The Delta independent., 1920-10-08

sure some OF the advocates or op
ponents of the League will say so tc
/ the country and establish the fact b,
4 cogent and conclusive arguments
No man will be more greatly relieved
than myself should this be done.
Part l has been materially changed
since it was first given to the public
These changes have greatly improved
it. but others are still essential. Even
Mr. Taft. its foremost unofficial ad
vocate. now comedies the fact. Those
which shall advocate relate to Ar
ticles l. 10. IL and 81. the reasons
for which have been discussed Sc
much and so frequently that I am
sure you are already familiar with
them.
The League in one or two very i'm
portant particulars fails to measure
up to the Presidents requirements
for a successful covenant For ex.
ample Mr.. Wilson said on January %
1917. that mere agreements may not
make peace secure. Ii will be abso-
lutely necessary that force be
l'created. as guarantor of the per.
manency of the settlement so much
/ greater than the force of any nation
now engaged or any alliance hitherto
formed or projected" that no nation
no probab BILE combination of nations
could face or withstand it. II the
peace presently TO be made is to en-.
dure. it must be peace made secure
by the organized major force of man.
kind No such organized force stands
behind this League. 1t does not en-
brace half the worlds population
On September 27th. 1918 the Pres
ident said. economic rivalries'
have been the prolific source IN rhe
modern world of the plans and pas
sions that make for war II would be
an insincere as well as an insecure
definite and binding terms May !
say that the proposed League does
not exclude them in definite and bind
] ing terms or at alI7 The sole refer.
ence TO the subject Is found in Ar
ticle %, clause (e) which is confined
to the Congress of members OF the
Z League. The President recently told
/ the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations that this clause did not con
flict with the control of members of
! the League over their economic leg
islation
In the same address the President
said: That price tof a secure and
lasting peace) is impartial justice in
every item of settlement, no matter
whose interest is crossed; and not
only impartial justice but also the
satisfaction of the several peoples
whose fortunes are dealt with. That
indispensable instrumentaiity is z
League of Nations formed under
covenants that will be efficacious.r y
Need I here do more than mention
Shantung. whose disposition cannot
be reconciled with this Indispensable
requirement?
On January %. 1877. the President
said: "A victor's terms impressed up
on the would be accepted
in humiliation. under duress at an
intolerable sacrifice and would leave
sting resentment. bitter
memory upon which terms Of peace
would rest. not permanently. but up
ON a quicksand' This is the eloquent
expression of an eternal truth.
The President has also said that a
League of Nations must be a League
of Democracies and devoted to the
principals of popular government:
that il could not admit of association
with autocracy, which could not be
relied upon to keep faith with its
associates and which would become
nest of intrigue. eating away the
heart of the League. But Japan, the
one surviving autocracy of the world.
is to be a member and one of the most
important members of this League
and with a controlling vote in the
proceedings of the Executive Council.
| endorse all these utterances of the
| President as he gave them to the
people and am more than ever con-
vinced of their soundness yet the
Leaglie as outlined in the Treaty con-
| forms to none OF these fundamental
conditions. And I am surely justified
\ in testing it by the rigid standards of
one of its greatest authors in my ef-
| fort to analyze its covenants and
forecast its consequences.
! You very properly "deplore the
efforts made by the opposition to be
| little and embarrass the President
and so do l. They are unworthy alike
of their authors and of the mighty
problem confronting them. have
had naught bnt admiration for the