The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-05-02
NUGENT'S FIRST
VISIT INSALMON

ed states senator John r. Nugent TO
speak on the Victory bond subscrip-
tion and the League Of Nations In
Salmon last Saturday night served to
bring out . representative meeting
TO hear him Notwithstanding the fact
that only . days notice om the meet
Ing could be given. The senator
spoke with . hoarseness that was az
planned amply by the fact that he
had already addressed IS similar
meetings in 16 days and to acc0np-
iish this oratorical feat had had to
travel 6S1 miles BY automobile. be-
sides good many more miles by
rail.
The subject Of the principal part of
Senator Nugemt's hour and half
talk was the League OF Nations. This
great theme as he considered 1t ap-
pealed to the best type OF statesman
ship In all lands. It was for this
reason that 1t had found champion
IN Colonel Roosevelt after his IA
nous tour of portions Of Europe at
the conclusion of hts African trip in
1910. William Jennings Bryan had
embodied the same high purpose in
the famous Bryan treaties. under
which 1t is not possible for one coun-
/ try to 60 to war with another coun-
try party to one cf those c0mpacts
in less than a years time. when one
of both may be cooled on In their
belligerant attitude. To illustrate
this point the speaker told Of two
men about to get at each other In
a personal quarrel but were Induced
, to put on actual hostilities and when
they met again they had actually
fcIcot what they had quArreied
about.
| These American characters, Roose-
velt and Bryan, the one departed and
the other stills living. are examples
of opposing political policies divid.
ing the two great political parties IN
the United States on most other sub
jects.
i Then President Wilson, It was
shown. had repeatedly In his public
lutterances.. favored the formation ol
the League, which caused him to be
looked to by all the peoples OF the
earth to save them from such anoth
Ter war. The principle had found its
most notable champions after Wilson
at home in former President TAT
and former Supreme Court Justice
Hughes, both orthodox Republicans
while certain other eminent men, aI
Ione time or another, had found rea
sons for opposing the League, in thu
original draft Of which there were
mighty few valid objectionr.s accord
ing TO the view OF the SPEAKER. Bu'
these were fully met in the hna
draft, he declared, first, in Safeguard
ing the Monroe doctrine and, second
In the more thorough understanding
lof the vital principles as set forti
and the world demand that II b.
adopted to prevent such another dis
aster as the war tlst closed.
1t was shown that Washington.
admonition in his farewell address
against European entangling ALI
ances on our part and favoring ouI
isolation and Independent neutrality
while applicable in their day, did no
hold now because the nations of Eu
lrope were no longer governed b,
lself-seeking. scheming monarchs bu
by the people themselves; and furth
ermcre II now requires not fou,
months for communication or inter
icourse with Europe, but only a few
moments. with the cables and wire
less and with an airplane seryic.
likely to come along at an early day
70 bridge the great seas lying be
tween the two continents in forty
eight hours and to deliver so tons In
tnat short space OF time. SO we are
no longer isolated. So also our
boasted independent neutrality was
mot respected In a great war
Senator Nugent brought out clear
Iiy the fact that our own country can
not be made to suffer from the de
mands OF the other parties to the
compact. and be drawn into future
European wars against our will. be
cause 1t was shown that IL requires
unanimous consent. even our own
voice. to drag ms into such wars.
Senator Nugent was en- his first
visit to Salmon in coming here in be
half OF the Liberty Loan and tc
speak for the League of Nations He
has been giving study and thought tf
these subjects as his splendid ad
dress abundantly demonstrated, for
1t was In broad constructive states
manship that he considered his sub
tects. He was shown to be a fins
type Of the right sort of public mar
In everything he said. Before his
coming he had already a wide ac
Quaintance In this county among ia
men Of affairs, for all his life but
three has been spent in Idaho
Among other early friends he remem
bexed was DIR. Francis s. Wright
Thirty years ago these two were
thrown together at Rocky Bar, ar
early mining camp, They had moi
met since leaving there. do yor
know that man." asked a friend oi
the senator who was steering promi
nent Salmonites his way on the even
ing Of his arrival Wright was ap
proaching. Eyes. by George: that's
my old friend Dr. Wright" was ths
instant reply. Which shows that the
senator has one very essential quail
lity for a successful campaigner and
that Is keen memory for names and
faces The two talked over old times
at the famous camp in a manner Il
make their eyes twinkle. the physi
Ician as the health guardian and ths
Ipresent statesman as treasurer and
Isecretary Of the mining compan,
washing and digging out the gold O