The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-01-01


alton of our Nation can readily be
forseen. Upon the arguments of
the internationalists, we do not
join the court, therefore, to solve
any particular problem of our own.
We need no court for America or
American questions. We would
join it to be part of other nations
problems. We would have abjurel
our policy of minding our own
business to be meddler in every
other country's affairs. 1t is ex.
actly this we would prevent.
Americans Problems Individual
Our problems and our policies
are peculiar to ourselves. These
we never should submit to any for
eign tribunal We have our tariff,
immigration and prohibition poll
cies, and our great Monroe Doc
trine, the problem of foreign debts
due to us, the Panama Canal, about
which there is the ever-recurring
controversy as to tolls, and many
others that no American in his
right senses would tolerate inter
ference with
The realities of the present day
forbid our adhesion to this court.
Out of the welter of the World
War came vast changes in the ma
tions of the earth. The United
States today is the creditor nation
of the world. Other nations re-
gard us exactly as debtors, who do
not want to pay, regard their cred
itors. 1t is neither wisdom nor
craftsmanship to complicate the
situation. We are none too we'll
liked as a people and our policies
as nation are detested; and yet,
we are asked to submit ourselves
to a so-called court of 15 judges,
Ia of whom are foreigners. | do
not speak in criticism of the judges
of the court, but even judges have
sympathies, and judges, after all,
are human.
Imagine an Italian judge going
home to Mussolini after rendering
a decision against Italyl And
while European diplomacy has been
constantly shuffling the cards since
the great World War, have you
heard of any real question vitality
affecting any of the great nations
which has come before the court
and been decided? Of the few de-
cisions rendered some have been
openly flouted and we know that
although we pledged justice and
equality to racial minorities, the
weak who We're ruthlessly taken
by the Versailles treaty are still
crying in vain for justice to the
League of Nations and the court.
And ever remember this is the Lea
que Court, and our people are be-
ing cajoled and beguiled into join
ing by League advocates. | have
the literature of the League OF
Nations Association of California,
and it is the source inthe West of
propaganda for the court. It's
president is the Western spokes-
man for the court, and with perfect
frankness he says entrance into the
court will ultimately take us into
the League, and while we will thus
enter the League by the back door,
he is willing to enter that way i'll
order to get in. He simply avows
openly what other League sup
porters, emuIating the bad example
of European diplomacy, concealed.
1t is quite true that as a member
of the court we would not be re-
quired to submit purely domestic
questions for its adjucation; but
there are domestic questions which
it might lie claimed threatened
peace or were involved in treaties.
The League takes cognizance under
Article XI of any war or threat OF
war and any circumstance what
ever affecting international rela-
tions which threatens to disturb Ell
Their the peace or the good under
standing between nations, and the
court has jurisdiction of the inter
probation of treaties.
World Court Not a Court
The exclusion law was at one
time asserted to be a violation OF
our treaties. The alien land law OF
California, designed to preserve
our agriculture for our own, is yet
the subject of controversy and re-
sentiment. When California enact
ed the law, feeling ran high in
Japan, and the claim was distinct
ly made not only that the good
understanding between two nations
was disturbed, but some pro-Jap-
anese citizens of the United States
even yet assert that the law VIC
lates existing treaties. We deny
it, of course, and it is to be hoped
that the most fatuous administra-
tion would never submit what We
had the legal and moral right tt
do to the arbitratment of any for.
eign tribunal. But assume us to be
members of the court and the de-
mand made with the claim that WI
not only violated a treaty but des
troyed the good understanding be
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