The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1920-10-21
ARTICLE x.

by W. Y. Morgan, editor of the Hut
Crimson News, purporting to be an
explanation of Article Ten of the
League of Nations, and after reading
it concluded that Mr.. Morgan either
did not know anything about the
League or that he attempts to de-
liberately mislead the people who
might take his version of the article.
He quotes the last paragraph of
the Covenant as it is written: SIN
case of such aggression the Council
shall adive upon the means by which
this obligation shall be fulfilled"
Then he interprets 1t for his read
ers as follows: In case of any such
war or in the case of any threat or
danger of war the council shall adj
wise upon the means by which this
obligation shall be fulfilled"
Still not being satisfied with
completely changing the wording and
intent of the section he goes on to
say, "Under the last sentence of Ar
ticle Ten the Council shall prepare
an army and send it to the aid of any
member which is at war, or whose
form of Government is being chang
ed"
Now it is very evident that Mr..
Morgan has never read the coven-
ant outside of Article Ten, and is
not in any way competent to express
an opinion.
He absolutely overlooks the word
advise" For the article expressly
states that the council shall advise,
and any school boy has brains enough
to know that there is a difference
between advise and demand or COM
pei.
The truth about Article Ten is
that it is a protective, rather than
war-making article. 1t is merely
an agreement among the member ma
tions not to make war on each other.
But supposing one member nation
should declare war upon another.
Has the League no remedy except
to rush an army to the defense of
that member7 Lets look up Article
Sixteen.
If after all attempts to arbitrate
the trouble one member should resort
to war "it shall ipso facto be deemed
to have committed an act of war
against all other members of the
League which hereby undertake to
Immediately subject it to the sever
ance of all trade or financial rela-
tions, the prohibition of all inter
course between their nationals and
the nationals of the break
ing state, and the prevention of all
financial, commercial, or personal in
tercourse between the nationals of
the breaking state and the
nationals of any other state, whether
member of the League or not" says
this section.
Does this sound like Mr. Morgan
has written the truth? He says the
League will Immediately prepare and
send an army to the defense of the
warning member. The Covenant it
self says that a commercial barrier will
be constructed about the outlaw ma
ton; that other nations cannot buy
or sell or lend assistance to such ma
ton. Plainly an economic boycott
will be applied to such country and
it will literally be starved into sub
mission and there will be no need
of an army or anything else.
And again, Mr.. Morgan presumes
upon the creduality of his readers in
another manner. He would set the
League up as mightier than the Con-
gress of the United States. He
knows full well that our representa-
tive in the League would have no
power to abrogate the constitution
of the United States and that il
would be impossible to send any
army anywhere without congress
first declaring war or that a state OF
war existed.
He claims that eff the League were
operating it would now be making
war in half a dozen parts of the
world"
How childish is this statement. Mr.
Morgan should inform himself tri
file before giving vent to his opin
ions. He knows, or should know
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