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TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1919 THE LOGAN REPUBLICAN vrv vnrv HI Americanize Europe, Not Europeanizc America, Sen. Smoot's Ad vice on Policy - (Continued from Page One) only of the literature ot the first years of the republic, but of the ' 'forties and 'fifties of the nineteenth l century. Is needed to show that the x faith that we weie politically cen turies uhead of Europe was early and deeply Implanted in the hearts ot the American people, and with this faith went the conviction that we must be on our guard against, the advances ot the medieval govern ments on the other Bide of the .water. American Ideals Never to Die In the hearts of tho people this I. . sentiment of Americanism, us an In JL. 1 lmltablo Ideal, has never died out, QBr'jiF and, for the future welfare and pres- r- ervatlon of America, I pray It never I will, ' . Lot us, by our example, our patil- ' ' otlsm, our love of country, our wll- t Hngne.sH to fight for righteousness and agaluHt evil, for liberty and I against autocracy, Amerlcanlzo Eur- opc, rather than under tho league, ErropeanJze America, I have absoluto faith In tho Am erican people, and their undying J fnltlf In their form of government, Jr and I do not believe the American Q -people will be content .to surrender -their birthright In return for a world government that will be two and three-quarters per cent American. Do you or the people at home believe that, Ins noon as normal conditions return, when every nation will be struggling to secure tho commerce Of the world, passing laws to pr- s ' tect the interest of its own citizens '" as against the balance of the world Vh'en'fpe'tty Jealousles'wlll arise, and 'race hatred is Inflame, tho two and three-quarters por cent can dlctivto or tdcontrol the warring nlnety-SiY- en and one-qiiarter per cent? ' ' ' The world Is sick of war today, '''"and theriationsY mortar fheni.' W on the verge of 'bankruptcy. Ail thisf however, will be changed soii'o time In the future. For a docai'c to come, the league may not Involve us In serious trouble, but what lit a decade In the life of a nation? Pover to Proxy , Is Forbidden You know that under our con stitution the President and the Son ale have no power to delegate! to n council or assemblly the conduct of the foreign relations of our govern ment. The President and tho S'n M& ate have their respective Bpheres of , Mfk authority and under tho constitution, , iA ' cannot pass beyond. CombInoM,'iey If lmve beon clothed with the treaty-j j jL making power, but this powo." i1 A Pv clearly defined. It is an nbsur!":' to hold that a treaty can bo man which would nbollBh tho sovereignty 11, ot the. United States, or transfer W any, part of that sovereignty lo a f , league of nations. I Your, position as an editor pf a, I public Journal and your duty a4 a . citizen of this countrj" rcqlre you to i, think for yourself., pnvthls question ' ' - ship andwlthout regard to whatany I' -without passion, without partlum- other Individual might think or Hay, ' ' but always with the thought in mind ns to what effect It will have npen lj our country. I want you to dig to ' tp and study this subject, for It con fW' cerna the future Independence and r j freedom ot our country. J& I now call your attention In the res ( '" jBcrvatlons which, I havo concluded, V'Jjr mU8t uo 'Iia,1 '"' tM0 covenant. y Monroe Doctrine j r Safeguard Asked k t . I (also It for granted that you your I self will admit that tho Monroe doc- ?.', trine Is cssontlully a natlonul policy , , whoso application and enforcement Mf" ' must ho determined by the United & Stutes nlono. I shall voto for a rcs- wiF crvutlon to make- this clear. Tho gF present form of tho covenant does &.,. not. f I take It for grilled that you will $jjf ' admit tht internal questions, entlre- T ly domestic In character, such as pt Immigration and the tariff, are to he determined solely by tho countrj in which they arise. The prehont foim of tho covenant tranfers this power to tho leaguo ot nations. I take It for granted that you will ' admit that, under tho constitution, ' the United States cannot bind Itself In advance to muko war without the express authorization of Congress at the time. Tho present form ot the covenant specifically piovldes other wise, an stated In a cablegram from President Wilson at Paris on Muy 10, J919, addressed to his secretary tor publication, ns follows: "Happily there Is no mystery or privacy about what I hao promised the government heio. I have promised to propose to the senuto