Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-07
TO FORCE LEAGUE
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Of which he is president, JUSTICE
Clarke said:
1T is reported that Senator King
Of Ut Il. speaking for the Democratic
party management, says the League
of Nations is not to be an issue in
the presidential campaign next year.
We shall see. we shall see.
"'Tell 1t not in gath, publish 1t not
in the streets of Askalon, or or
Washington, but the suspicion grows
that the churches and wOmen'S CLUBS
and the great newspapers will have
something 10 say about that and that
the farmers and labor unions VIII
have something to say about 1t, and
l promise the senator that our four
!. million young soldiers and the
League of Nations Nom Partisan AS
ISOLATION will have a great deal TO
say about it.
our association is already organ
lied in every state in the Union and
long before this time next year, we
shall have an organization in every
Congressional district in the coun-
try. It may as we'll be accepted in
advance that no candidate for the
presidency or for the Senate will be
allowed to conceal his position for
single week on this great moral ques-
ton: Whether he prefers this new
rational agency for peace or the old
method of brutal war for settlement
Of international differences"
A similar note was sounded by
Oscar S. Straus. Republican secre-
tary Of commerce under Theodore
Roosevelt.
Justice Clark, who resigned from
the Supreme Court to work for Am
erican entry into the League, de-
clared that more ''pressingly now
than ever before did the fate OF the
world hang upon this decision"
with Germany and Russia pros
trate, as they are" he said, modern
Europe means only Great Britain
and France. and what the world in
the near future must be depends on
whether these two nations shall be
friends or enemies.
France and Great Britain have
been enemies oftener than friends
during the last two hundred years.
1t is plain truth to say that there has
not been a time in modern history
when two nations controlling the
destiny of the world stood SO much
in need of an impartial counsellor.
guide and friend to compose newt
able differences as they arise as
Britain and France stand in need OF
such acne today.
Japan is too far away and Is too
alien in blood for such service and
it seems indisputably clear that this
great nation OF ours had been sent
of Heaven to thus serve our friends,
our allies and mankind by holding
these two great nations together In
amity and peace"
Only last week, Justice Clarke
continued. he had been told by zone
Of our most intelligent and expert
enced observers of foreign affairs"
Just back from Europe, that British
statesmen were discouraged today
as he had never seen them before
to the point OF despair.
"They are going forward with
characteristic British pluck" he
quoted his informant as saying. "but
they see no light and fear that the
crash may come at any time which
will involve all Europe and the
British Empire in financial and
social ruin"
ut is easier to imagine than to
describe what the situation of our
country would be-" Justice Clarke
declared. III the British Empire
should disappear from the world.
carrying, as it would. France down
with 1t, and thus involving all Eu-
1rope' and Britain In the economic
and social generalization and de-
spair in which Germany. Russia and
Asia Minor are today"
President Harding. he continued,
after pledging himself in the most
solemn manner to devise and enter
some association Of nations to pro-
mote the peace Of the world" had