The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1919, Page 4

e ) GEORGE D. MANN Gr" LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Key tative NEW YOFK, Fifth Ave. Bldg; CHICAGO, ., BOSTON, 2 Winter 5t.; DETROIT, Kresege 1; MINNEAPOLIS, £10 Luaber Exe MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE! sacs eaeanr 9 “~~ cl Secret international constitution, or will bury it. | rather quickly, even though the matter lies wait-| to study the covenants of independent states, and will, within a few months, give pulsing life tc the Whatever decision is arrived at must come ing upon the peace table. The announcement |from Paris that the peace conference hopes to end its deliberations in June or July leaves little time The Assuciuted Prese is exclusively entitled to the use| for the measuring of popular opinion the world for republicution of all newe credited to it or not oimer- wise credited in this paper and also the local mews pab- bed herein. ay, : tet rights of publicution of special dispatches herein ere also reserved. MEMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION BUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per yeer ......- : 0 Duily by meil per year (In Bisme' Daily vy muil per year (lo State out Daily uy No: E JHERE JUST THE SAME i to look through ¢ problem! unted rose How suk. glasses wt every econom How corforting to fall back Thomas Mills’ “Struggle for Existenc logic fails and in its pa; to browse along tne highway and Utopia! The ostri the animal kingdom, plunging his head into the sand, he dismisses frorg his vision all tnz wold irritate and disturb a perennial equanimity. Debate yesterd house on the eminent upon Walter when es is the simon pure optimist among ’ in the domain Clause v u sample of the persiflag which bas characte of the gospentous questions affecting the welfare of the great state of North Dakota, The Tribune is broad enough to believe that themajority members in the house and senate are honest. , Although to disagree with the socialistic manipulators of the legislature is to bring down upon one’s head the maledictions of the whole tribe, that matters little, In the eyes of Mills and others there can be no such thing as ap honest difference of opinion in the press which voices the sentiments of the minority, Disagree and press,” “kept pres: Chamber of Commerce” and “enemy of the com- mon people”’—usually pronounced peepul, The Tribune reasserts without fear of suce ful contradiction that the eminent domain clause in some of the league measures is most vicious legiglation—the promise, that’ it will nat be used unjustly'ts nd gudranty avainst oppression. The menace remains just the same, But on with the dance! Sanity will come only when the farmer realizes that an Edenie condition cannot be brought about by the panaceas proposed, you are a “crook”—subsidized 3,” “tools of the Minneapolis Nathing but.an early application of some of the) league measures will pierce the hypnotic spell around thé solid majority of North Jukota farmers, : ae Hop to it barrels! Townley “oletop”, give 'em both Peace hath her hates no be bitter than war's, THE MOSSBACKS Again the woman sulfrage amendment resolu- tion has been defeated in the senate by « narrow margin, and the majority party in the senate has assumed # fearful responsibility in denying to the ates the right to pass on the proposed amend- ment, Nighteen democrats killed the amendment, and one of them would have saved it. ~Woman suffrage, the recognition of women’s equality, with men, has come almost everywhere except he United States, even Germany in the process of {ts reorganization giving its women full rights to eitizenship, Of all the counteies in which woman suffrage was thought impossible five years ago, Great Britain, perhaps, stood first; and yet in the recent dlections not only did British women participate on an equality with British men, but one of their number was elected to parliament, The righteousness and justice of the principle of woman suffrage seems to have sunk deeply into the heart and conscience of the whole world; but a few mosshacks in the United States senate still stand out against it, and for their stubb their party must pay! ‘he women of this country are going to be given the rights of citizenship, just as they have been given it in other enlightened countries, They are no longer going to permit themselves to he placed in the secondary and subservient atti- tude in which the Turks place their women. et that id the position to which the senate mosabacks would relegate them, The democrats in the senate had yesterday an opportunity to annex the extension of equal rights to woman aa a party asset, They let it pasa, Their failure constitutes a serious party liabil- ity, of which the republican majority in the next congreaa may be relied upon to make the most !-- Atlanta Constitution, ss » Whatever the peace terms may be, the Hun yaay awallow them cheerfully or have them ram- med down with a bayonet. ) _ THERE OUGHT TO BEA WAY President Wilson ‘haa placed upon the world ces table the constitution of a pro- : of--Nations, Delegates gathered = ham bane, hry £0 ed most of the consideration over, W son will be home as February ebbs away. Ul tell congress, and through congress the he thinks of the league of nations’ end will put forward his weightiest r ’s “oki FE “peuple, what cities of the land, so ost widespread circula- nerk Y wil have very Httle to! pout this League of Nations, until, possibly | ) presidential and congressional] elec- in the tions. then they can make quite 4 little noise and do more or Jess talking, mainly among themselves, An overwhelming clamor might compe] the senate to vote according to the wave of the outery, but