The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-10-27

Telephone No. 2S.
.sREVIEW OF THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATES
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Y 1T is less than a week until the gen
eral election when the issues of the
acontending factions for office will al
he settled by the ballots of the voters
This Is the last time the Review will
TO the voters of Crawford County the
Importance of exercising the privilege
which is given them to assist in de
& termining what shall be the future OF
ont country. No man should cast q
ballot ut Presidential election With
out approaching the fact that he is
performing an act which is to count
either for or against the welfare OF
his country.
The real contest this year lies be.
tween the Republican and Democratic
narties, the same as for many years
in the past. The policies of the two
parties are too we'll known and un.
derstood by the voters to excuse any
one from being mislead or deceived
when he or she comes to vote. One
would imagine from hearing politics
discussed of late that there was but
one issue involved in this campaign,
and that is the League of Nations.
The prominence Of this issue, at feast
very largely 0bscures other issues OF
perhaps more Importance TO the vel
fare Of the country then The . 1 question
8 elected President OF the United
states at the coming election Will not
defeat some kind Of, an association OF
the Nations OF the Earth, the object
81 which shall be to better insure the
perpetual peace Of the world. we
Doubt If there are any considerable
number of people in the United States
such an association. but there are q
majority of the people in the United
States who, are opposed to the partic-
ular League Of Nations adopted sew.
dAENl months ago at Versailles and
brought back to the United States by
woodrow Wilson. 1t is not strange
that defects should have been discov,
cred In the document for the very
good reason that 1t was largely engin.
eered by four or, five, statesmen ac.
credited to few strong and lending
nations OF the world. These few
statesmen so largely dominated the
work Of the preparation of the League
that the other nations seemed to have
very little to do with its preparat ton!
The leading nations thus controlling in
the work Of preparing the League have
been from time immemorial competing
with each other to gain some political
or other advantage and it cannot be
he asserted that they were not pos
Seesed of the same ambition in the
work lof preparing the League and IN
order to reach conclusions they were
compelled TO give and take and often
TO the prejudice of weaker nations
whose influence at the meeting they
necessarily failed to, assert. The on.
J, II bbrivilege the weaker nations had
was to complain OF the injustice which
they had suffered. but the entreaties
for a correction fell upon, deaf ears
The injustice to China by the attempt
i0f the leading nations to placate Japan
is but an instance of the injustice OF
the action of the stronger powers
What is known as Article 10 of the
League as reported by Mr.. Wilson is
out Of favor with a very large major
,itv Of the people of the country be.
cause in its last analysis it simply
means that to enforce the terms of
the League and especially the terri
tOrial boundaries Of the different coun-
tries as the League prescribes. force
may be employed and this means that
every nation may be called upon to
contribute its proportion of the force
necessary to enforce the will of The
Representatives of the League. No
court is to determine whether the act
complained of is in violation of the
terms of the League, but this queS.
lion is left to committee of people
who may or may not even be lawyers
and versed, in the law and therefore
questions OF differences in the domes.
tic affairs of other countries may be
made the excuse for calling upon sew
5ersll nations to contribute their means
and armies to settle the trouble. Mr..
Wilson who is not a. lawyer, contends
tot = hiosa prpatnS hi1t moral Ot1liCa.
ton and Mr.. Cox, candidate for Presi.
dent, says the United States can avoid
eending its army abroad by raising the
question sof the constitutionality of the
net, hut neither one of these distin.
g,lished gentlemen are able to find any
considerable number Of people with
whom they agree. E n
IS The Republican senate after the re.
turn of the League by Mr.. Wilson
made every effort at conciiiation and
said that with proper reservations
which would remove the more serious
objections to the pact as 1t was re.
turned they were willing to adopt 1t
but Mr.. Wilson said that it must be
Just as he returned it without any
changes, and he repudiated the action
Of the Senate and said THE matter
should be referred to the people where
It il now pending. If. Mr.. Wilson was
really in good faith in his desire to
have the League adopted he should not
himself have repudiated it. because OF
the corrections that were made.
Mr.. Root. whose record as the great
est lawyer in the country If not in the
world; placed his disapproval on the
document which Mr.. Wilson brought
from Versailles and>clearly expressed
the grounds of his disapproval but
that counted nothing with Mr.. VII.
son. The other nations. however, at
the meeting at the Hague. where an
attempt was being made to organize
AN International court with full knowl.
edge of what Mr.. Root thought of the
League, invited him to attend the
meetinG OF the Hague and afterwards
adopted his views. and We're willing to
he guided by his leadership, although
opposed to Mr.. Wilson's League. Mr..
Root says the other nations are quite
willing TO take the promise for an as.
socation OF Nations with the view of
finding common ground on which the
several nations can stand nOtWth-
standing Mr.. Cox and Mr.. Wilson
insist there shall be no other League
except the one that Mr.. Wilson pre-
eerts.
Mr.. Harding candidate for Presi-
dent, is in perfect accord with Mr..
Root and lit is the purpose of Mr.
Harding, if elected. to Immediately
take UP the question of coming to an
with the other nations