The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-12

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19. If the United States heartily enters the
League, one of the very first results will be the
decrease of national ornaments.
1t is the huge armies and navies that keep
the world poor and cause most of its suffering.
Says the Bankers Trust Company: War ere
ates the bulk of taxation. Outside Of the main
tenance of military establishment, the other ex-
penses of government are relatively small II
way could be found to stop war, the people
would be prepared to take up enlarged plans
for social betterment."
IA. 1t is the aUorkingmen, the poorer peo-
ple who suffer most from militarism, and would
be most benefited by a League of Nations,
which would relieve the world of its intolerable
burden of destruction. 1t is they who fight in
the armies suffer death and wounds it is they
who eventually must pay the taxes of war by
their labor.
Nobody profits by war except proflteers.
Is. The kind of Feelings that prompt us
to enter the League should be looked at and
compared with the kind of Feelings that oppose.
The League is Idealistic; its opposition is
Materialistic.
The League implies Optimism, Belief in
Humanity, Confidence in the honor of other
nations; its opposition implies Distrust, Sus-
pcion, Hostility.
The League will promote Race Understand
ngs its opposite, Race Hates
The League is in line with every Noble,
Chivalrous, Manly sentiment; its opposition Is
Captious Sneering, Ungenerous.
The League proposes that the nations do
business with each other as Gentlemen; with
out League we must go on as riUal HieVes
and robbers.
The League spells Cooperation, as world
program; without the League there must be
eternal cut-throat Competition.
16. Much has been made of the bugaboo
that if we Join the League American boys may
have to be sent to Armenia China or Africa
to fight battles in which we have no concern.
They may, it is true.
But lgithoM the League four million A1nerl-
can boyS had to take up arms to fight IN Europe!
And without the League similar crisis IS
likely to arise any day.
Would it not be better to have tel0 Ameri-
cans in an army to help police the world, than
to have the great body Of American MANITOBA
called on any minute to help put out a universal
conflagration?
H. The whole dispute between the political
parties about reservations" to the League, ana
as to which foot we shall first put forward as
I've enter. and as to whether we shall go in
under Democratic or Republican leadership, is
the veriest political pttle. 1t stinks in the nos
trils of every intelligent patriot.
Is. The League of Nations means Progress,
Courage, Humanity. Opposition to it means
Reaction, Cowardice and Provincialsm.
10. This is the real battle Of Armageddon'
It is of much more value to the future OF hu-
manity that League of Nations be successfully
launched than that Germany be defeated. Men
who move heaven and earth to keep America
out of the League are far worse enemies TO the
race than the Kaiser ever was.
20. The League is favored by the great
majority of Thinkers by Philosophers, men OF
Universities and Churches, by the American
Federation of Labor, by Writers and by all VINO
are concerned in Public Welfare. 1t is opposed
by one class only-the partisan politicians ano
those influenced by them.
81. Every danger incurred by joining the
League, and Of course there are dangers, 10aA
be multiplied a hundred fold BY staying oat.
%. Every Religion except the fierce heath
enisms of national propaganda, has dreamed
of some sort of universal peace to stop war
the most monstrous curse of mankind. Christi
anity, Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism Ba
haism all have had the dream. The League Of
Nations moves sCith the great spiritual current
of humanity.
29 The fear that the League is deep plo
of Great Britain to further her own interests l:
utterly silly. Would not France, Italy and th'
other nations who have Joined have more reasor
to fear Great Britain than we have?
"a. The League of Nations is not far OF
question, one Of politics and diplomacy that doe
not concern you and me.
1t is Of most vital, indicidUal importance t
every man, woman and child in the unite'
States.
Does it mean nothing to you, mother, tha
your boy may be called out when he reaches
manhood to take his post in the next worl'
war?
Does it mean nothing to you, business man
that gigantic taxes be enforced on you to keel
up huge army and navy?
Does it mean nothing to you, worldngman
that you may be used as a pawn in the mex
yon,e of blood,, international chess