The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-01-22
LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSAILED
By METHODIST BISHOP NELLY
Shows 1t Is Un-American and Was
Fostered By Big interests.

| oAtOMS II ~ OH american ana W as
Fostered By Big interests.
While the Democratic minority in
the Senate has been attempting to
give the country the impression that
the moral forces" of the nation, as
represented by the clergy, are solidly
behind the President in his attempt to
dictate the unreserved adoption of the
British document brought from Paris
by him, Bishop Thomas B. Nelly, of
the Methodist Episcopal church, has
denounced the whole business as I'M
American. He says:
"Supposing the Big Four at the
peace conference did the best they
| could, what reason is there to believe
that the same or similar men in the
Council of the League of Nations
would or could do any better?
"The formation of this league will
not Danish war, and those who be-
lieved in the league because of its
promise to prevent war have lost the
foundation of their faith. AS the
league will not do what they under
stood it promised to do, they are no
longer obligated to give it allegiance.
Some have been induced to enter
the ranks of the league supporters by
official and political influence, and par
ticularly because the President wants
to put the nation into this interna-
tional alliance, forgetting that the
same President, in his more American
days, spoke in the strongest terms
against the United States going into
foreign alliances, and said this coun-
try must live its own life. Then he
spoke like true American, but, af-
ter residence in Europe, he talks like
one Of the international, citizen Of
no country in particular. Wilson, the
American, is safer than Wilson the
Internationalist
"Then there was a prompt, wide
spread and persistent propaganda,
with strong financial and admins
tration backing, that swept over the
land, and, consciously or unconscious
ly, affecte dmany. 1t might be called
the million-dollar propaganda were it
not that the signs indicate that much
more than single million dollars was
spent The fund was spent on news
papers, the platform, all sorts of meet
ings, all kinds of speakers, and many
public and private agencies.
Zone of the strongest sections of
this propaganda was the management
of The League to Enforce Peace
This league having one idea and very
different from the proposed league,
which meditated multitude of things,
sent out its speakers and spent i'm
mense sums of money in support of
the other and different league, and
some have had difficulty in discovering
the consistency and ideal honesty of
taking money contributed for one
league and using the hundreds of
thousands of dollars to further the in
terests of a very d1cerent league
which is political government to rule
the world, including the United States
of America. So some have wondered
how an eX-President of the United
States, one of the first officers of the
first league, could travel day and night
all over the country speaking for the
other league and urging its adoption.
and then coming to Senators and other
leaders against the league and propos-
ing changes or reservations that prov
ed the league was not as he wanted it.
The explanation may be in the mys-
FERROUS processes of some human
minds.
eff the United States goes into this
league it goes into the grinding ma
chine. The United States will not
dominate. 1t will not be free. The
league will have the power and the
United States will have lost its lib
erty of action. 1t will not be indepen-
| dent but subordinate-a subject gov
eminent, no longer free.
eff it is immoral to uphold i'm
moral things, then it is immoral for
moral America to have anything to do
with this morally tainted league, for
in the Peace Conference votes for it
were corruptly bought, as low politi-
clans carry out their corrupt deals, as,
for example the passing over of
Chinese territory and Chinese people,
to Japan, and misrepresented America
had hand in the vile transaction"