Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — Page 2

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LODGE AND THE TREATY

There can no longer be any doubt as to the attitude of Senator Lodge,

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chairman of the foreign relations committee, toward the treaty, for it is plainly, and even glaringly hostile. If he has his way it will never be ratified, never even be brought again before the senate. That being the case, it surely becomes the duty of those Republican senators who favor the treaty to refuse to allow their party to be compromised by Senator Lodge, and to disallow his assumption to apeak for them. These men and the Democratic senators should come to an agreement as soon as possible, and press for prompt action. The imputed motive back ot Senator Lodge’s opposition does him no credit. He was quoted by a Boston paper as saying: "My fight is not against the .treaty of peace, it is against Woodrow Wilson.” Here is a great international agreement affecting the peace, safety and possibly the lives of hundreds es millions of people, and on the ratification of which vast Interests hang, and yet it is held up because (if the interview is credible) of Lodge’s wish to win -a battle “against Woodrow Wilson.” Whether this antagonism Is personal or political does not at all matter. Neither has any place in the consideration of this great question. The rule has been for

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politics to stop at the water’s edge, and it is a sound rule. But now we halve an attempt to carry our domestic politics into every colintry of Europe, and to sacrifice the welfare of men and women all over the world, many of whom are even now starving to death, to the supposed exigencies of a political campaign. It Is all most .discreditable. It Is known, as was said In this paper yesterday, that Great Britain, France and Italy, by all of whom the treaty has been ratified, are unwilling to put it Into effect until States joins them in that step. The senators all know this —and yet action halts. "Europe,’’ says a European ambassador, "Is so shaken with unrest today that the allies hesitate to go ahead without the stabilising influence of the United States.” Senator Lodge can think only of beating Woodrow Wilson—and yet he is chairman of the foreign relations committee! The Republicans of the country should take the matter in hand and see to it that the treaty receives the attention which its great importance demands. — Indianapolis News (Rep.)

REPUBLICAN JACK RABBITS

We have blamed the Democratic administration and the Democratic party for failure to provide for national defense. Now it Is the Republican majority In congress which is ready to reject universal service. The administration asks for It. The Republicans will not have It. The house committee on military affairs, it is reported in Washington, will recommend legislation for a regular army of 300,00 u men and 18,000 officers and nothing more. General Pershing recommended the regular army of 350,000 AND universal service. Secretary Baker asked for a regular army of 500,000 AND universal service. Pershing the soldier and Baker the secretary of war, a man by instinct and principle a pacifist, asked for universal service for the protection of the country and the development of citizenship. A committee controlled by Republicans is ready to recommend to a congress controlled by Republicans a program which contains the least recommended by Pershing and ignores the essential principle of national defense. This evasion of duty, this desertion of national need and of military common sense is by the party which has devoted years to criticism of a Democratic administration’s pacific courses. The Democratic party has been, by tradition, principle, and conviction, opposed to such a nationalizing device as a citizen army controlled by tbe federal government. But the administration Is converted and is patriotic enough and sensible enough to ask congress to establish universal military service. The party which turns tail and runs is the Republican party. With a political timidity which does not know shame, the Republicans who control congress are ready to throw national consideration aside and seek the safety of their own skins in the speed of their own legs. A presidential campaign impendsThe Republicans are afraid of It. The Democratic administration may be afraid of it, but that has not prevented a recommendation for a national military policy. The Democratic administration presents the issue. The Republican congress takes to cover. The Republicans in congress prove- themselves to be Hons in criticism and jack rabbits in performance. —Chicago Tribune (Rep.)

WOE TO THE VICTORS

If defeat of the treaty of peace by Republicans senators was a victory for their party, leaders of the g. o. p- are assuredly not demeaning themselves as victors. They are growing cautious, timid, apologetic. Chairman Hays of the Republican national committee has ordered that soundings of public sentiment be taken in every bailiwick of his partisan congressmen to determine the extent of the reaction following the treaty’s rejection. He is showing fear that the people’s verdict may hold him and the senatorial reactionaries responsibile for prolonging industrial unrest, the high cost of living, burdensome taxation, the danger of international complications and all the other concomitant evils of war. There are evidences, then, that the senators who strangled the treaty and prevented a formal conclusion of peace have least of all found favor with the politicians of their* own iparty. It is not too much to believe that, when the signs of popular disapproval begin to multiply, these senators may be blamed by the very leaders —including Will H. Hays—who Inspired and encouraged them to make ratification of. the treaty a game of politics instead

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of a momentous duty in behalf ot their country and the entire world. It is already manifest that Senator Lodge’s proposal to make the treaty an issue in the presidential campaign has caused trepidation among the "practlcals” of the g. o. p. They do not welcome the prospect of so plain and specific a question being referred to the people. They prefer to stake their hopes on generalities and platitudes. They know in advance that the voters could easily decide*which of the two parties spoke the will and sought the welfare of the country during the fight to adopt the treaty and end the war.

BURLESON TURNS ON CRITIC

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