The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-06
wasting of the property Of the nation
League of Nations

wasting of the property Of the nation.
League of Nations i
/ Borah's speech on the league of ma
tions has won him a great deal of
praise from old fashioned Democrats,
as well as from the Lodge organiza-
tion in his own party. All party lines
have been wiped out by the issue of
the league constitution, just as they
were swept aside by the issues Of war
and the draft. There, are, however,
some pretty definite new lines of
cleavage between the friends and foes
of the covenant which was read in
Paris by the chief executive before
he started home.
/ In the first place, there are the
strict partisan politicians Democrats
who always stand with a Democratic
administration and Republicans who
always oppose it. For example, no
body would need question the attitude
of most of the southern senators.
They will vote to ratify the league
constitution. And just as surely, the
Republican senators from Indiana and
Illinois and Massachusetts, will oppose
it. In the second place there are
Democratic senators who are chiefly
known for their corporation leanings,
or their fear, of the, "mob." King of
Utah is a shining example. King is
opposed to the league. Finally, there
are liberal Democrats who have felt
the displeasure Of the president and
who believe he is getting this country
involved in another Holy Alliance,
which would crush out liberalism by
international police power. Vardaman
and Gore are in this class.
But across the aisle there are La
Folette and Norris, and probably
Kenyon, Lenroot and Gronna, who be-
lieve that the constitution drawn up
for the league Of nations is step in
the right path. .
Nelson Hunts Atrocities
Senator Nelson of Minnesota has
,',hsep, having a grand time in the hear
ings of the Overman subcommittee
which is supposed to be investigating
Bolshevik propaganda in the United
States. Nelson has been studying the
map Of Europe and Asia. He seems
to be fond of geography. He evident
ly thinks that everybody else in inter
ested in his studies. So he turns the
hearings, which chance offers, into a
geography lesson.
There was Czecho- -Slovak officer
Colonel Hurban, before the committee
the other day. Hurban is military
attache Of the new Czecho-Slovak
legation here. He was 10 years in
Russia, up to last summer, when he
made trip across Siberia with a
body of the Czech troops, and then
came to America on official business
His chief job seems to be explaining
the troubles Of his people, and Incl
dentally damming the Bolsheviki. His
knowledge Of the English language is
not complete, but he testfies in an in
teresting fashion when not interrupt
ed.
sTell us about what atrocities you
saw in Petrograd, now" Nelson says
sharply.
The Czech veteran explains how he
happened to see few killings, and
remarks that he doesn't really blame
the Russians of any political party
especially; that there is no other party
than the Bolsheviki that is strong
enough to rule, and that all Of them
would commit massacres if given the
chance. Hurban thinks few foreign
troops might be abba to restore order
The Russian people are good-hearted
and they have fallen into the powell
Of small and determined group JUS
as formerly they were in the power
Of small group of aristocrats:
Never mind about opinions now
says Nelson. s.Give us the atrocities
Just al you saw them. And tell u,
where you went. Were you in th'
Russian. army?
Hurban says he was, and later b.
went to Petrograd, and worked witt
the Czecho- -Slovak council, secretly
because the czar's government wa
opposed to them. He stayed ther,
through the two revolutions, and a
believed the first Bolshevik agitator
were German agents. But the Rus
SLAMS didn't care what mans 11a
Itionality was; they asked only wha
his ideas were. Hurban couldn't IN
lderstand that. s,s8
sfWeil, now Nelson interrupts
s.how do you call your own country
lIs it Czechia, sor what Tell us hoy
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