Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — GOOD COMPANY TO BE IN [ARTICLE]

GOOD COMPANY TO BE IN

Among the well-known and very able men who have joined the Democratic ranks this year on the league of nations issue are Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale university, who is active in organizing the proleague Republicans and Independents; Prof. Charles Seymour of Yale, author of “Diplomlatic Background of the War,” pronounced by Mr. Taft the most illuminating book on the war; Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Theodore Marburg, minister to Belgium under Mr. Taft’s administration; Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent; Henry C. King, president of Oberlin college, and Dr. J. T. Shaw, professor emeritus of Oberlin; the Rev.z Henry S. Stinson of New York city; Moorfleld Storey of Boston; Mary E. Woolley, president of Mt. Holyoke, and Katherine Lee Bates, professor at Wellesley. These are names that carry great weight. And yet we are beginning to hear that the league of nations is "not an issue.” This is the latest effort to wiggle out of the very embarrassing and utterly indefensible position in which Mr. Harding’s supporters find themselves. It Is in order to quote from what Prof. Fisher calls Mr. Taft’s “Apologia,” in which the ex-president of the -United Slates declares: “I believe that the issue of the league of nations transcends in importance any domestic issues and would justify and require one who believes so to ignore i&rty ties and secure this great boon for the world and this country.” Prof. Fisher says that the only reason given by Mr. Taft for nOt bolting is that “not enough Republican senators can be removed by falldecliohstotnsurethenecessarj. two-thirds majority for the program which Mr. Cox and Mr. Taft both want. “I confess L am quite unable to comprehend or to condone such mental and moral legerdemain. It deeply grieves me that my mentor on the league of nations who knows all about it and has emphatically and convincingly answered every objection yet brought forward, should thus be found wanting in a great emergency. Mr. Taft sins with his eyes wide open and is condemned out of his own mouth.”