New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-10-08
TRAFFIC IN WOMEN
CLAUSE OF LEAGUE

Der of the Republican National Elk
e%cutive committee n an address to
about two thousand women at Som
erset, New Jersey, showed that the
Wilson League of Nations cove
rant would bind the United States
to a contract to supervise and en-
force contracts regard ng the trat-
Ticking in women and children. Mrs.
LIyermor, said:
More and more the disregard OF
American rights and contempt for
American pr nciples are being re-
yealed as one studies the contract
negotiated II secret in the Paris
Conference, and more and more
clearly appear Woodrow Wilson's
reasons for concealing it from the
view c. the American people long
after nearly every other nation
knew it by heart.
Paragraph 3 of Article q of the
covenant Of the League of Nations
provides: Members of the league
will intrust the league w tn general
supervision over the execution of
agreements with regard to the traf-
fic IN women and children and the
traffic in opium and other dangerous
drugs"
After 1000 years of strides to-
ward civil zation the greatest gov
eminent in the world, representing
the highest purpose of humanity, is
asked to attach its signature to a
contract which not only recognizes
and ~ratifies but legalizes traffic in
women and children.
Slavery was wiped from the
pages of American history by the
sacrifices of the Civil War under the
leadership of Lincoln, and it never
W II b. renewed with the consent of
r;g|ht-thinking people of this Repub-
lie.
Vicious as was the former chap
ter which told of the slavery OF
men and women of the black race,
the present proposal draws no line
whatever on traffic in the flesh and
blood Of Gods children.
"A more cruel or degrading con-
10 effect by the shareholders OF the
Jungle. Mark you the horror of it
all It does not profess, or at
tempt to prob bit or dcnounce in any
manner. this unholy traffic, but it
attaches the signature of the hmeri-
can government TO a contract which
recognizes the legality of the prac-
tice.
Not only did the people OF the
United States speak on this sub
ject in the Civil War, but they EN-
phatically declared themselves in
o recent years by the passage OF
the Mann act, which provides for
the only supervision which Uncle
Sam tolerates in matters of tn S
character, and that is supervision
over those he sends to United States
prisons for engaging in this very
practice
Furthermore what a revolving
spectacle is presented to the moth
ers and daughters of Amer can
homes when they find the Pres dent
of the United States and the candi-
dates Of the Democratic party for
the Presidency and for the United
States Senate pleading for the
privilege of attaching the seal of
the American government to an
agreement which n the same clause
classifies women and children with
op 'um and other dangerous drugs.
"The whole proposition is so Jun
damentally repugnant to the high
er humanity for which Amer ca
stands hat it calls for reputation
from every home in this country
and must never be sanctified by the
seal of this nation"
Lodge reservation No. 4, bearing
en- this clause of the covenant is as
follows:
The United States reserves to
itself exclusively the right to decide
what questions are within its do
NEST c jurisdiction, and declares that
an domestic and political questions
relating wholly or in part to its in
tcrnal affairs. including imm grafton,
labor. coastwise traffic, the tariff,
commerce THE SUPPRESSION OF
THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN AND
CHILDREN AND IN OPIUM AND
OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS, and
an other domestic questions, are
solclv within the jur sdiction OF the
United States and are not under this
llttAA 10 NC huDIilllltu III any way
Ci'her 20 arb tration or 10 the con
$ dcration OF the council or Of the
assembly OF the League of Nat ons
or any agency thereof. or to the de
cision or recommendation OF any
other power
In short the League covenant pro-
vides that the United States shall
surrender 10 the League the RIGHT
To SUPERVISE THE TRAFFIC
IN WOMEN. etc, while the ReDub-
licans reservation recognizes only a
RIGHT TO SUPPRESS such a traf
ic and definitely refuses to submit
that right to either arbitration. con
sheraton. or even Recommendation
OF any other pow-- whatever.
President Wilson says that he
feels that the very honor and des-
J nv ~ The nation are inv~'--. in