The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-01-06
FRELINGHUYSEN VOICES NEW
REPUBLICAN IDEA

Senator ]. s. Frelinghuysen. OF
New Jersey, who accompanied Pres
ident Harding on his trip to Pan
ANA, continues to be irreconcilably
against the league of nations in any
form because opposed to principles
upon which the American govern
ment was founded. He says:
II am for everything that really
is for the upbuilding and better
ment of this America in which we
live. For that reason / am for the
repeal of the Panama Canal toll act
so that America may enable the
ships of her new merchant marine
to pass through the canal the people
of this country built without pay
ment of a toll to British COM
merce, for that is what the present
law means. For the same reason
am opposed to the present league
OF nations covenant. Were we to
enter IL we should infringe those
great principles upon which our
government was founded and which
are the bases of all our greatness
and our inventive genius. l am
opposed to all monarchies and em-
pires, and / cannot join with the
Pecksniffs and Licksplttles who
would make a monarchy appear
more conserving of liberty than is
free America. | do not want to
see the vitality OF the United States
utilized to maintain the domination
Il empires anywhere.
I'VE hold that all governments
derive their just powers from the
consent OF the governed. The peo-
pie of Ireland, the people of India,
the people of Korea, the people of
the Philippines have an inherent
right to be free. l do not desire
TO see the United States enter into
any league with foreign powers
which would even tend to with
hold from them the eventful ac-
complishment of that right. We
also consider II self-evident that
church and state should be separ-
| ated, each performing its function
| for the good of all when apart and
| both suffering when either seeks
to control the other. We have en-
| joyed the blessing of this separa-
| tion SO long that we hardly give II a
second thought. Yet this principle
does not prevail in the states which
are members of the league now as
sembled at Geneva. We stated In
| the Declaration OF Independence.
we provided In our constitution. we
fought through four long and bloody
years because we believed that all
| men are created equal In oppor-
! tunity and under the law. Why
should we minimize that principle
by allegiance to league which
| does not guarantee II? We hold
that q Republican form OF govern
| ment, based upon equality OF rep
resentation ana universal suffrage
of all men and women without re-
striction as to wealth. creed or col
or, based upon system OF checks
and balances between the legislative,
executive and judicial branches. so
| that no man or set of men may
obtain and keep arbitrary power,
is the best form of government in
the world.
| "The present league OF nations
| these principles. II seis forth In
no glorious preamble to an i'm
mortal document that these God
all time. Yet our fathers died foi
all time. eYt our fathers died fol
these principles. They left the
Old World and founded this ma
tion in the new In order that these
principles might be established anc
preserved. They held them dearei
than peace, dearer than life, with
out them. and SO they fought and
died for them. We have been told
that the league will assure perma'
nent peace. as though that in IL
self were to be sought for above
every other good. l do not believe
II will bring peace. ] am OF tht
opinion that II will do the opposite
But even II II were true. shoulc
be as bitterly opposed to II unless
IL assured a peace which woult
perpetuate everywhere the ideal