Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-22
CLLDlOllNS CALLS FOR RELIEF FROM
INCONSISTENCIES OF WISCONSIN

submitted to the senate for Its ADVICE
and consent. In accordance with me
constitution, the treaty with Ger
many. Thru his insistence there had
been made a part OF the treaty COW
enant for league of nations, the A.
legged purpose Of which was to secure
permanent peace turnout the world.
The president knew long before tho
treaty was signed In Paris that II
could not be ratified IL 1t contain I'd
this covenant In the form In which
II was proposed and he, and he alone
is responsible for the failure to con-
sumate promptly a treaty OF peacN
with Germany. There may be some
republicans who believe that tht
league OF nations should have been
approved just as IL came from Paris,
but their number Is so small that
they become negligible when COM
pared with the overwhelming major
ity who insist either upon substantial
reservations or upon entire rejection.
There has not been, and Is not now,
a single republican member OF the
senate of the United States in favor
of ratification In the form In which
the president demands. All the re-
publican senators have consistently
voted for substantial. material reser-
vations. About three-fourths Of them
are in favor of ratification with these
reservations and about one-fourth OF
them are opposed to 1t even with
the reservations. I do not intend at
this time TO discuss the monstrous
proposition, for which the president
stands. for IL has been so exhaustive
ly and deliberately presented to the
people of the United States that ev-
cry Intelligent man and woman Is
familiar with its unconstitutional and
reasonable provisions. 1t is sufft-
Gent to say that II we had accepted
II we would have transferred the
government OF the United States
in many important respects, to
council of foreigners sitting in &C.
neva. We would have overthrown
the institutions OF our forefathers.
abdiCated our responsibilities and
subjected the people of America in
not only their foreign but their do
rnestic affairs TO "A council of aliens
in which we would have had but one
vote under any circumstances and
in many instances no vote at all.
Not only so. but the covenant bound
US TO respect and preserve the ter
ritorial integrity and political indie
pendenre-'of all the nations in the
world parties to the league against
external aggression. The German
treaty set>up something like ten new
sovereignties in eastern and southern
Europe and, having apportioned a
large part Of the remaining inhabi-
tants of the earth among Great
Britain, Japan, France and Italy. the
covenant interviewed and obligated
the United States forever to preserve
these territories as thus established.
1t was an immoral destructive and
impossible obligation for free coun-
try to undertake. If We had ratified
the league Of nations last July, we
would now have an army Of ESQ.,
600 men in Europe and Asia. and in
addition to the tremendous financial
burden we are now bearing the peo-
pie would be staggering under loan
of anywhere from $500. 900 900 to ST..
600. 000, 1000 more every year. Long
ago in the senate. and shortly there
after 10 the people Of my own state,
I said that would never vote for a
league Of, nations that contained any
such obligation. | will not agree in
advance 10 go to war for or against
any nation in the world, will never
agree to send our boys to the bat
tlefelds of foreign countries until
know that the cause for which they
are to fight is just. nor will ever
agree that the United States shall
furnish the money and material for