The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16


Borah does not perceive the tremend-
Gus international sweep of American
Imperialism. Blease is not aware of
the fact that Haiti is under the dom
ination of American bayonets and
that Liberia is the prey of American
rubber interests, and that Wall street
controls the political life of both
countries, hence instead of the rep
resentatives of these Negro republics
voting against the United States they
are counted for this country in Nor
gan's scheme to use the world court
as weapon in the struggle against
England for the imperialist domina-
ton Of the world. Just as Borah,
a true representative of the indus
trialist group Of the middle and far
west is an advocate of the open
shop and opposed to organized la
Dor, so Blease, as the agent of the
identical class in the South, despis-
es the Negroes who constitute the
working masses of that state.
Another Borah Supporter.
OENAToR MOSES, of New Hamp-
~ shire, another notorious advo-
cate of isolation and whose ideal is a
nation of servile slaves existing un-
der conditions Of universal scabbery,
is another staunch supporter Of the
Borah group.
But, in spite of the labor hating
records Of the Borah group, and the
total inability of any of them to I'M
derstand the real sinificance of Nor
gan's move, they did do a good job
exposing the warlike nature of the
permanent court of international JUS
tice and the league of nations.
On the last day of the fight, after
the shameful gag" rule had been inn
posed upon the senate, Moses pre-
ented the following reservation:
THAT the adherence of the Unit
ed States to the statute of the
world court is conditioned upon the
understanding and agreement that
the judgments, DEGREES and tori ad-
Visory opinions Of the court shall
not be enforced by war under any
name. or in any form whatsoever"
Here was a reservation that, il
adopted by the court, would make it
precisely what the pacifists pretend
to desire. In his speech upon the re-
servation, Moses asserted:
Thousands of people who have
addressed the senators by letter,
by telegram or by petition, urging
the adherence of the United States
to the league of nations court,
have equally stressed the point of
their belief that the court is an
agency to prevent war.
~ hold, Mr.. President, that those
senators who expressed those opin.
ions and that those citizens who
have addressed US in those terms
are wholly misguided. It has been
my opinion from the first that If
we trace the lineage of the proto-
col back to its origin in the cove
nant of the league of nations we
shall be sure to find the court as
an essential element in the mechan-
chanism of the league of nations
and that the league Of nations is
designed as military alliance and
In no sense whatever as a peace
machine"
In the course of his speech he
quoted the late senator from Penn
sylvania, Philander C.. Knox, who, in
discussing the league in the first SEN
ate fight under Wilson, asserted that
'The scheme holds out a higher
10 O.
ture world wide war greater than
any which has gone before than any
other document in the history of re-
corded time"
Concluding, Moses emphasized the
fact that his reservation was calcu-
lated to make the world court an in
strument Of real peace instead of war.
Thus the pro-court senator's in the
republican-democratic coalition were
placed in the position OF being fore
ed to vote directly on the question OF
whether the court should be depriv-
ed OF its war powers before the Unit
ed States enters or whether they
would enter knowing full well that 1t
is an instrument of war.
Senator Oscar w. Underwood, of
Alabama, prospective candidate for
president on the democratic ticket
and long a valiant flunkey of Wall
Street, tried to befog the question
by evasiveness, but under the fire of
questions was forced to admit that
the nations now in the court would
never accept such a reservation.
When pressed regarding the warlike
character of the league and the court
he could only say Unfortunately, the
political power of the world has been
sustained for thousands of years by
the military power"
Pepper Founders.
GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER, one
~ Of the Coolldge-Mellon ma
chine, tried to defend the republican
side of the pro-Morgan coalition
against the reservation and, in
speech notable for its Weakness and