Ligonier Banner., Volume 54, Number 31A, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 October 1920 — Page 2

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WHERE ARE THE PROGRESSIVES? - In August, 1912, the first National Convention of the Progressive Party declared in !r¢ platform that the old partiz« had turned aside frco their appointed tisks; that they had become the tools of corrupt interests which used them impartially to sérve their selfish perposes; and that a 3 a result of their betraysl of the people the ostensible governmen! was only a mask for the invisible poverarment enthroned in the backeround. . :

While. this flaming indictment ran against both of the great parties, it applied especially to the Republicans. The Progressives’ quarrel with the Democrats was historic and habitual. Being Republicans, the Progressives made war upon Democrats because they were Democrats, but their hatred of the standpat bosses of the Republican Party was engendered in the family, took on all the bitterness of a domestic quarrel and led to truth-tell-ing by . insiders fanfillar with every short coming of the household.

At the 'end of a campaign carried on with religious fervor the Progressives polled 4,119,507 votes as against 3484,956 for the standpaters, the split in the party giving the election to the Democrats, whose popular vote was 1.300,000 less than that of .the two Re--publican parties combined. But so far as progress.is concerned, the Progressives builded better than they knew, for the Democratic President and Cougress thus placed in power gave the country more reform legislation than had been enacted during the preceding Hity years,. . - . In 1916 the Progressives of the Far West made President Wilson's reelction possible in the face of a hostile East, but ‘this year there is little evidence of _independent action on the

part of that element. If it is not enthusiastically in support of Senator Harding who boasts of his reactionary tendencies, it is training soberly and dutifully in the ranks of his followers. Even as respects the League of Nations for the promotion of enduring peace —-the most alluring vision of progress ever presented to a war-cured world—the principal crusaders and covenanters of 1912 are almost solidly in opposition. What then, was the inspiration of the men and women who once were so fierce in their condemnations and so lavish in their promises? : :

Some people have said that there was nothing behind -the -emotional transcendentalism of the Progressives but hero-worship. Perhaps this i$ true. They tollowed their idol out of the Re-, publican Party on his assurance that they never were to return. When he abandoned the movement in circumstances far form heroie, most of them marched just as submissively in hig train back again to the standards of the Old Guard so recently denounced and to the flesh-pots of that invisiblgovernment which they had set out to expose and destroy. Infatuation may account for many things in this strange adventure, but.there remains another and for this occasion a more important consideration. . : |

The character of political parties is determined by their leaders. Making allowance for mortality, ihe men who dominate the Republican organization today are the men against whem the great revolt of 1912 was levelléd. Their methods are the same. Their purposes are the same. They glory in their socalled conservativeness. They. sneer at progress and reform. They heap ridicule upon all ‘who are looking ahead. Thday are brazenly going backward,

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and they have a candidate for umi Presidency whose chief claim to their favor is that from hour to: hour he parrots their platitudes of obstruction and their pledges of a revival of conditfons which Progressives onee characterized in language severe and truthful. , : 5

In this campaign Republicaniem means Penrose, Lodge, Smoot, Weeks, Watson, Brandegee, Moses, Barnes, Newberry and a host of lesser serants of the interests, exactly as if did in 1912. Arm in arm with them we find most of theformer Progressive leaders, from Hiram Johnson down. The oug question, the final question, as to this whole affair is whether the four mililons and moré who eight years ago stood vallantly for what seemed to be ‘principle are also in full retreat. - Ll : “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL"

~Mr. Hughes who has devoted far more effort to misunderstanding the vocenant of the League of Nations than he has exer devoted to understanding 11, calls Article X. “a mis-chief-maker.” By the same process of reasoning the Eighth commondment is & mishchief-maker. Both mean the same thing—"“Thou Shalt Not Steal " That is all there i 3 to Article-X--thou shait not steal and thou shalt covenant to take measures that wili prevent others from stealing says the New oYrk World. That is the whole significance of the pledge to “respect and preserve as against external aggression tlie territorfal integrity and existing political independénce of all members of the Leugue.” . . ~ Mr, Hughes-cannot be so ignorant as ‘he prétends of the origin and inspira‘tion of Article X. It was devised to ‘meet such situations as that which 'resuu_ed “from the ‘invasion of belgium by the German armies in August 1914 in defiances of the German treaty engagement to respect the neutrality of Belgium. - | : - “Article X. has been - called the Magna Charta of the small nations; and it is. The strong nations do not need it, for they can protect their own territorial integrity. Nobody in all the world is going to take a square inch of real estate from the United. States or Great Brition by force of arms. I cannot be done. Since the collapse of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires France and Italy are also capable of taking care of themselves and Japan has no neighbors in the East that can successfully challenge her. o . . : .

