Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-21
FLAYS REPUB.
PEACE FIGHT
AS DISGRACE

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portant in the. states of prominent
senators attacking the treaty.
mo argument has been too fall
lacious, no illustration too far
fetched, - said Mr.. Harrison, for
you to seize upon in your desper-
ate efforts to becloud the issue.
They became jealous of the grow
ing ascendancy of this man (Presi-
dent Wilson,. He was becoming
too popular; too influential.
you tried by every possible
means to embarass him. No task
ever was accomplished against
such unfavorable odds.
Try To Wreck Work of Peace.
And now, with the work finished
and signatures of these able states
men of the allied counties at
tackled, you have organized the ma
chinery of this body that their
work might be undone.. The erst-
while pretended Progressives of
the Republican party buried all
their differences and solidly voted
for the senators from Pennsylvania
(Penrose) and of Wyoming (Borah)
as chairman of the financial and
appropriations committee. While
it appeared an awakening at the
time, subsequent events and the
deliberate stacking of the foreign
relations committee against the
treaty of peace, including the
League of Nations, explain every
thing.
Oppose Z. S. Peace ENJOYS.
mot content with leveling your
mud batteries on the League of Ma
lions covenant, when you failed you
continued to take issue with your
representatives at Versailles on
practically every important ques-
ton"
Senator Harrison quoted an adj
dress by Republican Leader Lodge
supporting Italy's claim to Fiume,
and continued:
when China, stirred and influ-
enced by expressions emanating
from your leaders, refused to sign
the peace treaty, they received the
most sincere cooperation and SYM
pathy from you. When the repre-
sentatives of America were doing
everything within their power COM
mensurate with right and justice
to compromise our differences with
Japan, your leaders famed the
fires of discomfort and did every
thing to widen the breach. You are
Still doing it.
Comparable Only to "HeIl-HOunds.s
Before Germany signed the
treaty your leaders in this cham
Der by eIoquence that sounded to
German ears showed to them OPP
position that was sympathetic and
akin. Nothing has been left I'M
done by you to have failure writ
ten over the conference door at
comparable to the conduct of the
never-ceasing hell-hounds Milton
stationed at the Internal gates"
The objections raised over the
Monroe doctrine, withdrawal from
the league, and racial and religious
questions, Senator Harrison said, |
had been made ito allure and de-
ceive the unsuspecting public" He
denied that Great Britain could |
dominate the league, or that the |
doctrine was not safe
guarded. Referring to charges |
that the black race would control
the league, he continued:
THE black man at no place and |
at no time in history where he and
the white man sat at the same
council table, dominated or con-
trolled.
Stir Religious Prejudice.
'The opponents also have ap-
pealed to the religious prejudice of
the people, saying that the papacy
might control. l am a Protestant,
but 1 denounce as unfair, unjust
and infamous such arguments
against the League of Nations.
"You have tried to arouse the
Irish of the nation into believing !,
that if the League of Nations is
adopted Ireland's hope for self-de-
is gone. You have
tried to arouse their prejudice.
There is nothing in that language
(of article Ky that could be con-
strued to make it obligatory upon
The United States to interfere in
any war between Ireland and Eng
and. We might side with Ireland"
Fail to Fool Labor.
That the Republican leaders
also have sought to arraign labor
against the league was asserted by
Mr.. Harrison, who said their argu-
nent was exploded" because of
he part Samuel Gompers had in
irafting the labor sections of the
.reaty and also because he said,
every labor organization
n the country has endorsed the
eague almost unanimously.
POmerene Urges Quick Action. !,
Prompt and unreserved ratif1ca- 8