Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-10-26

tial integrity, but do not oppose the
acceptance of any reservations maxi
ing clearer or more specific the obli
cations of the United States to the
league associates"
Making clearer or more specific
the obligations of the United States
to the league associates!" Clearer
and more specific obligationsl Rivet
tighter the chains of American vas
salage Leave no loophole by which
PRESIDENT Wilson's Interpretation of
moral obligations might weaken the
covenant! But not word about safe
guarding the constitution, defending
the sovereignty of this nation, pro-
claiming anew the supremacy of
American independence!
Not only did the San Francisco con-
vention do his bidding, but the candi-
date of the convention, Gov. James
nj. Cox, went to the White House to
learn at first hand what the president
desired. The interview left no doubt
that Governor Cox accepted Mr.. Will
sons views on the league without res
ervations. AS President Wilson said
after the conference:
Il found what l indeed already knew
and what Governor Cox has let the
whole world know in his speeches.
that he and I were absolutely as one
with regard to the great issue of the
league of nations, and that he is ready
to be the champion in every respect
of the honor of the nation and the
secure peace of the world. Cover
nor Cox will have the vigorous sup
port of an absolutely united party"
Governor Cox added this statement: /:
eve are agreed as to the meaning
and sufficiency of the democratic
platform and the duty of the party in
the face of threatened bad faith to the
world in the name of America His
thought is still of the war and the
pledges we gave to those who sacri-
ficed. One easily sees that as the
leader of the nation who asked for our
sons and our resources upon a very
distinct understanding and obligation
he is resolved that the faith shall be
kept. To this his thought and life are
dedicated What he promised, shall,
if elected, endeavor with all my
strength to give"
That is the democratic pledge in
the "great and solemn referendum. "
In his speech of acceptance, August
IL, Governor Cox emphasized that
pledge anew:
"The league of nations is in opera
/ tion. AS the democratic candidate, I
favor going in.
"The first duty Of the new ad-
ministration clearly will be the rati-
fication of the treaty"
o-A h1 aI, Ia
completeness of Mr.. Cox's adoption
of Mr. Wilson's views. the candidate
repeated in his speech many of the
peculiar arguments which the presi-
dent had used in his conflict with the
senate.
"The Monroe Doctrine is the very
essence of article TO-" he said, al
though the Monroe Doctrine pro-
claimed to keep Europe out of Ameri-
ca, and America out of Europe, while
article 10 would take America into
Europe and let Europe into America
AS for the fact that the covenant vio-
lated the sovereignty and the con-
stitution of the United States, Cover
nor Cox pleaded that as no treaty
could override the constitution, we
could sign any such document with
Iimpunity, plea even more reprehen-
sible than the Wilson contention that
the obligation of article 10 was only
moral obligation which the United
States therefore could carry out OF
evade, as its own Judgment dictated.
But the whole speech was summed
lup in the pledge Governor Cax gave
at the White House after his confer
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