The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-28
SENATOR FLAYS
LEAGUE PACT
Senator Reed Points Out
Fallacies in the League
of Nations.

Playing the League OF Nations as
document which would increase and
not decrease the possibilities Of war
and which would place America at the
mercy of her enemies, Senator James
A. Reed of Missouri won enthusiastic
applause Monday evening for his adj
dress before nearly thousand people
at the Coliseum. The Missouri solon
confined his remarks entirely to the
discussion of this issue and in schol-
arly and convincing way showed why
he was unalterably opposed to the pact
which President Wilson presented to
the senate for ratification.
"I'm an old-fashioned, unadulterated,
Simon-pure Democrat" declared the
senator II never scratched Demo-
cratic ticket nor voted for Republi-
can. We have party lines drawn pretty
close down our way and we stick pretty
Democrat, believer in real democracy,
not the kind that consists of isms and
abandons the American flag and the
republic, to hope that you will support
the Democratic ticket in so far as pos
sible." And then he proceeded to
show why he could not support the
stand of the Democratic party on the
League of Nations issue.
Favored Thompson in Address.
Senator Reed came to Kenosha to
speak in favor of the candidacy of
James Thompson, the independent can
didate for United States senator. He
was bitter in his opposition to Senator
Lenroot on the grounds that the latter
led the mild reservationists and op-
posed the attempt of "irreconciliables"
to which group Senator Reed belonged,
to make the changes they desired in
the league.
"If Senator Lenroot had stood in the
senate where he appears. to stand now,
according to the speech which he has
recently made" declared Senator Reed,
"the League of Nations would long ago
have been killed" The Missouri solon
was even more bitter in his denuncia-
ton of the stand taken by President
Wilson and his Democratic henchmen
to support the league without any al
terations.
Describes Workings of League.
Senator Reed took the league docu-
ment article by article and explained
how it would work out to the detri-
ment of this nation. He described the
council of the league and told of its
duties and showed how in the event
that America should ever be brought
before it on real or fancied griev-
ance, the "cards would be stacked
against US"
"The league" he declared twas sup
posed to organize a super-governmen
with world capitol on the top of
Swiss mountain, which capitol we were
to help build" He declared that a
flag had been planned and that Sir
Eric Drummond was slated to be sec
rotary of state with the presidency re-
served for Woodrow Wilson.
Brands Many Falsehoods.
Senator Reed branded as absolutely
| false any statements to the effect that
the assembly would have no power and
that the unequal voting power of
America was not for that reason of
any moment. He showed how England
would control six votes directly and
twelve more indirectly while the Unit
ed States was allowed only one. He
denounced this not as a plan for "self
determination of peoples" but as
plan for the differentiation Of the
world"
CAS- sure as you try plan like that"
he declared, 'you- will have nothing but
war for fifty nations will never submit
to be put under the heel of nine ma
tons"
The speaker also branded as false
the statements that it took a unani-
nous vote to secure action in the
bodies Of the league. He pointed out
that the parties to any dispute were
not allowed to vote, and that, in the
event America should be drawn into
any alteration, she would be unde-
Tended before the league, while Great
Britain with six votes in her power,
could always rule the league.
Denounces Article X.
president Wilson said Article X is
blAG ASdIG VI IIl0 covenant, Qeclar6Q
Senator Reed, "and if it is, it is the
blacklist heart ever conceived in the
heart or mind of man or beast" Then
he explained how this article would
have kept the thirteen English colonies
forever part of England, how it
would work to forever block the indie
pendence of Ireland, and how it would
force the United States to war against
the right in the case Of the Shantung
controversy.
The speaker admitted that the league
left the right to declare war to con-
gress but that once America had rati-
fed, the congress must either break
the faith of the United States or de-
clare war at the orders of the league.
That the league meant war and not
peace was shown by the increase in
ornaments made all over the world as
soon as it was ratified.
America for Americans.
The speaker declared the league
would authorize the building of an ar