The Washington times., 1920-09-09
j. S. CUTTERS
cox ASSERTS
Tells Montana Audience Nation
Is SeIf-Satisfied While
Europe Starves.

HELENA, Mont, Sept. 9.-Amer
ica today is looked upon rs "a nation
of CUTTERS" prospcrous and self
satisfied, while her %associates, as
well as her enemies, among the coun-
tries of Europe are starving to
death, Gov. James NJ Cox, Demo
cratic presidential nominee, declared
in a speech here today.
SENATORIAL OLIGARCHY."
The feeling of hatred, the governor
said. is a direct result of delay in
rstirying the, treaty, and the "Sena-
torial oligarchy" alone is responsible
for It.
One hundred and fifty thousand
square miles of arid lands in the
West. the governor asserted. could be
reclaimed with money made available
by disarmament, which he said would
| follow entry of the United States into
the League of Nations.
~ have just noticed that Japan is
building battleship at a cost Of S40,-
900 .000," Governor Cox said. Unless
this program be stopped we will soon
have reverted to the old game of ma
tional military rivalry.
IT has recently been figured in
terms all men can understand that
the cost of one battleship would re
claim two million acres of land
Multiply this by forty eight, the mum
bcr of States, adopting the plan of
one battleship for each State and you
will have a staggering total, and II
properly applied, the answer to the
problem of housing in our cities, the
answer to the question of increased
g., Nf l.
life, the expenditure required in total
would reclaim $50. 900 square miles OF
waste. 1t would build ten permanent
ly paved arteries entirely across the
United States at the present high
cost of constructions; not only this
but the armament program required
for our fleet at least f00.0 men, a
standing army of 800. 900, with a re-
serve force of 100000.
Think of this in terms of reclama-
tion of arid and waste lands, and
think what IL would mean to have
one million men. exclusive of the
thousands required in ship yards and
ammunition plants, all turning their
activities to the production of neces.
sites of life, rather than to employ.
mont in the creation of agencies for
the destruction of life.
Reconstruction cannot be under
taken. the governor argued. until we
know where we stand with the ma
| tions of the world. And America can.
not enter into that period of prosper
| ity to (which she is entitled until the
growing hatred created against Us
by the apostles of hate in the Sena.
torial oligarchy has been removed
This, he said, can be done only
| by our joining with thirty-seven 9th
er nations of the world who have al
ready affixed their signatures to the
League of Nations covenant. European
countries will then go to work, he
said, and their ten billion dollars OF
war debts to us Will be paid.
"A separate peace, bringing us into
association with Turkey, Russia, Ger
many, and Mexico. the only great pow
crs not now in the league OF nations
| Governor Cox said, sis inconceivablc
but we shovld join with the thirty
seven nations already In tho league
SO that with all the nations of the
earth we may re-establish social. hu-
manitarian and business relations
with the world
More pleased than ever with the
reception he Is receiving in Montana
Governor Cox left here this afternoon
for the great industrial districts oi
Butte and Anaconda, convinced thai
J he has practically won the electora
vote of the state. He plans In his
speech this evening to pay particular
attention to industrial problems, lay
ing emphasis on his labor record "
Ohio and what he calls his genera
progrcssivism In government.