The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-17
The Only Way to Fight Organixst ton
Successfully Is to Fight 1t
with Orga MIA ton.

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Successfully Is to Fight 1t
with Orga nisation.
IL America is to defeat the Wilson
scheme for a League of Nations 1t
must defeat It through the organized
forces Of the Republican party. The
Democratic forces are already lined
up in Its support as a party measure.
No newly formed organization can
have the force to stand up against
the great Democratic party.
All the speeches of United States
Senators against the Wilson scheme
will count for little II not backed up
by organiza tion-the organization Of
the Republican party. This Is 30
clear fact that 1t needs no buttress-
ing argument, and yet there are men
in the Republican party still urging
that this league scheme should not
become party issue.
Indeed, within ten days Mr..
CHARLES E. HUGHES, no less a man
than the Republican Presidential
nominee In 1915, so argued in a
speech before the New York County
Bar Association. 1t may well be that
utterances of this kind are at this
juncture more dangerous to Ameri-
can independence than the open sup
port Of the Wilson League by Mr..
TMT. The fact Is. Mr.. HUGHES, that
the Wilson League is already polit-
ical issue and the biggest political
issue since the days of slavery. The
fact is, Mr.. HUGHES, that 1t is not
only a political issue, but has been a
political issue since Mr.. WILSON set
foot in Boston, with this pernicious
covenant in his pocket for the dena-
tiouuii1ihS VI huicliSh.
Something like two or three weeks
ago THE Sun said editorially that the
League of Nations compact, as it then
stood and now stands. ought not to
r make for party cleavage. The
thought Of THE Sun was that all
Americans, irrespective OF party,
should be against it; the thought of
The SUN was that there was every
reason why the countries Of Europe
and Of the Far East should be for 1t
as a grand good thing for them, but
that there was every reason why all
America should be against 1t.
Since the appearance of that edi-
torial article the League of Nations
has made a century of history. 1t
has stirred the people of this entire
country to depth of discussion and
feeling that has not been approached
since the close Of the civil war. 1t
thrust itself into the foreground over
night as an overshadowing national
issue. 1t couldn't have done other
WISE. in fact, conceived ~ ne great
est politician Of all time and forced
upon the Peace Commission by this
same politician, WOODROW WILSON,
President of the United States.
II the scheme was to be effectively
opposed by America obviously the OPP
position had to come from the Repub-
Iican party. There was no other way
of meeting the organized forces of
the Democratic party already lined
up with the President, at his COM
mand, to back him up in America and
TO back him up with the other nations
Of the world.
Organization must be met with or
ganization. There is no other way.
There Is no other force save the Re
publican party capable Of meeting the
Democratic hordes on the fields of
combat and scattering them to the
four winds. Disorganized opposition
TO the Wilson League will count for
nothing against the highly organized
Democratic party, answering to tho
party whip welded by the strong
right hand of the President.
To say at this Stage of the pro-