Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1920 — Page 2

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A LEAGUE OF PEACE

There is a persistent contention in some quarters that the league o£ nations is a guarantor of war rather than an insurer of peace. Let us try to see how it would work. It has been said, and seems probable, that if the league of nations had been in existence Germany would not have dared to go to war. But we may go further back than that. The trouble out of which the horror grew began, as may be remembered —though many seem to have forgotten it —with a quarrel between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. Sir Edward Grey, as he then was, labored assiduously to bring about arbitration, and the question when finally sifted down was one peculiarly fit to be arbitrated. What would have happened if there had been a league?

The process would have been simple enough. Serbia would have laid her case before it, expressed her willingness to arbitrate, and bound herself to accept the award. The league would then have । asked Austria-Hungary to come into court, and if she had refused, she would have subjected herself to all the penalties laid down in the league covenant, and the whole world would have been arrayed against her. Facing this situation, even the German government would have refused to back up Austria-Hungary, much less incite her to war. There would have been arbitration of the original dispute. And as a result not one “American boy” would have been sent abroad to fight. Without the league 2,000,000 of our _boys were sent, and many thousands of them who sleep in foreign graves, because there was no league of nations, would today be alive. The league is designed to prevent just such horrors as those through which our men were forced to go. The question is, not whether a few American troops may not at some time have tp" be sent abroad, as they have many times been when there was no league but whether we shall try to make it unnecessary to conscript millions of the youth of the land, train them to be soldiers, send them into foreign lands by the million to face hardship, danger, disease and death, as we were forced to do three years ago, ' when there was ,; no league of nations. Such is the iseue, and it is one concerning ; which

people should think soberly, honestly, and with great seriousness, quite apart from partisan . politick. The league Is a great protective charter, protective of young life of the nation, and of the peace and happiness of the fathers and mothers of the land. There are those who are trying to make it appear tKat It Is something else. All that 1b necessary to confound them Is for. the people to trace what the probable course of history would

have been it the league of nations had been in existence in July, 1914. Had it been there would not, in all /probability, have been American cemeteries tn France, not one American household disrupted by W ar —for there would have been no war. What we are asked to enter is, not a war league, but a peace league. Already it has brought Sweden and Finland together in consent to a peaceful adjustment of a controversy which, in the old (days, would certainly have Issued jn war. Such is the league which men are now trying to discredit by the fallacious argument—an argument more fallacious than ever since the new international court has been set up—that It would mean sending "our boys” abroad to fight and die. The world was bathed in blood and tears because there was no league of nations. Indianapolis News (Rep.).

TEAMWORK

The kind of teamwork that Senator Harding believes in when he proposes to delegate the powers of the presidency to a coterie of senators is Illustrated in the manner of his own nomination. Harry Daugherty, the Ohio political boss who managed his campaign at Chicago and before, made the following prophecy some days before the Republican convention at Chicago: "At the proper time after the Republican national convention meets, some 15 men, bleary-eyed with' loss of sleep and perspiring profusely with excessive heal, will sit down in seclusion around a big table. I will be with them and will present the name of Senator Harding to them, and before they get through they will put him over.” That is exactly how Harding was nominated; Mr. Daugherty was a perfect prophet.

SPAAN EXPLAINS ARTICLE TEN

Shows That Assertion That League Council Has Power to Declare War 11 Untrue. Indianapolis,' Sept. 24. —Henry N. Spaan, Democratic candidate for representative in congress from the seventh district, who is regarded as an authority on the league of nations, In a statement Issued declares that article 10 has been consistently misrepresented by the Republican leaders. He takes issue with those who assert that it is an article for war and proves his contentions in an unmistakable manner. He said: “Article 10 of the covenant of peace has been persistently misrepresented by those who oppose the league. It reads as follows: ‘The members of the league undertake to respect and preserve against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the league. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.’

“It is claimed by the enemies of the league that this article gives the council of the league the power to declare war, and to compel us to mix up in every petty boundary dispute and racial disturbance in Europe. That is not true. “A careful reading of the article will disclose at once that the council has no power whatever to declare war; it has the power only of advising what shall be done in case our nation invades the territory of another. The wording is absolutely plain. “It has all along been conceded by such men as Taft, Wickersham, Root, Elliott, Hughes apd Lenroot, that this article does not take away from congress the sole right to declare war. It is only such men as Johnson, Borah, Watson, New and Lodge, bitter enemies of the league, who still persist that a combination of European nations have the right under this article to send our boys overseas to fight whenever it suits their purpose. This is a part of the Infamous propaganda i started by the senatorial cabal, and followed by every parroting political orator educated in the recent ‘school for speakers’ instituted by the Republican state committee. “The supreme court of the .United States in the case of Thomas Gay (169 U. S. 271) held that 'A treaty which is violative of our constitution is void.’ This is the universal rule and nd’lawyer who cares for his reputation will state otherwise. Under article 10 we cannot be forced into any war without our own full consent, because the finding of the council on the question whether war shall be advised by it, must be unanimous, and as we will be under the terms of the covenant a permament member of the council, our representative on the council must consent to this advice before it can become a part of the finding of the council. ( “Our representative on the council will vote as he Is directed to vote, and if he votes against the advice for war there will be no such advice. •

“It is said that if the council decides to advise war, that we cannot get away from that advice, and that we will be morally bound to go to war. But as there can be no advice by the council to go to war without our consent, there will be‘ no moral obligation whatever unless we fully agree to follow the advice, and in that case, congress will have to be consulted.” The truth of the matter is that t r. • '

