Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
COX ASKS TAFT
NINE QUESTIONS
ABOUT LEAGUE.

the latter support OF senator HARD
ing, the Republican presidential nom
inee.
The Democratic presidential can
didate gave numerous quotations
from Mr.. Taft's statement today and
past speeches in support of the
league. The governor asked wheth-
err Senator Harding and the former
president were not Joined together
'1n deliberate deception"
Ex-President Taft" Governor Cox
told throng of thousands in the
Coliseum, Gin recent statement dis
cusses the proposal of adopting the
League Of Nations by leaving Article
10 out of it, and responds to the
suggestion with these words: That
| is exactly what we want I should
| like to ask Judge Taft these ques-
| tons:
| The Questions
| al. Did you not in an article to
| the Covenanter under the title The
Principle We Fought For discuss
/ Article 10 in these words: The law
Of the league with the sanction OF
| the power of the league, thus for
| bids the violation Of the Information.
al commandant, thou shalt not steal
| by force. It is the embodiment of
the principle that we entered and
fought this war to maintain,
'2. Did~you not also in the same
article say the Monroe doctrine as
originally declared by Monroe was
Article 10, limited to the aggression
Of non-American nations against
countries Of the western hemisphere?
"3. Did you not in the same artt-
Gle also use these words: Article
tS nF tho forward
provided in the league for the secur-
ing of general peace?
"a. You say that the league to
enforce peace, of which you were
chairman, had not Article 10 in its
proposition. Shouldn't you have been
Pile by telling them that your plan
only had four articles in 1t and that
your substitute for Article 10 was
article three? Can you deny that In
your Article 8 you provided. for the
joint use of the military forces of
the signatory powers in event of vio-
lation of the conditions Of the cove
nant?
"5. Did not your proposal carry
definite legal obligation to employ
forces and in this respect was it
not very much more drastic than Ar
ticle 10 of the league?
Sc. You say that Senator Harding
mas dlISAuy VOL6u kWlC6 lOI Liz
league with reservations, but you
failed to say that your candidate
within the last two weeks very def
nitely announced that If he had 1t
to do over again he would not vote
for the league even with the Lodge
reservations.
Objects Of Reservations
az. You say that Senator Harding
promises that as president he will
ay,fs tall
10. To whom has he given the prom
Use? Certainly not to Senators John
son and Borah. Every one knows
that he has not given 1T to the Amer
lean people. Has he given it to you?
If.so, is 1t not SO much in conflict Itdt
ment that he proposes from now on
to turn his back on the league
with or without reservations-that 1t
joins both YOU and him together in
deliberate deception?
IS. Assuming that the pledge has
been given to you, then may we not
answer it with your own words,
spoken at luncheon given by the
civic organizationY of lifornia, in
which you said:
1.-The gentlemen in the senate
who are setting out to defeat this
League of Nations are those I would
not trust overnight
80. How do you reconcile your re-
cent statement that the president
was responsible for the failure to
ment in your Metropolitan opera
house speech March>5, 1919, as fol-
lows:
eff the president insists, as 1
hope he will, that the league be in
corporated in the peace treaty, and
postponing peace is with the body
that refuses to ratify it, and also
with that part of your speech deliv-
cred January, 1919, at the Academy
"T am inclined to think that the
persons who prepared the reserva-
tions as a whole, were shootir~ down
the avenue at the White House"
Judge Taft and Senator Harding
In all four of the governors speech
es to crowds today at Springfield,
Litchfield and East st. Louis. I'LL,
and to his Coliseum crowd tonight.
Governor Cox emphasized that be-
tween him and Senator Harding was
now the clear-cut issue of league or
no, leag que"
"a vote for the senatorial candi-
date means vote against the
league. while a vote for me means
clared. denouncino the senator's posi-
ton as provincial. selfish. unholy.
nd in fact, l1a-Christian"
Governor Cox. championing the
league, gave concisively what - said
We're the four great causes Of war
and the four league "cura tives."
Causes Of the War
eff anything were needed to clari-
fy the present situation with respect
to the League of Nations said the
governor, ''it has been amply proviN-
ed in the last few days. Senator
Harding, in what would appear to
be his ultimatum, compelled under
the threat of Senators 'Borah and
Johnson, says that he is against the
league without or with reservations
So far as he is concerned, the mat
ter is disposed of and to use his own
whole thing. He offered no alter
native, but holds out the hope that
a new association Of nations may be
formed.
Nov comes ex-President Taft's
statement in which he says that Sen
ator Harding's suggestion is practi-
cable, that the league is now func-
eight months and sthat the rest of
| the world cannot be expected to undo
a plan into which forty-one ma
lions have entered.
Il have found it an easy. matter
to present the basic principles OF
primary objective Of preventing war.
| Reduced to few words, the plan is
this: The causes Of war in the
past have been:
"First-The selling of territory by
one nation from another by force.
"Second-The practice of secret
treaties under which the local con-
troversy is apt to involve dozen
nations.
"Third-The immense national ar
mamert.
"Fourth-Power Of monarchs or
their diplomats to precipitate war
overnight.
1.-THE curative measures are these:
"Eirst-Article 10 of the league is
nothing except the eighth command
ment, Thou shalt not steal
"Second-Al1 treaties made be-
tween nations in the future must
be filed as public documents with