The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-13
IDA FARRELL SPEAKS
 FOR LEAGUE GOV NANT

of the life purpose of that great American. I doubt if there is a woman in the country so well fitted by her life of service and her intel lectual gifts to speak upon this suo- ject as Miss Ida E. Tarbeu."
 Miss Tarbel1 was greeted warmly by the audience and said in part:
 After this most kind welcome the best thing I can say to you is l wont be very long. and yet when I get talking about the League of Nations it is hard to stop. When you have something very much at heart and you have an audience it takes a good deal of firmness to put on the brakes. This League of Nations I do have very much at heart. I feel that the opposition in handling this question has done it's best to obscure the real meaning of this league. It has been party strategy that has led to this Whenever people have a great matter before them and the subject is beaten down until you get to the moral quan- tity, the bedrock, then people who are opposed to the thing know that when you have got the thing on the bedrock of morality, you are so strong nothing can overthrow you while the issue remains clear, ana then people try to obscure the po1nt. You remember that great debate, the greatest debate the country has ever seen, between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass. on the question of whether slavery should be extended in this country. You know now Lln- coin during that debate bounded from point to point-he said himself he never could make the same speech until he got right down on the bed- rock of the moral law. All Douglass could do then was to try to becloud the issue. One day Lincoln said: Judge Pouglass is great cslead dead iibe ibe cuttlefish. When this cuttlefsh is in danger it throws out black cloud Of ink that runs through all the sur rounding country. and Judge Doug lass is now playing cuttlef1sh."
 'eThat is just what is happening in this country in this argument over the League of Nations. The opposition has been playing cuttleflsh. It has taken the Covenant of the League of Nations and smeared it all over with black ink.
 "On exactly one article they have centred their attack. There are 26 articles in the Covenant of the League of Nations. You all >now when you have document of that kind, the whole thing pulls together, that you can't take one article out and study that apart from all the rest, and know what the full strength and meaning of the thing is. That is what the op- position has done. taken out one ar ticle, and it has put a black mark over 25 articles. Yet every one of those 70 arLlCleS Has IlOIe UT leSS bearing on this article, and we can't understand Article X. unless we study all the others t1The opposition is endeavoring to lead people to believe that this is League to make war. So widely have they spread these misinterpr citations that every day of my life I hear good honest women who want to vote right just as much as you and I do, say:
 How can we go into this? It will lead our sons into war; The League of Nations send your sons into war? Do you know what the League of Ma tions proposes to do? Have you read the preamble? It says: Tn order to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security; by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war; by the prescription of just and honor firm establishment of the understand ingS of international law the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a ScrupulouS respect for all treaty obligati tions in the dealings of organ ized peoples with one another Peace
 and security, cooperation! That is what the League is for.
 ''If you look at only one article you might be led into thinking that guns are involved, but look at the other 25. Have you studied this document so that you know what it proposes to do |? l If you haven't a copy, get one and study it as you would study the Bib.s until you know what it means You have no right to discuss any of those
 articles until you know what this League intends to do. Don't let any body play cuttlefish with you.
 eThe League pronnsas ta establish