Ligonier Banner., Volume 54, Number 27B, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 September 1920 — Page 2

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CoMMuNITY STAR OF HoPE * ‘ i » & - . « TRADE WHERE ; 4 YOU , iBS LIVE, g Five Points oF ProcrEss NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET For President : GOVERNOR JAMES M. COX, OHIO For Vice President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT OF NEW - YORK ) ' STATE DEMOCRATIC TIQKET ; For United States Senator THOMAS TAGGART, INDIANAPOLIS For Governor ’ CARLETON: B, MCCULLOCH, IN- . DIANAPOLIS = For Lieutenant-Governor SAMUEL M. FOSTER, FT. WAYNE For Secretary of State - CHARLES WAGNER, COLUMBUS For Auditor of State .CHARLES R. HUGHES.-PERU - For Attorney-General GEORGE D. SUNKEL, NEWPORT . - For Treasurer GEORGE H. DEHORITY, ELWOOD For Reporter of the Supreme and Ap- : pellate Courts . WOOD UNGER, FRANKFORT For State Superintendent of Public In- ] : - struction MISS ADELAIDE STEELE BAYLOR : : 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 For Judge of the Appellate Court, Second ‘District JOHN G. REIDELBACH, WINAMAC

COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET 5 For Congress : : JOSEPH R. HARRISON ! Joint Senator SAMUEL C. CLELAND . Judge Circuit Court : \ DAVID V. WHITELEATHER Prosecuting Attorney - GLENNX E. THRAPP ; : State Representative THOMAS J. MAWHORTER Clerk of the Court ~ ° - MARTIN H. SPANGLER | . County Treasureer . FRANK C. KELHAM , Cournty Sherift : GEORGE W. STARR . - - County Recorder ' JOHN A. MEDONALD ' ‘ _ Coroner ' DR. FRECH F. WORMAN v . Surveyor : i BARNEY C. HILE - " Commissioner North District ~ JACOB BRUMBAUGH : Commissioner South District. GEORGE H. BUCKLES WHAT THE LEAGUE IS FOR. The objects to be accomplished by the League of Nations are defined in the preamble to the covenant just as the objects to be accomplished by the Constitution -of the United States are defined in the preamble, say the New York World. » To arrive at a clear understanding of what the League means it is necessary to study the preamble to the Constitution to arrive at a clear unrestanding of that great instrument of government. i

As Justice Story said in his “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.” b

The importance of examining the preamble for the purpose of expounding the language of a statute has long been felt and universally conceded in all judicial discussions. It is an admitted maxim in the ordinary course of the admthistration of justice that the preamble of a statute is a key to open the mind of the makers as to the mischiefs which are to be remiedied and the objects which are to be accomplished by the provisions of the statute. : : Mo e

And the learned Justice add-s in respect to the preamble of the Constitution that “it has béen constantly referred to by statemen and jurists to aid them in the exposition of its provisions.” ;

‘The preamble to the covenant of the League of Nations reads as follows: The High Contracting Parties.

In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security. by the acceptance of obigations not to resort to war,

by the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations, by the firm establishments of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among governments, and e by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another. - e Agree to this Covenant of the Leagun ot Nathoms.. . This méans precisely what it says Muflubflfilfl% to.the Constitution of the United tates means preDeN R T i

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cisely what it says. Every grant of power under the covenant must be interpreted in accordance with this preamble just as every grant of power under the Constitution must be interpreted in accordance@with the preamble. All the provisions of the covenant merely provide the machinery by which these ends are to be achieved. : i

Even Senator Harding would not Fe s 0 silly as to argue that the language of the preambie to the Constitution meant the exact opposite of what i said—that the Constitution was ordained and established not "to form a more perfect Union™ but to prevent a more perfect Union; not to “estadblish justice” but to obstruct justice: not to “insure domestic tranquility™ but to insure domestic dissension; not to "pmflde‘lot the common denfense” but to prévent thec ommon defense; but to “promote the general welfare” but to destroy the general welfare: not to “secure the blessings of liberty” but to rivet the shackles of slavery. ¢ e

Yet such an interpretation of the preamble to the Conmstitution of th. United States would be quite in harmonyy with the Harding interpreta: tion of the covehant of the League of Nations. Where the covenant de clares that its object is to achieve international peace and security Senator Harding solemnly assures the country that it means the rule of might over right. . When it prescribes obligations mot to go to war, the Senator wags his head and says this means a military alliance . When it provides for open, just and honorable relations between nations, the Senator claims it is a conspiracy against the United States. When it insists on the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the rule of conduct among nations, the Senator says this establishes a government of men as distinguished from a government ot taws. When it refers to a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations, the Sénator throws up his hands and thanks Heaven that a Republican Sepate has saved the sovereignty of the American people. . : ‘ . It would be charitable to assume that Senator Harding's interpretation of the covenant of the League of Nations are the product of ignorance, but nobody could be quite so ignorant as he pictures himsell. The Harding speeches on the League must be accepted as a continuation of the blatant demagogy which has characterized Republican opposition 1o the covenant ever since Lodge decided ‘that it should be made a partisan issue. But the voter who wishes to determine for himself the objects of the League should begin by studying theo preamble’ and asking_himself whether he believes in the rules of conduct for nations which the preamble prescribes. It is for those -objects that the League was established. i

REVERSING OUR FOREIGN POLICY Senator Harding = promises—“threatens” would be a better word—if elected to completely reverse the foreign policy of the United States. Let us see what this would mean in even a few familiar particulars: ‘A repudiation of the Monroe Doctrine, which has been'the established policy for nearly a hundred years, including Grover Cleveland’'s Venezuela message: “The United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law.” .

