The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-23
DORAH ASSAILS
.COOLIDGFIPLAN
ON WORLD court
Next Congress Forum
for Big Battle
Continued from page one)
Ienged Coolidge's sympathy for the

thing.
Stands On old Platform
Senator Borah made it plain to his
hearers that he stands today where
he stood in 1920-against the league
and everything connected with it. He
quoted the words Of the trainers Of
the world court against them to prove
that it was an integral part of the
league and that the league controlled
it's every act.
Elihu Root, the American represent
alive according to. Senator Borah,
said: I'VE must first consider that
this new court is to be provided for
as part of the system of which the
league of nations is the entire part"
The world court, said Borah, is tiled
to the league in every conceivable
way which the ingenuity Of these men
| (the jurists) did not provide for"
He then related that the league
selects the judges, regulates the
amount of their wages, pays them and
all the attaches of the court and all
expenses connected with it's function
ing. The league fixes the conditions
under which the court shall be open
to other nations and no state or ma
ton can use the court without the
consent of the league.
Proves League Connection
Amassing vast array Of quotations
from prominent members of the
league and the world court, Borah
clinches his argument with a state
ment of Sir Robert Horne who, while
speaking before the interparliament-
airy union the other day, said: 1.-THE
United States has not formally Joined
the league of nations, yet l am glad
to say that she is likely to give her
adherence to the most important part
of the league, the International court
of Justice"
Both the league and the world court
have failed to function in the ques-
tions confronting the world. He cited
the Ruhr question, the events taking
place in CEina and the recent Locarno
conference as proof that new organs
Of adjustment of disputes had to be
constantly created.
AssaiIs Powers on China
The Chinese situation was seized
ipon by Senator Borah as illustrat-
ng the character of both the league
md the court: ~ A.l
Look over in China tonight" he
laid. China is a member of the
.eague of nations China is a member
Of the court, and has distinguished
Chinese sitting on that court. Eng
and is a member of the court, Eng
and is member of the league, Japan
is a member of the court and Japan
is member of the league. France
S member of the court and France
is member of the league, and the
league pledged them to respect the
territorial integrity of nations.
Court Does Not Act.
What is taking place in China?
Why does not the league of nations
raise its voice in behalf of the nation
which is being aggressed against by
the four great powers of the earth?
why does not China, member
of the court, bring those nations to
the court? Because they will not
consent to be sued.
There in China the blood of
Chinese children is being coined in
dollars and cents by the foreign
powers. Children from to Is years
OF age work in the factories for from
nothing to IL cents a day.
THE opium traffic has been fas-
tened on China at the point of the
bayonet. China has been denied the
right to collect sufficient tariff to
maintain her government.
Chinese Murders
And. then, when their people pro-
test, they are either shot down or
tried in a foreign court.
And yet here is this court of
which every nation engaged in the
controversy is a member, and the
reason why they cannot use it is be-
cause the wrongdoing nations will not
consent to be sued.
If they will give the wronged ma
ton the right to sue the wrongdoing
nation, you will have tribunal which
VIII command the respect of the ma
tons.
But now this court has no jurisdic-
ton until the militarists and the i'm
perialists and those who believe in
war consent. 81
THAT has been the trouble with all
these peace programs-that the in
struments OF peace, the machinery of
peace, have been all along under the
control and manipulation of those
who believe in war"
The 6orah Remedy
AS substitute for the present
world court as an adjunct to the