Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-12-23
HENCE is STILL AGAINST
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS


The League of Nations is a live sub
ject with Henry Henige as is also the
shortcomings of the democratic ad-
ministration. Following are Henige's
views on the subjects:
In reading the last editorial of De-
cember IL in the editorial column of
the Times we note that the editor is
peeved in having any further expose
made regarding the doings of the dem
ocratic administration and the former
democratic congress in particular.
Now, as he has mentioned it, il should
have been an issue regarding the
league of nations only Now if we are
on the right path, we have the honor
to mention that the editor of the Times
was the first man to get peeved be-
cause the republican congress he men
tons did not pass favorable, in the
opinion of the editor of the Times and
the chief executive in particular. Now
IT would seem to an outsider who has
an inkling of the traditions and the
constitution of the United States and
our fundamental policies, that the ed
itor knew perfectly well that the
league of nations could not be accepted
in its original form as written not by
our executive but by an English lord
and planned to pull our republic into
all kinds of entanglements and obli-
cations to foreign nations which would
in the end have been rebuked by our
peace loving and Independent peoples
of our liberty-loving republic That
the league of nations could have been
ratified with reservations to protect
the traditions and interests of the
United States, we have not the least
doubt; but when the administration
triad n fnrpn that ra ri 10 ont
through congress, that was a horse of
another color. 1t was bad enough
that our chief executive did not get
his plan of a league of nations through
for the benefit of the whole world and
had to accept a substitute after this
country had won the war for the al
lies and was entitled to the first say
regarding the future plans for a last
ing peace But for Wilson to, as the
Times editor says, get the best terms
possible whether they correspond with
American traditions or were in line
with our constitution or not" and then
try to put it over on the American
people without considering the results
seems a thing which should not have
been done by any party in power and
ii was the duty of our congress to kill
the same provided it did not in our
opinion meet with the traditions and
sanction of the peoples of our repub-
lie. That the league of nations was
not written in a form to protect the
interests of the United States is an un-
disputed fact and that in case of any
trouble We were to not only sanction
any acts of the members of the league
but to furnish our men, our money
our produce to any nation where and
whenever they pleased to say so, hav-
ing the majority of votes in such case
is another thing our representatives
in congress digested before passing on
Wilson should not have accepted such
document and if he did he should
have laid the same before congress
without any further comment and IL
killed, as IL eventually was, we'll and
good. and the interests of our country
be protected or not as congress saw
fit and now as congress saw fit to re-
ject the administration plan on the
league it would seem the only patriotic
thing for the administration to abide /
by the decision as we could not have
league of nations without the reser- /
vations, as originally planned. And
it don't seem possible that the United
States should have to hide away back
in a remote corner and be nobody. /
That was explained in our last war
when the United States was called up
on to furnish the wealth, men and sup
plies to win the war and il demon
strated that twas able TO take care of
itself regardless of what some polit-
ical howlers may have to say. OF
course we don't blame the editor of
the Times in trying to protect the in
terests of the democratic party but 1t
would seem that he better in this par
ticuar issue have abided by the decis-l
ion OF congress and kept mum on the
subject OF the league of nations, in fact
II would have been of more stability
to his party in the event that they ex-
pected TO come out victorious in the
next presidential campaign in the fall
Of 1920, which we very much doubt"
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