The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-31
SAVED THE COUNTRY
Declarations of 'I9, Preserves the
County From the Poison of
Foes Within

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31-The Re-
publican Publicity Association,
through its President, III. Jonathan
Bourne, Jr., today gave out the fol-
lowing statement from its Washing
ton headquarters:
"The British Wilsonian league OF
nations is dead, killed by the cour-
ageous action of the Republicans of
the Senate in rising up at the critical
moment and signing their names to
a document that amounts TO pro-
mise not to vote for the league if
it is presented to that body for rati-
fcation. The reference to the Re-
publican party as the party of pro-
lection takes on new significance in
the light of its demand that the Uni
ted States must be saved from the
fatal blight of the Wilson league
Heretofore the slogan of the Republi-
cans has been protection to Ameri-
can industries from destructive for
eign competition. Still adhefing to
that principle the party now assumes
the new role of protector of American
liberty itself. Under the leadership
of Lincoln the Republican party
saved the Union in the eventful days
of 81 and now it has again come to
the resuce of our imperilled institu-
tions and proclaimed to the world
that government of the people, for
the people and by the people shall
remain the birthright of Americans.
"Like second declaration of in
dependence rings the phrases of the
resolutions to which 81 Republicans
of the next Senate signed their names
in the closing hours of the most mo-
mentous Congress in the history of
the country. In one sense it is a
document of far greater import than
the Declaration that gave freedom to
the American Colonists. The pepu-
| lation of the country at that time was
less than 5000, 900, possessed Of ma
/ tional wealth utterly insignificant
when compared with our present ac-
cummulations. Now there are no.
100000 souls within our boundaries
and 800 billions is not an overesti-
mate of our national resources.
"The Declaration of '76 gave hber
ty from foreign oppression to oul
forefathers, bequeathed by them ts
their posterity through lab years. The
Declaration Of 10 assures the country
H of a. continuance of that. liberty de
j spite the attempts of men now il
! temporary control of the Extcntiv'
/ to revert to the conditions before th'
| Revolut ton. he tremendous devel
Iopment of the resources of Arnelic;
that our laws and institutions hav,
made possible are to be preserved TO
ourselves and our children; our Con
stitution is to remain the supreme Law
of the land untrammeled by any re
gulations of a superstate; and th
people, through their Representative
in Congress, will continue to exercis,
the powers with which they are cloth
| ed, unhampered by limitations sough
:. to be placed upon them by foreign
i schemers, assisted by repudiatet
q theorists from our own land. ~
:, sThe Declaration. of '76 saved tn
4 country from foes from without. TIL
Declaration Of 10 preserves the coun
! try from the insidious poison inject
ed into our veins by foes within, ou
gates. The vile nostrums which tn
present day quacks put forth as
!, vaccination against the dis Of the fu
ture have been detected and denoun
!, ced before they had time to wor
their malign influence and brea
down the structure upon which GU
!, very life as nation hangs. Th
men who signed that document wi
go down in history with the famou
signers of the Declaration tha
. brought the United States into being
and the marplote who would appoin
European trustees for our hbertie
and wealth will fade into the obi
won from which they came" 4,