Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1919 — COLONEL HARVEY ATTACKS LEAGUE [ARTICLE]

COLONEL HARVEY ATTACKS LEAGUE

Indianapolis, March 17.—Opening the campaign in Indiana against the league of nations covenant. Col. George Harvey, editor of the North American Review, in an address here tonight, declared the proposed league was the most un-American proposition ever submitted! to the American peopße by 'an American president. He was scathing in his rebuke of the entire league plan and attacked former President Taft almost as vigorously as he did President 'Wilson. President Wilson’s fourteen points offered as a basis for peace with Germany, originated with the British except the one refering to the freedom of the seas, Which he declared sprung from Germany. He charged that Anglo-American and Genman-American propoganda is being carried on in favor of the league of nations plan and that interests holding vast amounts of foreign securities are advocating the league in the hope of having it force the United States to provide for ultimate payment of their holdings. The speaker held that if America joined the league she would give up her soveriegnity and independence and said that if he were an Englishman, Frenchman or Italian he would suppor tthe plan.