The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1919-11-06

almost grasped victory from the wear
led French and English troops, after
riding into power By the implied
deceptive promise that he would keep
US out OF war the President now be-
comes tearIullY human and sheds volu'
mes of verbal lears over the dead.
Honest action TO save life is better than
oceans Of regret. Honest endeavor 10
preserve our liberty is worth all the tons
nt propaganda poured out over the ma
uon at the expense Of the taxpayers 10
force through a veiled form Of auto
cratic super government that would
leave US the prey Of all the selfish am
bitions Of the world and would have
US spring into battle to protect the i'll
gotten gains Of nations whose support
Mr.. Wilson needed 10 promote his
league.
With a blare Of irumpeters payed for
by taxes, it was proclaimed that this
league should right all the injustice Of
the earth, But when Japan demanded
forty million Chinese in the horse trad
ing that went on behind the locked
doors at Paris the President gave them
to her because he needed her support
Tor his league Of nations. This is much
as though you were TO start out 10 or
ganize a society % prevent horse steal
ing and should buy the support of
strong neighbor by giving him forty Of
the best horses belonging to another
neighbor. Would this discourage rob-
berry or merely encourage the robbers
to be strong2
Suppose there had been an arrogant
hoTsethief in your community and you
and your neighbors joined together to
put him out Of business. Suppose you
did put him out and you and your
neighbors came into possession Of the
stolen property. After this was done
your hired man went TO a neighborhood
conference and drew up a contract for
a new society pledging your farm and
your property TO the support OF this
society into which he has mixed all the
bad as we'll as the good elements Of
the community. One OF your neigh
bors, China we will say, was big and fat
but not we'll trained to fghung. Your
hired man did not fear that this neigh
Dor could prevent his new society from
organ. ziug. Another neighbor, Japan
we will say, was lean and why aid well
trained. He might make trouble Tor
the new scheme with its fine Jobs. Ii
so happens that the horsethiei you are
fighting had taken a number Of China S
finest horses. While you and your 9TH
er neighbors were busy fighting the
thief Japan comes along and takes over
these horses saying he will return them
to their nghtlul owner. Because your
hired man wants Japan 10 help him with
his new scheme to make a new So
ciety he gives Japan the horses stolen
from China. Would that be the way
to break up horse stealing6 Consider
Tor yourself. But he says the horses
will be returned some day. Yes, some
day the heavens may fall but stall we
wait lor thai1 But your hired man now
says why, the horses were stolen TWEEN
ty moulns ago, why make this ius:
now. Listen, this hired man ha'
put a clause into his contract which
you are to sign deciding away your farm
tnat you guarantee that Japan shsl
have these horses for all time and lha
you and your sons will fight 10 help hin
Keep them, for article ten which it de
yelopes Mr.. Wilson wrUIe himself saV'
We guarantee the territorial boundaries
as written By the present treaty anC
League. That means you give you
warrant TO project the ,hlei. Some
have said, shall we fight TO give the hOr
ses back. 10 China1 No indeed, neithe
shall we agree 10 fight TO see that Chin
never gets them back.
liza band Of horse thieves we're operat
ing in Arkansas it would not be tn,
business Of fancy county boys to g
there to suppress them unless the dan