The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-09-29
CONSTITUTION
OR THE LEAGUE
Voters Have to Choose
Between Two Docu-
} ID. ments.
NO DOUBT OF RESULT
Flag for Which a Million Men
Have Died Will Not BE
Torn Down for League.
BY WILLIAM HosrER.


lincoln said that no government
could survive that wna half slave and
half free Equally true Is II that
the American people cannot enjoy
that fun measure OF liberty and In
dependence guaranteed thom by tho
great charter NJ once under Wilson'S
league Of nations ana the conatltu-
tlon. The nation must cloct 10 be
The ono or tho other. and from the
inspiration which may be derived
from reading anew what Gladstone
termed "the greatest document over
produced by the brain of mon" n
is woll that wo pause IN the midst Of
this momontouB campaign and giye
thought 20 what ~ rs the democratic
party would have us sacrifice.
For this purpose one need scarcely
no beyond the preamble TO the con-
stltution. II reads:
we, the people OF the United
gtatos. In order 10 form moro pcr-
feet union, establish Justice, insure
domestic tranquility provide for tho
common defense. promote the gem
eral welfare, and secure tho blcHs-
inga OF liberty To Ourselves and pos
tority. do ordain ana establish this
constitution for tho United States OF
America"
Consider this in respect 20 Will
sons league OF nations. We, the
people OF tho United States having
perfected our union are urged to
merge that union In super gov.
ernmont in which we shall have but
one vote among many. Tho Justice
which we have established In to be
Hubordinatod TO tho injustice to
which Wilson's league of nations
obligates Itself I'm the pledge to-
maintain the territorial Integrity OF
those member nations who hold
their dependent peoples In political
bondage. Tho domestic tranquility
which we have insured for ourselves
II In proposed shall bo placed Ia
Jeopardy by setting our people
against each other through unwar-
ranted Interference In tho affairs of
the European states whence millions
OF our citizens trace their ancestry.
Under the preamble II IL stated
that one of the primary purposes of
the constitution ia to provide for
the common defense, yet under VIII
sons league OF nations that vital
provision Ia taken from us and put
under tho care OF tho super state:
general welfare.
TO ourselves and our postority." TO
attain which boon tho signors OF the
Declaration OF Independence pledged
their lives their fortunes and their
sacred honor" In the he all and the
end all OF the government of the
united states. That our national SOW
ereignty shall be subordinated TO
tho VIII OF tho super state, that we
shall make war II called upon 10
restrain dependent peoples in tho
assertion OF their right to rule them-
solves, and that in pursuit of n mere
chimera we shall secure for poster
ity n heritage of wars and tho mere
shell OF our vaunted liberty and
Independence.
we, the people, Established thls
constitution "for tho United States
or America" On the 18th OF Sep
tomber tho nation will have enjoyed
lSS years OF steadily Increasing
prosperity. happiness, Influence and
power py steadily steering by the
.harted course therein marked out.
we, tho people," are now called
upon TO say whether the cxperimont
OF tho United States In self-goyern.
mont has been a failure, and we shnll
deliver ourselves over to The admin
iStraton OF er-governmant.
Constitution day comes as a timely
reminder OF the judgment the peoplo
OF tho United States must render ON
Nov. :. Either Wilson's league of
nations or the iconstitutIon-one or
tho other. must 10. The citizenshin
or tho United States must take one
side or the other; with Governor
Cox. under the banner OF tho learue
OF nations; or with Senator Harding
under tho Stars and Stripes. Which