"~ Of the thirty-nine nations that are now members of the league only four can be classed among the great powers. The other thirty-five vary greatly ‘in riches and population and resources, but they all have this in éommon: namely their inability to ‘maintain themselves against the ruthless aggression of the great powers. Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, by joining the League have pledged themselves to respect and protect the territorial integrity and existing political igdependence 'of these countries. The United States alone refuses to take that pledge, owing to the partisan politics of the Republican majority in the Senate.

Various excuses are found for opposing Article X., but merely for the purposes of keeping the record straight it is worth while to remember that the opposition to it originally came from the elements that have been urging war with Mexico and the seizure of Mexican territory. They knew that it the treaty is ratified and the United States joins the League of Nations the policy ‘of 'respecting Mexico's territorial integrity will continue, even though Mexico is not a member of the League. With the United States outside a society of nations pledged not to steal other people's property, the way will remain open for a raid ou Mexico's rich resources. . |

President Wilson has called Article X the heart of the covenant. It is the heart of the covenant in this ‘respect, that it applies the rule of personal integrity and personal honesty to the relations between nations, and it is the first time that such a rule has ever been applied in international affairs. Thanks to the Republican Senators, the United States of all the great powers is standing out in ‘defense of the doctrine that the strong have 2 right to rob the weak and that the Ten Commandments have no place ‘in the law of nations. : ‘ e e MUST DEFINE POSITION ‘Senator Harding must soon - define his position on the league of nations. He cannot remain under cover on the vital issue and get away with it. - The Hearst papers demand to know whether he means what his words imply. The publications are with Senator Johnson who opposes any world league. Sl ;

George White, chairman of the democratic national committee, isrued a statement in which he said he could tell the public why Senator Harding ‘did not answer” the question of a heckler in his Baltimore audience as to “whether: he stands with Senator Johnson to ‘scrap the league.” " = Mr. White said. that Senator Harding first had answered that “if 1 believed in one man government. I could answer the gentleman's question” and then had said he was at present without a specific program of foreign affairs; that he was not in favor of going into the League of Nations as negotiated and that the first thing he would do as ‘president, would be to find a program of world association and cooperation. : -

“I can tell the public why the senator did not answer . the heckler’s question.” said Mr. White. “It is because if he admits he has promised Hiram Johnson in a letter to ‘scrap the league’ he will cut the ground away from- under the feet of Mr. Taft, Mr; ‘Wickersham, Mr. Root and many other prominent republicans. If he endorses.

the léague, he| will at once draw the fire of Senator Johnson and his group 80 he endeavors to remain in status

quo, which the Texans said to Bertf Harte, meant ‘iln a hell of a fix'" | Mr. White in his statement also de- | clared it was “significant that the independent candidate for congress, who§ asked him about the liquor question was thrown out of the hall™ ]

WAS DISAPPOINTING Forest E. Field and Otto E. Grant, of Albion, advertised to jointly debate the League of Nations tovepant in Cryst:] theatre, Ligonier, Thursday night. disappointed a big audience. Instead of debating the league covenant they indulged in a partisan political dis cussion and in the jJaw-hammering the main topic was ‘yoorsd. This is to be deeply regreited for the people attended the mmeting to hear the covenant fairly discussed and not to listen to partisan polftics. In the firs. piace Mr. Field is no match for Mr. Grant in a joint -debate and ih® Iriends of the former should have known this and djscouraged the meeting. The result is enemles of the ‘league are humiliated over the sorry figure made by Mr. Field and friends of the covenaut are out of patience with Mr. Grant in permitting himself to spoil a good argument by resorting to a partisan. plea. Every member of the audience knew that the repubdlicans us a party are agalust the league while the democratic party is for f: and it ‘wWas not necessary to emphasiz. this in the league debate-so-called.

The editor of the LaGrange Standard compares President Wilson to Jeff Davis. It was just such comparisons as these that snowed the Standard editor. under when he aspired to be joint snator on the republican tickst in the'prima'ry last spring. The public does not take kindly to such declarations. .

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