The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-11

will have power to involve us in war.
 It is no such thing. The war mak-
 ing body of our governent is the Con
 gress of the United States, as pro Vided by the constitution of the
 United States. No agreement. on the
 part of this government can super sede the provisions of the United
 State constitution and the war making
 body is, has been and will continus
 to be your representatives and my
 representatives, the members of the
 Congress of the United States So tha:
 if the question of war arises, that
 question will be presented for the
 consideration of the 435 members of
 Congress. who are elected by and
 are directly responsible to the peo-
 pie from Maine to California.
 Then they raise as bugaboo number
 two that Great Britain has six votes,
 and that we have but one vote and
 they raise tha for he purpose of ap
 peafing to race prejudice and espec
 tally to men and women and Irish blood. It is true that Great Britain
 Great Britain have six in the assem-
 bly, of the League, but the editorial
 writers and the speakers who criti-
 ciZe do not tell their hearers and
 readers that it requires unanimous
 vote. to get action ana that the veto power at all times rests with the United States government that if our representative says no and if every other representative in the con- ference says yes, the veto power rests with the Unitd States and there can be no action unless our representa- tive. agrees to the proposed action.
 They talk about supergovernment. MT. Borah in my home city the other evening said that the nations assem- | bled agreed upon a planE, but will be enable to enforce is decrees. It is no such thing. If for instance, a l question arises between our govern l hn of r | Britain the representatives of both ! governments are heard by the repre- | sentatives of all the other govern I ments assembled, and if in the opin ! ion of the other representatives the l United states government is right in 1 the contention it is provided that i there shall be no act of war by 1 either party for period of nine i months, a cooling off period and | then if at that time Great Britain | engages in conflict with our govern ment, the snations of the world will | be on the side ~ the United States ] and a boycott will be placed on Great 1 Britan commercially and financially l ana the moral support of the world will be on the side, of the United States government, and that will be sufficient to prevent any war. Whom they say that the covenant canno-
 enforce it's decrees it is not so. Il can.
 Think of it. my friends. seven
 eighths of the population of the
 world have already gone in. Are you
 to stay out? Are we by virtue. O.
 our geographical position to attempt to stay over here with chip of de-
 fiance on our shoulder and allow the
 nations of the world to join in 6
 union all their own for the protec, tion of their own interests and we te say here defiantly and say we vii
 take care of ourselves? It cannot b.
 done. It isn't workable. They taks
 1n I'l,.f eli A a
 Mir. Washington. l have heard then . quote it the Senate floor. H, warned his fellow-country not t.
 take part in foreign entanglement and to form no forejgn alliances. A
 the time that Mir Washing ton wrot, 5 his Farewell Address he used tn candlepower and the quill At tn time he wrote his Farewell Addres We had a population of a few mil l lions of people an infant republi | with no commerce abroad. It wa :; ,.s 6aAs oi the stage coach. Ii tool | longer in those days to go from Bos 9 ,-.-. u Dari ieSton, South Carolina. tha1 ? 1t takes today to go from Bridgepor | to the interior of China, longer to g ? from Boston to New York than iron Bridgeport today to the interior o E Europe. What applied in those day :! doesn't necessarily apply in these . his is the day of electricity, the da $ Of the aircraft, the day of moder ] warfare, the day of the cable, tn U day of the dpldly moving S ca mel : All nations are in a commercial chaif The producing nations of the worl n seek . IT. r.set fer their surplus ou! i put in the other countries of 9Ih = world. c 1T own nation iS compelie . 1 in normal times to finds "a marke = for 35 per cent of the products ( = our fac ories and farms in foreig
 lands and we send our merchant naa . rine all over the world and have GU C commercial relations with all tn . of &sxnrId tnfr1 or e is at the bottom of nearly alIs' wa