The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-23
Voices In the Air and Visions o
Checks on the Horizon.

VOICES III thc Ah &hu NASsS.~ ~.
Checks on the Horizon.
The progress of the Apocalyptic
method Of conducting the foreign re-
lations of the United States Govern
ment is illustrated In the touching
document here subjolned. We are
quoting from a private circular issued
to the benevolently disposed by Mr..
HERBERr A. Houston, the treasurer
or the Hon. WILLIAM HowARD TATT's
League to Enforce Peace:
I III you believe these things. help!
Public opinion, especially in the
States whose Senators are opposed to
the League tof Nations], must be or
eganized and trained on Washington.
The campaign must go on until the
Senate vote on ratification is taken.
eAll this will require funds, immediate
oand adequate. We are going ahead
with our educational work, confident
that the real patriots OF America
shose who understand why our coun-
try fought this war-will rally to the
call. Are you one of them?
I'VE are not asking you to sign
pledge card the time is too short for
that. Won't you send your check
today Next month may be too
late.
The stage is set. the destiny
disclosed. 1t has come about by no
plan of our conceiving. but by the
hand OF Cor, who he'd us INTO this
way. We can psfyssoe forward. VITA
lifted eyes and feshened spirit TO
follow the vision. 1tiwas Of this that
we dreamed at our. birth. America
shall in truth shbw the way. The
light streams upon the path ahead.
and nowhere else.,"
1t will require no great mental
strain to identify the author Of the
last paragraph, beginning with The
stage Is set and ending with the
Hight that streams upon the path
ahead and nowhere else. The more
sordid passages Of the appeal, the ref
erences to pledge cards and checks
before shutdown because next month
may be too late, supply contrasting
background for the prismatic beauty
of the rhetorical climax.
Voices In the air calling for prompt
subscriptions to influence the actor
of the United States Senate in III
constitutional function Of treaty
making! Visions on the horizon
visions of checks filled out to-day ant
addressed not to Destiny, or to thu
lifted Eyes of the Freshened Spirit
or to the Light that Streams on thu
Path Ahead, but to financial instltu
tions where a balance actually exists
to the signer's credit!
There can be no great objection t.
this manner of extracting dollars from
the transcendental pocketbooks Of
bank accounts of those who dreamed
at their birth, although the presen
mdThcl WOuhu SCOh " ohCA oSuANo
investments. Yet We should rathel
like to see Mr.. HoUsToH's subscrlp
ton list. We confess to some curiosit!
TO know the total amount contributed
TO Mr.. TAFT's organization on tn,
strength of its unblushing statemen
that the people of the United State
fought the war through in order Il
establish a League, of Nations.
1t would also afford us some littl'
melancholy satisfaction to know how
"the real patriots of America"--de
scrlbed by the circular as those VIII,
understand that the war was tough
to bring about our ENHANCEMENT IL
European politics-reconcile that the
DRY with President WILSON'S positive
declaration that "the passion Of Amer
lea is TO be permitted to live her owl
life according to her own principle,
and that "the only thing she pro
foundly resents or win ever pro
foundly resent Is having her life an,
freedom interfered with"