The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-22
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States Senator From llllnofs.)
President Wilson descrlped Article
as the heart OF the covenant OF
tho league Of nations, He has sale
that II is OF compelling moral force
| Senator Walsh, of Montana, the ablest
| legal mind among those IN the senate
| VINO actively supported tho treaty, dc
clares that Article Y Is legally binding
upon the parties to the covenant. Thus
In the judgment Of the principal pro-
! ponents OF the covenant Article X IA
morally and legally binding upon the
members Of the league
to 1t ob,lsates the Imemher,s OF the
pendence and the territorial integrity
of their fellow members against ex-
| ternal aggression Thus the great
| powers OF Europe were In default, they
plainly violated their obligation, they
very clearly failed to discharge their
sworn duty, when they did not protect
Poland against the advance OF the
Russian armies. They are no less
morally and legally derelict now when
which have seized the Caspian port of
Enzell and are invading Persia.
| Mr.. Lloyd George has explained and
excused the failure OF the league TO do
| Its duty because America, with her
| great reserves OF treasure and Of man
| power. is not now liable to assessment.
| The league Is not able 10 call upon our
blood and our material resources 10
make good that which the other powers
are unable or unwilling to do. There
| In hardly n frontier on the continent
Of Europe today which does not do
violence either to the interests or the
national passions Of one OF the peoples
whom II divides. France and Germany,
Italy and Jugo- Slavia, Poland and
Lithuania, Jugo- Slayia and Poland. Po-
land and Germany. Rumanla and Hun
gary. Hungary and Caecho-Sloyakia.
JuEo- slavia and Hungary. Bulgaria
| and Rumania, Bulgaria and Jugo-
| Slavia are at odds and. In some eases,
at swords points over the several from
tiers which divide them.
But that Is not ALL Look at the map
OF Asia. Study It. The conquered mil
lions who are In rebel subsection. 10
Japan, Britain or France and others
who are Mt war with those who seek
to rule them by mandate OF tho league
live In lands whose borders march for
thousands OF miles with the borders OF
despciled and outraged China or OF boil"
shevist Russia.
Article X guarantees frontiers as
wide as the world, guarantees In our
blood and our treasure against agrees
sion. even though the conquered MIL
lions welcome the aggressors, welcome
them as lberators come to free them
from the yoke of allen sovereigns. Here
Ia the bolshevist danger. Bolshevism
and bolshevik armies may be preferred
by the despoiled Chinese. the conquered
Korean, the subject indian, the pro-
tected Persian, the inundated Syrian 10
the heavy Justice or the iron benevo-
lence Of the mandatory or sovereign
the league covenant our men must die,
perhaps. to deny these conquered people
government Of their choice.
DO you wonder that some OF us were
irreooncilable and are still unreconciled
to the proposition that Americas sons
oh Ill In
by decree, not of her congress, but I'M
der a contract with the league?
When other efforts to coerce sena,
tors had failed. II was bruited abroad
that this warrant for the economltt
ruin Of Europe contained In It's text
some magic phrase which would cure
disorder in international exchanges, re-
dress the balance Of trade, Undue Inn
itless issues OF unsecured paper money
with real value and find for mankind
alternative for taxation. Otherwise
skeptical and prudent merchants, aye
and bankers. for a moment were de-
luded by this Grass falsehood. Happily
in London. Reginald Mokenna, TOT
In Washington, Carter Glass, formerly
secretary OF the treasury, put an eng
to that deluslon. In great part the ran
| OF the franc, the Ira and the pound
sterling In the American money mar
the whole economic burden OF the war
could be placed by the treaty upon the
| shoulders Of the vanquished peoples,
even before they we're ready to stand
The treaty itself, far from tending
to relieve the distress IN the interna-
tIonal monetary exchanges. aggraVates
that distress. Manifesty, the treaty
was intended TO destroy In great part
German trade and German Industry. IN
| Jnin rrRdit
the sources OF German taxation. VINO
In America, banker or modest investor.
would buy the German bonds provided
for under the indemnity clauses OF the
treaty knowing that German industry
was to be destroyed by the very treaty
which required the issue OF the bondsY
Thus II Is that the French budget.
predicated upon false hopes or indem.
mites, has come to imply dercitsandl
continued imitation of the curreney.e
with n disastrous result to the ext
There are many reasons for the
growing condemnation Of this treaty,
for the growing demand for Its reVi-
sion. For one. ! have opposed con
senting to it's ratification because ! be,
| lleve that the ratification by the United
states will not further. but will pre-
vent, either the revision OF the treaty
| OF peace with Germany, or the revision
OF the covenant OF the league OF ma
thank God that there were enough
| senators irreconcilable and uncompro-
| missing in their opposition to the treaty
to prevent It's ratification and to make
II possible that a republican president
might propose TO tho world n new COM
pact which would bring about the codi-
dcation Of international law, when
would establish judicial tribunals
through which justice might he done
| and which must replace and supersede
! the league covenant conceived In haste
and in hate, of which the certain end
would have been war for the main
tcunnce OF Imperialism even though
some OF It's supporters sought only tho
| perpetuatlon OF peace.
(Tomorrow. Senator walter Il. Edge,
| OF New Jersey, will take up the dis
cussion OF objections to the league of
| nations Covenant)
(BY JAMES HAMILTON LEWlS.)
tFormer United states Senator. Demo.
cratic Nominee for Governor Of llll-
nois.)
rho false charge against the league
! uf nations as proposed by the demo-
Gratis is that "Britttn will have six
| votes to Americas one" We have
! shown that no such condition exists
! that II could never eNist-that the
Sin votes OF Britain are the six votes
ut her colonies choosing the ono NOM
| her of tho league who is to represent
I Britain ON the council OF tho league.
! ludor tho Harding Root world court,
with fourteen mCmh,rs, the fifteenth for
/ uhtot justice, the United States has one
vote to fourteen. most OF the fourteen
lrprvScutuE Rritatu, italy Spain,
Japan and countries OF Imperial and
] IlDOuIChiAl government.