The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-10
COX PROMISES TO
PRESENT irish
CAUSE" TO LEAGUE
Question Needs Settlement
to Promote Peace Between
English Speaking Races,
Democratic Nominee Says.

BUTTE, Mont, Sept. 10-A definite
pledge TO present the Irish cause" to
the league of nations, in event of his
election, and further attack on Re-
publican leaders and that party's con-
tributions, were made here last night by
Governor Cox in closing his Montana
campaign.
In three speeches yesterday at Hell
ena, Anaconda and Butte, and in a
half dozen rear platform talks en- route
the Democratic candidate, concluding
the first week of his Western tour,
hammered the league, the Republican
corruption fund" and labor issues into
his audiences
governors meeting here in front of the
courthouse lawn.
1T would be me duty" he said, land
very quickly awaited of, as a friend Of
peace, asserting the friendly right of
any member of the league, to present
the Irish cause to the attention of the
league under the authority given by
article eleven and give to Ireland, or
any. other aggrieved people, the oppor-
tunity to plead their cause before the
bar of civilized opinion
Dealing with testimony before the
senatorial investigating committee at
Chicago. Governor Cox made fresh as
saults upon Will H. Hays, Republican
national chairman; Treasurer Upham
and his assistant, Harry M. Blair The
mony had confirmed his charges, on
the heels of denials by Chairman Hays
and other Republican officials.
In discu, sing the league, the COVER
nor presented local questions in Ana
conda and Butte with their large labor
ing, populations of many racial sources
and their copper interests. And at
Helena he also argued reclamation de-
velopment. Through the league, the
candidate said, material propriety would
IaI ,,lr
copper and other products of mine, farm
and labor, when European conditions
become stabilized
The Irish question, Governor Cox
said, needs settlement to promote peace
between the English speaking races.
nant, providing for consideration by the
league council or assembly of any in
ternational questions whatever, which
threaten to disturb either the peace
or the good understanding between ma
tions," Governor Cox said that under
existing conditions the Irish question
could not be presented ito the bar of
public opinion"
Under the league it can" he con-
tinued. I'VE have four times as many
people Of Gaelic blood in the United
States as there are in Ireland, and
: their natural feelings not only figure
IN our domestic relations, but also stand
like granite between the stretching
. udiluS Oh England ana America. 80
long, therefore, as the Irish question
remains unsettled, there will be some
conflict in America with the idea Of
world wide cooperation between the
English speaking nations.
1T must not be forgotten that when
We took gup arms the thing that gave
us unity and great enthusiasm was ouI
declaration that we fought to end the
rule of might that we were champions
of the rights of small peoples: that we
stood for the reign of law pa sed upor
the consent Of the governed. AS l have
said before, the league contemplates
enduring peace. There can not be peace
without happiness. There will not BIZ
happiness without justice. You can no.
=" take mountains nor rivers, nor Other
physical characteristics, and by theil
natural lines create governmental en-
titles that will endure On the othel
hand, racial groups will form better
guarantee of peace. This is not onl!
fundamental common sense, but i
Z touches the basic principle Of the ar
mistice and the league itself. Therefore
/ contend that the league of nations
will be helpful to the civilization of tn,
world because it will be creative of {
new life, national and otherwise, TO
racial vroups, which have for genera
lions fUstered the same aims and hope
and aspirations that inspired the foun
ders of our republic"