it would have to be overwhelm-| ‘ing indeed to penetrate the doors of the senate chamber, { | The American constitution provides no avenue of direct. appeal to the people. Congress has al-} ways steered clear of legislation tending toward | /putting the people in closer action upon the na-| I tiows problems. | If there eyer was a time when the people should j vot -with their own ballots, and not through their senatorfal representatives, that time $amow, jAnd the question is: | “Shall the delegates of the United States sign ithe League of Nations’ constitution?” | Of course, there is no chance to get such a na-| ‘tional referendum. We haven't the necessary ma-| chinery, nor the necessary constitutional permis-| |sion. Our hands are bound, We can see and hear, and Jet the Henate, chosen without any reference | |to this momentous question, ’dd the voting. | | The obvidus verdict, js: ‘ | Paye the |way for national referendums on all jHational or international problems approaching in importance the League of Nations, | States have found referendums workable and useful, 80 why not the nation? Then, at last, congress would know what the people wanted, \ In the meantime, and upon the League of Na- tions problem, the best 110,000,000 Americans ean do is Lo make considerable noise in support of the side we happen to favor and trust to our 96 sena- tars to tell upon which side the majority of people stand, Distinguishing service stripes for those who served abroad are to be abolished, and this means that we won't be able to. tell whether he killed Hung or killed time in Washington. a — | Saar. | WITH THE EDITORS | £1 ee > ST ie. See 2 WHY MR. TAFT IS WELCOME Minneapolis gvies cordial greeting to William Howard Taft, Its citizens respect him for himself ius well as for the great office he once held, They have a real affection for him as man and high esteem for him as citizen and patriot. This generous-hearted community never has forgotten how good a loser Mr, Taft was six years ago. It liked his sportsmanship in defeat, It re- calls that the familiar smile never came off and that he had no harsh words then or since for any man who opposed him for a second term as presi- dent, Mr. Taft is smiling still, but behind the smile is always the serious, high purpose to serve the right and the truth as he sees it, He has no malice in his heart today—not even against the Hun whose iniquities he has denounced so force- fully—but there is in that heart a desire that the Hun shall be made truly sorry by stern punish- ment for his transgressions and that from the war shall flow to the ends of the earth the waters of justice, As progenitor of the project of a league of na- gu back, possibly after mak- | { 1 STORE CiGiHeS | § 1 MOM!! wnere’s | ALL MY SUITS AN] (THE BELGIUM S 4 SCOUTING ADMIRES MiKROR 1 SENT THE etre? a TEXT OF CONSTITUTION OF LEAGUE OF: NATIONS COYENANT—Preamble— promote international ¢o-o) to secure international peace and se- curity by. the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the preserip- thon of-open, just and honorable r tions between nations, by the firm es- fablishment of the understandings: :of international Jaw as the actual rile of conduct among. governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a serup- wous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized people with one another, the powers signa- tory to this covenant adopt this constt- tution of the league of natle ARVICLE 1 The action of the high contracting ate order to. ation and | parties under the terms of this cov- enant shall be effected through the ine strumentality of a meeting of a \hody of delegates representing the high con- tructing parties, of meetings at) more frequent Sutervals of an executive eounel) and of i! permanent intetna- Honal secretariat to be established at the seat of the leagn ARTICLE 2 Meetings of the body of delegates shall he held at stated intervals and from time to time us occasion may require for the purpose of dealing with matters within the sphere of action of the lengne. Meetings of the hody of delegutes shall be held at the seat of the leagne or at such other places as may be found conyentent and shall con- sist of representatives of the high ¢on- tracting purtios, Each of the high eon- tracting parties shall have one yote, but may have notmore than three rep- resentithyes, ARTICLE 3 The executive cael! shall consist of representatives of the United States of America, the British emplre, Franée; Waly and Japan, together with repre- sentatlyes of font other states, mem- hers of the league, The selection, of these fonr states shajl'be made by the hody of delegates on such principles and inogich mamier wx they think fit, Pending the appointment: of these rep resentatiyes of the other states, repre- xentutlver of, (blank Jeft for names) shall he members off the executive counell, Meetings of the eounell shall be held from time to time a& oceislon may. require and at Jenst once a’ year at whatever place may be determined up- on or, failing any’suth @ecision, at the kent of the Jengue and nny upneten with: in the gphere, of actton-of the league ov affecting tif peace of fhe world may be dealt with at sueh meotings, Invitations shall be Kent to any power to attend a meeting of the coun- ell nt which ‘such matters directly af: fecting Ita inferenth are to he, als- cussed ind no deeiiion taken at! any meeting will be binding on Kuch pow: ors unless 80 Invited, ARTICLE 4 All matters of progedure at meetings of the body of delegates_or the execu- tive council, Including the appointment, of committees to Investigate particular matters, shill he regulated by the bod: of delegates or the executive council and may bo decided by a majority of the states represented at the meeting, Tho tirat meeting of the body of dote- gates und the executive council shall be summoned by the president of the United Staten of ‘America, ARTICLE 6 Tho permanent Aptretariat of the league shall be eatatlishedvat (o...6), which shall constitute the Kent of) the tions to enforce peace Mr. Taft is just now one of the outstanding figures of America whose voice, though that of a private citizen, is lidtened to with respect, in Europe and the Orient. He is here now to promote that idea, and whether our citizens agree with.or dissent from him, they all are in- terested in his exposition of the aubject. They know the sincerity of his purpose, and they have heen pleased to note how well in recent weeks he has Pi the courage of hia convictions.