Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1920 — Covenant Does Not Mean Peace. [ARTICLE]

Covenant Does Not Mean Peace.

The Republican party denies that the covenapt demanded by Mr. Wilson, without reservation, and indorsed by Mr. Cox, is a covenant of peace. We declare it to be an entangling alliance which, for first time in the history of our country, and in direct disobedience to the wise warnings and example of our forefathers, will commit us to the quarrels of the old world, and will pledge us to the enforcement of policies that will be determined by a council seated in the heart of Europe, and which Mfill be composed of the great powers whose clashing ambitions, and selfish desires, have been the cause of all the great wars, save only our own war for the Union. We declare that the covenant demanded by Mr, Wilson, and indorsed by Mr. Cox, is not a covenant of peace, but a covenant of war, and we point out to the peace-lov-ing women of America that for 125 years, this country has followed the far-seeing wisdom of Washington, and that amid all the recurrent conflicts of Europe, no American mother has had to watch her son march away to give his life in any war not forced upon us by aggression, and solemnly decreed by our own free government. If American women turn their backs upon that freedom now, if they realise too

late to prevent seeing their sons march away on the path that does not return, we will pay for our folly, as only women can pay. Harding's View of Art. 10. Senator Harding has declared his

ucuavvi xxaxuiug xscao unalterable opposition to Art. 10, declaring “it represents not justice, but force; not liberty, but oppression; not peace, but war.” The enforcement of the Wilson League of Nations, with its mischievous Art. 10, would mean that we would be binding all our wealth and man power in guaranteeing the territorial integrity ybf all other members of the league. The unfortunate insistence of Mr. Wilson upon having his own way, without any change, and without any regard for the opinions of a majority of the Senate (many of whom were Democrats), which shares with him the treaty-making power, and Mr. Wilson’s demand that the treaty should be ratified without the slightest modification, created a situation in which senators were required to . vote their conscience, and upon tb-ur ’• according to their best judgment, against the treaty as it was presented, or submit to the commands of a dictator in a matter where the authority and the responsibility was theirs, under the constitution, and not his. When asked by Senator Brandegee at a White House conference, “if the League of Nations would prevent war,” Mr. Wilson answered : “It will not. Nothing will prevent war, but it will bring about /;he discussion before the beginning of war.” What else than war, unArt. 10, did Mr. Wilson refer to when by treaty he agreed, in the name of the United States, “to come immediately to the assistance of France in case of unprovoked attack by Germany?” What else than war, under Art. 10, had he in mind when he telegraphed to America that he was “thus merely hastening the action to which we should be bound by the League of Nations?” Veterans An Inspiration. It has been the great privilege of delight of Indianapolis people the last week to show honor to the old soldiers who fdught to- save the nation sixty yean ago. They have shown in deeds, not words, their love for their couptry and their nation. They have enjoyed the peace that has come, and they have a reason to understand what peace means, beyond that which most of us will ever know. These dear old gray-haired visitors have been an inspiration to us that we will not soon forget. It was my good fortune, and my great pleasure, to have had. the opportunity to talk with them in great numbers, and I could not help but feel that their judgment was sound, and that we would do weH to heed their advice. Almost without a single exception, when talking with them about the Wilson League of Nations, they would shake heartedly. > | Max Neigal of Mfameapolis,l Minn., is the guest of his sister, I Mrs. James Overton and famdy. • ■