Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-06

order that they might as they said,
keep American labor on a higher plane
than European labor; the other great
political party said that wasn't neces
sary, but both agreed that American
labor and foreign labor should never be
put upon the same level. When you
submit the question of the labor legisla-
ton of this world to an international
tribunal in which the foreigner will
have 10 or Is votes where you can BOSS
IDLY have but one, then / say to the
American laborer, let him beware lest
he be dragged down to leve4 far below
that which he at the present occupies.
Let me say to him further, as one
American citizen to another, better
than all of these special things that he
may fight fords the old country and the
old flag and the old doctrine of human
equality beneath the Stars and Stripes
that Washington first gave to the
breezes of Heaven. ,Applause)
Situation Changed
My countrymen, do you know why
the situation is so changed? Do you
know why scarcely any man in the
senate today would dare defend this
instrument? All of them are clamoring
for amendments; all of them are asking
for reservations except, perhaps, some
continue to fight against all reserva-
tions and all amendments, because they
belong to that class of statesmen who
instead of sitting in the senate of the
United States to represent their people
and their own judgment, seem to think
they have been sent there to represent
the judgment of the president of the
United States.
Majority Admit Defects
The great majority of them admit
the defects in this instrument; they
now admit that England has six votes
to our one, and the mathematical
sharps are actually coming to the con-
clusion that six times one is not one.
They do admit the Monroe doctrine
has been surrendered and that it must
be saved: they do admit that we are
dragged into all the controversies of the
world, and that if we sign this docu-
ment there never will be another war
anywhere in the world which the Unit
and let me answer now what some peo-
pie have been asking. They say, Are
you willing to have the world decimated
by war;" No, if they will leave it to
us there will never be another world
war, but these Europeans and Asiatic
nations make their own wars. There
were 106 European and Asiatic wars
fought between 1872 and 1914. In not
a single one of those wars did an Amer
lean citizen lose his life unless he went
over there looking for trouble. TC
sign this instrument, there will never
be another war in Europe or in Asia
where we will not be compelled to serve
Article 10 Again
Article 10 binds US to guarantee the
political integrity and the territorial
integrity against attack from every
member of the league. 1t does not make
any difference what the right or wrong
is, it is sufficient that country has
been attacked. If we sign this instru
ment, sir, and Great Britain is attacked
in any part of her vast dominion we
must Immediately send our armies and
our navies there. If we do not, we break
pudiation" across the brow of Columbia.
1t is not question of right or ques-
ton of wrong; it is a question of abso-
lutte contract.
My friends, if we sign this contract,
and if Russia shall become d member
of this league, if a part of Russia were
to secede and want to join her fortunes
with Poland. Poland sends a single
rtroop of soldiers, it is an external at
tack; we must send our boys to die in
the SHOWS of the north, and if we sign
this paper and Shantung should rebel
and China should send single regi
ment of soldiers to her aid, we must
send our boys there to die in the con
and that, regardless of the right or the
wrong of the question SO, | appeal to
you, as American citizens, are you will
ing to put this chain around the limbs
of our country? Are you willing to
abandon the policies of the past? We
do not make the wars over there, and
we cannot stop them unless we bleed
our veins dry in the service of those
other nations and perhaps in their op
preston. Did you ever stop to think
maybe in our cocksurednesS we might
not give them any better government
than they have now? Do you believe
the story that we are to have eternal
peace, sir? Why, We have heard that
this will give US peace. The proof OF
the pudding is in the eating; the proof
of a mans faith is his performance
What are the facts; Great Britain refus
ed to surrender or to permit the re
duction of her fleet by single vessel
and she is preparing to junk one-half OF
her fleet in order that she may builC
! in their stead a great uper-dreadnaught
| which it is claimed is more powerful
than anything yet afloat. She is calling
upon her colonies to furnish her will
| additional vessels, and in addition Il
| that sir, she had an army of but 100000
men, raised by volunteering through
out all her history they were raise
by volunteering, and she has now ADOPT
ed the draft as her permanent policy
and a standing army of 100000 men
| Europe Preparing
\ France is taking similar measures Il
strengthen her armament, as is ais
Italy. How about our own beloved
country where the doctrine of peac
eternal which we are taught from morn