Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1920 — THE LEAGUE AND PERMANENT. PEACE. [ARTICLE]

THE LEAGUE AND PERMANENT. PEACE.

Aay Mt—tot to utaka It appear that Bia»er Marital and the Ragubttean Party are aatacaatotte to feasible aad ochetaea tor world peace la ag attempt at deliberate aderepresaa<gtlaa of the facta. What every voter to Indiana, parttealerty the wemea, should under stoat Io the difference between the league of aatieaa covenant demanded by PnaMont WUaon aad an aaaocto ttoa of tree hdUeaa espoused by Ben Bhtepry, aad perhaps la purpose, the two are alike. Ie effect they are beyond mention at abeoluto variance. President WUsoa's league is founded oa tte plan of aa international Semites which seeks to carry out its ■andataa by the force of anas. It would bo presided over aad governed by the dtyiasnetlota aad politicians of BarogA who, through their represeatotives in the council of the league, would deastaato the decisions of the council to the advantage aad benefit of their own governments. The Wllaoa league contemplates armed aettau against a member aa-

tfoa which retenes to submit to the decisions of the league council A dangerous contract to the covenant Is Article X. That danse makes it incumbent on every member nation to protect from external aggression the boundaries of every other member nation. Buch provision draws the United States into a menacing and entangling alliance with foreign powers, an alliance such as Washing ton waned against in the cradle years of the republic. It is from them phaseo of dangerous tateruattoaallsai that Senator Harding and the Republican party ••sk to save the nation. It Is for those rose rn 0 that they are unalterably opposed to the Wtlnon league of nations But to state that by such a post ttoa they are opposed to a society of nations founded for the purpose of effectually maintaining the peace of the world is to spitefully aad malignantly warp the truth aad with intent to mislead the electorate of the nation; aa electorate which waats world peace; but wants it without sacrificing ths sovereignty M the United States er bargaining the lives of the nation's young manhood for the safety of the territorial borders of powers across the sea. Senator Harding has stated his position dearly. Without oguivocatian and with the utmoot candor, in his speech to the Indiana delegation at Marton, August M, ho made it dear that bo does not overtook the nsusssKy of this country lending a hand to the stricken nations abroad, and he also stressed the fact that this country must have the most positive understanding of what its obligations entail. "Far myodf," he soM to that masterful addreea, “I yield to no man In willingness, aye, in eagerness, to render the greatest conceivable assistance to the stricken people of Keropo.” Further, ho said: "Wo know now that the tongue constituted at Vereallles is utterly Impotent as a preventive of wars.’’ In the Benatar's own words tbo difference between a court of international Justice aad the council created by the Wilson league covenant. Is simple but profound. One, bo says, is a judicial tribunal to. bo governed by fixed and definite principles of law administered without passion or prejudice. Such a tribunal ho levers; and ft is favored by the Republican party. Tbo other, said the senator, is aa aaoeetattoa of diplomats and politicians whose determinations are sure to be infiuencod by conridorations of expediency and national selfishness. To such aa assortstton of diplomats aad politicians Senator Harding is immovably opposed. Harding proposss to take an that io good in the league of nations covenant and to The Hague tribunal, at —1 ————————

the same time removing all that is bad aad dangerous from both, and out of the gtoaatags and with new construettvs agencies working in the light of the new demands sot up a sound and safe court of International justice—"A league of free nations, animated by considers! ions of right and justice, instead of might and self interest, and not merely proclaimed an agency tn pursuit of peace, but so organised and so participated in as to make the actual attainment of peace a reasonable possibility." “Such an association,” affirms Senator Harding, "1 favor with all my heart.