a supplement in which we shall agree, subject - to the approval of the council ot tho leaguo of nations, to come Immediately to tho assls- ' tnnce of France In case of un provoked attack by Germany, thus merejy hastening the ac tion to which wo should bo bound by the covenant of the league of nutlons." I take it for granted that, you will admit that the United States should jhave the right to withdraw from the leaguo and determine fur Itself J whether It hns fulfilled Its obliga tions as provided, in the covenant, or not. The present form of the ! covenant gives this rlgjit to foreign ers to decide. Shantung is Indefensible The Shantung settlement, as pro vided In the pence treaty, Is Indefen sible and never would have been In 'eluded in the treaty If President Wil son had not decided that It was ne cessary to Include It, In order to se 'cure Japan's signature to the treaty of peace. Shantung was given to ' Japan ns a bribe, so admitted upon the floor 6f the Senate by no lew authority "than Senator Williams,' a members of the foreign relation committee and spokesman for. the President. Accepts League ,v, iWHhTVovisions I With these reservations mado to 'the treaty I shall voto for It, but ev- cn then I will do so with a great deal of apprehension. ' The draft of the covenant Is a British draft from beginning to end. It cleverly makes tho league coven ant simply an alliance for the main tenance of Great Britain's dominion of the seas nnd the" permnnencu or her conquests and annexations In ev ery part pf the habltablo globe. I I ask you what has Great Britain given up nnd what now responsibility does she obsuihc? She gets the Ger man colonies under a mandnto of tno leaguo Just as effectively as If they were taken by direct annexation. There is no disposition on her part, nor will she. ever consent, to abandon her supremacy, of iho seas. She de ma'nds the recognition five of her dependencies, whose foreign affairs sho controls and which sho will con trol in all decisions as membors of the assembly on a piano of equality 'with the United States. England, by the terns ot tho peace treaty, secures 1,000,000 square miles of the earth's surface, In addition lo her present holdings. American Plan .Against British Do you know of any reason why the leaguo should, It It Is to exist, bo o'n the plan of the Kngllsh empire nnd not on the plan of our Ameri can Ideals7 And if wo are to iiinko sacrifices, as Lord Ilobert Cecil has stated It Is our duty to do, is theio any icasou why wo should not be I permitted to Judgo what sncrlflcea wc are prepnrud to make? You must know that tho United Slates cannot ho ruled by Washing ton and by London at tho saiuo tlmo with any ndvantngo to tho United SlatCB. No man can servo two ntns tcrs, no man can serve tho American people and the British government at the same time, no man can bo a whole hearted American and a pro forclgn propagandist at tho same time, no in tin can hare his true cit izenship In America and his allegi ance in another country. Prayer Is His Guide You ask mo If I want to disap point the church and tho stnto In my stand on this question. Certainly I do not, but havo tnken nn oath ot olllce to defend tho constitution of the United States. I havo prayed as much over this question ns any member ot the chinch and I think I hnvo studied It with moie rare thnn any member of tho church. The re sponsibility of my voto is upon me. If my vote Is enst wrongly I nm the one thnt In the future will bo con idemned not tho members of tho church nt home. Yes, I do believe thnt the framers of the cdnstltullon were Inspired of God. 1 do believe that America, this land of ours, was solved by God .for the establishment of truth and 'liberty thereon, butI am not pri 1 pared to admit that President Wilson hns been Inspired of God In effecting I tho covenant of tho league of nations either In Its original or In Its present form. I do not believe that God had anything to do with the Shantung matter, nor do I believe that Ho was pleased with tho action of Piosldent Wilson affecting Flume or the Saar valley. I might ndil that there may bo room for difference of opinion, as to Fluino and tho Suar valley. but there cannot bo any diffrienco of opinion as to Shantung. Tho moral sense of tho world has been outraged In tlTo piovlsloa i elat ing to Shantung. It Is true that President Wilson states ho did the best he could in the Shantung mutter In order to ,ecute the signature of Japan to tho treaty. The President huR secured a statement 'from Vis count Uchlda, foreign minister of Jn pan, issued a few days