Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1919 — ONE SOURCE OF UNREST [ARTICLE]

ONE SOURCE OF UNREST

A dispatbh from Washington says that the strike situation la holding back? consideration of the treaty. It ought to expedite the ratification of the treaty. To say that the senate foreign relations committee, by its long campaign of delay, demagogry and disparagement in dealing with the treaty, has caused the strike would be an exaggeration- But it is absolutely and demonstrably true that the four months of senatorial bickering have Increased the unrest of which the coal strike is but one expression. The country Is sick to death of the schemes and postponements of the Lodge-Borah-Johnson cohorts. They have not once brought up an honest objection to the treaty. They have been beaten In every test on the floor of the senate. Thlr actions and their arguments tend to bring the government of the United States Into contempt. • The delay for which they are

responsible has been < seed time for the spreaders of bolshevism, and If we now reap the harvest, we shall know whom to thank for at Igast a part of it. It is time for them to stop their impotent rating, ratify the treaty and adjourn.—Chicago Journal.