—Min- league, The scoretariat shall comprixe such secretarion and staf’ aa may be weauited under the: general direction and control of @ xocretary-goneral of the league, who shall he chosen hy the executive council; the Keeretariat Whall be appointed by the seeretary-ceneral, subject confirmation by the exedy ve § The secretary-ceneral shall act in that capacity at all meotings of the ele de delegates or of the executive council, ; : The nen of the secretariat ban league, ts wis the appor. tionment of the expenses of the inter- national, bureau of the universal Vos- tal union, ARTICLE 6. Ttepresentatives of the high contract- ing parties and officials ofi the league when engaged in the business of dhe league; shall, enjoy, diplomatic padvi- leges,and, immunities and: the hugid- ings oceupsed by Abn Jergne! qn itsfot- ficlals, or ,by representatives: attand- ing Its meetings, shall enjoy. the bene- fits of extra territoriality. ARTICLE 7 z Admission to the league of states: pot signatories to, the covenant. and hot named in the protocal hereto .as states to be. inyited, to, adhare,ta the, cogen- ant, requires the assent of, not; #pss Ahan, two-thirds af, the states, regire- sented in the. body of delegates. find shall) be limited,.to fully. selfgoygrn- ing countries, including dominions ‘and eolonfes. i No state shall pe admitted to the league unlers it is able to get effective guaranties. of its sincere intention to obserye Its International obligations and ‘unless it shall conform to such principles as may be preseribed by the league in regard to its naval and inill- tary forces and armaments. ARTICLE 8 The high contracting parties reeog- nize the-principle that the maintenance of peace will require the reduction of national armament to’ thelowest point consistent with national safety and. the enforcement by common action of ‘in- ternational obligatio having special regnrd to the geographical situation and clrenmstances, of each state; and the executive couneil shat formulate plans for effecting such reduction. The exeentive council shalb:nlso ‘determine for the consideration: and action | of the several governments what military EVERETT TRUE MY DEAR MAN, PLEASE ACCEPT TAS TIP WHICH) KGIVE IN RECOGNITION OF. “OuR MARVELOUS | SELE*ConTRoL — You ALL THE TIMG You SHAVED ME. WE DON'T SEND MOoRS COMBINATION IN WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, 1919. f MOVIE OF A SOLDIER DEMOBILIZING | Pee eee eee ‘0 Gots Finds DERBY TROUSERS AND COaT r7 = MTOY ait? 7H ING C@, equipment and armament is fair and reasonable in propertion to the scale of forces laid down in the program of \disurmament; and these limits, when adopted, shall not be exceeded without | the permission of the executive coun- cil. The high contracting parties agree; that the “manufacture. by — private; of munitions and implements of war lends itself to” grave objections,“ and how. the evil effects attendant upon sich ® manufac! The? prevénted, dyestegard beiig had tq th nepessitics # these counteles which argynot 4 fo. manufacture;for thethselvés the mu- nitions and implements of war neces- sary for their safety. The high contracting. parties’ under- take in'no way to. conceal from each other the condition of such of their in- dustries as are capable of being adapt- ed to warlike purposes ‘or the scale of their-armaments and agree..that..there. shall be full and frank interchange of information as toy naval programs. | * ‘ ARTICLE 9 A permanent commission’ shall’! be constituted to advise the league on the execution ‘of the provisions of Article 8 and on military and naval questions generally, ARTICLE 10 The high contraeting parties shall undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the terri- torial integrity and existing political independence of all states members of the league. In ease of any such ag- gression or in case -of any threat or danger of such aggression the execu- tive council sifall advise upon the means by which the obligation shall he fulfilled, ARTICLE 11 Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the high contracting parties or not, is hereby declared a matter of concern to. the league and the high contracting parties reserve the right to take any action \ DIDN'T UTTER A WORD: | previously | In any | | they direct the executive council to “og the: parties agree to’ communt- their, military, BPI Pay tucks and ex By: Condo}: that may be deemed wise and effectual ta egnard the peace of vations. It is hereby also declared and agreed {to be the friendly right of each of the high coptracting parties to draw the attention of the body of delegates or of the executive council to any circum- stances .uffecting. interngtional inter- course which threatens to disturb in- ternational peace or the good under- standing between nations upon which |peace depends. i ARTICLE 12 | The bigh contracting parties agree \that should disputes arise between them which cannot be adjusted by the ordinary