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EARL GREY'S LETTER ON PEACE TREATY Fo' twins is the full te*t of the letter /ritten by Ambr.s ;i .U?v Grey to the London Ti^es cn tha rcu -> & >-.>i j<!#> >? ",M-> : : fhi-; coniltl'V. ^ which has cause.; so much discussion here: "Sir: "Nothing, it seems to me. is more desirable in international politics than a good understanding between the democracy of the United States on the one hand and democ.tV Great Britian and her self-?r. verni.v:r d~w minions, and, I ho" . \u? may add ^ Ireland, on the other. Nothing would be more disastrous than misWm understanding and estrai't: LnuM't. H "There are some aspects of the position in the United States with reW <rard to the League of Nations which I are not wholly understood in Britir \ f I am in the hope that as a result of my recent stay in Washington I may be able to make the position better understood. I venture to offer the following observations. They repre sent only my own personal oninion; nothing: more. They are <*iven simply as those of a private individual. Impatience on Both Sides. ? > "In Great i>ritian an? trie ameu L countries there are naturally impa) tience and disappointment at the delay of the United States in ratifying (the peace treaty and the covenant of the League of Nations. It is perhaps not generally recognized here that there are also great impatience and disappointment in the United States. Nowhere is the impasse, caused by +v.? hptween the President UVUUAVv? and the senate, more keenly regretted than in the United States, where there is a strong, even urgent, desire on the part of public opinion to see a way out of that impasse found which will be both honorable to America and helpful to the world. "It would be well to understand j the real difficulties with which the people of the United States have been confronted. In the c!?nv light of right understanding, vhi.t seemed to be disagreeable feaiuve? c" -.':o z'i'ir- 1 tion will assume a more ' V.- . ' V.: a ;] T . r,. t. lntfnii'iuie \ .. _ rid*' of one misun^ev ' . " :. "No charee of b dialing siroatiires r asra;nst the action of \.. States. "The Senrte, by the * ' stitution, is a~> inde^crJc ' - 1 independent elem^t r ' > * making: power. Ifs refn to rr.J::~y the treaty cannot ex^o-e o' h?r or the country to a <?h?rro cf V d faith or of repudiation, ro- i1- v to represent the United States vi-i? r holding up the treaTy scteiy i->u motives of party politics, +herev,r sacrificing the interests of other nations for this petty consideration. Politics Not the Sole Reason. "It is true that there are party politics and personal animosities in the United States. Party politics and the personal animosities arising out of them operate in every demo cratic country. They are factors always more or less active, and they operate upon every public question which is at all controversial. They are, however, not the scle or even the prime cause of the difficulty in the United States about the League of Nations. Nor is it true that the United States is moved solely by selfinterest to a disregard of higher ideals. In the United States, as in other countries, there are cross-current sand backwaters in national life and motives. It would be well, therefore, for reasons both of truth and expediency, to concentrate on the real underlying: causes of the senate's reservations in ratifying the covenant of the jLeague of Nations. ( "There is in the United States aconservative feeling for traditional policy, and one of those traditions, consecrated by the advice of Washington, is to abstain from Europeon entanglements. Even for nations which have been used to European alliances, the League of Nations is left to be something of a j Tli-'c! ic dill rimvp Tiew UCpcll tUlC. ---> . V... true for the United States, which has hitherto held aloof from all outside alliances. The League of Nations is not merely a plunge into the unknown but a plunge into something which historical advice and tradition have hitherto positively disapproved. Hence this desire for some qualification and