Ligonier Banner., Volume 54, Number 27A, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 September 1920 — Page 2
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CoMMuNITY STAR OF HopE ! gt i _ : £ & 2 . . : TRADE | WHERE g YOUp ' fomerrt > Five Points oF Procress NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET . . For President. S GOVERNOR JAMES M. COX, OHIO : For Vice President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT OF NEW YORK - STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET For United States Senator THOMAS TAGGART, INDIANAPOLIS ' For Governor~ - - CARLETON B. MCCULLOCH, IN- ° DIANAPOLIS . .. For, Lieutenant-Governor SAMUEL M. FOSTER, rr. WAYNE For Secretary of State i CHARLES WAGNER; COLUMBUS For Auditor of State CHARLES R. HUGHES, PERU . For Attorney-General : GEORGE D. SUNKEL, NEWPORT : For Treasurer CEORGE H. DEHORITY, EL\\'OOD For Reporter of the Supreme and Ap- : pellate Courts WOOD UNGER, FRANKFORT t"or State Superintendent of Public In- : struction AHISS ADELAIDE STEELE BAYLOIL WABASH . for Judge of the Supreme Court, Fifth District FRANCIS E. BOWSER, WARSAW For Judge of the Appellate Court, First District . ELBERT M. EWAN, ROCKPORT i'or Judge of the Appeliate Court. Second District - JOHN G. REIDELBACH, WINAMAC
COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET For Congress JOSEPH R. HARRISON = ‘.o Joint Senator . - SAMUEL C. CLELAND : Judge Circuit Court DAVID V. WHITELEATHER. Prosecuting Attorney ' GLENN E. THRAPP : ) State Representative THOMAS J. MAWHORTER : Clerk of the Court * MARTIN H. SPANGLER . . - County Treasureer : FRANK C. KELHAM : ; - County Sheriff ' GEORGE W. STARR "County Recorder JOHN A. MCDONALD - i Coroner ~ DR. FRECH F. WORMAN : Surveyor : e : BARNEY C. HILE Commissioner North District JACOB BRUMBAUGH: . | Commissioner South District - GEORGE H. BUCKLES : ' FINDS JT A MYTH. . . The esteemed and able editor of the Leader finds that the League of Nations covenant “is a myth" after “studying the document for several months.” What a reflection upon the intelligence of the statemen of fortyone nations now members of the league. e SN i
- Here are the facts as to the voting power of the League members as put forth -by an eminent statesman and student: : o :
“The covenant provides for two bodies, the assembly and the council. The assembly is composed of all the members of the league and each member may have as many as th;ee representatives, but these must vote as & unit, because each member, no matter how great or small, has one vote. “England has one vote, so has Canada, South Africa, India, New Zealand and Australia. The United States has one vote so has France, Italy, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and each one of the other outh American republics and each of the rest of the members of the league- now fortyone in all. 7 ¢ g
“The powers of the assembly are very limited and it can not vote at‘ all on the vital questions of arbltnfl tion, the boycott of war; these are matters for the council only. 'l‘he‘; opponents of the league have either through ignorance or with the purpose to mislead, stated over and over again that England has six votes to our -one; without explaining that this is true only in the assembly that it is upon the assumption that her colonies will always vote her way. It is safe to say that in any matter coming up in, the assembly we could influence as many votes as England can. We could influence Cuba, Haiti, Costa Rico, San Domingo, Panama, Guatemala and no doubt most of the South American republics, so there is absolutely nothing in the false alarm over England having six votes to our one. i “If France, Italy, Belgium, Spain and the 6ther nations that are mem-
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of themselves against England surely America can with all of the friends in the western hemisphere to back her up. This whole argument against the league is made to catch the German and the Irish voters, because of thelr assumed hostility to England. “The council is composed of nine nations. The British empire, the United States, France, Italy and Japan are the permanent members. The four othérs are Brazil, Greece, Belgium and Spain. In this council Engjand and her colonies have one vote each of the others have one vote, making nine votes in all. This body is In coustant session and is the executive body of the league. It passes on all important questions,’ but the vote must be unanimous be{ fore any action can be taken on any matter. i . : e
“It has been wrongfully represented that England has six votes in this body instead of one; as the.whole body has only nine votes this statement is preposterous,: but ‘nothing seems to be too preposterous for the opponents of the league to advance. “Again it is stated by persons who ought to know beter that a combination of foreign nations can make our soldiers go anywhere they please and mix them ap in all Kinds of quarreis. This is so absurd that it seems like a waste of time to coatradict it. Congress controls the question of war and no other power on earth can dictate to us under the terms of this league. This story is teold in order to frighten women into opposing the league, but the women have more sense—are reading the covenant for themselves. . : B
" “The whole scheme of the league of nations is to minimize the chances for war, surely every right thinking person should be for it. No one who carefully and consecientiously studies the terms'of the covenant .believes the absurd assertions that the Republican politicians are making concerning it, and it will bef ongd in the end that. the great body of progressive and forward looking Amercians are for it. It is a great moral issue and upon such an issue America never goes wrong.” ' . IN SPITE OF THE SENATE Making still more emphatic his opposition to the League of Nations, Senator Harding thinks he might have a foreign policy- based on The Hague conventions, which were a complete failuré during the war, and on the work of Elihu Root in framing plans for the establishment of - @ permanent court of international justice, which is provided for by Article XIV. of the. covenant of the covenant of the League of Nations. e , Mr. Root 'has been able to do this work in spite 'of the Lodge reservations and in spite of the Republican Senators. Had the -treaty been ratified with these reservations he could not have gone to Europe except by permission of Congress. L The seventh of the Lodge reservations, for which ‘Senator Harding voted, provides that-— i No person is or shall be authorized to represent the United States, nor shall any citizen of the United States be eligible as a member of any body or agency established or authorized by said treaty of peace with Germany, except pursuant to an act of the Congress of the United States providing. for his appointment and defining his powers and duties. '