processes of diplomacy they will in no case resort to war without submitting the questions and matters involved either to arbitra- ‘tion or to inquiry by the executive {eouneil and until three months after the award by the arbitrators or 4 rec- ofamendation by the executive council ; and that they will not even then resort to ‘war as against a member of the of the arbitrators or the recommenda- tion of the executive council. se under this article the award of the arbitrators shall be made within a reasonable time and the recommendation of the executive coun- efil shall be made within six months after the submission of the dispute. ARTICLE 13 The high contracting parties agree that whenever any dispute or difficul- ty shall arise between tem which recognize to be suitable for sub- mission to arbitration #nd which can- not be satisfactorily settled by diplo- macy, they will submit the whole irat- ter to arbitration. For this purpose the court of arbitration to which the case js referred shail be the court agreed on by the parties or stipulated in any convention existing between them. ‘The high contracting parties agree that they will carry out in full good faith any award that may be rendered. In the event of any failure to curry out the award, the executive council shall propose what steps can best he. given to give effect thereto, ARTICLE. 14 The executive council shall formu- late plans for the establishment of a permanent. Couct of international jus- tice, and this court shall, when estab- lished be competent to hear and deter- mine any matter which the parties rec- ognize us suitable for submission to it, for arbitration under the foregoing ar- ticle, SCOUTS FOR [league which complies with, the award | i ARTICLE 15 | If there should arise between states members of. the league any likely to lead to rupture, which is not. submitted to arbitration as above, the high contracting parties agree that they will refer the matter to the ex- ecutive council; either party to the dispute may give notice of the exist- ence of the dispute to the secretary { general, who will make all necessary arrangements for a full investigation ‘and. consideration. thereof:- For this the asp cate to romptly Bei cay Find gg secretury general, as ble, ‘vant of with all the relevantyfacts s, and ghe-executhye duncil with red the subli may \ fo tion thereof. * os q Where the efforts of the council lead to..the ‘settlement: of the dispute, a statement shall be. published indicat- ing the nature_of the dispute and the terms of setilement,.together. witli such explanations, as, ma; i propa. Tf the dispute his ot ae settled, a report hy “the Shain be: pub- lished, ,setting forth with all ‘neces- fanations the rec- ommendation which the council thinks just and proper for the settlement of the ‘dispute, fi; “ARTICLE 16 « Should any of the high contracting parties break or disregard its ecovén- ants under Article 12, it shall thereby ipso facto be deemed to have commit- ted an act of war against all the other members of the league, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations, the prohibition of all inter- course between their nationals and the nationals of the covenant breaking state, and the prevention of all finan- cial, commercial or personal inter- course between the nationals of the covenant-breaking state and the na- tionals of any other, state, whetper a member of the league or not. It shall. be the duty of the exdautive council in such case to recommend what effective military or naval force the members of the league shall sev- erally contribute ‘to the armed forces to be used to protect the covenants of the league. The high contracting :parties agree further that they will mutually sup- port one another in the financial and economical measures which may. - be taken under this article, in order to minimize the loss and inconvenience resulting from the above measures, and that they will mutually support one another in resisting any special meas- ure aimed at one of their number by the covenant-breakine state, and that they will afford passage through their territory tothe force of any of the high contracting parties who are co- operating to protect the covenants of the: league. ARTICLE 17 In the event of disputes between one state member of the league and anoth- er state which is not a member of the league, or between states not members of the league, the high contracting par- ties agree that the state or states not members of. the league shajl be in- vited to accept the obligations of mem- bership in the league for the purpose ‘of such dispute upon such conditions as the executive council may deem just, and upon acceptance of any such invitation the above provisions shall be applied with such modifications as may be deemed < necessary by the league. ITS A Pity: MEN LIKE YOU TO |Concress il! and make such - Upon such investigation being given, the executive council: shall immediate- ly institute an inquiry into the circum- stances and merits of the dispute and recommend such a¢tion as may seem institute an inquiry into the circum- stances. ~ In the event of a power so invited re- fusing to accept the obligations of membership in the league for the pur- Poses of such dispute, and taking any action against a state member of the league, which in the tase of a state member of the league would constitute a breach-of--Article 12, the provisions of Article 16 shall be applicable as against the state taking such action. If both parties to the dispute, when invited, refuse to accept the obliga- tions of membership in the league for the purpose of such dispute, the ex- ecutive council! may take such action recommendations ag (Continaed: om Page Six) ' " ‘ er ¢ ony ve ‘ i “* ’ gh | ‘ “. ¥