The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-21
GOV. cox TELLS WHAT, HE WILL DO FOR THE
 CAUSE OF IRELAND

world through the League of=sNa- 'tions. (Wave after wave of applause and entire audience rose and shouted approval.)
 Some say it is asdomestic question. deny it. Senator Harding says it is domestic question. I deny it. It is a world tragedy It has become a war of extermination and the con- science of the wcrld will not permit it to go on. The. League of Nations is the scientifically established as- semb1age Of the conscience of the world. If you say to me that the the homes of old men and old-women is not revolting to the conscience of the world, then I proclaim that there is no longer that bond between God and the conscience of humanity. GA voice-Right) that morality has ceas- ed to be a part of the policy of na- tions.
 want you to know that Senator Harding was interviewed by a Lon don paper on the Irish question and his interview was published in Lon don. I was interviewed by the same paper. My interview was not printed in the London papers. His was. Sen ator Harding doubtless convinced the paper, in question that he spoke the mind of America. I believe I con vinced the paper that there was another form of public opinion in America, and I say to you that there is another form of public opinion in England herself. because in the morning papers I saw evidence of the popular protest in England herself. People even there are demanding the facts with reference to the recent re- to the conscience of man. be he Irish, French, German, Italian, English or American.
 Let's see what is the other objec- tion. Six votes to one. Have you heard that? Laughter) Did they tell you England has six votes and we have one? GA voice-Yes.) That s all right except it isn't true. In the assembly England has one and we have one, Canada has one. It is en- tit1ed to one. When Ireland is free, Ireland will have one. She is entitled to one just as Canada is entitled ito one. No soldiers fought more bravely than the Canadian soldiers, No nation bled more deeply than did the Can adian nation.
 It is intended in the assembly that every nation should have a, vote. Eng land has one and each of the five British dependencies has one. To the assembly will not go the disputes be- tween nations. They will go to the in- ternational court of justice and the council. In the assembly rules and regulations will be framed, interna- tional law revised and membership passed on. Nothing can be done ex- cept by unanimous vote, so that one vote is as good as ten thousand votes. The Hitchcock reservation in the Senate provided that if England should have a matter before the as- sembly that her vote and the vote of her dependencies should pass off while it was being decided, and if Canada had matter. there the votes pendencies- should pass off as well the vote of Canada. Who kept that reservation out? The senatorial oligarchy that is now telling that tho league ought to be rejected because it. is in. That is an index of their hypocrisy and conceit. I am in favor of the Hitchcock reservation.
 'I want to go a step further. l think it well to know where the two candidates stand on the question. want to be fair to Senator Harding, but I don't know where he stands to- night because I haven't read the af- ternoon papers.
 'T can tell where he has been at thirteen different times There was a lady in the front row at Providence this morning. She asked me a ques- tion and I asked: Where does your candidate stand on the League % She said: Tt would take long time to tell you" I never heard a more truthful observation. Senator Hard ing voted for the mild reservations, then he voted for the Lodge reser- vations, and he said a month ago if he had to do it over again he wouldn't vote for the Lodge reserva- rions. He then voted for the Knox Germany. The Republican platform says the League has signal1y failed One morning he came out son the porch and said: q have made great that will take the place of the League, the Hague Tribunal The Hague Tribunal was locked up dur ing the war. Under the Hague Tri- bunal within fifteen years the four of the greatest wars in history were fought Roosevelt in his speech at Christiana, Norway, in 1910 showed wEy the Hague Tribunal had failed
 because it had no police power behind it We never have to enforce a. de- United States because it isn't neces- sary, the moral influences of the na- the Senator came out and said: T ton are sufficient. A week afterwards have made a real discovery. I have something now that is better than The Hague, the international court of justice. Elihu Root is helping to work it out in Europe" It wasn't haps knew all the time, that Elihu Root was asked to come to Europe by the 41 nations now in the League in order that they might work out 1tlSLlCG which is the supreme court of the League of Nations to which-treaty disputes will be referred. WI2en the Senator discovered that the thing lie had endorsed was a part of the League ho disowne,i his own child On tho 6th Of Snl,teInber he said IT ! the first part of his speech: Amend -nent CT revision or reccnstructior | Of the League Covenant is still among i the possibilities" At the end ot thi; . samc speech, he said: ''The League [ has now passed beyond the possibili ! tics Of restoration" He went ta Des l Hioines not long ago. Senator Eorc.i 1 had waved his big Idaho stick .ant ! said he wouldn't play and cancelled his speaking engagements. Nler | Senator Harding arrived at De. Moines hc spoke plainly and this i
 what he said: Cox favors going into the League. favor staying cut. I af1 | not concerned about clarification.
 am concerned about rejection" Wine, i he got back to Marion q storm o