Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05
REED EXPOSES PEACE PACT PERLLS

g The other nations of the world, not so
G favored, among which are three or
n four of the largest, come in by vote,
0 and by two-thirds vote the assembly
}, admits them, or by one-third vote
: plus one, it, rejects them. So that it
n controls the destiny. for the future Of
: the League. -
Four Elected
l Moreover, there are four members of
the nine on the council that are elect
ed by the assembly, so that the assem-
bly, has the power, first, 70 create the
= /, league itself, and, second, to create
! the council itself; for whoever can elect
four out of nine members can, of course
control the destiny of the council be-
! cause some one member of the council
will be engaged in the business of car
rying on that election.
[ We have all been in politics, or at
: least some of us have, little bit, and
, you know that if you can name the
delegates to the convention you have
got the other fellow licked and you
know that if you can name the govern.
ing body you have got him whipped
SO that this assembly does possess
great powers.
Powers of Council
But more than that, Whever there
is a dispute between the United States
of America and any other nation it
can be sent to the council. There is an
| agreement for arbitration, but if either
nation declines to arbitrate then it
goes to the council, and then either
F., nation can remove it from the council
to the assembly, just as easy as you can
| remove case from the state court to
the federal court, where the parties
are citizens of different states; all you
need to do is to file the motion, and the
case goes. When the case goes to the
| assembly, it is the court of last report
so that if the United States of America
| has dispute with any other nation
| that other nation can refuse to arbi-
| trate and it can remove the case to the
assembly where it will be decided by the
votes of the assembly. But, they said,
and they have told you all over this
| country, on every rostrum, and they
have told you in every newspaper,
what difference does that make? The
United States is a member of the as
sembly and it requires a unanimous
vote. The United States is a member
of the council, they also say, and it re-
quires unanimous vote, and hence,
we are in no danger because by voting
for ourselves on either of these bodies,
we can save ourselves. Let us stop and
analyze that a minute. if it were true.
If that were true of us it would be
true of every other nation, would it
not?
Accordingly you would have this sort
of a tribunal set up, that any party
itgant could keep decision from be-
ing rendered against it by voting for
itself, and you would have a tribunal
set up where nobody could ever have a
decision rendered against himself unless
he voted for it himself Qaughter); and
you would have a thing that would be
stillborn, it would not be entitled to the
services of a wet-nurse; it would be a
ridiculous, silly, an diotic thing. That
is not the fact. When and l will
read it if anybody wants me to-when
a nation has a controversy it does not
sit: it does not have right to vote. 1t
is a litigant in court; or a prisoner at
the bar. and it does not sit on the jury
to decide it's own case so that when
they tell you the United States can nev-
er be injured because she can protect
herself by her single vote they tell you
what is not true. If the members of the
press desire the quotation from this in
strument to sustain what I say I shall
be glad to furnish it to them. I shall
not pause to read it unless somebody
here challenges my statement.
Situation Defined
What. then, is the situation? Uncle
Sam has a controversy with another
member of the league. Suppose it is
carried to the council for a decision
We do not sit, out antagonist does not
sit, and seven aliens, not one of whom
perhaps ever saw the United States of
America, decides the question for the
United States. Is there any man here
who will turn over the vital interests
of the United States to the decision of
seven aliens, the representatives with
two exceptions, of monarchs European
and Asatic? Cries of mo no'D Yet
when | offered and the committee re-
ported an amendment or a reservation,
if you please, to this infamous docu
ment which recited that the United
States refuses to submit her national
honor or her vital interests it was de-
feated and one of the senators from
this state voted to defeat it. The i'm
portant feature is that it is proposed to
submit the vital interests of the United
States to this tribunal of foreigners. Sup
pose again, that is carried to the as
sembly. Again we do not sit; again in
that case, 80 foreigners, if they do not
increase the membership of the league,
if it remains as it is now, settle the fate
of the United States.
Suppose we go to the assembly and
see how it will work. L want to read
lit to you Americans who love your
flag and who gave your boys and would
give your own lives for your country.
The United States has a controversy
with Mexico. 1t is jursdictional with
this league whether Mexico belongs or
does not 1t comes on for decision. We
submit it to the council. Now let us
see who sits there. The king of Great
Britain sits there by his representative,
or Tho representative of his people; the
reSentatiVe, or the representative of his
king of Belgium sits there, by his rep
people, the king of Spain sits there; the