ago, which purports to be a reassurance to the world that Japan contemplates no a'ggresslon against China In Shan tung. The statement declares that, "Japan does not Intend to clnlm any rjghts affecting the territorial sov ereignty' of China In Shantung," That has a plausible sound, but It Is utterly misleading, and, unfor tunateiy. It must have been Intended to misled, for It eoncenls tho mater ial effect of Japan's aggression, and tho manner In which it Is accom plished, ( Jap Declarations in Past Recalled No nation has been more emphat ic than Jupan In proclaiming respect for thel ntegrlty of Chlua, and that all the forms of Interchange between them are scrupulously observed by Japan; yet If has been demonstrat ed over and' over again that China has not been permitted by Japan to pursue an Independent policy, even In political mutters, whlloj. economi cally, China Is tied hand and foot to Japan. It may be true that Jupnn docs not Intend to claim any rights affecting the "territorial sovereign ty", of China, but It Is undeniably truo that Japan Intends to claim all tho economic right's In China grant-1 cd her In the treaty,- and they- afflt the future protection, wefare and happiness of the Chinese people. If this treaty of peace and coven ant Is adopted; look- out for the greatest war In the history ot the world, beginning with Japan Under taking to subjugate China. Tho world's governments sent their agents (o make a secure peaco based upon right and Justice. They 'yielded to tho persuasion and tin eats of Japan, Shantung Is Nation's Stain The treaty of ponce, without a disavowal on our part of tho Shan tung outiuge. plnco an Indt-llhlo stain upon the good nanio of tho nation, and will tend to stir up war In Asia. If I know tho temper of tho senate a disavowal will bo mado bo that tills nation will not put tho stamp of Ha npprovol upon tho wrongs committed against China, one of our allien. Tho truth is that the situation In Paris Is growing dnngerous and the sooner this is recognized tho bolter it will be for all of uh. Shantung Is a great moral failure; Flume a great political joke, and now comes tho heralded effort to whitewash the Turk at the expense ot Armenia. 1 would consider thnt I warn in latin m until of otllce, if I failed to vote Toi tho suggested rosenntloiiK Lot me toll you thnt it Mould not suipilse me to see President Wilson, whom you think bus beon directed by Inspiration, nppiovo of the reser vations Unit I hao nboio outlined. I hnvo no doiitii but that the controll-1 ed Associated Press would put. the question In such a way as to innlto' It appear ns n complete victory on ' the pint or the Piosldent. ' j 1 wish you could spend a short time In Washington or other centers of population In the enst, and I nm I quite sure thnt your Ideas of tho divinity of the league ot tuition? would be quickly shattered. You have no idea how rapidly tho senti ment of tho count i y, and pnitlculnr ly In the east, is crystallzing ngniust any foiin of a league, For mouths my mnil bioughl mo fifty lttein fav oi able lo the league iim tignlust one opposliu: it Today I receive at least ten leltoiH protesting ngnlnst the league to one In favor of It. Democrats Are Now Opposed So stiong bus tho sentiment be come Hint tho president of the Demo crat club of the stnte of MnsHnchtii setts. In n letter addressed to tho chairman of tho Democrat national committee and indorsed by two state ' scnntoiHand f If toon national commit tee repudiate tho actions of Presi dent Wilson. Tho letter Is as fol lows: '"We the undersigned Democrats of Masschueetts, request you to call a meeting or the noithern and western members of the national committee and repudiate the actions of Wood row Wilson, who wiecked the pnity afler we hnd lifted him from ob scurity, making him a governor and then, .President. "He, has held the party up to ridi cule by the following facts: "First, by nppolntlng Incompetent men to positions of responsibility, the most glaring example" of which afe Postmaster Geneial Burleson, Secretary of "War Baker and Vucl Administrator Gnrfleld. s "Second, by leaving the country at a tliiie when tho great problems ot reconstruction nnd tho high cost of living, conf runted Congiess, cam ouflaging through Ruropo and raus Ing us, tq loso the filendshlp of Italy and qthe,r countries by his nctlons. Pact Called Englishh Covenant "Third, by attempting to force nn English covenant called the league of nations upon the American people nt the cost of destruction of the Declaration of Independence, of tol erating the larceny of Shantung from China by Japan nnd the robbery of India and Kgypt by Great Britain. Fourth, by IiIb Idle promises nt Washington's tomb when he decluied he would demand tho Independence of small-nutlons, and by refusing to take iip the question at tjio peace table of the liberty of Kgypt, India, Ireland and South Africa and rccog nlzlntTtpngland's right to govern Kgypt. "Fifth, by hf advocating Interna tionalism, 'which means' the loss of the nntlonat spirit of patriotism and the birth of socialism. "Sixth, by placing American troops in llussla, a country against which Congiess has nut declared war, nnd his ntlompt to kill the spirit of Am erica for only Americans. 