The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-10-14

When Senator Nugent spoke here a
few days ago. it was observed that a
considerable number of women in the
audience gave evidence of approval of
the league of nations as it was ex-
planned by the senator. There can be
no doubt that these worthy women
are honestly seeking information re-
garding the terms of the league COW
enant in order that they may vote for
the welfare of their country, and nat
urally they expect a United States
senator to tell them the whole truth
when discussing its provisions. If
these women had read the covenant
they would have known at once that
Senator Nugent did not tell them the
whole truth regarding it, and that he
omitted parts of it in which the wo-
men are vitality interested and to
which they will never knowingly give
their approval One of these was ex-
planned the other day in Somerset, |
n. j., by Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, or
New York, a woman who has long
been prominently identified with the !
suffrage cause and who is now a mem !
Der of the republican national execu-
tive committee. Here is what Mrs /
Livermore said:
Would Degrade Womanhood.
More and more the disregard of
American rights and contempt for
American principles are being reveal
ed as one studies the contract nego- Il
tiated in secret in the Paris confer
ence, and more and more clearly ap- K
pear Woodrow Wilson's reasons for {
it from the view of the I
American people long after nearly g
every other nation knew it by heart. S
Paragraph 3 of Article % of the t
covenant of the League of Nations c
provides: Members of the lea g
que will intrust the league with o
general supervision over the exc o
cutiOn of agreements with regard
to the traffic in women and chill
dren and the traffic in opium and +,
other dangerous drugs ~,
After 1000 years of strides toward
utilization the greatest government D.
a the world representing the highest c.
urpose of humanity. is asked to at al
ach its signature to a contract which ~,
OF only recognizes and ratifies but
'galizes traffic in women and chill y
rem. 70
Slavery was wiped from the pages m
American history by the sacrifices in
the Civil War under the leadership tr
Lincoln and it never will be renew &C
with the consent of right thinking err
,ople of this republic. co
Vicious as was the former chapter
hich told of the slavery of men and
omen of the black race, the present MI
oposal draws no line whatever on nu
lffic in the flesh and blood of Gods CO..
ildren. an
"A more cruel or degrading con- an
let was never signed or carried into no
ect by the shareholders of the jun lot
;. Mark you the horror of it all! It pre-
es not profess, or attempt to pro- Igl
'it or denounce in any manner, this
holy traffic, but it attaches the sig Z
rure of the American government 'anC
a contract which recognizes the Sor
ality of the practice. der
Not only did the people of the "sw
tied States speak on this subject in but
Civil War but they emphatically pre-
Jared themselves in more recent reg
rs by the passage of the Mann act.
ch provides for the only supervi- "
1 which Uncle Sam tolerates in Roc
tiers OF this character, and that is sive
ervision over those he sends to has