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MARYLAND and Virxinia.
The victors' League Survives.

II Is hlgniy unueSNaDle iTofIi tHe
viewpoint of national welfare that a
republican victory on November
should be construed to mean a ma
tional decision for isolation. and for
reputation of all responsibility and
obligation to cooperate with the allies
in ending the world war by joint
treaty which shall do justice and pro-
mote enduring peace.
Such a victory will not naturally
have and no attempt is wisely made
to force it to have. this meaning.
BY deciding in favor of the repub-
licans the nation will refuse to go into
Federation of the World under a
Constitution or Covenant which, the
nation by rejection will declare, gives
too much power to the superSovern-
.n1ent: demands too great sacrifices OF
independent power by America as a
federating nation: and distributes rep
+, resentative power in the proposed
world government unequally and I'M
justly.
eAAs
United States out of the Association
of Nations which includes the allies
with whom the United States in war
associated itself, the Fictors' League.
which won the war with Germany ard
which makes by treaty and will en-.
force the final lasting peace. Repub-
lican success involves no reputation
of obligations springing logically and
81 directly from our declaration of war
- against Germany and from combining
as an associate with other nations in
winning the war and in making peace.
Nor will refusal to enter the par
ticular kind Of world league that il
rejected mean reputation of the as.
ISOLATION Of nations which set up The
Hague tribunal. Agreement of the
world that the DEGREES of this tribunal
must be obeyed and shall be enforced
u will. of itself. give birth to an eff
fectively peaee-promoting league Of
nations.
The election of a republican Presi.
dent will not even mean that no use
whatever may be made Of wholesome
provisions Of the Versailles pact. Ar
ticle X and every other provision Of
the covenant echoing or rejecting its
spirit would be automatically rejected.
But whether much, little or none Of
the other agreements Of the pact
i" should survive and be renewed would
be determined not by the new Presi.
dent alone, but BY the President and
two-thirds of the Senate cooperating
in the manner directed by the Con.
stitution, as it's provisions are con.
> strued by the Supreme Court: and
with the aequiescence also of our as
sociates in the "victors' League" II
we are to make peace with Germany
jointly with them, just as we have
made war.
The United States through Congress
lin accordance with the constitutional
declared war against Germany. The
executive and legislative branches CO.
> operated vigorously and effectively to
give force and final success to the war
declaration. In pursuance of the dec
laration the United States through its
Army and Navy in order to win the
war merged its forces with these Of
the allies, and through this united
~ strength Germany was beaten.
The same unity which won the war
naturally extends to the making OF
nd IN MI fhof he
peace terms shall be obeyed or en-
forced.
This post bellum unity is an essen
tial and integral part Of waging and
carrying to a successful conclusion
the war which Congress declared. The
declaration authorizing the making oil
war also authorized by it's original
impulse the ending Of the war BY
- treaty and the doing and agreeing te
do such things in conjunction with
the allies as will enforce and compel
obedience to the terms of that treaty
If those whom the nation sent tt
= Versailles to cooperate with the allie.
in laying down peace-guaranteeinf
j
had undertaken to commit the nation
to no undertakings except those which
flowed naturally and inevitably from
the original declaration of war by Con
gress the nation would have respond
ed heartily and with practical una
nimity in support Of their negotiatin.
representatives, and there would have
:. been no opportunity or possibility o.
Senate refusal to confirm the nego
tiated treaty.
But our representatives to nego
I'd tate a tentative treaty at Versailles
subject to confirmation by the Senate
- did not recognize this limitation. The,
undertook to bind the United State.
81 not only to cooperate in victors
. league to carry to its logical termina
ton this war. but also to surrender it
independent powers as nation to tn,
extent that was requisite to make i
member Of the world league who's
constitution is set forth in the Yer
sailles covenant.
BY it's vote in November the natio,
may decide that the forming Of thi
world league was not essential to
- wise and peace promoting Termination
of the war with Germany; that it di
not flow logically and inevitably fror
our declaration OF war against GEL
honor involved in our relations to GU