reservation. The American Constitution not only makes possible, but under certain conditions renders inevitable conflict between the executive and the legislature. "It would be possible for a President in some future years to commit the United States, througn ine League of Nations, to a policy which the legislature at that time might dis-. approve. That contingency is ore which cannot arise in Great Britirn, where the government is responsible to the house of commons and where, in case of conflict with the house of commons the government vr-n^' ^iMmr 5m^r'I;rfc'!y " v? viv v cp::. it v c.r : t 41 : i'' x i "u . f region of practical politics. They have reason, and. if they so desire, the risrl.t t > provirk' it. ''What, then, nirsy be fairly exne tc<i from th I'r.ited S'r:.4i-' i:i th:s y.ifni c?i. is (if \vor!.i p>]:ry? For cris's. i: <iv !. it is. If *' participa tJOn 01 11 i l mica v.;i^ f.uiimcuny helpful in s?cu: :r."x victory in the critic;:: month" <V.'IS, it? help will 1, % evc:i nure i-1" j:" ;::1 to secure , stalvli*;.* in pea* v. V. thout t!:?* ; Unitc-i Slalom the ; : League of j Nations may become !i:t-c better than a league of ailics r.-o* arme-! self-.lea<ra:nst a rev:vr o~ Pruss'an , r.iii"lari?>::, or again:". :r . i!;La:y ?- - , quel to bolshevism in Russia. Col- < rlifvism; isms have a tendency , to become nrililaris%a a"Jio gnat , French revolution jr '\\\. I The League's Object is to Prevent , We:. '] "Th? grert object <f tV; I.enguc of Xallcas u; to pre" v.ar usal to j J"?^i Vir* ino* f}>P (USl'UU I iijic liwu S.JHT I'lj.iiiiiins .... J growth of aggressive armaments j which would lead to war. Without ( the United States it will have neither * the overwhelming physical nor the j moral force behind it that it should , have, or, if it has physical force, it j will not have the same degree of j moral force, for it will be predomi- 2 nately a European arid not a world ; ' --l ?:i? J organization, ana it wr.i i>t- lamw-u ? with the inter-racial joalousness of s Europe. ( "With the United States in the Lea- ? gue of Nations war ma}/ be prevented and armaments discouraged, ant? it I will not be in the power of the fret- j ful nations of the world to ciisturo the general peace. < "Without the League of Nations the old order of things will be revived old consequences will recur, there will again be some great catastrophe of c war in which the United States will t fmd itself compelled and at no less or 1 even greater cost than in 1917. a "It would be a mistake to suppose r that the American people are pre- 1: pared or wish to \vith.!r;i\v their in- f fluence in world affair?. H would he c a great mistake to sv.pp* so that be- r cause the i itizens of the United States t wi^h to limit their p'ol'Trtiors they t tTt'c nrepose to :vnelves to c " * ? ? -1- ' v ? '! part m <: . .? .'ague vi Vo ?. q rf ;hev o 4 r t a r partner * '->. limbed ' "v .it jaay t ;c th?t i ?* v -:' ooirion and \nericaxi ?.c- f o (he leacu. :! be more ( : if they en t eve J as a re- c ! ; tner, who felt that her [ iyV"d Iri'i been forced, It is in the ( rpl it, hi this hope and .*n this expec- t tat'on tint I think we should approach r."d are justified in approach- <. inrr the consideration cr trie Amen- <. can reservations. j "The difficulties and dangers g which Americans for?ec in it will i probably never arise or be fe?t by < them when they are oi-cc in the lea- i gue. In the same way the weaken- j ing and injury to the league which r some of its best friends appt#hend ^ from American reservations would r not be felt in practice. t Fr??Iv Not to Accept Conditions. ? "If the outcome of this long con- \ troversy in the senate is to offer cooperation in the League of Nations ? it would be the greatest mistake to refu?e that cooperation* because of j the conditions attached to it, and when that cooperation is accepted, j let it not be accepted in a spirit of pessismism. i; "The most vital considerations are j that representatives should be appointed to the council of the League of Nations by all nations that are members of the council; that the