Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1919 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Republicans went into power' promising a regime of economy. Why don’t they economize with language? Dr. Root’s prescription might have been effective medicine for the sick “robins,” but they refused to swallow it. Republicans have a majority in senate until they begin to vote. Then they divide into several rather insignificant minorities. “Knox on the League,” says a headline —meaning a lot of grandiloquent objections by the junior senator from Pennsylvania. Have you heard Charles E. 'Hughes rear up and give three cheers for Hiram Johnson for president? Neithgr have we. Reactionary senators who are “against” the league of nations will learn before long that the league fcf nations is also against them. The senatorial “robins” are trying their best to personate American eagles, but they are too small to deceive any one but themselves. Don’t forget that if President Wilson had pleased the reactionary Republicans in congress he would have disappointed nearly every one else -, ' . Elihu Root provided for the senatorial “robins” a plan for amending the league of nations covenant, but no one has been- found to supply the courage required to execute it. Some Republican senators evidently would like to talk the league of nations to death as they did'the various appropriation bills in their filibuster last winter—but it can’t be done. t ■ A Republicans are preparing to announce that they will not make the league of nations a partisan, but a party issue Why not be plain and honest and admit that it is to be a Republican issue? It was a good deal easier to get the nations of th& earth into a league than it will be to obtain agreement among Republicans in the senate as to how they should oppose it without offending a vast majority of the American people. Senator Knox would have a league of nations if he were permitted to write its constitution. Under the one he -would write, every nation would maintain as great an army aAd navy as it could raise money for, and the armament burden which caused the world war would be continued. If the Republicans in the house of representatives are practicing economy when they cjit millions from appropriations for the army