Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-30
OF NATIONS
FROM BOTH ANGLES
Discussed Before Women Voters
by Democratic and Republican
Committee Representatives.

Before an audiercc Of women which
filed the ballroom Of the Hotel du Pont,
pr Ro,crt McElroy. Of New York, and
lion. kavmurd Fosdick, representing
the Republican and Democratic National
committees, respectively, made addresses
last night dealing almost entirely with
the League of Nat,ors issue. Mr.. Fosdlck
presented an argument strongly IN favor
oi the league, while the spte'h of DIR.
Nel.lroy attacked the issue from every
possible angle This was feature of the
convention nf the Delaware League of
Women voters.
"rhe league should bc considered n
non-partisan issue, declared Mr.. Eos
dick. "lt does not matter whether you
arc Republican or a Democrat, or what
your political leanings may bc. the ques-
ton involved is one far more important.
The League al Nations issue involves the
question az war II cmhodics the dream of
mankind since history began, namely,
the creation of a condition where there
will be no more war Under the covenant
disarmament will become a fact
There Is abroad an unvcrited impress
SION that signing Of the covenant mean
the transferring of authority from Wash
lngton % Geneva. Read Artlctc and
Il can bc prcccivcd that this Is not true
The league IL a substitute for war. Under
is provisions n rccalcitrant nation can
hc got IA lihc hy mcars Of the economic
hoycott The United States is probably
the nation hest equipped by reason of
yast resources 70 withstand such n boy
eott the longest \ small nation could be
brought 10 her knees within very short
timc. u commerce with other countries
was shut of
Mankind has dreamed of the climina-
tion of war throughout the ages. Various
plaes, have az different times been adj
va crd to put and 81 4 10 wholesale slaugh-
Ter and Destruction ~ Europe, during
the last tcrrihc cpuilict the most fright
Gal disaster hat the world has ever known,
| was a personal witness of horrors too
excruemtiug Ca depicf ! saw the black
horde 81 Germany sweep into Belgium,
lpaVing DESTRUCTION and death IN ITS wake.
| s,w medical workers in the front line
trcuchcs. lahorrg valrly To give aid
whcrc countless lumhers OF men were
sWirhng past them 40 streams of blood
| saw llttlc children mutilatcd and murder
pd, and WomCn outraged and disfgurod
hy the brutal tcrrr which war had un-
lnashcd : locked upon thousands Of
dead upon the tclGs battle upon Amcri-
can dead yuur dead. | saw the grave
ward "a Europe where these American
heroes lie m eternal sleep, the victims
a war the M, 81 awful war Of the ages.
WAR Nor POPULAR.
After each terrific conflict IN history.
men have paused IN horror After each
war. they have sand What can be done
~ prevent the recurrence Cf another
war; Zach time remedies IN the way e
trcatics and VOWS have been enacted
HUT with what result with tho result
that within a short space If time. all too
short a span of wears another war much
more terrible than the enc which preceded
~, would break over the civilized world
Scientists tell us that the world is on
the verge Of discoveries which will rev.
olutionize existing civilization. We are
on the verrr ~ discoveries Cflatcnt force
that viii IN all probability increase one
thousand fold the present power Cf de-
struction In other words, when another
war breaks the disbolical power of man
20 annthilate himself NAV have increased
in such degree, that he may utterly de-
struv himself and the civilization he has
nodded during the centuries. and when
that day cuueS we can no longer say,
we can not again, as we vow now
that there Vill never be another war
Rousng storms ~ applause created
many a the remarks Of Mr. Fosdick. He
continued
Under the League of Nations covenant.
some oi the diahClcal appendangcs Of
modern civilization will be done away.
I refer IN one instance 10 the traffic in
girls and women. which has become an
International trade. against which Gus
toms officials are povcrless TO cope Under
the covenant such q trait viii be eliminat-
eel hy the hest impulses Of humanity.
sweeping aside the Sc of baser tyre The
traffic in opium and drugs will be cast
into oblivion
With the resources of all nations
''pooled' the good in mankind will be
predominate. viii bc made to predominant.
and the evils, and the ilis which tester
IN portions of IL. viii be eradicated"
"As u now stands all OF the great nations
of the world stand IN favor ~ the covenant.
-Four enemy countries. including Germany,
viii probably JON IN the near future.
Those which are on the outside are not
exactly fl company for the United States"
In a rebuttal the points made by Mr..
fosdlck, were attacked one by one, in
the address Of DIR McElroy.
The Republicans are not against the
league, he SAID. They have dreamed of
the league, they have, as have all idealists,
dreamed Of eternal peace. They have
affiAAifI ~ fttifi fiAi peace, DIt TINS ItOplan
condition viii not be nursed into reality
by the League Of Nations.
What y a scrap Of paper 10 a nation
like Germany when the spirit OF war has
been famed into a flame? What does the |
mere signing Of a treaty mean TO such |
unbridled power as the Kasier repre- |
anted when the lust Of destruction has |
been once unchanged. In this late war.
the German hOrdes swept through Bel |
gum IN direct violation OF international |
edIct
II have visited and studied conditions /
N too MANY foreign lands to credit the |
isionary ideas of MIR Fosdick They +
are impossible. II all nations were made of /
the same texture as that Of the United /
States, there might he some hope. But /
this country represents the highest type
OF modern civilization, and there are mil /
lions Of peoples. composing lands which /
represent something close TO barbarism.
is II possible that the traffic IN girls /
may be stopped IN Japan, a country which
y inherently bent on this very thing? Will |
the millions of Chinese be Influenced by
the league? The worst enemy of China is
Japan, where the japanese are filing the
VEINS oi the Chinese with opium to carry
their designs into effect.
IF the League OF Nations was the |
remedy 60 the lis Of the world, would |
endorse H. But a. a matter of fact, the |