Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1920 — THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE [ARTICLE]

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

> • . r— X" f'W Here I* One of the Mother* That Ara Opposed to The League of • Nations Taken From The Indianapolis New*. (Newman, 81., Weekly News.) To the Editor of the New*: Sir:—l read an article in your paper dated September. 30, headed ‘‘Mother Where Are You?” written by Warren Daniel. I would like to aak him a question in reply: “Where were the mothers in- November, 1916?” I can tel! him where some of the mothers were. They were at the polls voting for Wood row Wilson under the plea “he will keep us out of war?” and later saw their boys go to war. Now Mr. Daniel says for mothers to read the league of nations covenant and vote for the league of nations and not be deceived. He also says if we join the league of ' nations and don’t like it we can withdraw. Now I j would like for him to tell me how we can withdraw. He knows we will have to have the consent of all the other nations in order to withdraw and that looks very much to me like taking a leap in the dark. I believe in safety first. I want to teH Mr. Daniel that I am the mother of a soldier boy and I have fead the league of nations covenant and have read the speeches in the papers both for and against the league and I am not going-to be deceived. If‘l am able to get to the polls in November I will vote for free America and for the men that will keep America free from all entanglements with foreign nationg. Had Woodrow Wilson been a main of vision many a mother’s son might have come home safe that now lies sleeping in a soldier’s grave in France. If Wilson had needed the advice of some of our best statesmen and prepared for war, our boys would have been weM trained before they were sent across the water to fight the enemy. I plead with mothers to stop and think and not be betrayed, into the hands of foreign nations. It is true we have just gone through an awful war which we could not avoid, and no league of nations will prevent war. The Good Book tells us there shall be wars and rumors of war. We are now going through a period of time that is spoken of in the Bible. The Bible tells us that the time would come when there would be a cry for peace and there would be no peace. Is it not, true .that a great portion of this nation are wanting peace with Germany and Woodrow Wilson will not let us have peace until Almerica signs that awful scrap of paper he brought back from Versailles? Mr. Daniel also says for mothers not to be deceived by the misrepresentations of* those who are apposed to the league of nations. Now that reminds me of the quotation of Scripture where Christ was bn a mountain and was shown the glories of the world and was told “aM these things win I give you if thou will fall down and worship me.” Now I appeal to the mothers to vote for free America and not be betrayed and crucified by foreign nations.

M. TAYLOR.