Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-14
NI[ SON PROMISED l lJSE U, 5. FORCES B0RAH DECLARES
League Opponent Makes Re.
 assertion of His Interpre- tatiOns of Covenant
REPORTS TO SHOW WILSON'S ANSWERS
ano+or Claims Statements Made Inv President Sustains Charges Directed by IrrecOncil-
 ables

Manchester, N. H., Oct. l3.-Presl- Int Wilson in a speech at the peace |n nference. already subject of wide nublished controversy between him |d Senator Spencer of Missouri, de sred. "that if any covenants of ks settlement are not observed the ;+ed States will send her armies \ nayies to see that they are ob- rved" Senator Borah of Idaho, as- Eted in an address here tonight. kThe controversy between senator 5encer and the president has been Eeresting." Said Senator Borah, "not much because it may illustrate the |libility of memory, but because It bws how this league looks when you pin to view it in it's practical work s. The moment you descend from
 opalescent empyrean of theories i the world of concrete things it Sks altogether different. So long you confine yourself to the league paper and dwell in the world of etoric everything seems well. kBut when you get down to the 'ual workings of the league it inns harsh and autocratic and alto liner obiectionable. When they tell that the league will bring peace krybody wants peace and so favors league. But when you turn from kcry to fact and see it obligates us to send our boys across the sea, army and our navy, it creates an oar of disapproval and hastens nations and denials. Yet that is cisely what the league in its pres kl workings means.
 Offers Proof Of Charges
 There are two things stated in speech President Wilson put out "a theorative which sustain every rge we have ever made against
 gigantic autocracy based on ce. The first statement reads as lows:
 And back of that lies the funda- htal and important fact that when decisions are made the allied and pciated powers guarantee to main them" How are you going to ntain them except by sending the hy and navy across the sea? We |e first the solemn guarantee of allied powers to maintain all de- ons an dall boundaries. As tc
 we are going to do this is an red by the president himself in ther place in the same speech in ch he says: :" If any covenants this settlement are not observed
 United States will send her hies and navies to see that they
 observed. + + * We must not De our eyes to the fact that in the
 analysis the military and naval ength of this great power will be
 final guarantee of the peace of
 world"
 When the president was before foreign relations committee Sem Knox asked this question:: Sup e it were perfectly obvious that Fe is an external aggression and inst some power, and suppose it is fectly obvious and accepted that annot be repelled except by force hrms, would we be under any legal gation to participate? The pres nt replied to this: No sir, but we bld be under an absolutely com ing moral obligation.'
 take it that it will not make y much difference to the Ameri-
 people, to the sons and mothers America, whether you call it a Rl obligation or a moral obliga-
 or what you clal it, if it is an gation absolutely compelling and m the execution of which there is escape. Is it not perfectly plain we guaranteed the settlements
 the boundaries of Europe and if there is an actual disturbance these boundaries we are under an olutely compelling moral obliga- to send our armies and oul Fies across the sea?"