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

COULDN’T WALK I 4 CITY BLOCKS Says Tanlac Restored His Health When No Hope Was Held Out for Hie Recovery. ■ a “At the time I began taking lac I couldn’t walk four blocks without giving out completely," said Joseph Heck of 811 West Oak St., South Bend, Indiana. "My troubles started two years ago when all of a , sudden I had an awful smothering spell and turned blinding dizzy and fell out of my chair onto the floor. I had evidently had an attack of acute indigestion, for my stomach, which had been out of order for years, began rapidly to get worse. I couldn’t eat a thing hardly without it souring and causing me to bloat up with gas. Those fainting, smothering spells got to coming on me regularly; I got so weak and short of breath I couldn’t walk any distance without giving out. Many a morning I have started to work but wouldn’t get over three or four blocks from home before I felt one of those spells coming on me find would go back and ,lay off all day. Finally, I got so bad off I wasn’t able to work half the time. Whenever I did leave home in the morning I didn’t know whether I would ever get back or not. My liver and kidneys also were all out of order and my back hurt all day long. My hips pained me terribly and my nerves were on edge all the time. In fact, I was a complete nervous and physical wreck and no hope was held out for my recovery. “Last October I commenced taking Tanlac and It wasn’t long before I could eat anything without any trouble at all, and from that day to this I have never had to worry about what I could eat. I don’t know what It is to ever have one of those fainting spells any more, my liver and kidneys are In the finest kind of shape and I never have an ache or pain of any kind. I am not at all nervous, sleep like a top every nigth and can do as big a day’s work as the best of them. I feel Just like a man made, all over again and I give Tanlac entire credit for it all.” Tanlac is sold in Rensselaer by Larsh & Hopkins, and In Remington by Frank L. Peck; in Wheatfield by Simon Fendlg. —Advt.

this senatorial cabal propaganda is insisted on to impose upon the ignorant. It fools nobody who has read the covenant except those who want to be fooled. The Republican party in its platform, and Senator Harding in his letter of acceptance, denounced the league; Senator Watson and Senator New both are against it; Coolidge, who was once for it, is now against it; and all this because of partv necessity; why should the women of the land and the independent voter take the word of the enemies of the covenant for what it means? They misrepresent and distort it; read the great document for yourselves and do not be led astray by these apostles of misrepresentation.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO VOTERS OF TIME AND PLACE OF REGISTRATION Notice is hereby given to the voters of Jasper county, Indiana, that all voters to be entitled to vote at the general election to be held November 2, 1920, will be required to register on Monday, October 4, 1920. The following places are designated as places of registration, towit: Barkley, South—Center school house. Barkley, East — Newland school house. t Barkley, West —Independence school house. - Carpenter, South —Sample room, Remington hotel. Carpenter, East-George Niergai ten’s residence. y Carpenter, West —Shrank Klaus s residence. Gillam' —Center school house. Hanging . Grove — Banta school house. Jordan— school house. Kankakee —Tefft school house. Keener —Demotte school house. Marion, No. I—Samplel—Sample room. Makeever hotel. * (Marion, No. 2—-L. A. Bostwick’s office.Marion, No. 3—Dr. W. E. Russell’s office. I Marion, No. 4—Worland’s shop. Milroy —Center school house. Newton —Blue Grass school house. Union, North —Fair Oaks school house. Union, ,South —Parr school house. Walker —Center school house. Wheatfield—Town hall. Witness my hand and official seal of the board of commissioners at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 23d day of September, 1920. (Seal) SCHUYLER C. ROBINSON, Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE, MR. FARMER! We have now oh hand a complete line of Goodyear Drive Belta for yom tractors and steam engines Also, we handle a full Une of Steam Packings and Garden Hose at WHITE FRONT GARAGE, Kuboske & Walter, Props.

REDUCTION in PRICES '■ OF " ' ■•• • * I Ford Products A , . 7* J I ‘ . The War is Over and War Prices Must Go EFFECTIVE AT ONCE « r Ford Cars, Trucks, and Tractors will be sold F. 0. B, Detroit, at the following prices: Touring, without starter; $440.00 Touring, with starter, k-... - $510.00 Roadster, without 5tarter........:.... .-...5395.00 Roadster, with starter $465.00 Chassis $365.00 Coupe, with starter and demountable rims. . . $745.00 Sedan, with starter and demountable rims , .$795.00 Truck, with Pneumatic tires $545.00 FORDSON TRACTOR * $790.00 ' w ' •- ' ’ A I . %

'T'HE Ford Motor Company makes this reduction in the * face of the fact that they have on hand immediate orders for One Hundred Forty-Six Thousand Sixty-Five cars and tractors. The Company will suffer a temporary loss while using up the material bought at high prices. They are willing to make the sacrifice in order to bring business back to a going condition as quickly as possible and maintain the momentum of the buying power of the country. Henry Ford says:--“The war is over and it is time war prices were over. There is no sense or wisdom in trying to maintain an artifical standard of values. For the best interests of all it is time a real practical reform was made to bring the business of the country and the life of the country down to regular prewar standards." , WE ARE AT YOUR COMMAND with regular FORD efficiency in Service and Eagerness to fill your ( • / .U ” ■ Central Sales Co. Phone Three=One=Nine Rensselaer, " - - " " " Indiana

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920