Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-01
A CALL TO INDEPENDENTS
TO SUPPORT COX.
CONTINUED from First Page.)

The League comprises as assembly
of all nations, Council of nine
(of which the United States is entitl-
cd to be permanent member with
the veto power which each member
has) and secretariat for recording
and publishing treaties, &c.
The League members agree to ar
bitrate> certain disputes. to abide by
the decision or arbitration and to
"conciliate" in other disputes and not
to go to war until three months after
the recommendation of the concilia-
tors.
To break faith will constitute an
act of war oil all members of the
League. The penalty is an Immediate
boycott.
Force will not be used except as n
last resort, and then only after the
United States has twice assentcd,
once through its representatives on
the Council, and then only if Con-
gress votes to follow the advice mot
orders) of the Council.
Reduction of armamerts is one of
the chief objects of the League.
AS | see them. the chief reasons
for supporting Cox and Roosevelt
arc as follows
Q) To insure our entering the
League. A vote for Cox is vote for
the League. a vote fer lvrding is n
vote for no one knows what.
Why We Must Enter the League.
Our entrance into the League of
Nations is, am firmly persuaded,
an absolute necessity for four rea-
sons:
(a) The League and our member
ship in it are needed to Finish the
job; for it is not yet Cover over
there"
(b) 1t is necessary. in order to Sc
cure general disarmament and to
save ourselves from the crushing
taxation (billions of dollars a year)
and aggravation of the high cost of
living. which the dreadnaughts and
other preparations for war will soon
require. If we do not co:lbiac with
the rest of the world, we must COM
pete with the rest of the world.
(c) 1t is necessary in order to pre-
vent another great world war. The
world is now so shrunken by rapid
transportation that frequent con-
tracts produce frequent irritations
and conflicts which must be dealt
with. These can be settled peacefully
only through the League of Nations.
Otherwise war is as certain as the
harvest follows seed time.
(d) We are in honor bound by the
deeds of our soldiers. We are talk
ing of monuments. The greatest
to those who died in the
war against war should be in the
League of Nations TO perpetuate, as
we'll as commemorate their work. To |
secure safeguards for peace was the
cause for which our soldiers fought |
and died.
To my mind the best campaign
document for Cox and Roosevelt is
Mr.. Taft's recent "Apologia," or
apology for not boiling. He says:
when Mr.. Wilson brought to this
country the League covenant, as re-
ported to the Paris Conference, |
urged, on the same platform with !
him, that we join the League. there |
after recommended amendments. |
many of which were adopted into its !!
final form. Had I been in the Senate,
l would have voted for the League |
and Treaty as submitted; and ad-
vocated its ratification accordingly. l |
did not think, and do not think, |
that anything in the League Coven-
ant as sent to the Senate would vio-
late the Constitution nf the United
States or would involve us in wars
which it would not be to the highest :,
interest of the world and the country
to suppress by universal boycott, and,
if need be, by military force. 1 con-
slider that the moral effects of Ar
ticle x. on predatory nations would |
restrain them from war as the dec
laration Of the Monroe Doctrine has
done and that the requirement of the |
unanimous consent by the represen-
tatives of the Great Powers in coun-
Gil before League action would safe
guard the United States from any
perversion of the high purposes of |
the League. Moreover, believe that
the issue of the League transcends |
in its Importance any domestic issues
and would justify and require one
who believes so to ignore party ties
and secure tha great boon for the
world and the country"