The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-29
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ber When shg ralltles the AustIiah
treaty.
Germany has signed and Is pre-
pairing to take the place which
awaits her In the league OF nations.
what nations stand outsider Rev
olutionary Mexico. Bolshcvist Rus
STA. Unspcakable Turkey and-the
United States OF America.
II is-not yet too ate. Let us stand
with the forces OF civilization. The
choice is plain. II is between the
democratic party's support OF the
league of nations, with its program
OF peace. disarmament and world
fraternity, and the republican
party's platform Of rcpudiation. pro-
Nncialism. militarism and world
chaos.
Equality OF Voting.
There Is great pretcnse OF alarm
Because the United States has but
one vote in the international assem-
bly,. against the six votes of Great
Britain, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa and India.
This popular argument against the
league of nations Is as insinCere as
II Is superficial. 1t ignores the fact
that the executive council, and not
the assembly, Is the governing body
OF the league. and that our country
is one OF the five countries having
permanent membership in the coun-
Gil. The colonial votes exist only In
the assembly.
Nor should we forget that France
Has but one vote; Italy has but one
vote; and Japan has but one vote.
IL there were any injustice in the
arrangement, surely these nations
would have sensed 1t and objected
to It. No affirmative action can be
taken in any essential matter with
out unanimous vote OF all mem
bcrs OF the council OF the league.
No decision of the league, II Amer
lea Joined 1t. could be made effective
or ven promulgated without our
consent. Like every other nation,
we have n veto power upon every
resolution or act OF the league. We
can bc involved In no enterprise ex-
cept Of our own choosing; and II we
are not satisfied with the league. we
can sever our connection with IT
upon two years notice. The risk
exists only in the imagination. the
service is incalculable.
Moreover, the United States in
sisted that Cuba, Haiti. Liberia,
Panama. Nicaragua, Honduras and
Guatemala should each be given a
vote, as well as the nations Of South
America. great and small. Includ-
ing the nations which are bound by
vital interests to the United States,
or. Indeed. directly under our tutc-
lagc, we have more votes in the
league OF nations than any other ma
tion. How could we, in good faith,
urge that these nations be given
voice and deny voice to such self
| governing nations as Canada. New
Zealand and the rest, which rela-
| lively speaking, made far more sac
rifices in the war than our own
! country? 1t is desirable that all
countries should have an oppor-
tunity to he heard In the league; and
the safety OF each nation resides in
the fact that no action can be taken
without the consent OF all.
Responsibility for the Defeat Of tho
Treaty.
1t was the design of senator Lodge
from the outset, to mutilate the
treaty and to Illustrate the purposes
OF the administration. And YET Seh>
ator Lodge, with the help OF the lr-
reconcilables, having torn the treaty
to tatters and thrown It's fragments
In the face OF the world, has the
cffrontery to suggest, in his address
at Chicago, that the president
blocked ratification and postponed
peace.
The trouble with the treaty or
peace is that it was negotiated by
democratic president. II Is not DIR
ficult to assess the responsibility Tor
it's defeat. The responsibility rests
not upon its friends but upon its
enemies.
The foreign relations committee,
! Immediately following the last cleo
| tion, was rcorganized with a per
sonnel consisting of the open foes OF
the treaty Amongst the number
Was Senator Borah, who declared
| that he would not be for a league OF
nations were the Savior OF mankind
to advocate 1t. Senator Johnson,
Senator Knox and Senator Moses.
whose hatred OF the presidem
amounts to an obsession. We're also
~ cmbers, and Senator Lodge was
chairman.
The treaty was referred to tho
| committee thus studiousiy prepared
for its hostile reception. The mem
/ bers of this committee adopted every
subteTfugc to misrepresent the doc
umcnt which they were supposed to
! he considering as staIcShen. Dep-
utations of foreign born citizens
were brought to Washington In an
effort to color and exaggerate the
impression of popular opposition,
The senate had even begun the
| discussion OF the treaty months be-
fore it's negotiation was concluSsd.
and did not terminate its debate un-
Ill nine months after the submis-
sion OF the treaty. II took the sen.
ate nearly three times as long to
kill the treaty by protracted de-
bate and by confusing and nullify-