Repudiation of the Spanish-Ameri-can War and the -return ,of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines to Spain.. : S

~ Repudiation of the policies that kept us at peace with Europe (except for the Spanish War) for more than a hundred years, and keeps up at peace with Japan now. e Repudiation of the- treaty under which we built the Panama Canal. - Return of Alaska to Russia. : Repudiation of our entrance into the World War to overthrow German autocracy and make the world safe for democracy. . y Repudiation of our refusal to recognize the Bolshevik gov ent. Repudiation of our policy of nonintervention in Meéxico. .

These are but a few familiar phases of our foreign policy that Senator ;;Huding would “completely reverse.” Is it any mystery why they keep him chained on the porch? WHAT THE LEAGUE MEANS. Every section and every line of the league of nations ioven;nt have for their purpose the’ maintenance of world peace and a higher degree of social j::l?]ce for all the peoples of the ear All the forty-Gne nations joining the league have subscribed to this faith and are Ppledged to .carry out its high purpose. It is silly for small fry politicians, for the sake of gaining a party end, to say tiat all these nations are dishonored and have lefll designs on the people of the ‘United States. It certainly seems ‘strange that thought leaders of all the other countries should become so blinded to their own best interests that they would permit England to ‘hoodwink them into an association designed for their social and economic destruction. Why not be honest in their opposition to the league covenant and admit that they desire to back up the senate coterie who were inspired by their action in opposition to the ratification of the peace tréaty by a hatred of President Wilson. And now they are trying to elect Senator Harding not becaause but in spite of. ‘his unpatriotic stand on the league and the peace. treaty. One would think from reading declarations by the.rexmbueu; - politicians that all the ‘wisdom of the world was wrapped up in the minds of Senator Lodge and his apostles. The whole aim is to stir up %‘f& tto blind the public to. true mfim e

posed their adoption by the American people. o - When one considers the far-reach-ing resuits of the excessive use of money in politics it is not surprising that much concern is felt over the attempt of the republicans to raise ten or fifteen million dollars in the'r efforts to elect Senator Harding. When Newberry bought his seat in the U, 8. senate from the state of Michigan the defeat of ratification of the peace treaty and the league of nations was the result. Without the vote of Newberry the republicans could not have organized the senate. Without the Newberry vote the senate clique responsible for the nomination of Mr Harding against the will of his party could not have been accomplished The use of money in politics is wholly responsible for the unenviable position in which the United States find themselves. No wonder Gov. Cox insists -upon a full investigation- of campaign funds. = STAGGERING INFORMATION * What will intelligent pecple think of the following statement found In the editorial column of the “organ”? Could anything be more ridiculous? "It a war comes on the Council ‘shall say who does the fighting. Not all of the Council just a. majority. If England or France want trooops to police their colonies in case of danger the Council will say whose troops g 0 and in case of a dispute about it the Assembly assumes full power over the Council and England has six votes to our one in the Assembly, :

“When we join the League of Nations we abrogate the powers of Con gress and transfer such power to a council of foreign notions to decide.” Reading the last paragraph one finds that the president and the senate of the United States has power to amend or set aside that. provision of cir federal constitution which says explicity that the congress alone has authority to declare war, and it follows that “soldiers of the United States cannot be dispatched anywhere on a warlike mission except on ors der of congress. . Accéiding to the able exponent of falicious republican propaganda “up stairs” some power as yet undefined is going to induct the United States into the League of Nations against the consent of congress, and in violation of the federal constitution, thereby subjecting our people to the cruel rule of England and her five voting associates. o - ; ; If Jim Watson could find time to read the weighty editorial utterances of the Ligonier Leader on the League of Nations he woul not only smile, but laugh outright. o L

George Sylvester Viereck, who said as many things about the goveiunic.u.. « e United States as FEugene V. Debbs who is now serving.a term .in the federal penitentiary for disloyalty, is -at the head. of a movement to organize the Pro-German vote and the Pro-Irish vote of the United States in favor of Harding, says the Columbia City Pest. The Viereck crowd is still nursing wrath- against the administration because it refused to allow the German War Lords to run over it, and Harding and his managers are ready to welcome to their arms every man who hag a vote regardless of loyalty or standing .and then go out and preach Americanism.

Occupying the position of county chairman the esteemed. editor of the Ligonier Leader should be familiar with the efforts of republicans to raise a big campaign fund in Noble county. Will the E. E. kindly inform an anxious public just what is to be done with a cash fund of $9,000 in Noble county and $75,000 in the Twelfth congressional district?

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