Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-09-12
The Presidents Tour
(By John Bush)

lie is no Wise HAL VIII WA.A quAVt
a certainty for an uncertainty.
While the millions of Americans
who chose Mr.. Wilson for their chief
executive in the fond hope that he
would keep us out of war, and who so
Loyalty supported him when we were
drawn into it for commercial domin-
alton, which was styled a war for de-.
mocracy, are waiting for relief from.
the resulting burdens imposed upon.
them the President is touring the.
country telling the people he is their
servant and yet trying to make them
believe that the League of Nations
is what they should have, even though
thousands of the most learned Amer
leans are opposed to the covenant.
The President asserts that oppo-
nents to the league can not hope to
defeat the program except they offer
something better. From this asser-
tion one would naturally infer that
they must accept something they are
not asking for unless they can show
him that they have better substi-
tute.
The President further states that
he has read many speeches in oppo-
sition to the covenant, but can find
no better suggestion or plan that
would be conductive to the welfare
Of the American people.
History will verify that the reali-
-zation of those lofty and noble prin-
ciples inculcated in the Constitution
of the United States and Washing
toms farewell address to congress
have protected the people and pre-
served the nation. What more could
freedom loving people want? World
history further discloses two facts
which should be carefully regarded.
FIRST-Similar treaties have
never amounted to the paper con-
sumed, much the lives and money they
have cost, inasmuch as they have
been the source of controversies
which have resulted in greater adveI-
sites.
SECOND-There never has been a
proposition inaugurated profitable to
the masses except it was established
by the people themselves.
Democracy in it's true form has
never been established in any ,por-
ton of the world by those with whom
the President has recently been so
pleased to hobnob, at great expense
to the government which did not elect
him for that purpose, nor did it vote
to him the privilege of deciding the
Shantung and other foreign contro
versies which are of no consequence
to America.
Mr.. Wilson again states that the
only country in the world today
which is trusted is the United States
of America. This is true state
ment and fact of which the Ameri-
can people have long been aware, ana
is the chief and logical reason for
not wanting to become entangled IN
ar alliance with nations endowed with
selfish ambitions. With League OF
Nations, the President continues,
there will be such a combination OF
power that no nation will dare starr
war. 1t is obvious that portion
of this assertion is true, and it is not
surprising that England is so deeply
concerned in the ratifications of the
treaty by the United States, for had
such a combination existed in our rev.
olutionary days it is not probable that
George Washington would have at
tempted a war to sever the tyran-
nical rule of England, which Ireland
and India have been trying in VAIN
to break for the past seven hundred
years.
All such propositions as the League
of Nations are brought to conclu-
sion through public opinion, which is
created to a great extent by the pub
lie press, and this selfsame press of
today is for the most part controlled
by English capital. This fact was
proven during the late war. There
for, the American people, before ac-
cepting the League of Nations, should
compare America and her conditions
with the nations of Europe.
There is but one question confront
ing the American people relative to
the League of Nations, and that is,
who will control it?