Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-22
TO g, escape future wars.


antcc, by the blood of our bows. anc
an OF our property, to protect tn,
title of England, France, japan nnc
other nations to the lands and pco,
pies, grabbed by them at the Paris
conference.
Mr.. Wilson, according to the FrrncI
official minutes of the session of thc
Peace Conference, made the follow.
ing statement to the Serbian and
Roumanian delegates:
IF the world finds itself troubled
anew, II the conditions which we all
regard as fundamental nre again
drawn into question, the guaranty
whieh IS given to you will mean that
tne United States will send to this
siue oil the ocean their army ind
their navy"
Mr.. Wilson also said that his COW
enant OF the League of Nations had
teeth IN it," These teeth are easily
aiscerned, they are Amcmnn sold
iers ON foreign battle fields. DO YOU
want your boys to be sent to China.
Japan, Siberia nnd Throughout the
length and breadth of the world to
1ie Ill order to put teeth" in the
wilson League of Nations?
In speech President Wilson put
out as authoritative, he said:
And back of that lies the funda-
mental and important fnct that when
the decisions (of the League of Ma
atons) arc made, the allied and ns-
sociated powers guarantee to main
tam them," and that "if nny Gov
ennnts of this settlement (meuniny
League of nations) nrc not observed
the United States will send her nrm,
les and navics to see they nrc obscrv-
Cd Also, i'll answer to II question
asked him before the Foreign Relat-
IONS Committee at Washington Inv
Senator Lodge, MIR. Wilson said. eve
would he under an absolutely COM
pelilng moral obligation" to partici
pate IN the event there was extcrnnI
aggression against some power which
could only be repcllcd by force of
arms. And ut White House Con-
ference, Mr.. Wilson snid to Senator
Brandcgce, Nothing will prevent
war"
On May 6. 1911, Woodrow Wilson
said:
America should lead her own life.
we cannot form alliances with those
VINO are not going our way. We need
not ana we should not form alliances
with any nation in the world. Those
who are right, those who hold their
honor higher than their advantage
do not need alliances"
After MIR. Wilson made his tuip to
Paris and mixed and mingled with
the crowned heads of Europe. md
was shown II vision of II world super-
government and an international
iiag, 1t would seem that he forgot
the American sentiments expressed by
him in 1911, and came back home
preaching new doctrine OF inter
nationalism instead Of Amcricanism.
Senator Harding is against the
Wilson League of Nations, us it is
clearly n league Of war and not of
peace, and deprives the United Stntcs
OF complete liberty of action and
impairs her independence ond SOW
ereignty. Senator Harding stands for
an association of nations, based OH
right and Justice, and not on force.
Twcnty-one Democratic Senators
voted against the ratification of the
Wilson League. of Nations bccnusc
they believed il was league of war
and not of peace.
Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist.
said: l am not for league with
out reservations, and if Jim Cox and
the democratic party stand by the
kind of League Wilson brought home
with him, they will 20 to digging
graves so deep they will never hear
Gabriels trumpet on judgment day."
Elihu Root, Herbert Hoover. George
Wickcrsham and twenty-eight other
prominent citizens have come out i'm
signed article against the Wilson
League of Nations, and these gentle
men, together with William Howard
Taft, are actively opposing Cover
nor Cox and supporting Senator IIar-
ding.
MIR. SLEMP'S RECORD.
Boiling II. Handy, who is mex
perenced in both business and poli-
tical life, and who says that he is
running for Congress because he has
nothing else TO do, criticised Mr..
Slemp because he was not actually
present in Congress and voted on
every bill. Mr.. Slemp was present at
his post of duty when every impor-
tant bill was voted on, and when he
did not actually vote, he was paired
with n Congressman on the opposite
side.
He is one of the oldest in length
of service of any of the members of
Congress. He has as much influence
as any other single Congressman, ana
after November End, when Senator
Harding will certainly be elected
: President, he will be the only real
representative that Virginia will
have in the Congressional halls. The
Richmond Evening Journal, Demo
cratic newspaper, recently made a
plea on behalf of Mr.. Slcmp, and
called him "thc saving grace for
/ Virginia"
! Mr.. Slemp is n member of the Ap.
: preparations Committee of the House
of Representatives, and as Chairman
OF the subcommittee on Fortifica-
tions. he saved the tax payers OF
this nation one hundred and one mil.
lions of dollars OH one item bv ci,t.