Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-06-06

formed by their craftsmanship and
their unflinchine Amcricanism from
Il perilous "British-Wilson" bargain,
for so they delighted to call it, into II
sound and enduring bulwark of peace;
then they should have accepted and
supported it; they were seeking Il
campaign issue, and by skillful sal
wage work they might have turned
their amendments to some account
on the stump and in Congress next
year. Their blind persistence has
made the League Il Democratic issue
of such undeniablc and great potency
with the people of the country that
rejection of the Treaty and prolon-
cation of the state owar would in
volve consequences they dare not
face
The motives of their opposition
have not been so clearly revealed that
all their attempts at justification on
grounds of national welfare and dig
nifty fail altogether. The public is too
well Informed. When they persisted
in their hostility after their own
amendments had been accepted NJ
DISCUSSES, no prctenscS could foster
any further dcluson as to the actual
nature OF their objections to the
Treaty and the League. All the world
knows, as they have known from the
beginning, that they arc fighting Mr.
Wilson, that the fcrvor of partisan
aversion to the Democratic President
and all his works prompts and in
spires the emnity they show toward
the work of the Conference in which
lac has been so m0mincnt and in
rlucntial. Reasonable men must re-
icct the theory that Il peace which
he worlds chief statesmen find just
and satisfactory, that Il league for
peace to which SO many Republicans
Of wcll-provcd wisdom and soundness
of view are giving earnest support
must he repudiated because certain
Republican Senators. much cngrOsScd
IN politics, declare them to be defcc-
tive and dangerous. But for the
strange and sinister associations they
have formed in this desperate venture
they would be practically alone in
their opposition to the fruits Of the
| negotiations ut Paris.
Already they are taking account OF
the demand of the vast ma jority oil
the people Of the country that The
Treaty he ratified without delay;
they show it by the greater caution
and prudence of their opposition
They have come to understand the
consequences to the country-and t.
| thcmselvcs-of putting the Unite,
States in the position Of continuing
the war after the other bclligcrent.
have made peace with Germany. But
much more is involved than the in
tercst of any one country. Mr.. vii
son is right. They have set thcil
counsel against the united ccrvicC
Of mankind" In the League OF
Nations TIE council of statesmen al
Paris has sought unselfishly ant
with the noblcst aspirations to pro
mote thc highest good of all tn,
! nations to make them dwell together
on earth in friendship, not in enmity
| War is scnscless and ugly and hate
! full. More than nj any other time il
history the mass OF mankind ahhor.
its sIvagcry, its cruelty, is awfu
dcstructivcncSs. -Four years ago, Ii.
| Mr.. Wilson said at Scrcsncs, rcspon,
siblc statesmen would hardly hav,
| undertaken to organize Il League ot
Nations. They have taken up the
work now because the peoples of tn,
earth have mad their fill CT the hor
rors Of the battlefield, they are sicl
of slaughter, and with sure insight
they demand that the curse of war b,
attacked and destroyed i'll its source
the secret councils, like That Of Pots
! dam, where dynastic and selfish
national interests prepare the decree.
that send millions forth To take tn,
| lives of their brothers. The Covenan
| ;.bounds i'll provisions designed Il
prevent war by removing the occasions
and opportunities for war, by putt
ing hidden intrigucs and plotting
under the ban, by providing open an'
| honorable ways of adjustment 70
| Il ffcrcnccs between nations by max
| ing the resort to arms odious an,
subject to penalties. If that is no
a work in 'thc united service of man
kind" will the gentlemen who de
ncunces it as a British Wilson" plo
he good enough to tell us in what wa.
enlightened craftsmanship can scrv,
mankind?
The Republicans who now profess
hostility To the League Covenant can
not hold their position against tn,
| judgment and the will of prett,
much the whole world except them
selves. The cause is bad They hope
lessly confront the millions of man
kind in forward movement. The,
make themselves the champions o
outworn and evil conditions. Tn,
world already regards them with as
tcnishment 1t is more immcdiatci,
to the point that the people of tn
Unicd Safes are observing heir pro
ceedings with close attention.
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