DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

The league of nations should be based upon the principles of the Constitution of the United States of America. The delegates should be elected by the actual registered voters of each nation participating in the counsel, the same as members of the Congress of the United States. No delegate should be selected by the king or autocratic assembly. The last war was to settle the supremacy of democracy over autocracy.

The Chicago Herald and Examiner of March, 1920, contains the following:

"The League of Nations gives to the British Empire six votes in the league to one vote for the United States. In proportion to its self-governing population, as compared with the self-governing population of the United States, England will have actually twelve times the influence of the United States. Medill McCormick, rising young senator from Illinois, asks, his voice trembling with rage: 'Is one Englishman twelve times as important as one American?' Answer: No, but one British diplomat is twelve times as smart as any other diplomat."

The United Kingdom, with population of 46,089,000, demands six votes, while the United States, with a population of 106,251,954, is only to be given one vote. This is not a fair democratic representation. The League of Nations prepared by Great Britain, is drawn to protect her sovereignty, and commercial interests first. It was brought to the United States by President Wilson, and submitted to the Senate, which has the power to ratify or reject it. The U. S. Senate is a representative Republic institution.

Instead of promoting democracy it strengthens the imperialism of Great Britain.

If Great Britain asks votes for the colonies, United States must demand votes for the States. The separate states of the federal government possess equal or more sovereignty than the colonies of the British Empire.

The vast population of India and other dependencies of Great Britain should not be counted and given separate votes, as they are not represented by universal suffrage in the British Parliament.

New York State, with a population of 9,113,614, is entitled to a vote, as well as Canada, with a population of 8,561,000. Pennsylvania, with a population of 7,665,111 should have a vote, as well as Australia, with a population of 4,876,000.

If delegates were appointed on the democratic system, New

York and Pennsylvania would be represented, as well as Canada and Australia, or nearly so. Vast tracts of territory should not be the basis of representation, but actual voters.

One vote for the United States (one of the greatest of the world's civilized nations, and a world power equalling Great Britain and containing forty-eight separate states, some as large as many of the independent sovereign states of Europe) is entirely out of all proportion when compared to Great Britain claiming six votes.

Unless the League of Nations is organized and conducted on a strictly representative basis, which is one of the basic principles of the Constitution of the United States, it will be used as an instrument of autocratic power, and may become as dangerous as Germany before her overthrow, or the old Roman empire.

There would be no real advantage to the United States in granting representation to the several Central or South American States, as they cannot be depended upon to act always in harmony with the United States.

After a long and bitter contest in the Senate, and many reservations, the League of Nations was sent to the president.

As presented, the reservation reads as follows:

"The United States assumes no obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or political independence of any other country by the employment of its military or naval forces, its resources or any form of economic discrimination, or to interfere in controversies between nations, whether members of the league or not under the provisions of Article 10, or to employ the military or naval forces of the United States under any article of the treaty for any purpose unless in any particular case the Congress, which under the constitution has the sole power to declare war or authorize the employment of the military or naval forces of the United States, shall in the exercise of full liberty of action, by act or joint resolution provides."

The resolution provided:

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"That the secretary of the Senate be instructed to return to the President the treaty of peace with Germany signed at Versailles on the 28th day of June, 1919, and respectfully inform the President that the Senate has refused to advise and consent to its ratification, being unable to obtain the constitutional majority required therefor."

The vote on returning the treaty to the president was 47 to 37,

all of the latter being Democrats. Six Democrats, Gore, Kirby, Reed, Shields, Walsh (Massachusetts), and Williams voted with the Republicans for the Lodge resolution.

Whatever is finally decided upon as Articles of the League of Nations, the inviolability of the Monroe Doctrine and absolute sovereignty of the United States, must be recognized by all the other powers and strictly defined. A new League should be adopted by another Congress.

Rejected by the President.

Sixty-Sixth Congress of the United States of America;

At the First Session.

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein,) That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by

the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.

"ARTICLE

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account

of sex.

"Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

F. H. GILLETT,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOS. R. MARSHALL,

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.

NASHVILLE, Aug. 18, 1920.-Ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was completed today. The vote in the House today was 49 to 47. The Senate last Friday voted 28 to 4 in favor of the amendment.-Chicago Post.

ADOPT ROOT'S COURT PLAN

The league council this afternoon adopted in entirety the plan of the advisory jurists committee for an international court of justice which is practically all the work of Elihu Root.

The proposals are: First-Each member of the league will nominate two candidates. Second-The court will have eleven judges and four deputy judges. Third-They will serve nine years. FourthIn a case arising between a power having no judge and one having a judge the former will have a right of representation. In case neither has a judge on the bench they will be entitled to deputy judges. Fifth -The court is open to all states, members or not members. SixthThe court will be competent for all cases put before it by agreement of the two parties. Seventh-The court will be competent without agreement of both parties if both are league members. Eighth-The court can give judgment by default. Ninth-Judgment is final, except in discovery of new facts by the league or a third party, on whom the judgment also is binding.

THE NEW EARTH.

"For I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind." Isaiah 65, 17.

"We look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." II Peter 3:13.

"I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away." Rev. 21:1.

"He said, Behold I make all things new." Rev. 21:5.

Righteousness, not militarism, must rule the world, for the latter has spent its force. It has been destroyed by its own momentum, like the volcano it has burnt itself out.

The false philosophy of Treitschke, Mischa and Bernhardi has been tested to its utmost and found wanting. It has been universally declared a delusion and a snare. The hypothesis that force must rule the world of mankind is exploded and turned to ashes like the bombs of the great Krupp guns, after destroying everything in their path.

The great armies of the several contending nations have met in fierce combat and hundreds of thousands of men have been killed and many more thousand wounded. Widows and orphans have been left in sorrow and destitution. Towns and cities, and rich fields of grain have been burned and destroyed. War has raged and spent its force for a period of four years and the earth lies paralyzed beneath its withering blasts. Nature contains no such destructive elements to hurl upon mankind as modern warfare.

But Peace dawns. Another Council of Nations must assemble and proclaim peace among the wrecks of humanity which survive. The verdict has been rendered by this august and horror-stricken council, that brute force, militarism in the shape of modern warfare is a failure and that Divine Mind rules the world.

The histories of wars, one following close upon another through the centuries, are placed upon the shelves of libraries only to be referred to by coming generations, to show the unfortunate condition of the old earth.

Great professors now dominating the many new universities in China, Japan, India, Egypt, as well as Europe and the Western Hemisphere are teaching hundreds of thousands of students the eternal truth that Mind, pure and real intelligence, governs the earth and the Universe. They are instructing rising generations in agriculture, manufacturing of all kinds, scientific branches of engineering, chemistry, and metaphysics, astronomy, law, etc., instead of teaching them how to kill one another in the most expeditious manner. Each nation is eventually given a new constitution based on liberal principles whereby each individual is secured in his rights as a man and citizen. All nations are bound together by the general council in which each is equally represented. Here the great questions of international law and policy are settled.

By general international agreement, those inhabiting congested regions are given an opportunity of moving to other lands where large tracts of unoccupied territory remain undeveloped. Great estates in Africa, Asia, Australia, the two Americas, and the islands of the sea are divided into small farms, so all those desiring to cultivate lands may have a chance to own and develop them. These farms are distributed among individuals as individuals and not as nations and cannot be absorbed by the rich and powerful.

The power of those old families, heretofore assuming to possess the divine right to rule the world, has been taken from them forever and they are compelled to come down to the earth and take their alloted place on an equal footing with the other sons of men.

Universal education is now installed in all nations. New schools,