Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-22
LEAGUE OF WAR.
NOT OF PEACE
Democrats Claim That Instru.
ment Will Prevent War Not
Borne Out BY The Facts
Slemp's the Saving Grace.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Ill discussing the League of Ma.
tions in Tazewell County the demo.
cratic spellbindcrs are overflowinp
with religious fervor," and are tell.
ing the voters that the League of
Nations Is not II political but a re-
liglous question.
when peace is brought to this
troubled world. it will be through
Jesus Christ. the Prince of Peace,
ana not through the Wilson League
OF Nations, in which the name of
the Prince of Peace does not appear
from the beginning to the end Not
even the name of God appears i'm
this instrument that the democrats
say IS to be the salvation of the
world from the devastation of war.
During all of the sessions of the
League OF Nations there was not n
pended knee or n word of prayer.
Take look at the nations that on
tered this "holy" ALLIANCE. chilled tbr
League of Nations and you will find
Confucienism, Hinduism, Mohnmm-
edism, Atheism, and all of the other
"isms." Peace will never he brought,
to this world through Article Y. and
The armies, navics, acroplanes and
agencies of death and destruction
provided for in this League of Mn
tions. 1t is not our Christian duty to
guarantee European boundary lines.
divisions of the spoils of war. and
European diplomacy and seal tho
sar/c with the blood of our bows.
"A League of War nri Not Lenpuc
of Peace.
Article y of this League provides.
Ihe members of the league under
take to respect and preserve MS
against external aggression the ter
ritorial integrity and existing poll
teal independence of all members of
the league"
Notwithstanding the fact that the
map OF the world has been changed
by the trcnty of peace and the league
Oh nations, and large portions of the
world and millions Of its people have
been transferred and made subie
to other nations in the divisions of
the spoilss of war, without their con-
sent, and large portions of enemy
country have been divided into small
states, without the consent of Tho
people, and their boundary lines and
political independence guaranteed bv
the League of Nations; and notwith-
standing the fact that the moral
conditions of the world nre now
worse than in 1914 when the war
commenced, and there is more GREED
seitIshness, profiteering, strife dis,
satisfaction and division in the world
then ever existed before i'm its his
tory; and notwithstanding the fact
that internal and domestic Questions
are so serious and pressing within
the great nations of the world TINT
revolution may break out Mt any time.
and Notwithstanding the fact that
more than twenty wars are in prog
ress now, although the League of
Nations has been in existence for
more than year; the democrats
tell you they do not believe there
VIII be any more wars, and that,
therefore. we can safely enter this
league without being involved in the
wars of the world, and that we can
safely guarantee the territorial in.
tegrity and existing political indie
pendence of old nations with their
new possessions of lands and mil.
lions of people grabbed in the diyi-
SION OF the spoils of war, and that
we can safely guarantee these new
states that have been created out Of
enemy territory and take care of
them as against external aggression.
ana not run the risk of having TO
SEND our soldiers across the seas TO
pieed ana die on foreign battle fields.
rs required by the League of Nm,
tions.
:, Inc democrats would have YOU be.
neve that there is no danger of
Emma attempting to take from japan
Inc Cninesc Province of Shantung,
with it's thirty-five millions of nal
tive Chinese given to Japan at Paris
IN violation of the rule Of self-do.
termination as announced by Presi-
dent Wilson, although they are bound
70 admit that if China should de-
care war on Japan and make an
cIort TO retake her province and her
thirty-five millions of people, of which
I she was was unJustly deprived, the Unit
1 ca states would automatically, un-
der Article 16 of the League be ot
war with China withut a vote of the
j Souncll and without vote of our
congress, and we would be hound
under Article 10 and 16, to aid in the
prosecution of the war against China
IN an EFFORT to hold these thirty-fivc
million native Chinese people unde,
Japanese control and dominion. If we
eNter the League, Article 16 would
AUTOMATICALLY put US at war with
any nation that declares war against
any member of the league, ever
though our sympathies and the riob,
and justice of the controversy ar.
with the nation that we are forcet
to oppose: The bundary lines of thu
nations of the world are guaranteed
by the League of Nations, REGARDLESS,
OF whether the same be right o.
wrong.
No question is settled until it i
settled right, and trading and traff
icing in nations and people will soon
er or later bring war where injus
tiee has been done or great dissatis
facuon rtvults. This has been tn
history of the past, and will be tb
history of the future. Human natur
today is the same as it has alwav
been. A half dozen men around
table at Paris cannot make ney