Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — ’TWAS FOREGONE CONCLUSION [ARTICLE]

’TWAS FOREGONE CONCLUSION

That new Labor party formed at- Chicago this week and which expects to rally to its standard all the riff raff, socialists and anarchists of the country, resoluted against and cqpdemned the peace treaty and league of nations. This was only to have been expected, and shows the compaisy the opponents of the treaty and league covenant in the U. S. senate are in. In speaking of the new party the Lafayette Journal (Rep.) says: The release of Eugene Debs, Kate O’Hare, Carl Hessler and 1,000 other prisoners who violated the laws of the land and advocated sedition and sabotage while the nation was engaged in war, is demanded, as is the repeal of the espionage and other legislation by means of which the country is able to defend itself against the attacks of those who stand ready to plunge the assassin’s knife into its back in time of emergency. , Yes, we should judge tnat a splendid beginning has been made to assemble all the elements of discontent and disorder and disloyalty under one banner. Perhaps it is well; it will give the people an- opportunity to know just who it is that stands for the overthrow of liberty and the setting up of license. And yet the Journal apparently heartily endorses the position of its party as represented in the U. S. senate, which holds the same views on the peace treaty and league of nations as does this bunch of malcontents, whom it' justly condemns.