Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-10-27

err says that america should ente,
the League Of Nations; the world must
have peace. the world will have peace
only when the nations renounce ma
tiOnal sel1shness as the supreme mo-
tive OF government"
DR.. Prank Crane
DIR. Frank Crane. prominent writer
IN an editorial In the Current Opinion
for September. comes out very strong
~ In favor Of the U. s.. entry into the
liberty to cite some extracts from the
same. to-wit:
1T is the most important issue in
the world
1T is more important than any issue
mankind"
If you are going to oppose the Leag-
ue or Nations to me, you must propose
some other way to stop war, or 1 will
ut took the most fearful war of his
tory to induce the nations to get to-
E t;aas and consider the League of Ma
II have been a lifelong Republican,
and my father was Republican before
me. politicians who are peeved because
the League was proposed by the oppo-
site political party, or by a President
they do not like, should be willing to
swallow their pride and favor the Leag-
t ue OF Nations in spite of objections. If
ship above humanity, and are enemies
to the human race"
We must remember this is a new
step for the nations; we must expect
cult. But it is such overwhelming i'm
portance to mankind that we ought to
be, very patient"
America started the League. It is
our League. 1t means the American
iZation of the world"
MUCH has been made of the bugaboo
that that If ,o we Join the League American
China or Africa to fight battles in which
We have no concern. That may be true:
but without the League four million
A rhf in t noys had to take up arms to
And without the League a similar
crisis is likely to arise any day.
Would it not be better to have a
lew lew Americans An IN an army to help po-
body of American manhood called on
conf1agraton?'
Does it mean nothing to you. mother.
that your boy may be called out when
he reaches manhood to take his post
in the next world WARP
Does 1t mean nothing to you, bust
ness man. that gigantic taxes be en-
forced on you to keep up huge army
and navy?
Does it mean nothing to you. work.
insman. that you may be used as pawn
in the next game Of bloody interna-
tiOnal cheSs?''
Does it mean nothing to you, o lover
or your race when you pray daily that
wars may cease and brotherhood pre-
vail that at last the nations of earth
are honestly trying to answer your
nrayer?'
But the final. conclusive and alb
Nations is simply this: If not this
then what?'
."What. is the alternativc?"
For IT there is to be no League then
we must clump back into the Old Order
every nation must go on arming to the
teeth. tax burdens increase, and wars
occur with the regularity of Helrs clock
strokes Etc. etc.
An American Product
That the League Of Nations covenant
is not merely Wilson's product, but an
fact that Wilson advised. with Mr.
Hughes, Mr.. Root and former president
Taft as to the same and each. one of
these men proposed number of chan
proposed, fourteen QD were adopted.
This explodes, and ought to set at rest,
the the arguments that Wilson refused to
take advise from republican.
Being an American product why
should we repudiate our own product
after having induced the rest of the
W %sin to ADOPT Pitt it? The opposition is
which to deceive the voters. The most
common is that the League will breed
war; that by joining we will lose our
Independence; our sovereignty; the Mon
roe Doctrine. These arguments will not
prove true as any person who will study
the question impartially can readily
understand: The League provides for
settling international disputes in vari-
Gus other ways arbitration. by a world
court. and provides for boy-cotting a
nation which refuses to abide by deci-
slons. and as a last resort, and as a
must be evident to all that boy-cotting
nation by all other nations in the
world is suff1cient punishment to hold
them in check. and that armed force
serves merely as gun behind the door.
a burglar will have respect for a house
if he knows that there is a loaded gun
behind the door and the owner of the
gun will have no small chance to use
No! the League is to promote peace
IN the world and not war, but the OPP
position to a reform is sure to use the
the reform is designed to prevent. Take
the prohibition cause, for instance, was
1T not argued that it would cause more
drunkenness?
Az to Monroe Doctrine
AS to the Monroe Doctrine" if the
world peace will destroy the same, then
by all means let it be destroyed, for we
will have no more use for it after we
have world peace; every country will be
let alone. AS to sovereignty, we have
hundreds of treaties with foreign coun-
tries now. Have we not agreed to main
tain no Notifications along the Canadian
border? Have we lost any of our SOW
erignity on that account?
AS to our indepenence-Are not all
the other members of the League equal
ly jealous of their independence? Why
should we now be towards? The indie
pendence referred to in the Declaration
of Independence stands in no danger.
If the opposition refers to our indie
pendence in the matter of grabbing
n ne territory. spending billions
OF money for ornaments and to main
tain a lafge standing army for such
purposes. such independence we can
we'll afford to loose. No doubt those
interested in the manufacture Of arma-
ments will hate to loose such independ-
ence.
Article provides for reduction arm
aments and objects to the manufacture
of war material by private enterprise
and the League will have something to
say in that respect
1t has been argued that if we now
were members of the League of Ma.
tons. we would be reading casualty
| lists in that our boys would now be in
&c ;e Ohio