San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
PROTEST
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Solens Are Submerged by
Flood Of Letters De-
3 nouncing Propaganda.
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ny Universal Service.
= WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Former
members of the Senate, nationally
known educators, leading club women,
lawyers, ministers and persons from
al other walks of life in practically
every section, flooded the senatorial
mail with protests against hurtling the
United States into the League of Ma
tions World Court, as debate upon
that gigantic issue opened.
Mrs. William Cummings Story.
president of the National Society Of
Women Builders of America. sent one
senator whose mail contained more
thsn hundred protests, q copy of a
resolution adopted by her group. urg-
ing that the Foreign Relations Com
mitfee call on the Federal Trade Com
mission TO investigate World Court
Propaganda.
~ TEXT OF RESOLUTION.
The resolution says:
~This country is deluged with
League of Nations propaganda financ-
Cd and well organized TO the end thl;
the United States, after repudiating
the league twice, should now be :p-
duced under Misrepresentation TO join
a court whose judges would be aD-
pointed by the League of Nations, thus
constituting such court a mere di-
vision of departmental work of that
body exercising the appointive power
Professor Roscoe Pound of the Har
vard law school, had this to say:
II have long felt that an elaborate
machinery for the military control CT
Europe hns been set up and that
there is danger that in our genuine
e{forts 10 promote peace we shall find
ourselves part of a machine for the
preservation Of a pax Gallica which III
The end can only result in home
Gas.-s
BEvERIDGE DISAPPOINTED.
4 He believes in "a court uncontrolled
q uninfiueneed by political institl-
ions or political arrangements, but
eels that "a little caution now viii
par abundant fruit presently in good
esults.-
ALBERT J. Beverage, Of indianapolis,
Ind, former senator, wrote to one
senator whose daily mail contains q
hundred or more letters on the court,
setting forth his opinion of the stu
alton:
Il had hoped that the President
would be satisfied with a declaration
for the court in his message, but after
thus recommending the court, he would
leave the whole matter up to the SEN
ate. as the Constitution requires.
Not only is that the only lawful
course to pursue, but it is good poll
rics, too, because in that way the
President keeps on his side all advo-
Gates of the court and does not alien
ate those who from best Of reasons
oppose that adventure.
Raymond Robins of Chicago, against
PIE court. declared People don't know
low to get what they want and are
ksed by each propagandist in turn
PROPAGANDISIS BUSY.
Nathan William MacChesney, a Chi
czgo attorney, calls the senator's at
tention to the manner in which an
endorsement of the court was brought
about in his bar association. 1t shows,
he says, "the character OF some rec
ommendations in favor Of some sort
Of court without much knowledge Of
what the court involves or Of condi-
nons under which the United States is
70 adhere TO il. II is astonishing law
fers should take such snap judgment
on it,
Boston has been submerged with
speakers and propaganda from vari-
Gus countries" writes Thomas 7. Per
Rms, a Boston banker. They have
Rme here In a continuous stream.
h my case, as n representative Of
N old New England family, it has
driven me almost to nausea"
: Axel Lonnquist, Chicago lawyer,
hopes that 'the court will be made
N issue in the 1926 elections so that
me public may decide this highly i'm
pprtant question for many years to
Come
WARN OF LEAGUE.
Thomas II. Bowlus, bank president
Of lola, Kansas, thinks the country
owes debt of gratitude 10 1.-THE men
who are looking after its welfare and
not that of foreign countries that seek
- entangle US"
The court Is the opening door of
the league" writes James L. Wadham,
San Diego attorney, and to join the
court would be TO place the United
States in the power and dictation Of
European nations.
r. j. Rabbit of Seattle, Wash, in
forms the senator that speakers ga
lore have ATTEMPTED TO carry the North
west BY storm. il Americans cannot
manage their own government, they
SHOULD give the land back to the In
disns."
The Rev. Melvin Berne Oggel Of
Charlottesville. Ind, suggests "a court
With real jurisdiction and a real code
40 20 by, based on the outlawry Of
war
The league court he says. "is no
aid 10 peace. The country is domin-
antly ant-leasue and that the world
court is subsidiary Of the league"
II. s. Spencer of Washington de-
scribes court propaganda as "a care
fal manipulation Of herd psychology.
much of it prepared to 'bamboozle de-
iuded women"
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