Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-15
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

The purpose Of the League of Ma
tons rs set forth in the preamble
are: Il.
"The high Contracting parties,
In order to promote international
nnce of obligations not to resort to
war; by the prescription of open,
just and honorable relations between
Nations; by the firm establishment
of the understandings Of interna-
tional law as the actual rule of con-
duct anon governments, and by the
maintenance Of justice and scrup-
ulous respect for all treaty obligat-
ions in the dealing or organized peo-
pies with one another, agree to this
Covenant of the League of Nations"
The outstanding feature of the
covenant of the League of Nations
is the promotion of international
cooperation and to achieve interna-
tional peace and security" These
lofty purposes are to be promoted
"by the acceptance of allegations not
to resort to war" and by the other
methods stated in the peamble.
1t has been charged that some par
ties who are Interested in oil prop
erty in Mexico are vigorously oppos-
ing the entry of the United States
into the League of Nations because
they want this country to wage war
against Mexico and annex n part or
all that country, in order that these
oil properties owned by citizens and
corporations Of the United States
may become more profitable. Wheth-
er so intended or not, the attitude of
these who sincerely oppose the
League encourages these spectators
in Mexican oil property and affords
them the hope that the United States
will stay out of the League and de-
clare war on Mexico and send SOL
diers across the Rio Grande.
Notwithstanding that such leading
Republicans as William Howard Taft,
Elihu Root, Herbert Hoover, George
w. Wickersham, and great many
others are in favor of the United
States joining the League of Nations,
Senator Harding, Governor Coolidge
and Congressman Slemp are against
it.
Governor Cox, Franklin Roosevelt
and Boiling Handy the Democratic
candidates who represent the pro-
gressive thought of the country, are
in favor of joining the League of Ma
tiOns and accepting the obligations
not to resort to war" contained in
the covenant of the League.
Boiling II. Handy, candidate for
Congress from the Ninth Virginia
District, was among the first to vol
unteer to fight on the fields of France
to save civilization and protect the
people Of America and of Virginia
and of the Ninth Virginia District.
He had not received a military ed
ucation as Mr.. Slemp had at Vir-
ginia Military Institute, but he heard
and answered the call of his country,
IS did many other young men from
the Ninth District. He knows the
horrors of war and wants to go to
Congress to save the boys of the
future from such horrors. The in
dependent men and women who vote
in the Ninth District on November
2, next, will decide the issue. 1t is
believed they will vote for Mr.. Handy
and empower him as their agent to
insist that the United States shall
follow the paths of peace. Lieutenant
Handy in Congress would not vote
for a joint resolution for separate
peace with Germany, which Mr..
Lodge once declared would cover
us with everlasting dishonor and
bring ruin to us Also" Neither would
he vote for war with Mexico in the
of American c0ncessionaries.
Bristol Herald Courier.