The literary digest . angerousinvasion of the liberties of theseveral sovereign colonies. Butthe New York Evening World(Dem.) thinks that the instinctof every thoughtful Americanwill be to see the most ratherthan the least that can be made of it, and the Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind. Rep.) admonishesus that discussion distorted and perverted by selfish partizan-ship will be a crime against civilization. Any man in this country who tries to stir up opposition to theLeague of Nations will be guilty of trying to pave the way foranother world deluge of blood, and will be just as great a crimina
The literary digest . angerousinvasion of the liberties of theseveral sovereign colonies. Butthe New York Evening World(Dem.) thinks that the instinctof every thoughtful Americanwill be to see the most ratherthan the least that can be made of it, and the Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind. Rep.) admonishesus that discussion distorted and perverted by selfish partizan-ship will be a crime against civilization. Any man in this country who tries to stir up opposition to theLeague of Nations will be guilty of trying to pave the way foranother world deluge of blood, and will be just as great a criminalas the ex-Kaiser, declared Secretary of the Navy Daniels in aspeech celebrating the drafting of this document, which makesMagna Carta and the Declaration of Independence mere fore-runners of an immortal instrument that blesses all the worldfor all generations. Undeterred by this warning, however,Senator Miles Poindexter, of Washington, Republican, openedthe light on the Peace-League constitution witli the charge that. Copyrighted by LIllustration, Paris. From Underwood i: Underwood. PREMIER CLEMENCEAU. Wounded by an anarchist in front of his home in Paris on February 19. it surrenders the nations so,vereignty, abrogates the MonroeDoctrine, and tends to stimulate rather than abolish such colossal burden or entangling alliance was ever beforeconceived in the world, he declared. Instead of being aninstrument of peace, it is the fertile seed of war, the dragons teeth from which, when sown,armed soldiers will Poindexter found faultparticularly with the follow-ing five principal matters ofprime importance in theLeagues constitution of twenty-six articles: First. The surrender by theseveral nations to the League ofthe power and discretion of de-termining the rules, methods,and degree of disarmament andthe relative and absolute sizeof the army and navy whichany member of the League maymaintain. Second. Compulsory arbi-tration of aU questions of everykind and des
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