The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-14
(By a Staff Correspondent of
 The Times.)

.f The Times.)
 Stamford, Conn, oct. 12.-'Sena- tor Harding has only just declared Himself as being absolutely against the League of Nations. I knew it all the time. I knew he stood with Borah and JohnsOn;" declared Sem ator Oscar Underwood of Alabama to an audience here tonight which filled the floor and galleries of the High School Auditorium. The rally was under the auspices of the Women's Democratic Committee and Miss Louise P1umley, an active worker in the cause of suffrage and the League of Nations was chairwoman.
 We asked for league" said the Senator, ''we asked Europe to go in playing with. She did. And now the Republican candidate asks us to scrap it because it is not perfect. Who ever saw a perfect agreement written kind of a face could We go to Eu- rope now and ask her to scrap it? Do you suppose that Senator Hard ing can get the forty-two nations to give up the League they have made and let him make another? Do you suppose he could get perfect agree ment? It is an absurd proposition.
 Do not forget that the Treaty of of the League of Nations is not be- fore the Senate. It was rejected by the Republicans in the Senate. It is now in the hands of the President. If Warren G. Harding should be elected when he reached the White House next March he would find it laying on his table. He has said he was op- posed to it. He could pitch it into the most convenient pigeon hole and let it lay there. He says he is going to do it. What could the Senate do if he did? Until he should negotiate and present to the Senate in due z ttr hn nat fn do nothing.
 "Governor Cox has said that if he was elected that he would send back to the Senate for ratification. the treaty which the Republicans rejected and do his best to have it ratified.
 Senator Harding has said that if he were elected he would kill it. He could do it and he could not make another.
 "The first and foremost issue of this campaign is believe the League - of Nations. It is whether we at the i dawn of the twentieth century will stand on the side of the World great peace or continue in the bar barism of the last twenty centuries.
 ''I want my great country, the country which l love, the flag Tor on the side of peace and not of war.
 There is nothing very difficult about the Treaty of Peace. You had stood for the idea a decade before ! the war. IHeIe was d. lCdSue to force peace. We in Congress had re- ceived petitions with thousands of signatures asking for something of this kind. -z.. and got them to write League of Peace and who stood for it? Prac- tically all the prominent Republicans Who stood for it? Mr.. Root He tions I think, and the President was able to have six of them incorporated in the Covenant. Ex-President Taft, d leader in the League to enforce Peace, stood for it and he also made . suggestions. He made six suggestions - and four of them were written into the treaty. And then the Republi- can Senators got up round robbin and they said that the treaty inter ferred with the Monroe Doctrine and the President got a distinct section inserted to overcome this objection, and then they said it interferred with domestic problems and that objection was overcome also, and then they raised the point that if we got in, we could not get out, ana the President was able to get provision that any nation could get out by giving two years notice. This is a. perfectly fair provision that if any nation wishes to break it's contract with the other nations it should give them at least two years notice of it's intention to do so. Practically all the objections made to the treaty before it was sign ed were met and then when it was brought home and presented to the Senate the Republican Senators re- jected it.
 There is nothing unusual about the contract Back a thousand years in the old country the blood fued exist ed. If there was dispute over land swords were drawn and the matter was fought out. The victor took the land. The stronger won and the weaker failed. Through the centu- ries the flower of civil law has been growing and blossoming. Fair play and justice have taken the place of force. Courts have been established d and the verdict of a judge and jury ! have taken the place of the verdict of the sword.
 within the last half century that landlords in Europe were ejectins tenants without process of the law We submit to the decisions of the Once in a while some one does no submit and then the sheriff has tt be sent to force him to submit ant perhaps once in million times tht E Does any one think we should giv' up the system on this account?
 Just apply that to the League O Nations. That's all you've got. II the last analysis the world has simpl. agreed to submit it's differences to { court instead of battle. It register the will of advancing civilization t. settle it's differences by reason anc intelligence and not by force. Some time the verdict of that court migh have to be enforced but do you be lieve that that means great war
 Such a conclusion is a mental lie You meant peace and not war whe1 you asked for that League of Ma tions and the nations which hay gone into it stand for peace and no
 war.
 And then there is article ten. D
 you think you could make worl
 peace and not agree not to take tn
 other mans land? That's all articl ten means. It is possible that some
 time in the future some member ma
 run amuck and get off the reserva
 ton and have to be put back b
 force but do you think that is war
 It is simply police duty. And do yo
 think that it would mean that all ou
 boys would have to be started fo