representatives should be men who are inspired by the ideals for which we entered the war; and that the repreoontotipoi! MVinnlf] he? instructed and supported in that same spirit of equity and freedom by the governments and the public opinion of the countries who are new partners ir. 1 peace. ; "There is one particular reservation which must give rise to some difficulty in Great Britain and her self-governing dominions. It is that which has reference to the six British votes in the assembly of the League of Nations. The self-governing do-' minions are full members of the lea - i j_ gue. They will admit ami ureai Britain can admit, no qualification whatever of that right. Whatever the self-governing dominions may be in theory and in the letter of the constitution, they have in effect ceased to be colonies in the old sense of the word. They are free communit ties, independent as regards all their ! own affairs and partners in those 'which concern the empire at large. 1 "To any provision which makes it clear that none of those British votes can be used in a dispute likely to lead to a rupture in which any part of the British empire is involv?' ? V.n foVpr) THflt C(.l, I1U 1,'M.CIHIUU V_CHi k'v is the only reasonacl: ir leva rotation of the covenant as it ro*v If any part of f I>:t; h caipir. 4s i:vclvc'l I.'; a disvuts the Ur ea " r 1; T " ' . i -I4V- + Q vj't'j and all Harts of the British ov. ' >y e t!:ev a;.2 Tint "J . f? 7 f regards their rights to vote where, they are not partners to the dispute, theie t-an to no qual:tieati??n and there is a very y.;; f.ni^on j I hut V.w vote * of ;i;v> r---! f .T.irr (!om!"iTi vj ??i 1 ;u *3 be found on til? s:(k' ;is that of th: I'niled "It mi: t r.r.r he sup^Hf^i ihnt in the Vnilt*.! i- is :i::y t -niko ty to ?r:niiuc the l.'ieL t licit ( :i in. * I *i ar.d ibe ofhor si;!f-rovc :ii,v; io-.s of t!u h tiVijht' have roier,. ; ".\ry pencil wiih the smallest un:cirt r<r.i?jr ci' Public audio nes must: realise the croaieil by the.1 L m4- f U ' I ?-*i n i ] ^ 4 *if/\o Jlit i C." 11J L'il L Llii.L UIC V. lil .til 3, .v;*h :cv.:r; i millions more English ' ???C'?kc l/.cr.s than .he e nre in he whole of the British empire.: i 1 i J ? i.. ?^ JlOUJ l Iiavf *:mv u.'.C V Wii w mv British empire has six v .to*. "It may bo sufficient obsr-rve hat the reservations of America does . u>t in a?:y v/av challenge the right of .he self-governing dominions to c\?rcise their votes, nor does it s'.ate hat the United States w 11 necessari- . y reject a decision in which those', rotes have bc->.i cast. It is. there-;, ?ore. possible-- I think it is even nore than probable?tha:. in practice 10 dispute will ever arise. Our ob-?, ec-t is to maintain the status of the self-governing dominions not to se-;, ;ure a greater Britain than Ameri-:, an vote and we have no objection to : ] in increase of the American vote." L IND OF STALEMATE IN COTTON MARKET | J i * r < Commissioner Harris Says Cotton . Worth 50 Cents. J] "I look for the stalemate in the; ^ otton market to break in a few j lays," said Commissioner Harris !j Thursday. "This deadlock can not last1 ^ ilways when there is the greatest de-:, ' ^ 4-1* ^ U C AT' e\. nana TOT" CUllUn lllcic ijiciv; nao vvci ^ >een in the history of the staple. My : y t 'ear is that when cotton <roes to 40 . ents, a? it must, there are many farners who will be willing; to let loose i heir holdings. This won 1.1 be disas-' j rous to themselves ar.vl to the cotton . rrowino: industrv. "Fo ". accord* to t:,s laws of sup-'. >!y and dcn:nn:l col'ton today is j vorth 50 cents a pound, and th * frv- ] norz v culd ? ;r^t.inr;' it 'nit for the ; 'act that there i - row going on one ?-P + hn ;tr?fl VilOSf e"fL^neiYlti'12 combines to depress the price and the )ear speculators are exerting- every ievise to forcev the price of cotton j lown. |"The range of futures has been ' ! ilight in the last few days, except: ;emi-occasionally. The mills are -apidly an.d surely grinding up the re;erve stocks laid in when cotton was relatively cheap last August and, September, but the day is surely com-: ng when they are going to be com- j )elled to buy short or shut down their j nills. And any one who knows the j vide margin between the prices of, aw cotton and the price of cotton ;< roods will never think that the cotton j nills would shut down as long as ;here is a bale of spinnable cotton. 