The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-11-01
The League, Yes or No?
Debate on That Important Issue.
10y JosEpHvs D4 !. Seer

q 10y JOSEPHUS DANIELS, SecTetar
The opposition to he president
foreign policy grows almost entirel
: out OF hostility to him. II 10 eithe
personal hostility. as IL unfortunatel
the case In some Instances. or politica
0 hostility. which IL very largely III
case; so that opposition to what h
has lone in regard to the treaty q
peace, embracing the league OF ma
tons, In made pretext for a suppose
necessity OF reversing the foreign pol
10y Of the country.
The hostility OF the dominant re
dictionary leaders OF the senptc 10 tn
litIcal Desperation. BY. the craft o
politics these siiversmiths. who ar,
"Eetting the money" for the republi
can campaign fund have their wealth
They pitched their campaign from tn,
round robin sent to Paris to the lates
\ the plane. first, Of shuttle and scuttle
and then Of nebulouB vagueness.
cannot understand how any mar
or woman who, when congress dc.
clared war, gave loyal and patriotic
men and women who lack the vision
TO see that failure to do our part after
disgrace as failure to have borne III
| part molly in the war. Butt am peri
| suaded that most OF these, when the
| din OF partly shibboleths no longer
| drown the call Of national conscience.
win coma to see that continued Amer.
tho worlds history win be American
dlshonor and American population OF
It's sons who gave theirlives In the war
against war.
It Is not only the foreign policy, as
expressed In the treaty or Versailles.
which Senator Harding promises 70
a "compiete reversal Of our foreign
policy" That IL sweeping piece Of
annihilhtion ana one which should
give pause to every thoughtful citizen.
Our foreign policy should not be the
SSsSs e 81 P Sdss ss: St BEEN
eight years, and seldom, in previous
administrations. Our foreign policy
has been almost In our entire history.
dictated as now by Observation-Disclosures
friendship with all nations and the
Spirit OF justice and h;S q ~ e. !:
when he formulated the Monroe doc
trine as 1.-The tool OF Great Britain"
and declared It meant sending without
approval Our boys BY the hundreds or
thousands TO fght and die In South
American countries 70 neip peopis 70
sought to scare mothers then by hold
ing up the Monroe doctrine as the sure
procurer of war just as today they teli
us the covenant OF peace carries many
wars In it's provisions. What has ex-
cal step embodied In the Monroe doc
trine? 1t Is hailed now as our pillar
OF Are by night. II IL recognized. for
the FIRST time. by other nations in the
Versailles treaty. There 10 just as
much truth In the charge that the
league OF nations conceals sword as
that the Monroe doctrine would bring
about many wars. and the spectre OF
Great Brltain's being benefited over
other antions by the Monroe doctrine
had as much foundation as the latter
day pretense that the league Of ma.
tons gives that nation advantage over
other nations.
Our foreign policy on this hemisphere
has forever done away with the dis
credited dollar diplomacy which en-
dangered the continued faith OF our
neighhors in American disinterested.
ness. The friendship TO Cuba and
o syn ana ' me w msi snss we
have no territoriai greed and that our
only purpose Ii to help our neighborB
as they work out their larger destiny
Arc such. policies to be "completely
reyersed?" Il the people have q
are to be substituted and how far
backward we are to be carried In this
, In recent years treaties Of peace |
have been ratified between nearly All
the nations o. the earth. known az ne
beforsy war could be declared. Are
these policies 10 be reversedf
II the Lansing rshii agreement look.
ing toward O better understanding and |
with the island kingdom to |
be reversed? And are We. to undo sll
the other measures which make the
to our republic by cor,plete.. reversal?
Il he to reverse the policy OF refusing
10 deal with bnlshevisrn7 II
What Ia to be our foreign policy II
everything 10 to be reversed Are
ttreatics 20 be scraps OF paber7 or ts
process Of nsgctisting new treaties
with the many nations which now un-
ierstand our wise and helpf,il foreign
OF all things In the unset
led condition OF the world at this
nrs s shs threat threat Of os,s. cH q sst d
.urbing. ana II Il were possible TO
DO carried out would be most disas.
.rous No. instead Of complete re.
,ersal OF our foreign policies the need
9 for all the world to know that the
', As . foreign p9Iiey e ILLUSTRATED nH
diplomacy In the far east, the Wilson
Mobile declaration that this country
,as no territorial ambitions and would
lever seek TO add to It's possessions
~ conquest, the Bryan treaties, the
realty that forhida warshipE or forts
between the territory OF the. United
states and Canada, the league OF ma
ions, which President Wilson had
arge share in framing--the knowledge
hat the United States stands for such
oreign policies and win not change
he world and insure continued do
nestle prosperity than any and every.
hing else that the statesnanship OF
he world could devise. And the last
! the greatest--the covenant Of peace
drowning the aspiration OF free mon
ince the Prince Of Peace was born
n Bethlehem. II was blood bought .
4 the lives OF American and other
rave youths, It's contamination viii 2
II high their deeds as chivalric cruz
aders who achieved more In their
acrince than any valorous fighters In
no file Of time.