Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-06

cussed. The senator gave his view
that this article would impose upon
the congress of the United States
an obligation to participate in the
wars of he world. 1t would chain
the nation, he declared, to send it's
men and eXpend it's treasure in every
war of every origin without any ref
erence to the will of congress or the
will of the people. He showed that
the presidents advisors in Paris
were against this article; that the
article as adopted by the peace con
ference and presented to the senate
was totally different from the ar
ticle as written by the president:
that the article urged by Aunchin-
loss and Miller, the presidents adj
visors on ! gal matters at. the con-
ference, was wholly different.
"And what do we ask" said he
I'VE simply ask that congress have
the right in each separate case to
make a decision as to whether we
shall use our men and our money.
We simply ask that there be kept
in the hands Of the people, speaking
through their congress, the power
to declare war or not to declare war
We simply ask that Article 10 be
brought in harmony with the consti-
tuition of the United States"
At the conclusion of his discus
sion of Article 10, Senator Smith
took a vote of the audience as to
whether they wished the obligation
put upon their country without res
ervation and almost unanimously
they voted in the negative. Three
school girls and two young boys
voted in favor of the article without
reservation.
AS to manufactures, Senator Smith
asked substantially the same. In
other words, as convincingly pre-
scented, he was not willing for the
representative of the United States
in the council of the league, rep
resentative named by the president
and responsible solely to the presi-
dent, to accept for the United States
the task of policing any turbulent
foreign country which might be dealt
out to US by the council. He said
he was willing for this nation to
take its rightfu1 share Of the bur
dens of civilization and to discharge
in full it's obligations Of honor in
every country, but he was not will
ing that one single spokesman, sit
ting in Switzerland and acting with
authority for the entire government,
should accept, for example, a manda
tory in Turkey that would require
$50, 900 men and one billion dollars a
y--r. All that he asked in the way
of reservation was a reference to
congress for it's approval or disap-
prevail. If congress accepts any
mandatory, all we'll and good. But If
congress should not accept manda-
tory, then no league council and no
representative in the council should
be allowed to put it upon us.
Again the senator took a vote of
the audience and again unanimously
they approved his position with re-
gard to manufactures.
Briefly he touched on the article
establishing an international labor
tribunal, which, as he remarked,
might take a notion to decree that
the farm laborers of the United
States should not give more than
eight hours a day to work in
terfere in any other question
involving labor in the United States.
He also touched briefly upon
the article giving Great Britain six
votes to our one, which. as he ex-
planned, was equivalent to a contract
between two citizens in which one
insisted that five Of his sons should
have the right to vote in contro-
versy involving the Interpretation of
the contract. They naturally would
be expected to stand up for their
daddy" said he, and the audience
emphatica1ly agreed with this view.
Similarly the senator presented his
reasons for asking a reservation
which will prevent the council Of the
league from interfering in domestic
questions like immigration, rates of
tariff and other matters concerning
us and nobody else.
"Mr. H. G. Wells" he said in this
connection, "the famous English
writer, has gone so far as to ask
that the league have authority over
such questions as the treatment of
Armenians in Turkey and the ne
groes in Georgia. When he put his
finger on my state and suggested in
terfering in a problem that concerns
my people then 1 became uneasy and
that is one illustration of my reason
for asking that we state explicitly
what we mean by domestic questions
so that the league shall have no pre-
text of authority to regulate our IN
ternal affairs. It is bad enough TO