Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-28
COVENANT
is VERY PLAIN
Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke
Speaks at Anderson.

/ ANDERSON, Ind. Aug. 2S.-''The
heart of the league of nations covenant
is a new international commandment,
Thou shalt nto steal
Mrs Grace Julian Clarke said this
afternoon in an address given on the
league of nations before large audi
ence here. Mrs. Clarke, who formerly
was head of the State Federation OF
women's clubs, is speaking for the
democratic party throughout Indiana on
the league and its Importance as an
agency for international peace.
Mrs. Clarke has been nonpartisan in
her political viewpoint until the present
campaign.
She says the position taken by the
republican party on the league of ma
tions has forced her from nonpartisan-
shin.
..The league covenant" Mrs. Clarke
said. lis not an abstruse and involved
document. but very clear and simple
1t is quite capable of comprehension by
the average person"
She examined the provisions of the
league. constitution Under four heads
Reduction of armament. settlement of
international disputes by arbitration,
abolshmeEt Of secret treaties and the
end of imperialism.
Reduction Of armaments,'' Mrs.
Clarke said. is provided for under
Article VIII of the league compact. His
tory teaches us that all great wars have
resulted chiefly from huge military
Preparations We all know that Ger
manys huge military equipment and the
war party which this militarism devel-
oped. was primarily responsible for the
world wrT.
GIVES CAUSES
or WAR.
Vast ornaments have always necessi-
tated enormous taxation: they have with
drawn from production, by CONSUMPTION.
all able-bodied young men; they have
nourished a spirit of autocracy and con-
scienceless greed, and they have devel-
oped that destructive lust exhibited by
Germany in the late war;
Mrs. Clarke told her audience that
limitation of armament is practicable and
proved her point by citing the cases of
Canada and the United Ststes.
Both Of these nations have always had
q small armament, sufficient merely for
needs Of defense. she said. and because
of the limitations voluntarily placed on
its army and navy. the United States
has never developed n spirit of interna-
tiOnal aggression.
War must be the last resort in set
Ting difficulties that arise between ma
tiOns within the league" Mrs Clarke
said. ANY controversy between two ma
tons must he submitted TO three bodies
in turn before the disputing nations may
resort to war. These bodies are the
council. the assembly, and the interna-
tional court provided for in the cove
nart The machinery of this court is
now being established.
HOW LEAGUE
OPERATES.
IF either nation is dissatisfied with
the findings Of these bodies it is for
hidden, under the league covenant. to
90 to war for at least three months
after the award of the last body has
been made Nearly a year will then
have been consumed by the deliberations
and the enforced wait. 1t is evident
that delay o. such length VIII go far
toward modifying the temper of the bel
Iigerent."
Mrs. Clarke explained the economic
boycott and analyzed its effect. 1t coult
be used by the league as a last resort
to prevent war. she said. by depriving
the belligerents with the supplies neces-
sary to carry on war.
THE object Of the league is TO pre-
serve peace among the nations by assum-
ing certain obligations that VIII he bind
ing on all alike" said Mrs. Clarke. 1t
does not establishe a super-state. 1t
does not commit it's members for all
time but only for two years. 1t does
rot involve the sending Of American sol
Giers TO remote regions or sending them
anywhere without the consent Of con-
gless.
1T does not destroy the Monroe doc
tr:ne but for the first time in its his
tory the principle is recognized by the
nations of the world. 1t does not give
England six votes to our one. for deci-
sio1s alone are reached by unanimous
consent"
Mrs. Clarke said in her opinion tho
only hope for independence for Ireland
dies in he league of nations.
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