Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1920 — BRONX GREETS DE VALERA [ARTICLE]

BRONX GREETS DE VALERA

As far as England was concerned, the Irish people wished and hoped that Germany would win the war. Thus “President” De Valera, addressing an audience in—Germany? No. Austria? No. Bulgaria then? Not at all. In the Bro.nx, Why assail England from the safe soil of an enemy country when you can assail her from the equally safe soil of an ally? We poured (millions of Americans into France. What of it? “President” De Valera tells us that those for whom he speaks wished for the triumph of the armies against whom we were fighting. We denied ourselves that we might send food and ammunition to France. If he could have had his way not an ounce of it would have reached her shores. Rather it would have gone to feed and arm our foes. And an audience calling itself American and presided over by the president of one of the boroughs of New York city welcomes De Valera, cheers him, hangs upon his words; the aidermen vote him honors, and the mayor bestows upon him the freedom of the city! Is there an answer? Yes. Politics. Do real Americans have any feeling about all this? Yes. Shame. —New York Evening Post.

It is not so much the difficulty of getting the concurrence of Democratic senators as it Is the reconcilement of Republican factions in the senate that prevents headway toward a compromise on the peace treaty. The Republican “irreconcllables” are farther from the Republican “mild -reservatlonists” than the Democrats are from the latter.

Senators Borah, Brandegee and Sherman threaten to leave the Re-

publican party If Mr. Lodge doesn't insist on his destructive "reservations” to the treaty of peace.' If there was any way to* induce these gentlemen to leave the senate adso the people would 'forgive Mr. Lodge many past offenses if he forced that outcome. If any half-wit had been guilty during the war of uttering the slanders that Republican congressmen have been hurling against the government since the armistice he certainly would not have been sent to the senate or the house of representatives. Thus far it has cost the taxpayers $1,000,000 to have the Republican congress (ascertain that a fighting force of 4,000,000 men is a very expensive Institution, but well worth the money when it triumphs in its work as the American army and navy did. The "steering committee” of the Republican house of representatives is following the course charted by Czar Cannon some 16 years ago, and is certain to reach the same destination—overthrow at the hands of insurgents. The slogan of the Republican congress is said to be "economy.” Since neither the senate nor the house of representatives is passing any important legislation it would be a saving of time and money to adjourn sine die. One witness testifies that” the Republican "investigating” committee frequently got into a cul de sac. That is French for "a blind alley.” It was a fitting penalty for wandering from the highway. Mr. Lodge is a versatile leader, with ability to escort the "mild reservationlsts” forward one day and

accompany the “irreconcilables” backward the next day without turning a hair.