Arizona republican., 1920-06-09

threatened it's sovereignty, threatened it's peace threatened it's life. The masses of the people became articulate. Public opinion steadily changed and
 today the number of Americans who would be willing to accept the coVen- ant of the League of Nations just as the president brought it back from Europe is negligible. The American
 people will never accept that alliance with foreign nations proposed by the president. The president meantime
 has remained inflexible- He is de- termined to have that treaty as he brought it back or nothing and to
 that imperious demand the people will
 reply in tones which cannot be misun-
 derstood. No man who thinks of
 America first need fear the answer.
 The Famous Article 10
 Mr. Wilson said in a recent letter to Senator Hitchcock: For my own part
 I am not willing to trust to the counsel
 of diplomats the working out of any
 salvation of the world from the things
 which it has suffered" And he said
 this in behalf of an alliance whose
 representatives will all be diplomats
 and politicians. They will all act in
 behalf Sf the interests of their respec-
 tive countries and they will have noth-
 ing judicial about them. Strip the
 league of every clause which involves
 the action of political representatives
 in the assembly and the council and you leave but one article in which the diplomats of the league as such will have no power.
 That is the famous Article 10. Most of the league covenant was prepared by General Shuts of South Africa, but Article 10 was the work of the presi- dent of the United States. It is true l this article is free from diplomats, but ! it rests entirely upon naked force. In
 that way peace is to be preserved and
 the nations freed from war by multi l plying the opportunities for the use of | forces Each individual nation is bound ] by Article x to go to war for the pro- 1 lection of the territorial integrity and 1 the political independence of every | other nation in the world at the time l of signature; that is, for the protec- l ton of states some of which arc not 1 yet determined or established, TOT Gne
 protection of boundaries which no man l can define. We were to give such a i guarantee and any of the countries in the league in the event of exterior ag-
 gression could have demanded our l armed assistance, and our soldiers l and sailors must then have gone forth at the command of foreign countries i unless we shattered all hope of world peace by breaking a solemn moral ob- 1 ligatiOn. The Republicans of the sen
 ate, no matter what their future fate might be, were determined that the
 covenant containing that article un-
 modified should never be ratified II
 became every day clearer to them
 that the alliance called a League oi
 Nations, instead of being a guarantee
 for the worlds peace was a breeder
 of war and an enemy of peace. As
 we studied it-and majority of sena-
 tors desired to have some league il
 possible which should be a genuine League of Peace-we found that il
 dragged us not only into every dis
 pute and every war in Europe and ir
 the rest of the world but that our sol-
 diers and sailors might be forced tc
 give their lives in quarrels not theii
 own at the bidding of foreign gov
 ernmei1ts.
 : It also appeared that our domestic questions, like immigration, could bC
 interfered with, that the interpretation
 of the Monroe doctrine was to be lef to the decision of the league that ws were to be made participants in tho } outrageous disposition of Shantunl . which robbed a friendly nation anS gave the proceeds of the robbery to he worst enemy, and that finally we wer, to have in the assembly of the ieagul ) only one vote to Great Britain's six These provisions were all intolerable r Reservations were adopted which re lieved us from every obligation unde t Article X which took all our domesti questions completely out of the jtlris v 5 for all placed the Monroe doctrine be 3 yonG any interference by Europe O any foreign power, and which refuse' our assent to the cruel wrong O. ] Shantung- We also made it impossi ble to subject the United States to th proposed inequality in voting power for we profoundly believed that tn l United States must never take part il } any council of the nations where he ] vote was not equal to that of an, l other power represented. Some of u were deeply convinced that therl 3 ought to be no league at all and tha 3 absolute safety could be obtained in nj l other way; others of us, more mum 5 erous, believed that the reservations g have described would protect tn ? United States against the perils O 5 the covenant if we joined the league 2 We were all firmly united in our de t termination that the league as sub l mitted by MT. Wilson must never pass D We were also agreed that Mir Wilson 3 league with what he called ''interpre tative reservations" or with anything Q those obedient to him approved wa. Q just as bad. just as menacing as tn e original. Twice we offered the presi e dent and his most faithful supporter e Ian opportunity to ratify the treat n with reservations. Twice his follow : CTS, obedient to his orders, rejected tn = treaty with the reservations hay -f OuAltnG0-
 q A Veto Without Reason
 f The Republicans of the senate the t made another effort to put an end { e the state of technical war with Ger Q many and at the same time rid tn : ! country of those measures which wer . adopted under the war powers of tn
 constitution and which are clearly un ? constitutional in time of peace. The 7 would thus have relieved the bushes f and the daily occupations of the peopl r from the burden of war legislation an n at the same time have preserved to tn 2 United States under the terms of tn
 resolution all benefits accruing to tn q United States under the provision c if the treaty of Versailles. This resolu d tion was passed by both branches c Q congress and vetoed by the presiden Q in d message which furnished neithe n argument nor reason for the veto bu = which it must be admitted had
 pleasant touch of humor in its allusio