings for reform"
They did not believe it was the func-
ton of the Constitution to control per
sonal habits or behavior and did not
place it within the power Of a small
fraction of the people to keep the re-
malnder in constant agitation" he said
The threats of Bolsheyism do not
cause fear in this country, he said, and
the people will defend their institu-
tlons against this menace. "Our form
OF government is American, and Ameri-
can it shall remain" he ended.