Under this reservation Mr. Root ‘could not have acoepted the invitation to assist in devising an international \court witholg /first going to Congress and asking its august §permission. If Congress then saw fit to ‘—let him go, his powers ' and duties ’wonld be defined for him and he ‘would be told what he. could do and what he could not do. The learned pundits of the Senate could also be relied on to indicate the kind of court that Mr. Root was to advocate and to refine its jurisdiction, in which case he ‘'would play the part- of a most distinguished messenger boy. - The Root case furnishes a fair commentary on the spirit and purpose of thé Lodge reservations and likewise on their mischievous possibilities. These reservations were conceived in a_spirit- of blind hatred of President Wilson. They were intended to cripple the League, to repudiate the President wherever hec ould be repudiated and to strip the Executive of much of his constitutional power over foreign relations. But what they mean and how they would work out nobody knows. Their most ardent champions have never been able to explain. It was enough for the Senatorial advocates of these reservations that they were offensive to the President, that they discredited the League and that they were destructive to its objects. | Neither Senator Lodge nor any of his supporters have ever undertaken to interpret the reservations and discuss in detail whaf their effect would boi in actual operation. Crudely, clumsily and in some cases maliciously drawn, they are a monument to that moral decadence of the Senate which former Gov. McCall has described in such striking terms. They were intended to be a monkey-wrench thrown into the machinery of the League, and
having -achieved this experiment in sabotage, their authors had no further concern or more respousible comcern about them. ; ‘ It is evident that Elihu Root could not have’goine to The Hague if the. Lodge reservations had been in force. How many other useful and important activities in the cause of international peace would be ;blocked by these reservations, the ful capacity of which for mischief can hardly’'be estimdted? And what is the good of an internationdl : tribunal if its decrees cannot be enforced? : . AMERICAN LEGION NOTES - Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. §6—ln order to prevent the mulcting of the next of kin of men who died in the
‘war by unscrupulous swindlers, the started a campaign among its 304 posts o war agalost such practices and to arrest and. prosecute all offenders. A personal canvass of all gold star mothers and relatives of those who died In service will be made in every community where there is a Legion post and they will be fully informed of the means taken by the swindlers tg obtain money. One such confidence man already has been arrested after he had sent a telegram to a mother in the name of her missing son, asking. for funds. . Offers to provide details of ’mm' death and information as to the location of their graves for payment are the usual lure held out by the swindlers. . ' The Department of Minnesota leads all others in the number of units of the women's auxillary acording to reports received at National Headquarters of the Legion. Approximateiy 5,000 women of its 93 units. ~ The Legion state officers are forming plans for a state speakers’ bureau, each local post has been requested to turn in the names 6f speakers in their communities who will give their services for Legion patriotic meetings. without charge. The speakers will be listed and copies of the list sent to all local posts which may then draw from the list. : ) State officers have received word that national dues for new members for the remainder of the year will be only 75 cents.’ * Local post_throughout Indiana will observe Armistice Day, November 11, distributing ex-service men of their communities, the Victory Medals awarded by the government. Special programs are being prepared Medals will be given to the next-of-kin of those who died in war. :
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‘Myron T. Herrick is a good man but he ha& an infinite capacity for talking rubbish. In a statement issued from Marlon' he says:
_The tragic mistake was made when. President Wilson insisted on personally going to France. to participate in the Peacc Conference. ‘He went to insist that his League of Nations programme be included in the war settlement. A year was wasted at the most vital time. © . i .
Instead of a year being wasted says the New York World, the entire peace treaty was framed in five months from the time the conference met, and the date of the conference was fixed by the British and French. Instead of President Wilson's insisting on going to- Europe, Europe insisted on his coming. Lloyd George said flatly that he could not and would not make peace through . American plenipotentiaries—that the President must come and deal with the Prime Ministers directly. = .
There is not.a word of truth in the aliega)uon' that the treaty of peace was delayed on account of the covenant. The covenant was finished and adopted long before the details of the treaty had been agreed to. If Mr. Herrick does not know this, he knows nothing-at all in regard to the Peace Conference. e i
~John H. Holliday h& always been a leading republican and stands at the head of prominent citizens of Indiana. In introducing Franklin D. Roosevelt at IndianapoliB recently Mr. Holliday’' took a firm stand for the league of nations and strongly advocated 'the election of the democratic candidate for persident. . i
Will Hays had a bad case of failing memory when he failed to remember that a little item of $7OOOO which belonged to the G. 0. P. slush fund the senate investigating com"mittee is looking into. :
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