The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-15
A SOLEMN REPLY

Borah, and Knox and Lodge have
desired US to use it. There is an in
dusrious spider building away on
his nest overhead in our office. He
has been at that a long time. We've
brushed him down often, but he is
hack, building that same web again.
He is trying to inspire us just as the
historic spider brought the great
Scotch hero, Robert Bruce, into one
more effort TO win.
We are going 10 use our copy Of
the treaty 10 slam that spiders nest
! because
The Borahs ara the Knoxes
and the Lodge in the greatest de-
Lucrative body in the world have
| dragged themselves down to the
| level of The commonest fish wives
in the conduct of their plans 10 get
that copy to us They have carried
their spleen against the president,
so far as to compromise the honor
of the United States government
They have in that disgracefu, I'M
holy program aimed TO break down
the long-labored efforts Of the
worlds greatest men to effect a
just and durable peace.
We are going to fight that spider
with it because il came from Ger
many, because il was first ushered
into the land Of the free mans hope
and home by the Chicago Tribune,
one of the papers largely respon-
sible for the shameful claim that
Chicago is the worlds sixth largest
German city. IT is disloyal to the
American delegation at the peace
conference; it is disloyal to the men
who fought our battles; to the allies;
to our own country to make use of it;
because they pledged among them
selves in the peace meeting not to
make ii public in any allied country
ill il was completed, signed sealed
and delivered in the archives of the
French republic. II had not been
completed 1t had not been signed,
and now it is obsolete!
Well use il tc wreck our spiders
hopes again and again because the
ltnoXes and the Borahs and the
Lodges have tried 10 create the I'M
PRESTON mat ~Amerfraffs'- at the
peace conference were conniving at
come secret scheme,-because there
~ these Borahs and KnoXes and
lodges have sought to open way
10 popular misapprehension Of the
Ieace terms aud to popular dis
abstraction with them,-- because
thereby they have chilled the cor.
Iial relations which have existed be
ween us and our allies in the cause
If freedom and the vital purpose OF
establishing Il secure world order
We are going to spurn that OBJ
solete copy OF the treaty because we
re still men and worthy of our
athers, because we know the men
who brought the enemy 10 MS for
erms were not afraid to die--lbe-
cause we know the ISLANDERS of the
!inoxes, the Borahs and the Lodges
will fall, as they do from the men
who know how to suffer and die.
Men of Bunker Hill, of Gettysburg
II Old Hickory, Of the Rainbow
men of the woods of the Argonne
md Cheateau-Thierry were Of a
race that has not run out. The fires
# freedom burn yet in their breasts.
They we're not money-grubbers. solf
and lnly-livered. When they carried
! freedoms ransom to repay freedoms
| lebt to another race of men across
he seas, they struck for the free
! mans peace and won!
For the Borahs and the knoxes
and the Lodges in the American
senate shall we tear from diplomatic
channels the tentative treaty these
men made ii possible for us to write
| IN the interest of world peace and
| publish il against the will of those
nations by whose side these men
! fought? We speak our answer, not
IN vain boasting. but in solemn pride,