The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-24
AMERICAS FUTURE DEPENDS ON ENTRY
 INTO TIE LEAGUE
If Elected Cox Promises to Lift Issue Out of Politics and Insure Entrance of the
 United States
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 New York october g. Governor Cox Of Ohio delivered his League of Nations message to a great audience in Madison Square Garden tonight and empha sizing his business and economic considerations. declared that he would accept "helpful" reservations. If elected, he said. he would lift this issue out of politics by effectng a result which will insure the entrance of the United States into the league with the idea of perfecting it and obtaining for ourselves the benefits which will accrue"
 Governor Cox's speech. closing his Att lantic coast campaign and climaxing B day of receptions luncheons and other events stressed agricultural industrial banking and other arguments for Amerl- can participation in the league.
 "rhe most serious depression the coun- try has ever witnessed" was predicted by the nominee if the leaSue cause was lost. Business depression already, he declared has grown intense as a re- suit of Senator Earnings statements on his league attitude.
 Reiterating that financial rehabilitation, credit and power, together with in- creased resources resulting from dsarm- ament would flow from the leagues suc- cess, Governor Cox declared:
 'if we go into the league our finan- cai power will guarantee that we shall never have to send an American army to fight in Europe If we meet the oppor- tunity that calls 10 us. we can write the word American across the page of the twentieth century history in letters of lioNt '
 COMPROMISES NECESSARY
 aRegarding compromising on leasue reservations. Governor Cox said:
 It is going to be necessary to make some compromise to secure the desired end. and that l am willing to do. I am for the ratification of the league with reservations and have so stated my po- sition in every speech made from the At lantic to the Pacific I will accept reser- vations that are he.pful that will clarify, that will reassure our own people and that will make clear to our associates in the league the limitations of our consti- tuition. beyond which We cannot go, among which are the Hitchcock reserva- tions"
 Citing Senator Hitchcock's reservation to Article K Governor Cox repeated that | he would consider his election man. date for entrance into the league ant that he would 'sit down with thee Sem ate and endeavor to reach an agreement 1 with as little conversation as possible. And from my experience as a legis- iator,n Governor Cox continued "f am confident that we will have action. | No suggestion from whatever source 1 will he rejected, so long as that sugges- tion is for helpful purpose and not for destruction." 1 Another promise made by Governor ] Cox was that. realizing the necessity for | reforming federal agencies, he would not | hesitate to cali upon any man for aid, regardless of his politics
 l "As an executive Of some experiences as result of Knowledge gained as \ member of the appropriations commit 1 tec in Congres and as a business man who has spent days and nights to make the ledger balance. 1 am aware of the lnecessitv to improve and modernize the iexccutiye machinery of our federal lgovernment, and to bring into contact the best brains and experience Amer- ica contains" he said
 l MUST SPEND BILLIONS
 'The United States government will 1 be called upon next year to expend between four and five billion dollars. This Is an amount several times lgreater than the disbursements of any private corporation in the country.
 
 evils that have come through bitter part.sanslip. accentuated by the sena- ltor:al oligarchy to defeat the treaty. My effort will. therefore. be to over come this condition, and shall rot hesitate to call on any man, be ha democrat or republican. independent or progressive, who can srye his country lin this time of stress.
 "Arerca las been thrown into tho | k.tnr rId .I&f hos been held there while conspirators worked their will for partisan advan> ltage. We have had neough of this lconditior. I pledge myself to put the Interests of America and humanity labove those of party in the solution lof this vital problem. It is my conter- ton that Americas successful future ldcpcnds upon entrance into the League of Nations at the earhets possible rno- )ment.'
 Detailing his economic and other bush esq arguments for the league. Cove ernor Cox said in part
 Since my last visit to New York l have been in most Of the states cf the union. preaching the gospel of lpeace and of progress and prosperity. | I want to impress upon you the con Idition in which I find business of all kinds everywhere l go, of the decline m pflcess or tne iOSS 10 dsFlculture. or Ithe depression in industry. and of the livery present potential decrease in the need for labor
 BLAMES PARTISAN PLOT
 We should not now have to be ueaI- ling with a question of our entrance Unto the league. This matter should have been disposed of, months and lmonths ago. But for the partisan pior. a:rerica would now be riding on lfuIl tide Of prosperity to which she is lentitled and which ought to be hers for lyears to come. As matters stand. there lean be 10 reconstruction undertaken. tThere can be no establishment of disability of business conditions until a decision is made and made right: ana ,this decision will be made at the ear> Iliest days of the election and inaugurs- lticn as your president,
 Tn the base conspiracy matched la the United States Senate to defeat the lcanse of world peace has created cons idlticn from which we will not recover for months. and I make the prediction ldefeniteiy and in this presence. that unless within year we have enteres' lthe League Of Nations of the world tthera will be the most serious denres-