THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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TREATY RESERVATIONS
Senator Hitchcock believes that the
peace treaty may be reported out of
the committee on foreign relations
within two or three weeks, and it is
extremely likely that those -weeks
will be devoted to heated sessions
by the committee. The bone of con
tention will be the proposed reserva
tions, and a word in regard to these
reservations may not be out of place
at this time.
The proposals which seem to be
most in favor are those of Mr. Root,
and are three in number. The first
of these rejects in toto Article X,—
the one article which has created,
probably, more discussion than any
other article of the treaty. It is as
follows:
“The members of the league (of
nations) undertake to respect and
preserve as against external aggres
sion the territorial integrity and ex
isting 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.”
The second proposed reservation
deals with the provision that two
years’ notice of withdrawal from the
League of Nations shall be given,
such withdrawal to be allowed if the
nation wishing to withdraw has ful
filled “all its international obliga
tions and all its obligations under
this covenant.” Mr. Root proposes
a reservation to the effect that “when
ever two years’ notice of withdrawal
from the League of Nations shall
have been given, as provided in Ar
ticle 1, no claim, charge or finding
that international obligations or obli
gations under the covenant have not
been fulfilled will be deemed to ren
der the two years’ notice ineffectual
or to keep the power giving the notice
in the league after the expiration of
the time specified in the notice.”
The third proposed reservation is
in effect a disclaimer of any “wish
to intrude upon or interfere with the
political policy or international ad
ministration of any foreign state,” and
the statement that it is . actuated
by “no existing or anticipated dan
gers in the affairs of the American
continents, but accedes to the wish
of the European states that it shall
join its powers to theirs for the pres
ervation of general peace,” “with the
understanding that nothing therein
contained shall be construed to imply
a relinquishment by the United States
of America of its traditional attitude
toward purely American questions,
or to require the submission of its
policy regarding questions which it
deems to be purely American ques
tions to the decision or recommenda
tion of other powers.”
All of these reservations are no
douht proposed by the highest mo
tives of statesmanship and patriot
ism. But anyone who has read the
treaty and league covenant surely
must be convinced that these very
questions have been earnestly con
sidered and acted upon by the peace
conference which drew up the docu
ment. All weighty measures such as
the treaty of peace must of necessity
be largely the effect of compromise.
The document may not be worded
exactly as Americans alone would
have worded it; and it is doubtful if
any document drawn up as was this
one was could meet the desires of
all nations participating—or even of
all parties of any one particular na
tion. To those who look forward to
the putting into effect of a plan which
will make war impossible, or as near
ly impossible as it will be in the
power of human beings to make it,
the attitude of the senators who are
holding out for reservations will be
regretted.
“The precise form* in which the
constitution of the league is cast,”
remarks the Saturday Evening Post,
“is comparatively unimportant. The
great thing is to accept the underly
ing principle of friendly international
organization and to get a settlement
of Europe’s affairs now that will re
duce the danger of war to the lowest
practicable point. That is what the
objecting senators never would do.
Whatever form the constitution was
cast Id, they would still find objec
tions.”
The other evening at the Empress
theater Captain Lathrop displayed
pictures of an anti-prohibition dem
onstration at Washington participat
ed in by prominent labor men. They
bore a banner announcing that “We
want beer.” It elicited enthusiastic
applause from the audience, and it
was noticeable that many of our
piominent citizens joined in indors
ing the sentiment.
To allay any possible anxiety on
the part of Republican friends of the
Daily Times, assurance is given that
there is no inclination on the part
of the temporary editor to use the
great influence and prestige of this
newspaper in starting a presidential
boom for William J. Bryan, Hoke
Smith oi James Hamilton Lewis.
While wo can not conscientiously ad
vocate such Republican doctrines as
a high protect! tariff, we may be
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permitted to discuss such problems
as are not of a partisan character—
as, for instance, the peace treaty, the
high cost of living and what disposi
tion is to be made of Jim 'Wicker
sham.
The dispatch yesterday which
stated that the Germans were again
preparing to become militaristic, in
spite of the provisions of the treaty
of peace, which they solemnly ac
cepted, brings to mind a historic in
cident. After Napoleon had subdued
Europe he decreed that the Prussians
should be allowed an army of but one
hundred thousand men. By keeping
constantly under arms that number
of soldiers, by changing them from
regulars to reserves every three
months, and by continuous intensive
training, King Frederick was enabled
to have always ready an army of
several times the prescribed number.
Possibly the same game is to be tried
on the entente allies.
someone is always ratting me joy
out of life,” according to a current
saying. Now the Episcopalians pro
pose to eliminate the vow of obedi
ence taken by the bride in the wed
ding ceremony, and to blot out the
fiction subscribed to by the groom
that he endows his spouse with “all
his worldly goods.” As to the former,
it is quite true that a certain per
centage of wives still follow the in
junction of St. Paul, to “obey” their
husbands. But it may be that the
percentage will decrease with the j
revised ceremony. And as to the
groom endowing the bride with all
his worldly goods—well, it sounds
most self-sacrificing, and if the better
half of the marriage partnership de
rive any satisfaction from it, why not
let it remain? We are for women’s
rights.
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