The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-10-15

the nations of the world. II proposes
to produce political preparedness for flu
ture peace The preamble to the cove
nant OF the league reads in part: We.
the undersigned nations. pledge ourselves
not to resort to war, but to settle all
questions of international differences by
arbitration" .
The saddest thing in the whole cam
raign this year IS the fact that some
among the opponents Of the league are
that this league means future wars for
America. It Is like telling the mothers
that Kidding America Of the saloon will
make more drunkenness. 1t is like tell
Ing them women voting will make our
government less efficient. 1t Is trying to
make white appear black
What The Women Say
Anna Howard Shaw. one of the most
beloved leaders OF the modern American
women Is heartily In favor OF the League
OF Nations. and in one OF the last speech
es she made in a plea to the women on
League she said:
IF the present senate repudiates the
covenant Of the league. see to 1t that a
new group OF senators are elected who
Will ratify tn covenant and the treaty.
Mrs. Carrie chatham Gait has said:
THE vast majority Of the women
workers in the home and out OF IT will
vote for the elague provided 1t be not OBJ
scured by mass Of lesser measures In
the campaign and on the ballot
"Miss Mary Mcdowell of Chicago. who
has done more for humanity in that city
says:
1.-The League Of Nationes phrases
the deep longings of women for some
piece Of machinery which will make for
permanent peace.
And SO many hundreds Of American
women Of influence and deep thought
great ideal against war. crystalizing the
present League Of Nations"
League Is Fact"
The League Of Nations today is an
The league was inevitable. European
boundaries were so upset. so many new
nations had to be created that some OF
organized world power should be pro-
vided to settle the world after the great
conflict. The League of Nations did not
originate with the Democratic party. IT
was born out of world necessity. And
was a natural outgrowth of the twentieth
century ideals and aspirations in the
hearts Of men.
No political party of any country
could impose a League OF Nations on the
world. Statesmen from every nation In
the world worked upon the covenant and
IT simply happened that a democratic
president sat at the peace table. II 1t
had been a republican president. he too,
for the League Of Nations and there
would have been League Of Nations be-
cause it was after-war necessity.
THE republican party desires to scrap
merely an international court of justice,
as 1 take it, som ething like the Hague
tribunal was. The Hague tribunal fall
ed at teh beginning Of the war. 1t failed
to stem the rising tide Of war. The Ma
lions Of Europe have asked. why go
back to it?' and tehy have accepted
the Twentieth Century League of Nations
for the enforcement of peace. To go
back to The Hague tribunal idea, to
make for world peace and to repudiate
OK cart when the automobile Is avail
able.
What guarantee has the republican
party to offer: that all the world which
cally every great nation is in) will
turn their backs upon the League Of Ma
tons and go back to the Hague tribunal
idea?
"Under the League of Nations. Christ
ian ideals are upheld for the solution of
many world problems. Christianity >and
slavery could not exist side by side.
Slavery went down. Christianity and the
liquor traffic could not exist in America
side by side. and the selling of liquor
and Christianity cannot exist in the
same world therefore, war must be eradi-
Gated.
The international Labor Commission
ed by the League of Nat ons is an inter-
national labor commission. They have
met and they have recommended stand
ards for every country against child la
eight hour days for working women and
have recommended that no woman be
allowed to work in shop or factory for
IL weeks before child birth. This again.
Is the first time in the history OF the
world that Interna tionally a commission
could recommend to all nations Of the
world Christian ethics for labor.
IAN international health office Is plan
ned under the League and measures are
under way to check the epidemic Of ty-
ready the league has settled a dispute
between Poland and hthuania- and
30 in and through the various commits
sions we see the ideals Of Christianity
presenting themselves to the world. -
eff the truth about the League Of Ma
tons could reach every woman voter.
does it not seem that the vote would be
largely in favor of this great instrum-
entality for the stopping Of warfare? A
vote for Cox and Roosevelt Is vote
toward world peace.
THE democratic party has been very
fair to women, At the convention in
San Francisco 1t adopted practically
every plank which the League of Women
Voters desired to be put into the plat
form: Child Welfare, education. home
and high prices. women in gainful oc-
equations. public health. and morals
and independent citizenship for married
women. The republican response to the
same demand were not so satisfactory
The republicans omitted several Of the
important things the women asked for.
OF the child welfare program. they in
cluded only the prohibition Of child la
Dor, ignoring the request for an adequate
appropriation for the childrens bureau
and the protection Of infant life through
/ a federal program for maternity and in
fancy. both measures Of great import
ance to women. Neither did they indorse
a federal department Of education. while
the plank for a continuance OF appro-
priations to carry on an active campaign
for the prevention of social diseases and
for education in sex hygiene was entire
ly passed over"
WOMAN IN THE CASE