'The fact that there has not been i material change in the market since November docs not mean that one is lot coming. This is an unmistakable sign of strength in the market. The farmers have sold enough to make themselves comfortable and they will not havevto market any more?unless the banks refuse to carry cotton as ! collateral, and this they can not afford to do. That Europe must take vast quantities of cotton no one can deny. The mills of the United States are doing the biggest business they have ever had, yet they are far from being overstocked, showing as I have long contended that the mills j can make as much money on high ! priced cotton as on cheap cotton, j Then, wny not: i ''I ajrain say to our farmers, don't, be uneasy. Those who have to spin cotton will come to you, and they will j pay your price unless you sell on the first rise in the market and the mills pet enough to run a little while longer. That has been their policy, rit steady in the boat. ''Out in the Y/est there is a pestiferous animal, the coyote. He comes out at nkrht in the shadows and three of them can make as much noise as a thousand erood doss. But when the daylight comes, they slink off. That's the way with our business now. The pessimist is a coyote. He will howl I and howl that the world is going to j smash, but I think I see faint streaks ' of dawn ahead and the optimist will run the coyotes away. The farmer will get for his cotton that which he has richly earned. But, don't be fooled by anyone into planting cotton in 1920. Grow something to eat? and put in your spare time with cotton." j ME 7/SFPRY THEA'I'Kt i-UK i LEASE. | i The city of Newberry. S. in-! vites i'C''Jcd bids fo:* fhe ;<-Mse of the k! ? , v- c?? '* 'he p * or* *o y.\ -'V' . I T:v 1 :?OP, * 1 | . 1 "I 1 * . - ' house building, with the dressix . rooms, box office, gallery office, seer.cry. chairs, tables and other fix ures, furnishings and appliance0 { owned by the c:ty and i onnoeted i w.'th said theatre and ofiices. All j) bids inu.-l iii!e<i wiih -J. \V. ('hap-jj man, C lerk and Treasurer. Xewber-!j i i J i y, not later man .> o ciock ; p. m., i'\furu::ry 10;h, 1 i#20. City j council v. ill p..i:3 on ::1! bids an 1 the j rijrht to reject any aiM nil bids is reserved. Kaih bid must be accom- J panied by ct-rtiiied or cashier's ; check, made payable to the order of ! ( lerk am! Treasurer, in the sum of; ^ t two hundred dollars. as a jruaran-j tee that ihe bidder whose bid is ac- ; j ; ented will coinpiy with ihe terms of ' J his bid and outer into proper lease ami bond as required. Chocks of unsuccessiul bidders will be returned. J Lease will provide for tbo payment; of rent monthly in advance; that' tenant will keep premises and pay j rent for full period of lease; that j upon default in payment of any j month's rent that rent t'or whole ; term will become immediately due j and collectible; property to be used only for theatre, shows and enter- j tuinments; that tenant will pay for ; L.i? wo?<?r liVhts and fuel and keep premises and fixtures in good condi-' Lion, except ordinary and reasonable 1 use and tear; that no fixtures or fur- i nishings are to be removed from the j building without the consent of the j :ity; theatre and fixtures to be let j to Newberry college, Newberry grad- J 2d schools and local people, as ap-j proved by council, for not exceeding j twelve days and nights in each year j at a rental of not more than $5.00 per day and night; premises or prop- j srty not to be sublet without writ-1 ten consent of the city; if tenant op-1 urates a moving picture show he will be required to pay the city license i therefor; tenant to make ail neces-1 sary repairs and improvements, but | none to be made without consent of JI council. 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