Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-20
ROOT MAKES FIRST
 STATEMENT ABOUT
 LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Says Wilson Kept America Out of World Peace Plan
 by StubbOrnness
LAWYER OUTLINES HIS
 OBJECTIONS TO PACT
Declares Americans Wa1nts Uni- versal Body to Exist But Do Not Favor Wilson
 Proposal

New York, Oct. 19.-Elihu Root in his only address on the league of nations during the presidential cam- paign tonight declared that the treaty of peace with Germany would have been ratified and America would have been member of the league if President Wilson "had been willng.'
 [ "Mr. Wilson however, was not will ing. He insisted upon the treaty , absolutely unchanged" Mr. Root ; said, adding later on in his speech: "I do not question MT. Wilson's beliefs that the disposition of the treaty for which he was contending on May 31, 1919, were just and fair; but, without disrespect, l do question MT. Wilson's infallibility, I do ques- i tion the complete control of abstract | justice in the processes by which the four men who dictated those treaties which undertook to make over east ern Europe, reached their conclu- sions.
 "I have an impression that there was the accommodation of conflict ing interests, the giving of something here to get something there; the yielding of some things in order to avoid losing others, the shading of justice by expediency which has characterized such conferences since history began. I have q strong im-4 pression that some of their conclu- sions were mistakes.
 | I ..n1, ,,t n1s snvr kv va that the American people shall enter into solemn and positive agreement to guarantee and maintain by force of arms for all time the dispositions of territory and sovereignty which those fur men made in the year 1919.
 Cites Article Ten.
 "That is part of what article x. undertakes to do. It is an alliance to enforce perpetually, through the operations of the league, the decis- ions of MT. Wilson and his associates in the year of 1919. It is threw back to the aid dscredited alliances of the past. It speaks a language of power and not the spirit of pro-. gress It is an attempt to do what the Holy Alliance sought 100 years ago, (with just as noble expressions of purpose)--to impose by force the judgment of the rulers of the pre- sent generation upon all future gene- rations."
 | MT. Root declared that i've shall promote the peace of the world," by clecting Senator Harding, whose stand on the league, he said, was unchanged from the time he voted for ratification of the peace treaty and league of nations with the sen- ate reservations. The election of governor Cox, he said, meant the ef- fort to have the United States join the league of nations without change as it was brought back from Europe by President Wilson,"
 q think large majority of the At the outset of his addres, MT. Root said:
 American people earnestly wish for an organization among civilized na- tions, through which the nations shall cooperate to prevent future wars and that the United States shall do her full share in that organiza- lion. certainly desire this very strongly"
 The plan of the league of nations relied upon the effect of four things taken together to prevent war, MT. Root asserted.
 "First, upon dleay to afford time for investigation and for passions to cool, and sober judgment to prevail.
 Second, upon having the facts as- certained and determined and made public to all the world so the mis- understandings and deceptions un- der which the people of country are so often led to consent to war may be obviated.
 "Third, upon having fairly re- the controversy ought to be settled, sible and matured opinion as to how dispute express publicly a respon- presentative body not q party to the and thus bring to bear upon the ac. tion of the parties the well informed opinion of the civilized world.
 Fourth, if any party to the agree ment were to violate it by making war without the stipulated delayss necessary for arbitration or investi-
  gation mad report or were to make war in violation of the unanimous opinion of the other nations, then up- on the practical outlawry of that party from the advantages of trades commerce and customary interceurse with the members of the society 0x nations, with all the consequences flowing from such an outlawry.
 Outlines Objections.
 The principal objections to tss league, MT. Root said, "may he roughly classified after;
 "First, objections to the geneFAA defensive alliance with all memhexe of the league established by Articis K. s.s
 "Second, objections to submitting to the council of the league Quee- tions of purely American pol
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