The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-10-08

protect. Even the president is enough
| or lawyer to know tn 1t a suit for dam
| ages cannot be defended by proof thai
ones property is in his wife"s name. and
1t Is equally clear that a claim for dam
ages, in the world court. cannot be de.
Tended by showing that the war-mak.
Ign branch of the government had DELHI
erately decided to repudiate the coven-
ants of the league.
League Deception and Snare.
UAless the several members Of the
proposed league, in good faith, carry out
it's terms and adhere to it's principles
the league will prove a deception and q
snare, and become the CAUSE of interna-
the council of the league and the assem-
bly, have express jurisdiction in all mat
tiers affecting the peace Of the world
Suppose the exclusion of Orientals. OF
should threaten the peace of the world
or should be referred to the league, as
Japan contemplated doing, and the as
sembly should assume jurisdiction: We
being party. would have no vote. I'm
mediately Oriental race equality and In
ternational free trade would be deter.
mined by representatives of more thar
thirty nations. each of them anxious to
| enjoy our markets. and every one OF
them, except England and her Provinces
equality. We know in advance that
these Nations will not report questions
purely local. that affect international
trade relations and immigration. I an
nation. or any group of nations. to sc
much as consider, much less determine
whom we shall admit either to domicile
Of citizenship. or the terms on which we
will permit other peoples to share oul
markets.
| Congress Must Approve.
Should the council of the league rec
ommend limit of armament. sufficient
for this country in times of peace, con-
gress would be under obligation. in good
! faith, to approve. and thereafter oul
army could not be increased without the
| unanimous consent of the council. Sup
pose Japan should inspire trouble be-
| tween us and Mexico to such an extent
that we are threatened with invasion. on
compelled to declare war. Will Japan
consent that we increase our army In
order to protect against what she has
, formented? I am unalterably opposed
to the league on this score if for nc
other, except with the reservation adopt-
ed by the senate: THE United States
reserves the rieht to increa sc its arma-
ment without the consent of the council
whenever the United States is threaten
| ed with invasion or engaged in war"
The reparation commission provided fol-
IN the treaty with Germany Is entirely
| indeSendert Of the proposed League oi
Nations. It's manifest purpoes is TO keeu
Germany sufficiently crippled so that she
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To that end this commission has juris-
diction over the foreign trade of Ger
many. H
| The above are only a few Of the many
Flaring. objections. 1t is reported that
Abraham Lincoln said to Alexander Stew
ems. at the historic conference for the
restoration of peace between the States
as he banded him a blank sheet OF
paper: Let us write union at the tor
ard You may write whatever YOU please
below
! 1t would almost seem that Woodrow
! Wilson, ambitious to excel Georre Wash
ington. who had only established union
between thirteen states. by establishing n
union between more than thirty nations
made q similar proposition to his asso-
ciates Mt Versailles: LET me write
League of Nations end Won can write
anything you please" They accepted.