The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-23
OPPOSES
INCLUDING TREATY
IN PARTY ISSUES

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 23.-Herbert
c. Hoover, former food administrator,
declared today in an address at Johns
Hopkins university his opposition to
making the ratification of the treaty
with Germany an issue in the presiden-
tial campaign. He insisted the injec-
ton of the arguments for and against
reservations would "obscure our press
ing domestic issues by conflict over
question in which the country already
has made up it's mind" and added, lit
is my impression that there is no party
credit in this position"
Hope for immediate ratification of
the treaty rested, he said, in the ac-
ceptance by the lesser reservation
reservationists." Two combined, he
said, could secure ratification. 1t alsa
appears to u.s." he said, that even
from the point Of view Of the lesser
reservationists' they will have secured
all of the major functions and values
of the league. If it be put into being
and If it prove its living value in the
world, no one can doubt that any
necessary changes will be granted to 1t
by common consent as the years go on.
For my part, if the league can not
prove it's value under the latest pro-
posals of the mild reservationists' it
win never prove them under the pro-
posals of the lesser reservationists.'
The present danger Europe is facing,
Mr.. Hoover said, is not so much
revolutionary cataclysm as the STEADY
degeneration of the standard of living
and the slow decay of the forces of
stability"
Restored productivity, he insisted, Is
essential if the allies are to receive the
maximum reparaton. until then we
shall not have real peace" he said. 1T
will be delayed as long as we hang the
treaty in the air, for we are a part
of it,"
Want Reservations.
II do not believe the adherence of
the American people to the league re-
quires any demonstration he contin-
ued. 81 believe that the majority of
our people are convinced of the neces-
sity of reservations with the league.
1t would appear to an outsider that both
sides were in agreement on all the
great major ideas of the league and the
major ideas of reservations but that
they are in disagreement mostly over
secondary questions in the reservations
In the meantime the world is held in
suspense. Already the distrust and I'M
dermining of credit in the world has
crippled our export market"
Regarding the part the United States
will take in the rehabilitation of Eu
rope Mr.. Hoover counseled moderation.
"We have two extreme views among
our people," he said, upon the policies
we should adopt in all these matters.
One contends that the ideal is isola-
ton, leaving Europe to herself; the
other conten Is for at least moral domi-
nation as a mission of international
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Assuming that the treaty would be
ratified "some day" in some form" he
expressed a hope that it might serve
1Sto bring about a reduction of arma-
ment and the development of engines
of Cancellation, of arbitration and codes
and courts of international justice"
I'VE hope for its influence in the de-
struction of the economic barriers set
up before and since the war" he con-
tinued, (which stifle the recuperation
of and the free entry of our own com
merce over the world. Some of us hope
the league will not interpose in inter-
national difference except in the last
stage necessary to mitigate the growth
of conflict. Some of US have no liking
for mandates of any, European state.
for we would thus plunge ourselves
terr1torially into Europe itself, with a
long train OF dangers. Most of us have
no ambitions to moral or other domi-
nation"
Except where the interests Of the
United States are vitality concerned
Mr.. Hoover declared himself as op-
posed to American members on the
various missions provided for in the
treaty for the settlement of questions
raised by the war. The loanng OF
money except to alleviate distress was
also opposed. Our best assistance in
healing Europe's economic wound lies
in the promotion of the great processes
OF private commerce." he said, mot in
loans from our government"
Mr. Hoovers references to the peace
treaty and its ratification was proceed
ed by the pHJentatio1 of statistics
calculated to indicate what he called
the heart breaking under payment Of
school teachers. There are, he said
100000 teaching positions in the public
schools that now are vacant or filled
by teachers below standard The num-
Der of teachers receiving less than $45C
Il year, he placed at 10000 Salary in
creases had been granted in some cases
, he said, but theCe ranged from 10 to 2,
: per cent, while the cost of living had
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