The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-23

bic odds; in foreign country, against
a propaganda conceived by men in
this chamber, adequately financed and
consistently prosecuted that his influ-
ence might be destroyed and his plans
defeated, he won.
And now, with the work finished
and signatures of these able states
men of the allied countries attached.
you have organized the machinery of
this body that this work might be un-
done. Bargaining has been INDUCED
in and compromises effected that you
might carry out your nefarious
schemes. The erstwhile pretended
progressives of the republican party
buried all their differences and solidly
voted for the senators from Pennsyl-
vania, (Penrose) and Wyoming. WAR
ren) as chairman of the finance and
appropriation committees. While 1t
appeared awakening at the time. sub
sequent events and the deliberate
stacking of the foreign relations COM
Guiding the League of Nations, ex-
plain eevrything.
Not content with Ievelling your
mud batteries on the League of Ma
tions covenant. when you failed you
resentatives at Versailles on practic-
ally every important question:
Senator Harrison quoted an address
by Republican Leader Lodge support
ing Italy's claims to Fiume and con-
tinued: When, stirred and influenced
by expressions emanating from your
leaders. refused to sign the peace
treaty, they received the most sincere
Cn lion .av11
When the representatives of America
were doing everything within their
power commensurate with right and
justice to compromise our differences
with Japan. your leaders famed the
fires of discomfort and did everything
to widen the breach. You are still
doing it.
Before Germany signed the treaty.
your leaders in this chamber by elo-
quence that sounded to German ears
showed to them opposition that was
sympathetic and akin. Nothing has
been left undone by you to have fail
ure' written over the conference door
at Versailles. Your action is only
comparable to the conduct of the
never-ceasing hell-hounds Milton sta
toned at the internal gates"
The objections raised over the
Monroe, withdrawal from the league
and sacial and religious questions.
Senator Harrison said, had been made
HARRISON-GAL TWO -. -. 49,
ito allure and deceive the unsuspect-
ing public He denied that Great
Britain could dominate the league or
that the Monroe doctrine was not
sateguarded. 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
THE opponents also have appealed
to the religious prejudice of the peo-
pie, saying that the papacy might
control. 1 am a protestant but I de-
nounce 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 il
the League OF Nations is adopted Ire
lands hopes for self determination is
gone. You have tried to arouse their
prejudice There is nothing in that
language (of article X that could be
construed to make it obligatory upon
the United States to interfere in any
way between Ireland and England. We
might side with Ireland"
That republican leaders also have
sought to arraign labor against the
league was asserted by Mr.. Harrison.
who said their argument was Eek
ploded" because of the part Samuel
Gompers had in drafting the labor
sections of the treaty and also be-
cause, he said, virtually every labor
in the country has en-
1orsed the league almost unanimously
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