Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1920 — TAFT STILL FOR LEAGUE WITHOUT RESERVATIONS [ARTICLE]

TAFT STILL FOR LEAGUE WITHOUT RESERVATIONS

“When Mr. Wilson brought to this country the league covenant as reported to the Paris conference, 1 urged on the same platform with him, that we join the league. I thereafter recommended amendments, some of which were adopted into its final form. “Had I been in the Senate I would have voted for the league and treaty as submited: and I advocated its ratification accordingly. I did not think and do dot now think that anything Ip the league covenant as serA to the Senate would violate the Constitution of the United States or would involve us in wars

which it weuid flbt toe t,9 bl * b ' est interest of the world and this country to suppress by universal boycott and, if peed be, by military force. ••*».! 1 ''jEJIXw ii&f' “I consider that the moral effect of Article X on predatory nations would restrain them from war as the declaration of the Monroe Doctrine has done, and that the requirement of the /vnanimous consent by the repftesemativeg of the great powers in council before league action would safeguard the United States from any perversion of the high purpose of the league. Moreover, I believe that* the issue of the league trans; cends in its importance any domestic issues and would justify and require one who believes so to ignore party ties and secure this great boon for the world and this country."