Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-01-06
FRELINGHUYSEN
new IDEA
Unwilling to Join League Which Does
Not Subscribe to Principles I'm
deriving Our Government


Senator j. S. Frelinghuysen, Of
New Jersey, who accompanied Presi-
dent Harding on his trip to Panama,
continues to be irreconcilably against
the league of nations in any form
because opposed 20 the princinles
upon which the American govern
ment was founded. He says:
81 am for everything that really is
for the upbG!Iding and bettermelC
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 payment of toll to
British commerce, 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 it we should in
fringe those gpeat 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
empires, and l cannot join with the
Pecksniffs and Lickspittles VINO
would make monarchy appear
more conserving of liberty than IS
free America.I do not want to see
the vitality of the United States
utilized to maintain the dominion Of
empires anywhere.
!. We hold that all governments de-
rive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed. The people C.
T1,1ln hn Of nd hn
pie of Korea, the people of the Philip
pines have an inherent right to be
free. | do not desire to see the Unit
ed States enter into any league with
fore gn powers which would even
tend to withhold from them the
eventful accomplishment of that
right, We also consider it self-evi-
? dent that church and state should be
separated, each performing its
function for the good of all when
= apart and both suffering when ether
seeks to control the other. We have
enjoyed the blessings of this sepa-
ration so long that we hardy give it
I a second thought. Yet this principle
I does no prevail in the states which
= are members of the league now as
= sembled at Geneva. We stated IL
o the Declaration Of Independence, we
provided in our Constitution, VIZ
fought through four long and bloody
e years because we believed that al
: men are created equal in opportunity
: and under the law. Why should VIZ
e minimize that principle by allegiance
e to league which does not guaran
q tee it? We hold that a Republican
1 form of government, based upol
$ equality Of representation and uni
s versal suffrage Of all men and womel
l: without restriction as to wealth
e creed or color, based upon a system
l. of checks and balances between tn
Q legislative, executive and judicia
e branches, so that no man or set o
d men may obtain and keep arbitrar.
q power, is the best form Of govern
e ment in the world.
IS "The present league of nation
t, dies not even mention any Of thes
y principles. 1t sets forth in no glor,
lie ops preamble to an immortal docu
o ment that these God given principle
Z. are for all men for all time. Ye
u our fathers died for these priacinles
20 They left the Old World and founde
Is this nation in the New in order tina
these principles might be establishe
s. and preserved. They held Them dear
1e er than peace, dearer than Life with
OF out them, and 80 they fought an
x died for them. We have been tal
1" that the league will assure permar
ent peace, as though that in itse
were to be sought for above othe
good | do not believe it will bFln
- peace. ] am of the op'nion that
al will do the opposite, But even if
'aa % were true, | should joe as bitterI
- opposed to it unless it assured
81 peace which would pefpetuate ever!
ba where the deals upon which Amer
' ca was founded.