The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-10

! an audience from the document 10 prove either
/ ita own promises or dlsprove the accusations
/ of those who opposed It. The author OF the
league has never offered an argument in Its
I bohHlf bnsed the quoted test Of the league
| contonuns himself with arguments filled with
gfrtering Rcnerallties In Insisting that tho
! league would do what he said not what II said
How absurd. then. to raise the question at
thie time that there Is n disposition on the part
~ those who oppose II to keep It's contents
from The people, Opponents OF the league have
far eighteen months been begging and pleading
with the people to read the text Of the covenant
nnd form their own conclusions therefrom: to
think for themselves In this great crisis. not
be content with the thoughts ~ those who
arroRato to Themselves the right 10 think and
spopk FOR America. And hundreds of thousand ds
~ dollars have been freely spent by opponents
~ the league to publish 1t and to circulate copies
NJ it generally
Tn" Roosevelt running Mr.. Co.'s consort
has repeatedly charged that those who opposed
ih" league have never read II. Precisely the
opposite ~ the truth. II blatant voicr sud
denly rises above the tuInult on the city street
r0 proclaim that gold mine has been discovered
some place. the first impulse is 10 believe For
every ono wants to believe. Only those who
mako the effort necessary to discover that "
isn't gold mine at all turn on IN. fellow and
cail him a liar.
u IL the easiest thing In the world 10 be for
the league. For II Is offered as positive euro
for the wort disease .he world has ever known
effort 70 unmsrk the thing--the effort OF read.
ud Al An do "a hInL h..
been single or woman who INDUCED that
effort but has been converted to the fact that
1t ia not an instrument OF peace but of war;
that It does mean the death OF tho republic;
that It does mean more American boys engaged
In MI foreign wars. not less of them.
The burden has always been on tho opponents
Of the league The writer. In the first studied
article published In Oklahoma against the
league, which appeared In The world In May,
1919, ventured the assertion that II the debate
In the senate could be prolonged until the Amer
lean people had time to inform themselves con
ccrnins the real meaning Of the covenant an
outraged public opinion would order It's utter
rejection. At that time a voice against II here
in the southwest could scarcely he heard.
But with discussion. bold and inslstent the
campaign Of education went on. In the senate.
~ il'Ht bul u itW Nolt'h were raised against IL
outright apparently an overwhelming number
Of senators favored It's ratification with or with.
out reservations But as the debate went on
as defect and danger after defect and danger
was discovered. put before the senate and dis
cussed, the ranks OF the bitter-enders grew; the
number Of mild reservationists dwindicd. Until
finally, when the first vote the Lodge reser-
vations was taken. Y majority OF the senate had
como to consider the covenant In It's original
form dreadful menace 20 the republic.
II is an understanding OF the covenant by the
people of America that has wrought It's down.
fan. II amounts to nothing for Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Cox TO continue to assert that II Ia the
one thing needful; that 1t means peace: that in I
II IL wrought the national honor. For tho people
have read and know. And II Il IN possible TO
have another million OF the American people
read 1t ana study II for themselves prior to the
election In November. then the majority against
1t will be increased by at least $50 900 for three
fourths ot all who study 1t will vote against the
party which stands pledged 60 II regardless OF
their past affiliations