The Penn's Grove record., 1920-10-22
LEAGUE COVENANT SUNDAY "a
Read How to Stop International Muir
der and RObberies

Lowell, of Harvard University, Bos
ton, has requested the Governors o.
all States to proclaim Sunday, Octo
Der "a, as League of Nations Day.
All should read it so they may under
stand how to vote on "the solemn ref
erendum."
The World War was an interna
tional issue. Partisanship ceased a
the oceans edge. The Peace Treaty
was made by the constitutional ma
tional representatives and its ratifi'
cation should not have been made 6
partisan issue, but, partisan jealous
les, envies and rancors has made it
regrettingly so. Whereas it is now
a paramount issue for the voters tC
decide, every mar and woman should
read it and learn what it is all about
1t is a great moral issue, as the
League Covenant provides for nc
national war. Consequently, the issue
to take international ear to STOP
organized murder between nations
over lands and property interests and
the enslavement of one race or tribe
by another.
Before the Parliament of Switzer-
land, a little Republic, joined the
League, a referendum vas held. The
voters decided by several thousand
majority. A similar vote in the
United States would mean two mil
lions majority for joining.
The Purpose
is given in the preamble which reads
as follows:
The High Contracting Parties,
In order to promote international
cooperation and to achieve interna-
tional peace and security
by the acceptance of obligations not
to resort to war,
by the prescription of open, just and
honorable relations between nations,
by the firm establishment of the
understandings of international law as
the actual rule of conduct among Gov
ernments, and
by the maintenance of justice and
scrupulous respect for all treaty obi
cations in the dealings of organized
peoples with one another.
Agree to this Covenant of the
League of Nations.
Senate and People Consulted
After the Peace Treaty was made in
the winter of 1919, President Wilson
returned from Paris to America. 1t
was published in many papers. Not
only the U. S. Senate but prominent
men in all parties were consulted. 1t
was the first time in the history of
nations that a peace treaty was made
public for amendments before final
adoption.
The provisions were made by the
foremost minds of all nations in
council, all honestly aiming to
make a treaty and prescribe rules of
international conduct to never have
any more dreadful wars like the
World War.
Our political system requires that
men be elected to carry out the peace
To do so men and women
have to learn to vote for principles
by the thinking Independent voters
changing when exigency arrives in n
history of the nations. They are the
saviours of civilization.
The Baneful Party Spirit
George Washington in his farewell
address said: "Let me warn you in
the most solemn ann against the
baneful efforts of the spirit of party.
1t is the duty of a wise people to dis
and restrain it,"
Opposition to the Peace Treaty was
created solely by the baneful party
by the men in the United
States Senate who have voted against
civic progress for years and whom
Theodore Roosevelt denounced in 1912.
A Covenant Is
a solemn agreement between nations
for honor and happiness of the people
and the peace and safety of each ma
ton to live their own life without out
side m~olestation. The League of Ma
lions is nothing more nor less than APP
plying the principles of each land
holder, to the rights of his own prop
erty to that between nations.
Article X The Heart
The section most criticized is article
ten which reads as follows:
"The members of the League under
take to respect and preserve as
against aggression the territorial in
tegrity and existing political in de-
pendence of all members of the
League. In case of any such aggres-
sion or in case of any threat or dan
ger of such aggression, the Council
shall advise upon the means by which
this obligation shall be fulfilled"
Every owner of land, whether a
small lot or large farm, has a deed de-
scribing the limits of his ownership
That is his territorial integrity made
secure by the agreement of organized
society in your own State. Each per-
son has a personal independence or
their own lot and farm, so long as they
do not commit a nuisance or become
offensive to his neighbors. In case
one person encroaches his fence o.
takes possession of his neighbor's
land, or threatens to injure his neigh
Dor, the officials of your native
County and State advise upon the
means by which each shall restrain
the aggressor.
Do you get the idea as applied a
home as to your own property terri
torial integrity and your own indie
pendence thereon?
A nation is composed of many lot