'Seventh, by his policy In Mexico, bis recognition of Carranza, nn an aiclilst, and unll-Amorlcan, nnd tho it-i" Mrm of tliu murder of over COO Amei leans In Mexico without a dec laration of war. "Kighlh, by his refusing tho re quest of both branches of cougicsa , that ho'tuko up tho Irish question at tho peace table. 'Ninth, by his ijitlsanshlp lo wurd tho ton Hi ut tho cost of tho rest of tho country. "Tenth, by his signing of tho war time prohibition act after tho armis tice was signed. "Eleventh, by his policy of re habllltuton of baukrupt European na tions at tho expense of the Impover ishment ot tho American govern 'Twelfth, b) bin disregard or the Bnlttmoio platform, which pledged him (o aid the passage of tho Pnnu ln a ran nl free tolls. Thirteenth, by his dlsiogaid or Iho light of suffrage, which belongs to hundieds of thousands of negroes of tho south. "Fourteenth, by his policy of ship ping vast amounts of roods to Eur ope nnd spending $ 100,000.000 for food nt the expense ot Amerlen, thus I causing the picRont high cost of ll- Ing which confronts tho Ameilcnn people. "Hoping Immediate action will be tnken so thnt wo can build up our pnity now and let thV people foiuel i i thnt he over was a member of our i party nnd make It possible for us to i elect a northern or western Denio- cint President In 1020." States Back Pack Opponents I Utah may ns yon state, lepudlnte mo for my position In rcguid to tho league, but 1 nssuio you thnt few states of tho .Union will icpudlate the senators who hnvo mado the fight I for reservations to the covenant of tho league (hut uro vital to tho pres ervation of our pioseiil form of gov ernment. There wob nn election for congress man In Kentucky a few days ago, In a dlhlrict thai hns boon overwhelm ingly Doniocrntlo In tho past. The Issuo was narrowed down to one i question, that ot approving or dis approving thti.lengue of nations. The Democrat candidate declared for President Wilson nnd tho league of nations, nnd tho Republican candi date against tho league of nations. The result was n majority 'for thol Republican candldnte In that rock ribbed Democrat district In Ken tucky of nenrlly 1D00 votes. Tuko my word for It, reservation! will bo made to tho covenant of' the league or the Senate will not ratify the same. When the first draft wns brought from Purls by the Picsldent, there was a great mnss meeting held nt tho Snll Utko Tabernacle. At thnt mass meeting a vole wns taken on the league of nations and the klule gram stated Unit there !)!f!l votes for the lengue of nations Inid I vote against It, I doubt whether you could mind many people in the Un ited States today Hint would nppiovo the league of nutlons In the form ll: which It was first presented. Article Ten Binds U. S. It Is truo thut tho original ban been amended In u number of pnr- itlrnlars, all of which I nppiovo, But as long ns article 10 remains In tl.e covenant without reseiwitlon. wo pledge ourselves to maintain the ten llorlul Integrity and political In dependence of nil nutlons member of tho lengue. Ask nny mother in Utah if sho wants her son lo bo drafted and sent to offer, nnd more thnn likely sacrifice, his life to sottlo a qtiar rtl. In which America has no Inter est whatever, between, say, two of the Balkan slates, or two other countries located In the furthest ends of thw-enith, nnd see what sho will say. Yet, under icctlon 10 of tin covenant, as now formed, America, If culled upon, will hnvo lo pour out her billions of dollars nnd give the blood of the best of tier young men, I In order lo assist In settling Jus' such qunrit'ls ur lepudiuto tho obli gations RBstiinod under the proilslom of tho league. I In answer to a resolution of"th Senate, President Wilson Kent to th Senate a copy of tho proposed Amor lean leaguo of nations, tho one hi took with htm to Paris. Tho wnv toi-s wtro not only mirprliiod, bu' humiliated to find thut tho objec llonnblo article 10 was tho product of tho brain of President Wihm. . Prophesies Tell ' Of Future Wars I You evidently think, as ninny of the people of Utah nro led lo think that when this covenant Is ratified we will havo no moio wars. Do not bo deceived, for such will not bo the case. If bo, the revelations givon to .the Prophet Joseph Smith ns record .ed in the Doolrlno and Covenant? nre not truo, I cannot understand l why you tuko It for granted thut the league or nations will ilo moro jH for the world thnn Hie teachings ot H tho Savior have been able to do. I PH nsk you (o rend tho many p.iPtngoA flD of tho Book or Mormon lofeirlng to HV (his nation, ns well n llto many rev- NhH elutlons given to tho Prophet Jo.wpli W Smith, as to tho destiny oft ho same. H A few days ago (hero was proneh':-j nff ed In the Senate a bill by Senator' KfB Wndsworth, prepared by the War de- PH pnitmcut. I: represents the view? or fcisB this administration as to tho size or SjPB tho Amoilcan army. It provides for QJH nil in my of over u million men and HB of Hint million there Is to be regular BH standing army In times of ponce of B between (100,000 and 000,000 men. H Does tills look as It Iho dove of peaco H is to hover ner tho world as soon jfl ns tho covenant Is ratified? This ad- M mlnlsliullon Is asking for nearly ou H billion dollais to bo spent this year H In Increasing tho navy, H England's Army 2,000,000 Men H England Is preparing Tor tin army M of 2,000,000 men and In this connoc- H Hon I cull your attention to an tirtt- B clo In Collier's Weekly which nays: H "That August day In 1014 when M the war luolco out, tho British navy fl had a tonnngo of 2,500.000 nnd a iH personnel of 14 C, 000, 000 ofllcors and M men. Today It has a tonnngo (in- U eluding tho auxiliary fleet) of 8,000,- H 000 and n personnel or almost COO,- ' H 000, This docs not Include Iho nicr- H candle marine or patrol vessels, mluct H sweepers, etc., In tlie auxiliary fleet. ,H There nre CO, 000 men - serving- ln H In contenting on the above aitl- H clo Mr. Hnnnln Taylor author of "In- H tcrnational Public Law," makes' the H following statement: i H "In addition, the Biltlsh empire H holds In Its hands the surrendered H German colonics and the long cov- H etcd Dardanelles, hcsldos (he Sues H canal and a kind of over lordship1 ov- H er our own Panama canal, which can H he defended only by sea power. When i H to all that Is added tho combined sea i.l power of her utile's, Frnnco, Italy. H nnd Japan, sho Is not only mistress ot H the sens, but tho empress x! tho H world In n wny In which no world ' H power hns ever been since -'the fait ; H of the Roman empire Tho newspa- H pcrs report Hint tho building of Brit- U Isli dreudnnughts Is now progressing- . H mine rapidly than over before. With H her tinted commercial rival prostrat H cd in the dust, with Its greatest war H ships nt the bottom of tho sen, Great. H Britain him now no one In her wny H hut ourselves. Our day will surely H come the moment that our growing i H merchant mailno dares lo confllrl H with her commcrclnl Interests on tho H high sou. After tho first gun flieK, H southern cotton, Montana copper amf H western food supplies will appeal In I H vain to neiitrullly laws which Prcsl- H dent Wilson hns ngreod to abolish ab- H solute'v. With starvation blockades M In full force llr'.-inla will rule tlio H waves If "i lf."iio of nations. Is ad- U opted, entirely unmolested, for tho M first time by neutrality laws, (CIciho H EIGHT H lunde no mistake when he said "thut , M he who guins the command of, Iho j 9R sea must obtuln supreme power." ' WM France Fails H In Confidence ' p Frnnco evidently has no conff- ' IOT dence In (ho eMcncy of the league or j Rftt nutlons to protect her, for she InslstH ' thut there ho n. sepaiate treaty bo- I ffini tween Fiance, England ami tho Un- Ivm lied Siiitos, In which America niul Mml , 1 JnHKI England pledged tlteinsel-'os to corn" tna Immediately to France's assistutico xtaE in en 6e an unproiokod nttucV Is nutria 'pfdEj upon her by aouunny and, In )ny jjljfl opinion, Frnnco will not ratify tho Gffi covenant and tieaty of peaco until Jflw she fee'" sure Atnielca will first rat- ' 9H Ify tho xptuirnto treaty. BS Tho people wnnt peace. Tho world fflB Is a hootliloe mnss of race aullputhluH ' - Sj social theories, ambitions to govern jK from tho top, ambitions to govern - BB from tho butttim, races, Just emerg:- oB lug from savagely, races that havo sK' been all their lives. subject to tyran- jfl ulcul government and who,hatq. alt "v-B government. i'e nre nowasked to ' B (Continued on Pag, CNiur' -H